John Lennon and Yoko Ono pre-recorded an appearance on The David Frost Show on this evening.
Five days after its UK release, The Beatles’ second single of 1969, ‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko’, was released in the United States.
On the penultimate day of their second bed-in for peace, John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded the anthemic ‘Give Peace A Chance’ in room 1742 of the Queen Elizabeth …
Hours before the recording of ‘Give Peace A Chance’ at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Canada, John Lennon and Yoko Ono clashed with satirical cartoonist Al Capp.
The Beatles and their wives all took holidays in the early summer of 1969: Paul and Linda McCartney in Corfu; Ringo Starr and Maureen Starkey on a cruise aboard …
The Beatles’ second UK single of 1969, ‘The Ballad Of John And Yoko’, was released on this day. The b-side was George Harrison’s ‘Old Brown Shoe’.
Studio One, Olympic Sound Studios, London Producer: George Martin Engineer: Glyn Johns This session saw the creation of a stereo mix for the song ‘Let It Be’, and the …
Following their seven-day bed-in for peace at the Amsterdam Hilton in March 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono held a second, similar event at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in …
The Beatles’ experimental label Zapple Records was launched in the US on this day, with the release of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Unfinished Music No 2: Life With …
The Beatles’ experimental label Zapple Records was launched in the US on this day, with the release of two albums: George Harrison’s Electronic Sound and John Lennon and Yoko …
John Lennon and Yoko Ono had flown from London to the Bahamas on the previous day, hoping to hold their second bed-in for peace at the Sheraton Oceanus Hotel …
John Lennon and Yoko Ono flew from London to the Bahamas on this day, hoping to hold their second bed-in for peace.
On 16 May 1969, Ringo Starr, his wife Maureen and various members of the cast and crew of the film The Magic Christian set sail for New York on …
Paul McCartney, his wife Linda McCartney and her daughter Heather flew to Corfu on this day for a holiday.
Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen Starkey were among travellers on board the recently-launched ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, heading to New York from Southampton.
Thursday 15 May 1969 Radio A day before he and Linda flew to Corfu for a holiday, Paul McCartney gave an interview to the BBC Radio Merseyside programme Light And Local. The interview took …
The Beatles were photographed for the cover of the abandoned Get Back album on 13 May 1969.
Morgan Studios, London Producer: Felix Pappalardi George Harrison had previously written the song Badge with Eric Clapton and recorded it with Cream in 1968. When Cream split, however, he …
Olympic Sound Studios, London Producers: Glyn Johns, Steve Miller The Beatles’ earlier mixing session at Olympic had ended in acrimony when John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr had …
Studio One, Olympic Sound Studios, London Producer: George Martin Engineer: Glyn Johns This was the second stereo mixing session for the insertion of speech and song snippets into Glyn …