The Beatles

By 0205kyleem

  • John Lennon and Ringo Starr

    They were both born in the summer of the 1940's.

  • Paul McCartney

    Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942.

  • George Harrison

    George Harrison was born on February 25, 1943.

  • School

    John and George each attended (three years apart) the Dovedale Infant School and the adjoining Dovedale Junior Boys School. Dovedale Road intersects with Penny Lane a few blocks from Dovedale School. Ringo attended St. Silas Primary School across the street from his home in the Dingle before moving to Dingle Vale Secondary School, where he spent a few fitful years (in-between long hospital stays hospital stays) before leaving school for good at fifteen.

  • First performance

    First British performance as The Beatles, at the Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool.

  • New Hit Single

    "Love Me Do", their first single as The Beatles, enters the British chart and reaches number 17.

  • Audition

    They audition for Decca records but are turned down because "groups of guitars are on the way out". Record shop owner Brian Epstein becomes their manager.

  • First Recording

    First recording session at EMI (music industry CO) with George Martin as producer.

  • Number one!

    "Please Please Me" reaches Number One in four of the five British singles charts, beginning a sequence of 12 consecutive number ones.

  • On Television

    15 million people watch the Beatles perform on ITV's Sunday Night at the London Palladium. The show is the U.K. equivalent of The Ed Sullivan Show.

  • Awarding

    Queen Elizabeth awards the four the MBE (Member of the British Empire). John returns his in 1969, partly in protest at British support for United States in the Vietnam War.

  • Highest Selling British Album

    "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is released and was British number one for 27 weeks. It becomes the highest selling British album of all time. It was one of the most innovative albums of its time and sounded like a continuous show.

  • Protest

    John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold "bed-in" protest at Amsterdam hotel and record "Give Peace a Chance".

  • The Break up

    The members of the Beatles broke up after John Lennon had informed him that he was going to leave the band. They announced to the public that hey had broken up on April 10, 1970