(Friday, October 26, 1962) — The Beatles entered the British Top 40 charts today with Love Me Do, coming in at number 27 in the New Musical Express.

Video: 'The Beatles meet Little Richard'

(Friday, October 12, 1962) — Little Richard played a gig tonight at The Tower Ballroom in New Brighton, Wallasey, England, with a then-unknown local band called The Beatles opening for him.

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The Beatles: "Cry For A Shadow" (1961)

(Friday, June 23, 1961) — The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best), an English rock band formed in Liverpool, today completed their first professional studio recording sessions (which began yesterday, Thursday, June 22) at Friedrich Ebert Halle in Hamburg, West Germany, backing Tony Sheridan on four tracks, plus recording their own Cry For a Shadow, an instrumental written by John Lennon and George Harrison.