Four scenes were filmed for Help! on this day, at Twickenham Film Studios in England, two of which featured The Beatles.
The first, the washroom scene involving an overactive hand drier, involved each member of the group. The second, meanwhile, was a solo sequence featuring Ringo Starr in a bathroom, and was left out of the final cut.
In the evening The Beatles attended the launch night of Downstairs At The Pickwick, a London nightclub. Situated at 15-18 Great Newport Street, London, it was often frequented by the group in the months that followed.
Last updated: 16 May 2010
Also on this day...
- 1974: US single release: Band On The Run by Paul McCartney and Wings
- 1967: Paul McCartney and Mal Evans holiday in Denver
- 1966: Recording: Got To Get You Into My Life
- 1963: The Beatles live: Swimming Baths, Leyton, London
- 1963: Julian Lennon is born
- 1962: The Beatles live: Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool
- 1961: The Beatles live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg
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In the canon of Beatles lore, I had most often heard (and once opined myself) that the weekend of Thur March 25 – Sat March 27 was the correct three days to further fix as the date of George and Johns 1st LSD trip at the dentist’s house. Yet, because that dinner time experience at Dentist Reilly’s is well-reported as a prelude to attending an opening of Brian Epstein’s recent Pickwick management and a performance of Klaus Voorman’s new trio, this is most likely be the actual correct date: Thursday April 8, 1965. More speculative evidence: I saw a comment wondering on the March diary activities of the next day…e.g.; how could George and John work on a movie when they had their first acid experience mere hours before, lasting until dawn?. Perhaps the answer is in the April 9th diary which follows this date, making account of an unused “warehouse” scene. A full-on, multi-actor, unused scene on the call sheet the next day seems to comport somewhat with two stars who either didn’t turn up. or were in no shape to make usable performance. April 8 1965… In the scheme of God’s omniscient eye, a trivia to be sure, but in the canon of 60s culture and all it wrought, a momentous date worthy of note, and one of the brightest, brite-line dates in the Beatles’ rich biography.