26 September 1974: John Lennon's album Walls And Bridges is released in the USA. "You can say, ‘Well, it was because of years of fighting deportation and this problem and that problem,’ but whatever it was, it sounds depressing." Read all about it: www.beatlesbible.com/people/john-...

26 September 1969: The Beatles' album Abbey Road is released in the UK. It sells four million copies worldwide in the first six weeks, and a further million by the end of 1969 – making it the best-selling LP of the year. Read all about Abbey Road: www.beatlesbible.com/albums/abbey...

26 September 1967: The Beatles record The Fool On The Hill in one take. Paul McCartney: "The Fool On The Hill was mine and I think I was writing about someone like Maharishi. His detractors called him a fool." Full session info: www.beatlesbible.com/1967/09/26/r...

25 September 2006: Ecce Cor Meum, Paul McCartney’s fourth album of classical music, is released in the UK. "There is a lament in the middle called Interlude (Lament) which was very specifically grieving over Linda." See more: www.beatlesbible.com/people/paul-...

25 September 1997: Standing Stone, Paul McCartney’s second album of classical music, is released in the United States. McCartney: "Standing Stone relies entirely on colours and effects drawn from orchestral and choral forces." See more: www.beatlesbible.com/people/paul-...

25 September 1970: Ringo Starr’s second solo album, Beaucoups Of Blues, is released in the UK. "We picked and learned five songs in the morning and we recorded five songs at night, and had a lot of fun in between." See more: www.beatlesbible.com/people/ringo...

25 September 1969: John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band begin recording the Cold Turkey single. Lennon: "The looseness of singing was developing on Cold Turkey from the experience of Yoko's singing – she does not inhibit her throat." Full session info: www.beatlesbible.com/1969/09/25/r...

25 September 1969: Paul and Linda McCartney attend the UK première of the film Midnight Cowboy. A BBC camera crew films the McCartneys arriving, alongside stars including Marty Feldman and Richard Harris. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1969/09/25/p...

25 September 1968: The Beatles finish recording Happiness Is A Warm Gun. John Lennon: "George Martin showed me the cover of a magazine that said, 'Happiness is a warm gun'. I thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say." Full session info: www.beatlesbible.com/1968/09/25/e...

25 September 1967: The Beatles begin recording The Fool On The Hill, taping three unused takes. The session is also attended by Yoko Ono, and a reporter and photographer from the Japanese magazine Music Life. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1967/09/25/r...

24 September 1968: The Beatles record Happiness Is A Warm Gun – the final version is an edit of takes 53 and 65. Have you ever wondered what the lyrics – the velvet hand, the lizard on the window pane, the National Trust – mean? Find out here: www.beatlesbible.com/songs/happin...

24 September 1967: The Beatles film the finale of the Magical Mystery Tour film. They mime and dance to the song Your Mother Should Know, alongside a formation dance team, and 24 cadets from the Royal Air Force, and the rest of the cast. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1967/09/24/f...

24 September 1941: Linda Louise Eastman is born in New York City. "Photography made me a different person because it was something I loved doing and just nothing else mattered." Happy birthday Linda! www.beatlesbible.com/1941/09/24/l...

23 September 1974: John Lennon’s single Whatever Gets You Thru The Night is released in the USA. Lennon: "Elton John walked in – you know, we're all good friends – and the next minute he said, 'Say, can I put a bit of piano on that?'" See more: www.beatlesbible.com/people/john-...

23 September 1968: The Beatles begin recording Happiness Is A Warm Gun for the White Album. The session takes place from 7pm-3am. At this time the song has the longer working title Happiness Is A Warm Gun In Your Hand. See more about the session: www.beatlesbible.com/1968/09/23/r...

Extra Texture (Read All About It), George Harrison’s sixth solo album, was released in the United States on 22 September 1975. It was the final album released by the Beatles’ Apple Records label. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/people/georg...

