Some Beatles and Beatle-related events for April 1:
Highlight:
- April 1, 1961: Astrid Kirchherr creates the Beatle haircut after combing Stuart Sutcliffe's hair forward.
Also:
- April 1, 1961: The Beatles begin a three-month engagement at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg.
- April 1, 1962: The Beatles play the Casbah Club in Liverpool.
- April 1, 1963: The Beatles record two shows for the BBC's "Side By Side," to be broadcast April 22 and May 13. Recorded in the afternoon: "Do You Want to Know a Secret," "I Saw Her Standing There," "Baby It's You," "Please Please Me," "From Me to You" and "Misery," plus a duet with the Karl Denver Trio of "Side by Side." Recorded in the evening: "From Me to You," "Long Tall Sally," "A Taste of Honey," "Chains," "Thank You Girl" and "Boys," plus the "Side By Side" duet.
- April 1, 1964: John Lennon meets his father Freddie for the first time in 17 years for 20 minutes at the NEMs office in London.
- April 1, 1964: More "A Hard Day's Night" filming at the Scala Theatre.
- April 1, 1965: More "Help!" filming.
- April 1, 1966: John Lennon and Paul McCartney visit Indica Gallery and its book department run by Peter Asher and John Dunbar. John buys Timothy Leary's "The Psychedelic Experience" and a version of the Tibetian Book of the Dead, where he found what became the opening line to "Tomorrow Never Knows."
- April 1, 1966: The Beatles appear on the cover of the Italian magazine Ciao Amici.
- April 1, 1966: "Nowhere Man"/"What Goes On" is awarded a gold disc in the U.S.
- April 1, 1967: Final recording session for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with the reprise of the title song.
- April 1, 1969: John and Yoko return to London, where they appear on Thames Television's "Today" and try to get host Eamonn Andrews to sit in a white bag with them and discuss "bagism."
- April 1, 1969: Filming for "The Magic Christian" with Ringo Starr where actor Lawrence Harvey delivers a passage from "Hamlet" and does a striptease.
- April 1, 1969: John Lennon tells the Daily Express, "I am back to work, recording with the Beatles -- I need the money. I'm scratching the deck, to my way of thinking. Right now, in cash, I have about 50,000 pounds."
- April 1, 1970: Phil Spector adds lavish overdubs to "The Long and Winding Road," "Across the Universe" and "I Me Mine." Author Mark Lewisohn says Spector's work caused a lot of tension and made Ringo Starr, the only Beatle present, tell Spector to calm down.
- April 1, 1972: Melody Maker prints an open letter to Marc Bolan from John Lennon.
- April 1, 1973: At a press conference, John and Yoko announce Nutopia, a new country with no boundaries and no laws. John's "Mind Games" album will feature the "Nutopian International Anthem," which is just silence.
- April 1, 1973: John and Yoko buy an apartment in the Dakota apartment building in New York City.
- April 1, 1974: The soundtrack album for "Son of Dracula" with Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr is released in the U.S.
- April 1, 1976: Freddie Lennon dies in Brighton General Hospital, aged 63.
- April 1, 1976: Wings' "Silly Love Songs"/"Cook of the House" single released in the U.S.
- April 1, 1979: "An Afternoon With Paul McCartney," an NBC radio show, airs in the U.S.
- April 1, 1989: The film "Ten For Two," filmed at the John Sinclair benefit where John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed, is given its world premiere in a two-day event.
- April 1, 1990: John Lennon/Yoko Ono's "Sometime in New York City" released on CD in the U.S.
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