Day after day: the Beatles' history | Fab Forum | The Beatles Bible

Thanks MJB. Yes, that’s the case. This site’s been online for just under two years (my domain renewal comes up later this month), and in that time there’s been… a fair amount of content added (I once worked out it was well over 100,000 words, the size of an average novel, but it’ll have gone up significantly since then). I’m not done yet. If there are gaps it’s because there’s just one of me, and I have a day job and long-suffering wife to spend the occasional hour with

The history section has most key dates from the 1930s to The Beatles’ break-up in 1970, plus a few random dates thereafter. My focus is on getting The Beatles’ history itself fully furnished (that’s all the live dates, recording sessions, TV/radio appearances etc). I’ve currently done everything up to June 1963, although for now I’ve missed out 1961 and 1962. I’ll go back to them after I’ve done the other years, but I got bored of writing about tiny gigs across England and finding map locations for no-longer-extant ballrooms and theatres.

Eventually, if I’m still alive, I’ll consider doing a full day-by-day up to the present day providing I can find reliable sources. Lennon’s death in 1980 is absolutely something I’m going to add, though, sometime this year prior to the anniversary. Thanks for the suggestion about Stuart Sutcliffe’ death – I’m not sure why I missed out that one, though it’s probably because I’ve skipped past 1962 for now. I’ll add it to my endless to-do list 

At the start I was doing a little before work in the morning, then quite a bit in the evenings. That’s how I completed the /songs/ features in about seven months, which looking back was quite a feat! After that I took my foot off the gas a little as I was feeling burnt out. These days I try and write at least one page daily, or catch up at weekends if I fall behind schedule, but I don’t worry too much about it. Normally I can rattle off an article or two in my lunch break, then get home and do a bit more. Depends really. Clearly I have no life!

The impetus really is to get it all out of the way if/before my wife and I start a family. I’m not intending to abandon the site, but everyone I know says everything changes once you have kids. If I can complete the history up to 1970 in the next two years I’ll feel happy to have achieved what I intended to, and it won’t feel like an abandoned project if real life gets in the way.

Marcelo said:

Maybe I’m wrong, but in the “Day after day: the Beatles’ history” part of the site, there’s no references to John’s and other people’s death. I was looking for Stuart Sutcliffe death but I can’t find anything. Then I look for John’s death (December 8th, 1980) and nothing too!

 

I found about Brian Epstein death, though.

 

PS: This site is gold, man! I love it!

Right. I’ve had a really depressing afternoon. At least I’ll never have to write these articles again.

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1…..nnon-dies/

https://www.beatlesbible.com/2…..ison-dies/

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1…..iffe-dies/

I know, I just wanted to get them out of the way. You’re welcome.

Now, back to July 1963…

Glad you found it. I did try and make the multiple pages a bit more prominent a while ago, hence the boxes around the numbers. Maybe I can do more to highlight them. The longer articles tend to be the more interesting ones, and it would be a shame if people didn’t find all the content.

I think Jack Douglas has been a little more willing to talk about the Double Fantasy /Milk And Honey sessions recently, and there’s bound to be plenty of interviews later this year. We’ll see what he says. It was really tantalising of him to reveal that he’d destroyed those tapes and not to say what was on them. I wonder if he regrets it now.

EDIT I’ve just moved the page number boxes so they’re a bit more prominent. They were beneath the bookmarking buttons on the page, which might have hidden them a little.