Roll up! Roll up! Ringo Starr was filmed buying tickets for the Magical Mystery Tour from John Lennon on 22 September 1967, in a scene for the beginning of the TV special. Watch the scene here: www.beatlesbible.com/1967/09/22/f...

The Beatles began recording the White Album song Piggies on 19 September 1968. They recorded 11 takes, with George Harrison on acoustic guitar, Paul McCartney on bass guitar, Ringo Starr on tambourine, and producer Chris Thomas on harpsichord. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1968/09/19/r...

Brian Epstein, the manager who steered the Beatles to global success, was born in Liverpool on 19 September 1934. Happy birthday Brian! See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1934/09/19/b...

18 September 1973: Ringo Starr buys Tittenhurst Park, John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 26-room Georgian mansion in Ascot, Berkshire. Starr sells Tittenhurst in 1988 for £5 million to the president of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Abu Dhabi. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1973/09/18/r...

18 September 1968: The Beatles write, record and mix the White Album song Birthday in a single session. Paul McCartney: "We thought, 'Why not make something up?' So we got a riff going and arranged it around this riff." See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1968/09/18/r...

18 September 1967: The second week of filming Magical Mystery Tour begins with the Beatles visiting the Raymond Revuebar in London's Soho. They are filmed watching Jan Carson's striptease, soundtracked by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1967/09/18/f...

18 September 1966: John Lennon travels to Spain to continue work on the film How I Won The War. "I was always waiting for a reason to get out of the Beatles from the day I made How I Won the War in 1966. I just didn’t have the guts to do it." See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1966/09/18/j...

18 September 1964: The Beatles' only show in Dallas, Texas, is seen by 10,000 people. A bomb threat delays the start of the show, although no devices are found. During the search a number of fans are discovered hiding under the stage and in washrooms! www.beatlesbible.com/1964/09/18/l...

Ringo Starr’s fifth solo album, Ringo’s Rotogravure, was released in the UK on 17 September 1976, ten days before its US release. The album featured contributions from John Lennon, Paul and Linda McCartney, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and others. More: www.beatlesbible.com/people/ringo...

Paul and Linda McCartney were robbed at knifepoint in Lagos, Nigeria, on 17 September 1973. “She’s screaming at the top of her voice. ‘What do you want, man? Money? Here. You can have it. The tape? Sure! Take it. Camera. Yeah, go on, you can have it all.’ www.beatlesbible.com/1973/09/17/p...

Paul McCartney completed the White Album song I Will on 17 September 1968. Working without the other Beatles, he overdubbed harmony vocals, another acoustic guitar part, maracas, and a vocal bass line. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1968/09/17/r...

The Beatles played a special one-off concert in Kansas City, Missouri, on 17 September 1964. The show, for which the Beatles earned a record-breaking $150,000, was their only US tour date in 1964 which didn't sell out. See the full story: www.beatlesbible.com/1964/09/17/l...

16 September 1968: The Beatles record I Will for the White Album in 67 takes. Paul McCartney also leads various improvisations – including take 19, better known as Can You Take Me Back?, a snippet from which appears on the White Album. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1968/09/16/r...

16 September 1967: The Beatles record eleven takes of Your Mother Should Know, including the version on Anthology 2. Paul McCartney sings and plays harmonium, with a backing including piano, drums, and bongos. Full session info: www.beatlesbible.com/1967/09/16/r...

16 September 1964: The Beatles play their only concert in New Orleans, seen by 12,000 people. Mayor Victor Schiro gives them a key to the city, and proclaims 16 September 1964 ‘Beatles Day’ in New Orleans. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1964/09/16/l...

16 September 1963: The first Beatle in the USA – George Harrison visits his sister Louise in Benton, Illinois. "I went to New York and St Louis in 1963, to look around, and to the countryside in Illinois, where my sister was living at the time…" More: www.beatlesbible.com/1963/09/16/g...

