Four years of Beatles Bible, and now we’ve reached 200 thousand subscribers! 🎉
What started as a hobby for me as a fan of The Beatles has grown into an incredible community of people from all over the world who share the same love for their music and legacy. Reaching this milestone feels amazing, and I couldn’t have done it without every single person who chose to subscribe, watch the videos, leave a comment, share our content, or simply be along for the ride.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you! ❤️ Your support over these four years has meant more to me than I can put into words.
And I hope Beatles Bible can continue celebrating the Fab Four with you for many years to come. Here’s to 200K—and to everything that’s still ahead! 🥂🎶
The Beatles’ eighth US album released by Capitol Records, Help!, was issued on this day as MAS-2386 (mono) and SMAS-2386 (stereo).
Unlike the UK version, which featured songs from the Help! film on the first side, and seven further tracks on the other, Capitol included a number of selections from Ken Thorne’s orchestral score, performed by the George Martin Orchestra.
This version – which also includes the ‘James Bond’ introduction to the title track, was reissued on the Capitol Albums Vol. 2 and The US Albums box sets.
📅 ON THIS DAY: Recording: All Things Must Pass by George Harrison (1970)
Studio Three, EMI Studios, Abbey Road Producers: George Harrison, Phil Spector Engineers: Phil McDonald, Richard Lush
Tuesday 11 August 1970 was the 31st recording session for George Harrison’s third solo album All Things Must Pass.
The backing tracks were finished on 25 July. During the end of the month and beginning of August 1970, Harrison worked on overdub sessions at Abbey Road.
George worked with arranger John Barham on a range of overdubs from 28 July until 12 August, although the precise recording details for each day are not known. He worked a four-day week throughout the album recording sessions, with breaks from Saturday to Monday.
📅 ON THIS DAY: Recording: Please Mister Postman, It Won’t Be Long (1963)
Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road Producer: George Martin Engineer: Norman Smith
Two sessions took place on this second day’s work on With The Beatles, during which The Beatles recording six songs at Abbey Road’s studio two.
They started work at 10am, recording two songs before finishing at 1.30pm. The first was The Marvelettes’ ‘Please Mister Postman’, the third Motown song taped by The Beatles for the album. The final version was an overdub of take nine onto take seven.
So far all the songs recorded for With The Beatles were cover versions. The first Lennon–McCartney song to be attempted was ‘It Won’t Be Long’, later selected as the album’s opener. The Beatles recorded 10 takes, including two overdubs of the ending, although they decided to return to the song at the following session.
The group left Abbey Road to record two BBC radio appearances in the early afternoon, for the shows Non Stop Pop and Saturday Club. They returned to the studio at 5pm, remaining there until 11pm.
Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road Engineer: Ken Scott
George Martin was unavailable for this session, which saw work begin on The Beatles’ next single ‘Hey Jude’.
Six takes, which were closer to rehearsals than proper attempts, were recorded between 8.30pm and 4am in Abbey Road’s Studio Two.
Only three of the takes – one, two and six – were complete, and lasted 6’12”, 4’30” and 5’25” respectively. Take two was later issued on 1996’s Anthology 3, although faded out slightly early.
This day’s takes had Paul McCartney’s vocals on track one, his piano on two, John Lennon’s acoustic guitar and George Harrison’s electric on track three, and Ringo Starr’s drums on four.
The Beatles continued work on ‘Hey Jude’ on 30 July 1968, before it was taken to Trident Studios in London for completion using their eight-track facilities.
In the early summer of 1968, Paul telephoned esteemed war photographer Don McCullin to ask him to spend a day photographing The Beatles. The group was in need of new publicity images, and wanted to get away from the recording studio temporarily.
The chosen day was 28 July 1968. The Beatles and McCullin were joined by five others with cameras – Ronald Fitzgibbon, Stephen Goldblatt, Tom Murray, Tony Bramwell and Mal Evans – plus Yoko Ono, McCartney’s girlfriend Francie Schwartz, and Gary Evans, Mal’s six-year-old son.
"It was quiet and they came to the Sunday Times building on Gray’s Inn Road. At the top of the building was a photo studio that had been created by Tony Snowdon. There was no agenda except they wanted to give Life magazine a cover picture, which I photographed in colour. I used Ektachrome, and Ringo’s chrome yellow shirt jumped out of the blue of his suit. I turned on the wind machine… The wind machine was throwing their hair around and their famous faces looked like the figures on Mount Rushmore. To my amazement it worked and we got a beautiful cover. Thinking back on it, Life used to pay five hundred quid for a cover so maybe I actually lost out on it, but I was thrilled." – Don McCullin
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Four years of Beatles Bible, and now we’ve reached 200 thousand subscribers! 🎉
What started as a hobby for me as a fan of The Beatles has grown into an incredible community of people from all over the world who share the same love for their music and legacy. Reaching this milestone feels amazing, and I couldn’t have done it without every single person who chose to subscribe, watch the videos, leave a comment, share our content, or simply be along for the ride.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you! ❤️ Your support over these four years has meant more to me than I can put into words.
