Year: 1966
Friday 19 August 1966 Live The eighth date of The Beatles’ final tour took place at the Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, Tennessee, where they performed two concerts.
Thursday 18 August 1966 Live The seventh date of The Beatles’ final tour took place at the Suffolk Downs Racetrack in Boston, Massachusetts, where they gave one concert before 25,000 people.
Wednesday 17 August 1966 Live The sixth date of The Beatles’ final tour took place at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. It was their only Canadian stop on the tour.
Tuesday 16 August 1966 Live The fifth date of The Beatles’ final tour took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where they performed one concert before around 20,000 people at the John F Kennedy Stadium.
Monday 15 August 1966 Live The fourth date of The Beatles’ final tour took place in Washington, DC, where they performed one concert before 32,164 people at the DC Stadium.
Sunday 14 August 1966 Live The third date of The Beatles’ final tour took place in Cleveland, Ohio, where they performed once concert before 20,000 people.
The day after it organised a public burning of The Beatles’ music and memorabilia, radio station KLUE of Longview, Texas was struck by lightning.
The controversy over John Lennon’s “more popular than Jesus” comments had been growing since late July. A public bonfire was on this day organised by the radio station KLUE …
Saturday 13 August 1966 Live The second date of The Beatles’ final North American tour saw them perform two shows, at 2pm and 7pm, before a total of 28,000 fans at Detroit’s Olympia Stadium. …
Friday 12 August 1966 Live The Beatles began their 14-date final tour with two concerts at Chicago’s International Amphitheater, a venue they had previously played in September 1964.
The day after their arrival in America for their final US tour, The Beatles held a second press conference at the Astor Tower Hotel, Chicago. Inevitably it was dominated …
The day before their final US tour began, The Beatles flew from London Airport to America.
In the wake of John Lennon’s comments that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus”, the South African Broadcasting Corporation issued a ban on The Beatles’ records.
Revolver, The Beatles’ 11th Capitol Records long player, was issued on 8 August 1966, three days after its UK release on Parlophone.
Three days after its UK release, Beatles fans in the United States were able to buy the group’s double a-side single ‘Eleanor Rigby’/‘Yellow Submarine’.
In an attempt to defuse the controversy surrounding John Lennon’s comments that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus”, the group’s manager Brian Epstein held a special press conference.
Saturday 6 August 1966 Radio John Lennon and Paul McCartney gave interviews on this day for a one-hour BBC radio show titled The Lennon And McCartney Songbook.
On the same day The Beatles released their double a-side single ‘Eleanor Rigby’/‘Yellow Submarine’, their seventh UK LP, Revolver, was also issued.
On the same day that The Beatles’ album Revolver was issued, Parlophone released the ‘Eleanor Rigby’/‘Yellow Submarine’ single in the United Kingdom.
Keen to enjoy a holiday before The Beatles left England for their final US tour, George and Pattie Harrison left London for a break in Devon.