1961 – Performance at the Top Ten Club, 136 Reeperbahn, Hamburg, Germany.

1964 – `Please Please Me’ LP, 59th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `With The Beatles’, 24th week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Can’t Buy Me Love’, 7th and last week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). Performance for ATV’s `Around The Beatles’, in Wembley.

1966 – Studio 2. 2.30pm-1.00am. Recording: `I’m Only Sleeping’ (overdub onto take 11, tape reduction take 11 into takes 12, 13). Studio 2 (control room only). 1.00-2.15am. Mono mixing: `I’m Only Sleeping’ (remixes 1-4, from take 13). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Geoff Emerick; 2nd Engineer: Phil McDonald.

1969 – Studio 1, Olympic Sound Studios. 3.00pm-4.00am. Recording: `You Never Give Me Your Money’ (takes 1-36). Stereo mixing: `You Never Give Me Your Money’ (remix 1, from take 30). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Glyn Johns; 2nd Engineer: Steve Vaughan. 1st explicit recording for the `Abbey Road’ medley.

1969 – It is announced that John and Yoko are recording a record about their lives and Yoko’s miscarriage, up until their honeymoon in Amsterdam.

1977 – UK LP release: `The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl’.