It was 1963. In January, The Beatles tour with Helen Shapiro. In February they create Northern Songs which will cause significant problems later and cause Lennon-McCartney to lose ownership of their original opus. March: Please, Please Me is number one. April: Julian Lennon is born. May: tour with Roy Orbison. May: The Beatles get their own BBC radio show. June: Paul's 21st. August: Last gig (number 274) at The Cavern. October: first foreign tour to Sweden. December: The tImes newspaper says Lennon and McCartney are 'the outstanding English composers of 1963'.
Meanwhile: Kilby defects to USSR; Britain tries to get into the common market; Great Train Robbery; Martin Luther King: I have a Dream.
"What puzzled us was why we'd thought of a name like 'From Me To You'. ... Then I realised-we'd got the inspiration from reading a copy [of the NME] on the coach. Paul and I had been talking about one of the letters in the 'From You To Us' column." John Lennon, Anthology.
That’s another reason we love The Beatles.
The Back-Story
Reason 1: Story-tellers; 2: Sgt. Pepper; 3: Eternally optimistic; 4: Still cool; 5: George Harrison.; 6: Love Me Do
7: Work Ethic ;8: Synchronicity; 9: The Roof-top Concert; 10: Candlestick Park; 11: Lennon & McCartney
12: I Saw Her Standing There; 13: Liverpool; 14: Black & White; 15: Album Covers; 16: John Lennon
17: Lennon & McCartney; 18: Rock 'n Roll; 19: They Never Made it Easy; 20: Ringo
21: Meditation & Massage; 22: The Back of a Commer Van; 23: George Martin.
24: Simply Different
25: A Time to Think
26: Revolver
27: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
28: The B Side
29: The Philosophy
30: December 1960: A Turning Point
31: What really, really motivated The Beatles?
32: 1961
33: Their last rock 'n roller.
34: From road to studio
35: The Magnum Opus
36: Mr Brian Epstein
37: Just Ordinary Lads
38: 1962
39: Yesterday
40: The Encouragers
JfDI!
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