Black Sabbath played their first gig at a small backstreet Blues club in Birmingham, England on July 13, 1968 Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne (lead vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass guitar), and Bill Ward (drums). The band has since experienced multiple line-up…
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Beatles History For February 15 1964 ‘With The Beatles’ number 1, 11th week (UK Record Retailer chart). ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ number 1, 3rd week; 5th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). ‘She Loves You’, 4th week in the Top 100 (Billboard). ‘Please Please Me’, 3rd week in the Top 100 (Billboard). ‘I…
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1843 Evening: Show for the benefit of Mr. Kite. 1961 Performance at the Casanova club, Liverpool. Filmed. Earlies Beatles footage known. 1963 Concert at the Locarno Ballroom. 1965 Ringo returns from Brighton to London. 1967 Studio 2. 7.00pm-12.30am. Recording: ‘Only A Northern Song’ (tape reduction take 3 into takes 10-12, overdub onto take 12)….
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1963 Transmision of performance for ABC-TV’s ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’. 1964 Start of stay at Miami. Dezo Hoffmann is with them. 1965 Brighton. Ringo and Maureen’s wedding trip. Brian, Marianne Faithfull, Adrienne Posta and Ted Ray appear on ‘Juke Box Jury’. 1966 Brian throws a party at 24 Chapel Street. Guests, among others: Cilla…
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1963 Concert at the Azena Ballroom, Sheffield (Helen Shapiro tour). 1964 Two 25-minute performances at the New York Carnegie Hall. Dezo Hoffmann and Brian attend. British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and US President Lyndon B. Johnson meet at the White House. Johnson says: ‘I like your advance guard. But don’t you think they…
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1963 Studio 2. 10.00am-1.00pm. Recording: ‘There’s A Place’ (takes 1-10); ‘Seventeen’ (working title of ‘I Saw Her Standing There’) (takes 1-9). Studio 2. 2.30-6.00pm. Recording: ‘A Taste Of Honey’ (takes 1-5); ‘Do You Want To Know A Secret’ (takes 1-8); ‘A Taste Of Honey’ (takes 6-7); ‘There’s A Place’ (takes 11-13); ‘Seventeen’ (working title…
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1962 Brian writes to Dick Rowe, about Rowe’s decision of not signing the Beatles to a recording contract with Decca. 1963 Concert at the Embassy, Peterborough (Helen Shapiro Tour). Photographic session with photographer Cyrus Andrews at the Royal Court Hotel lobby and in and around Sloane Square, London. Locations: 1) Royal Court Hotel lobby;…
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1963 ‘Please Please Me’ number 39 (UK Melody Market chart). Concert at the Odeon, Sutherland (Helen Shapiro tour). 1964 20.00. 1st live US performance: CBS’s Ed Sullivan Show. US rating record (72.7%). Pre-recording of an additional performance for the Ed Sullivan Show. 1966 ‘We Can Work It Out’, 10th and last week in the…
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1958 Evening: Performance of the Quarry Men at the Wilson Hall, Garston. Paul introduces George to John. 1962 (Or around this day.) Brian goes to HMV’s store, 363 Oxford Street, London, to have acetates cut from tapes of some songs of the Decca audition, and chat with Bob Boast, disc-cutter Jim Foy, and Sid…
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1963 Concert at the Odeon, Wakefield (Helen Shapiro tour). 1964 Press conference at the Heathrow Airport. 6.30. The Beatles and Brian leave from London to New York (Flight 101, Pan Am). 13.35. Arrival at the US for a 10-day tour, at the Kennedy Airport, New York. Press conference at the Kennedy Airport. The Beatles…
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