Beatles history - 1969 March
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Saturday |
`Yellow Submarine' LP, 7th week in the Top 30 (Billboard). |
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Sunday |
John and Yoko perform at the Lady Mitchell Hall, Cambridge, in a Jazz Festival. Recording: `Let's Go On Flying'; `Snow Is Falling All The Time'; `Don't Worry Kyoko'; `Song For John'; `Cambridge 1969'. 1st solo performance of a Beatle, and 1st public performance of John and Yoko. Partially included on `Unfinished Music Number 2 |
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Sunday |
ife With The Lions'. |
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Tuesday |
Odeon Theatre, London. Premiere of the film `Isadora'. Paul attends. |
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Tuesday |
Surprise visit of Princess Margaret during shooting of a scene in a French restaurant for `The Magic Christian'. After, lunch of Princess Margaret, Denis O'Dell, Ringo and Peter Sellers. |
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Tuesday |
Paul, Linda and Heather visit during shooting of `The Magic Christian'. |
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Wednesday |
Date after which EMI planned not to pay any author rights to anyone during the EMI-Richenberg trial. |
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Wednesday |
`Yellow Submarine', 7th week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart). |
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Thursday |
`Yellow Submarine' LP, 7th week in the Top 30 (Billboard). |
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Saturday |
`Yellow Submarine' LP, 8th week in the Top 30 (Billboard). |
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Monday |
Olympic Sound Studios. Time unknown. Stereo mixing: `Get Back'; `Teddy Boy'; `On Our Way Home' (working title of `Two Of Us'); `Dig A Pony'; `I've Got A Feeling'; `The Long And Winding Road'; `Let It Be'; `Rocker'; `Save The Last Dance For Me'; `Don't Let Me Down'; `Because You're Sweet And Lovely' (working title of `For You Blue'); `Get Back'; `The Walk'. Producer: George Martin?; Engineer: Glyn Johns; 2nd Engineer: unknown. Glyn Johns, commissioned by John and Paul, begins work of compilation of the album `Get Back'. |
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Tuesday |
Olympic Sound Studios. Time unknown. Stereo mixing: `On Our Way Home' (working title of `Two Of Us'); `The Long And Winding Road'; `Lady Madonna'. Producer: George Martin?; Engineer: Glyn Johns; 2nd Engineer: unknown. |
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Wednesday |
Morning: Normal Pilcher registers the Harrisons' Esher house. George and Pattie attend the `Piscis' party thrown by Rory McEwen. Shortly after 7.30 pm. `Kinfaus', Esher, Surrey. George and Pattie are arrested for possession of cannabis resin. Evening. George and Pattie are taken to the Escher police station. |
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Wednesday |
Morning: Marriage of Paul and Linda, at the Marylebone Register Office. Heather, Mike McGear, Mal Evans and Peter Brown attend. The second part of the wedding takes place at the St John's Wood anglican church, and is officiated by priest Noel Perry. Later, party at the Hotel Ritz. Evening: Paul works on a Jackie Lomax record.
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Wednesday |
Olympic Sound Studios. Time unknown. Stereo mixing: `The Long And Winding Road'; `Let It Be'. Producer: George Martin?; Engineer: Glyn Johns; 2nd Engineer: unknown. |
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Wednesday |
`Yellow Submarine', 8th and last week in the ranking (UK New Musical Express chart). |
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Thursday |
Compilation and banding of an EP containing the new tracks on `Yellow Submarine', plus `Across The Universe'. Never released. |
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Thursday |
Olympic Sound Studios. Time unknown. Stereo mixing: `I've Got A Feeling'; `Dig It' (version 1); `Dig It' (version 2); `Maggie Mae'; `Shake Rattle And Roll'; `Kansas City'; `Miss Ann'; `Lawdy Miss Clawdy'; `Blue Suede Shoes'; `You Really Got A Hold On Me'. Producer: George Martin?; Engineer: Glyn Johns; 2nd Engineer: unknown. |
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Saturday |
`Yellow Submarine' LP, 9th week in the Top 30 (Billboard). |
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Saturday |
John and Yoko stand at the Thoresen Passenger Terminal, at Southampton, to board a ferry to France. They cannot board, because of passport problems. |
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Sunday |
John and Yoko fly to Paris. |
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Monday |
US single release: `Badge'. |
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Tuesday |
John appears on the cover of the magazine `Look'.
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Tuesday |
Thames Embankment, London. Ringo shoots scenes for `The Magic Christian'. For the lunch break, cast and crew go inside the Star & Garter. |
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Tuesday |
George and Pattie appear on Esher and Walton Magistrates' Court, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. |
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Wednesday |
George and Pattie leave the Esher and Walton Magistrates' Court, Walton-On-Thames, Surrey, on Derek Taylor's surety. |
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Thursday |
John and Yoko fly to Gibraltar. Marriage of John and Yoko in Gibraltar. |
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Friday |
John and Yoko fly to Amsterdam. |
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Saturday |
`Yellow Submarine' LP, 10th week in the Top 30 (Billboard). `Unfinished Music Number 1-Two Virgins' number 124, its highest position (Billboard). |
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Tuesday |
John and Yoko enter the Amsterdam Hilton. Start of John and Yoko's 4-day bed-in at the Amsterdam Hilton. |
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Wednesday |
Abbey Road, Studio unknown. Time unknown. Mono mixing: `Get Back' (remixes 1-4). Producer: George Martin?; Engineer: Jeff Jarratt; 2nd Engineer: not assigned. Remix of `Get Back' for the single. |
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Thursday |
In London, Ringo confirms they will not play before an audience again. |
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Saturday |
`Yellow Submarine' LP, 11th and last week in the Top 30 (Billboard). |
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Monday |
George and Pattie appear on Esher and Walton Magistrates' Court, walton-On-Thames, Surrey. Trial for possession of cannabis resin. They plead guilty and are fined 250 pounds each, plus 10 guineas costs. |
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Monday |
End of John and Yoko's bed-in at the Amsterdam Hilton. John and Yoko leave the Amsterdam Hilton. Premiere of a TV documentary produced by John and Yoko, with their attendance, in Vienna: `Rape'. They comment the film in a press conference at the Hotel Sacher, Vienna. The film is broadcast by the Austrian National Network Television. |
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