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February 6, 2008
Show #106 - Podcast #13
1. Intro: Ticket To Ride!
2. The Beatles - Across The Universe (Anthology 2 version)
3. The Beatles - Please Please Me
4. The Beatles - All My Loving (Live on the Ed Sullivan Show)
5. The Beatles - Til There Was You (Live on the Ed Sullivan Show)
6. The Beatles - She Loves You (Live on the Ed Sullivan Show)
7. The Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand (Live on the Ed Sullivan Show)
8. The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
9. The Beatles - We Can Work It Out
10. The Beatles - Get Back (Rooftop performance, take 1)
11. The Beatles - Get Back (Rooftop performance, take 2)
12. Plastic Ono Band - Instant Karma
13. The Beatles - Free As A Bird
14. The Beatles - Across The Universe (Let It Be album version)
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This Week in Beatles
History
February 6, 2008
1961
February 9
The Beatles debut at Liverpool’s
Cavern Club
1962
February 8
While in London shopping for a record
contract for the Beatles, Brian Epstein arranges endorsement deals
for Vox amplifiers and Ludwig drums.
1963
February
The second single, Please Please Me
enters the UK charts.
1964
February 7
The Beatles arrive in the New York
for their first US tour, with I Want To Hold Your Hand hitting #1 in
the US charts just a couple of weeks earlier.
February 9
The Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan
Show.
1965
February 15
The Beatles record Ticket To Ride.
1966
First week of February
We Can Work It Out returns to the #1
spot on the US singles chart, having been displaced briefly by Simon
and Garfunkel.
1967
First week of February
Recording begins for songs that will
eventually appear on the Sgt, Pepper album.
1968
First week of February
Recording begins for John’s song,
Across The Universe.
1969
January 30th
The Beatles make their final public
performance from the roof of their Apple office building in London.
1970
February 6
The Plastic Ono Band release the
single, Instant Karma.
1995
February
Paul, Ringo and George are reunited
in the studio with producer Jeff Lynne to work with some John Lennon
demo tapes in hopes of creating some “new” material for the upcoming
Anthology project.
1997
February 26
The Beatles receive 3 Grammy awards
for Anthology.
2001
February 12
It is announced that Beatles 1 has
set a record by reaching the number one spot in 34 countries,
breaking the previous mark of 32 held by U2's Pop. It this point,
over 20 million copies of Beatles 1 have been sold worldwide.
February 13
The Beatles Meet The Beatles
is inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
March 1
The Beatles are featured for
the eighth time on the cover of Rolling Stone in an article which
goes through the songs on Beatles 1 and gives in-depth backgrounds
and info on each (the magazine is actually released in
mid-February).
2004
February
The 40th anniversary of the
Beatles arrival in America. The band is featured on the cover of
'Rolling Stone' and numerous radio stations across America feature
an "all-Beatles" weekend format. The documentary "The First U.S.
Visit" is reissued on DVD with new footage.
2008
February 4
In celebration of its 50th
anniversary, NASA beams the Beatles song Across The Universe into
deep space. Traveling at the speed of light, the music will reach
its target, Polaris (the North Star) in 431 years.
Sources: "10 Years
That Shook The World" (Mojo), aboutthebeatles.com