The Beatles Bible

She Loves You, The Beatles' second number one hit, has topped a chart of the group's biggest selling songs in the United Kingdom. Read more »

Room 53, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Engineer: Geoff Emerick

George Martin was not present for this third stereo mixing session for the UK compilation A Collection Of Beatles Oldies compilation, which was released on 9 December 1966, so balance engineer Geoff Emerick oversaw the work. Read more »

The Beatles' 10th Parlophone EP contained four of their biggest hits to date. Read more »

EMI's German counterpart, Electrola Gesellschaft, wanted The Beatles to re-record the vocals on their biggest hits, She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand, in German. Although The Beatles and George Martin thought this unnecessary, the recording session was originally scheduled to take place on this day. Read more »

The Beatles had a day off from their 1963 Autumn Tour on this day but, rather than spend it relaxing, they attended a ceremony held at EMI House in London, where they were given a number of silver presentation discs to mark their extraordinary record sales. Read more »

Although The Beatles' popularity had been growing steadily and to increasingly frantic heights throughout 1963, their appearance at the London Palladium on Sunday 13 October catapulted into the attentions of the mainstream media, who coined the term 'Beatlemania' to describe the scenes of screaming fans. Read more »

On John Lennon's 23rd birthday The Beatles made their only appearance on the BBC radio programme The Ken Dodd Show. It was recorded at the BBC Paris Studio in London. Read more »

The Beatles had undertaken mammoth radio sessions before, notably the 18 songs recorded on Tuesday 16 July. However, they went one better on this day, taping 19 songs for three episodes of Pop Go The Beatles. Read more »

In case there was any doubt that The Beatles were a bona fide UK phenomenon by August 1963, the release of their fourth single went beyond all expectations. Read more »

By July 1963 The Beatles were more than used to hard work. What was unusual about this day, however, was that they completed, in under eight hours, 18 songs for three editions of the radio show Pop Go The Beatles. Read more »

Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

Following The Beatles' recording session on 1 July 1963, editing and mono mixing took place to prepare the group's fourth single for release. Read more »

Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith

On this day The Beatles recorded both sides of their fourth UK single, which was released on 23 August 1963. Read more »

The day after they began writing She Loves You in a Newcastle hotel room, John Lennon and Paul McCartney finished the song in the dining room of McCartney's family home at 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool. Read more »

This was The Beatles' second and final concert at the Majestic Ballroom. They had previously appeared at the venue on 28 January 1963.

This was the group's final appearance in a ballroom run by Top Rank, although they continued to perform in cinemas and theatres operated by the company.

Before the show, in a room at the Turk's Hotel in Newcastle, John Lennon and Paul McCartney began writing their next single, She Loves You.

John and I wrote She Loves You together. There was a Bobby Rydell song out at the time and, as often happens, you think of one song when you write another.

We were in a van up in Newcastle. I'd planned an 'answering song' where a couple of us would sing 'She loves you...' and the other one answers, 'Yeah, yeah.' We decided that that was a crummy idea as it was, but at least we then had the idea for a song called She Loves You. So we sat in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it.

They wrote while facing each other on twin beds in their shared hotel room.

We must have had a few hours before the show so we said, 'Oh, great! Let's have a ciggy and write a song!' So that's how we began 'She Loves You'. I remember for some reason thinking of Bobby Rydell; he must have had a hit that we were interested in. I remember thinking of him and sitting on the bed in this hotel somewhere with John in the afternoon daylight.

The song was completed the following day at McCartney's family home, 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool.