The Beatles Bible

Although their United Kingdom releases were The Beatles' core focus throughout their career, the albums, singles and EPs released in America were significant, even if the tracklisting was often quite different to how John, Paul, George and Ringo had envisaged. Read more »

Although they made an unannounced live appearance in January 1969 on the rooftop of the Apple building, The Beatles' final live concert took place on 29 August 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California. Read more »

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 with questions about John Lennon's comments that The Beatles' were "more popular than Jesus". Read more »

The day before their final US tour began, The Beatles flew from London Airport to America. Read more »

The Beatles' only visit to Atlanta lasted around 10 hours, but was remarkable for one key reason: monitor speakers on the stage allowed them to hear themselves play - a rarity during the whirlwind of Beatlemania. Read more »

The second of The Beatles' two performances at the Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York City was seen by 16,000 fans. Read more »

The first of two performances, the second of which took place the following night, in front of 16,000 fans at the Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York City. Read more »

Although they had performed shows in New York, Washington DC and Miami in February 1964, this was The Beatles' first proper tour of America. Read more »

To return to England from America, The Beatles flew first from Miami to New York, where they boarded an aeroplane to take them to London. They arrived back the following day.

On this day The Beatles were taken to the training camp of boxer Cassius Clay - later known as Muhammad Ali - who was preparing for his 25 February fight against heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Read more »

The day after their second Ed Sullivan Show appearance, The Beatles enjoyed a well-earned day off in Miami, in which they tried water-skiing.

One week after their record-breaking debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles made their second live appearance. Read more »

The day before their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles spent all afternoon rehearsing at their Miami hotel. Read more »

The Beatles' second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show was to take place at their Miami Hotel, the Deauville, on 16 February. Ahead of it they undertook a series of rehearsals. Read more »

The Beatles travelled to Miami from New York on this day, leaving on National Airlines Flight 11 at 1.30pm and arriving at 4pm. Read more »

After an overnight stop in Washington, DC, The Beatles returned to New York City for two concerts at Carnegie Hall. Read more »

The Beatles traveled from New York to Washington, DC early on this day by rail, as an East Coast snowstorm had caused all flights to be cancelled. Read more »

The day after their record-breaking appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles gave a series of interviews and personal appearances. Read more »

This was the date of The Beatles' record-breaking first live appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, at Studio 50 in New York City. Read more »

In the morning a press conference was held in the Baroque Room at New York's Plaza Hotel, where The Beatles were staying. Following this John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr went for a walk and photo opportunity in Central Park, where their every move was followed by around 400 female fans. Read more »