15 September 2017: Ringo Starr’s 19th studio album, Give More Love, is released worldwide. It contains ten new songs and four bonus tracks – re-recordings of Don’t Pass Me By, Back Off Boogaloo, You Can’t Fight Lightning, and Photograph. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/people/ringo...

15 September 1972: Some Time In New York City by John Lennon & Yoko Ono is released in the UK. Lennon: "America is where it’s at. You know, I should have been born in New York, man. I should have been born in the Village!" Read all about it: www.beatlesbible.com/people/john-...

15 September 1967: The Beatles film a number of scenes for Magical Mystery Tour. Aboard the coach, accordionist Shirley Evans leads the party with a number of songs including When Irish Eyes Are Smiling! See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1967/09/15/f...

15 September 1964: The police halt the show when the Beatles perform in Cleveland, Ohio! "One little girl was knocked down in the charge and there were 300 other youngsters about to trample her…" See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1964/09/15/l...

15 September 1963: The Beatles and the Rolling Stones perform at the Great Pop Prom at London's Royal Albert Hall. Paul McCartney: "Up there with the Rolling Stones we were thinking, "This is it – London! The Albert Hall! We felt like gods!" See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1963/09/15/l...

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12 September 2005: Chaos And Creation In The Backyard, Paul McCartney’s 13th solo studio album, is released in the UK. It is produced by Nigel Godrich. "He wanted, as he put it, to take me out of my safety zone, to do something different…" See more: www.beatlesbible.com/people/paul-...

12 September 1969: John Lennon decides to leave the Beatles. "I announced it to myself and to the people around me on the way to Toronto the few days before. On the plane Allen [Klein] came with me, and I told him, 'It's over'." Read the full story: www.beatlesbible.com/1969/09/12/j...

12 September 1968: John Lennon records his lead vocals for the White Album song Glass Onion. "That's me, just doing a throwaway song, à la Walrus, à la everything I've ever written." Read all about Glass Onion here: www.beatlesbible.com/songs/glass-...

12 September 1967: Day two of filming Magical Mystery Tour in the south west of England, and the Beatles' coach gets stuck on a narrow bridge! See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1967/09/12/f...

12 September 1964: The Beatles play to 13,909 fans at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The other acts on the bill are: the Bill Black Combo, The Exciters, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, and Jackie DeShannon. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1964/09/12/l...

12 September 1963: The Beatles record three songs for their second album With The Beatles. Hold Me Tight and Don't Bother Me are each completed in ten takes, and Little Child in 16. They also attempt a remake of I Wanna Be Your Man. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1963/09/12/r...

The Beatles recorded the backing track of Glass Onion, for the White Album, on 11 September 1968. They taped 34 takes, with John Lennon on acoustic guitar, George Harrison on electric guitar, Paul McCartney on bass, and Ringo Starr on drums. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1968/09/11/r...

11 September 1967: Roll up! Roll up! The Beatles begin filming Magical Mystery Tour. The coach is late departing, so Paul McCartney and Mal Evans head to Soho to buy uniforms for the driver and courier. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1967/09/11/f...

11 September 1964: The Beatles perform their only show in Florida, at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville. John Lennon: "We never play to segregated audiences and we aren’t going to start now. I’d sooner lose our appearance money." See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1964/09/11/l...

11 September 1963: The Beatles record All I've Got To Do and Not A Second Time, for their second album With The Beatles. They also begin work on George Harrison's first solo composition, Don’t Bother Me. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1963/09/11/r...

11 September 1962: The Beatles record Love Me Do and PS I Love You, with session drummer Andy White. "What impressed me was they were doing some really good stuff, but it was all their own stuff and was really new." See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1962/09/11/r...

10 September 1969: Two films by John Lennon and Yoko Ono are premiered in London: Mr & Mrs Lennon's Honeymoon, and Self-Portrait – a 15-minute slow-motion study of Lennon's penis… The audience also hears the then-unreleased Abbey Road album. See more: www.beatlesbible.com/1969/09/10/s...