The Beatles Bible

The day before they watched Bob Dylan perform at the Isle of Wight Festival, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Ringo Starr and Maureen Starkey travelled to the island. Read more »

The world première of The Beatles' animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, took place on this evening at the London Pavilion on Piccadilly Circus. Read more »

George and Pattie Harrison, Ringo Starr, Maureen Starkey and Mal Evans all returned to England from California on this day. Read more »

George and Pattie Harrison, Ringo Starr, Maureen Starkey and Mal Evans all flew to California on this day. Read more »

Following the long drive from Rishikesh to Delhi, and the 20-hour flight from there to London Airport, Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen arrived back in London. Read more »

The arrival of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in Delhi was quite different from the journey taken by John Lennon and George Harrison a few days earlier. Read more »

Paul McCartney, his partner Jane Asher, plus Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen, flew from London Airport on this day. They were bound for Delhi, India, where John Lennon and George Harrison had arrived three days earlier. Read more »

The third Beatles baby, following the births of Julian Lennon and Zak Starkey, was a second son for Ringo Starr and Maureen Starkey. Read more »

BBC disc jockey Kenny Everett gave the official preview of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on this day, on the radio show Where It's At, broadcast on the BBC Light Programme from 4pm. Read more »

On 18 September 1966, John Lennon had travelled to Carboneras in Spain to film How I Won The War for director Richard Lester. Read more »

John and Cynthia Lennon, Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen Starkey all flew to Port of Spain in Trinidad on this day for a winter holiday. Read more »

On 13 September 1965 Ringo Starr's wife Maureen Starkey gave birth to their first son Zak. Read more »

Ringo Starr and his wife Maureen Starkey bought their first home on this day. Sunny Heights was a large mock Tudor house in Weybridge, Surrey, less than a mile from John Lennon's house Kenwood. Read more »

The pub cellar sequence for The Beatles' second feature film, Help!, was filmed on this day at Twickenham Film Studios in England. In the scene, Ringo Starr was confronted by a tiger, "Raja, the famous Bengal man-eater". Read more »

Twenty-two days after he proposed to her in the Ad Lib Club, London, Ringo Starr married Maureen Cox at the city's Caxton Hall Register Office. Read more »

At the Ad Lib Club above the Prince Charles Cinema in London's Soho, Ringo Starr proposed to his girlfriend Maureen Cox. Read more »

The day after John Lennon and George Harrison returned from their holiday in Tahiti, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox flew back to London from St Thomas, one of the Virgin Islands.

The day after flying from London to Lisbon via Paris, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox arrived at their holiday destination at St Thomas, one of the Virgin Islands. Read more »

On the day that the other Beatles flew to Hawaii, Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox began their journey to the Virgin Islands. On this day they flew to Lisbon, Portugal, where they caught a connecting flight the following day. Read more »

The Beatles had a rare two-week break in September 1963. John and Cynthia Lennon took a belated honeymoon in Paris, George Harrison flew to America, and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr went on holiday to Greece. Read more »