Video: 'The Beatles Interviews: Meeting George Martin and Ringo Joining The Band'

(Thursday, August 16, 1962, 10:00 a.m. BST) — Pete Best, the drummer of the English rock music band The Beatles, was fired from the group today after he was summoned to the Liverpool office of the group’s manager, Brian Epstein. Continue reading English rock music band The Beatles fire their original drummer Pete Best 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 16 1962) →

Video: 'The Beatles - Ask Me Why (BBC, Teenagers' Turn - Here We Go - 15 June 1962)'

(Monday, June 11, 1962, 8:45-9:30 p.m. British Summer Time) — The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best) recorded their second BBC radio appearance tonight at Playhouse Theater in Manchester, performing “Ask Me Why” (the first Lennon-McCartney original composition played on BBC radio), “Besame Mucho,” and “A Picture Of You.” Continue reading The Beatles record second BBC radio performance in Manchester 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 11 1962) →

Video: 'Besame Mucho (Anthology 1 Version)'

(Wednesday, June 6, 1962, 7:00-10:00 p.m. British Summer Time) — The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Pete Best) visited EMI Studios at 3 Abbey Road, St John’s Wood, London, for the first time ever tonight to record, with George Martin producing, for Parlophone Records. Continue reading The Beatles audition for record producer George Martin at Abbey Road Studios in London 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1962) →

Video: 'Sweet Georgia Brown (Remastered 2015)'

(Thursday, May 24, 1962, approximately 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. Central European Time) — British rock band The Beatles recorded the instrumental backing tracks for Tony Sheridan’s “Sweet Georgia Brown” and “Swanee River” today at Studio Rahlstedt in Hamburg, West Germany, with Bert Kaempfert producing. Continue reading The Beatles track ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’ and ‘Swanee River’ for Tony Sheridan 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 24 1962) →

Video: 'Stuart Sutcliffe, The Lost Beatle'

(Tuesday, April 10, 1962) — Stu Sutcliffe, a painter and musician best known as the original bass guitarist of the English rock band The Beatles, died today of a brain haemorrhage while riding in an ambulance on the way to a hospital in Hamburg, West Germany. He was 21 years old. Continue reading Former Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, 21, dies after collapsing in Hamburg, West Germany 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 10 1962) →

Video: 'The Beatles First Radio Air Play - Teenager’s Turn – BBC Here We Go –'

(Wednesday, March 7, 1962, 8:00-8:45 p.m. GMT) — British rock group The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best) recorded their radio debut tonight at the Playhouse Theatre, Hulme, Manchester, for the BBC Light Programme Teenager’s Turn – Here We Go. Continue reading The Beatles record radio debut in Manchester, England 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 7 1962) →

Video: 'The Beatles at St. Paul´s Church 1962 First color footage [Best Quality]'

(Saturday, February 10, 1962, event scheduled to take place from 7:30-11:00 p.m. GMT) — The Beatles were filmed tonight performing at St Paul’s Presbyterian Church Hall on North Road in Tranmere, Birkenhead, England, a few miles southwest of their hometown of Liverpool. Continue reading Earliest known film footage of The Beatles captured 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Feb 10 1962) →

Video: 'Beatles Decca Audition' (first 15 clips are from audition in the likely order performed)

(New Year’s Day, Monday, January 1, 1962, 11:00 a.m. GMT; during The Beatles’ Decca audition) — Liverpudlian rock and roll band The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best) auditioned today for Mike Smith, an A&R manager at Decca Records, at Decca’s studios in Broadhurst Gardens, West Hampstead, north London. Continue reading The Beatles audition for Decca Records in London 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 1 1962) →

Video: 'The Beatles Interviews: Meeting Brian Epstein'

(Thursday, November 9, 1961, approximately 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. GMT) — Liverpool record shop owner Brian Epstein, accompanied by his assistant, Alistair Taylor, and wearing a rather incongruous pinstriped suit, visited The Cavern Club, a rock and roll club, to watch The Beatles perform this afternoon. Continue reading Brian Epstein meets The Beatles at Liverpool’s Cavern Club 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 9 1961) →

Video: 'My Bonnie (Remastered 2015)'

(Thursday, June 22, 1961, The Beatles, along with Tony Sheridan and Stuart Sutcliffe, were collected from the Top Ten Club in Hamburg at 8 a.m. Central European Time for the approximate 30-minute drive to Hamburg-Harburg) — The Beatles, an English rock band formed in Liverpool, consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best, held their first professional studio recording session today on a converted stage at Friedrich Ebert Halle in Hamburg-Harburg (about 30 minutes from Hamburg), West Germany. Continue reading The Beatles back Tony Sheridan in first professional recording session near Hamburg 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 22 1961) →