And I hope Beatles Bible can continue celebrating the Fab Four with you for many years to come. Here’s to 200K—and to everything that’s still ahead! 🥂🎶
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📅 ON THIS DAY: US album release: Help! (1965)
The Beatles’ eighth US album released by Capitol Records, Help!, was issued on this day as MAS-2386 (mono) and SMAS-2386 (stereo).
Unlike the UK version, which featured songs from the Help! film on the first side, and seven further tracks on the other, Capitol included a number of selections from Ken Thorne’s orchestral score, performed by the George Martin Orchestra.
This version – which also includes the ‘James Bond’ introduction to the title track, was reissued on the Capitol Albums Vol. 2 and The US Albums box sets.
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📅 ON THIS DAY: Recording: All Things Must Pass by George Harrison (1970)
Studio Three, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producers: George Harrison, Phil Spector
Engineers: Phil McDonald, Richard Lush
Tuesday 11 August 1970 was the 31st recording session for George Harrison’s third solo album All Things Must Pass.
The backing tracks were finished on 25 July. During the end of the month and beginning of August 1970, Harrison worked on overdub sessions at Abbey Road.
George worked with arranger John Barham on a range of overdubs from 28 July until 12 August, although the precise recording details for each day are not known. He worked a four-day week throughout the album recording sessions, with breaks from Saturday to Monday.
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📅 ON THIS DAY: Recording: Please Mister Postman, It Won’t Be Long (1963)
Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
Two sessions took place on this second day’s work on With The Beatles, during which The Beatles recording six songs at Abbey Road’s studio two.
They started work at 10am, recording two songs before finishing at 1.30pm. The first was The Marvelettes’ ‘Please Mister Postman’, the third Motown song taped by The Beatles for the album. The final version was an overdub of take nine onto take seven.
So far all the songs recorded for With The Beatles were cover versions. The first Lennon–McCartney song to be attempted was ‘It Won’t Be Long’, later selected as the album’s opener. The Beatles recorded 10 takes, including two overdubs of the ending, although they decided to return to the song at the following session.
The group left Abbey Road to record two BBC radio appearances in the early afternoon, for the shows Non Stop Pop and Saturday Club. They returned to the studio at 5pm, remaining there until 11pm.
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📅 ON THIS DAY: Recording: Hey Jude (1968)
Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Engineer: Ken Scott
George Martin was unavailable for this session, which saw work begin on The Beatles’ next single ‘Hey Jude’.
Six takes, which were closer to rehearsals than proper attempts, were recorded between 8.30pm and 4am in Abbey Road’s Studio Two.
Only three of the takes – one, two and six – were complete, and lasted 6’12”, 4’30” and 5’25” respectively. Take two was later issued on 1996’s Anthology 3, although faded out slightly early.
This day’s takes had Paul McCartney’s vocals on track one, his piano on two, John Lennon’s acoustic guitar and George Harrison’s electric on track three, and Ringo Starr’s drums on four.
The Beatles continued work on ‘Hey Jude’ on 30 July 1968, before it was taken to Trident Studios in London for completion using their eight-track facilities.
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📅 ON THIS DAY: The Mad Day Out photoshoot (1968)
In the early summer of 1968, Paul telephoned esteemed war photographer Don McCullin to ask him to spend a day photographing The Beatles. The group was in need of new publicity images, and wanted to get away from the recording studio temporarily.
The chosen day was 28 July 1968. The Beatles and McCullin were joined by five others with cameras – Ronald Fitzgibbon, Stephen Goldblatt, Tom Murray, Tony Bramwell and Mal Evans – plus Yoko Ono, McCartney’s girlfriend Francie Schwartz, and Gary Evans, Mal’s six-year-old son.
"It was quiet and they came to the Sunday Times building on Gray’s Inn Road. At the top of the building was a photo studio that had been created by Tony Snowdon. There was no agenda except they wanted to give Life magazine a cover picture, which I photographed in colour. I used Ektachrome, and Ringo’s chrome yellow shirt jumped out of the blue of his suit. I turned on the wind machine… The wind machine was throwing their hair around and their famous faces looked like the figures on Mount Rushmore. To my amazement it worked and we got a beautiful cover. Thinking back on it, Life used to pay five hundred quid for a cover so maybe I actually lost out on it, but I was thrilled." – Don McCullin
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