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1/5/63
- when the foursome
plays a gig in Stirlingshire, Scotland, they are billed as the Love Me Do Boys.
1/21/63 - The Beatles are signed by the U.S. label Vee Jay Records
2/25/63 - 40 years ago today : please please me/ ask me why
is released in the U.S. by Vee Jay Records. A new era
begins!
4/8/63 - Julian Lennon is born in Liverpool to John
and Cynthia Lennon
9/15/63
- Swan records releases the single She Loves You/Ill Get You in the U.S.
9/16/63
- George flies
to Benton, Ill. to see his sister Louise, making him the first Beatle to visit America
10/13/63 - The boys appearance on the British TV show
Sunday Night At The Palladium is seen by 15 million viewers
10/14/63 - The Daily Mirror refers to the previous
nights pandemonium as Beatlemania the first time the term is used
10/31/63
- TV impresario Ed Sullivan witnesses hundreds of screaming teenage girls greeting the boys at Heathrow Airport
in London
and books the group almost unknown in the U.S.
for his TV show
11/1/63
- The Rolling Stones single I Wanna Be Your Man written by Lennon and McCartney is released in the U.K. Its the Stones first
Top 20 hit
11/5/63 - The upcoming I Want To Hold Your Hand single receives over 500,000 advance orders
in one day
11/16/63
- All three american TV networks NBC, CBS, and ABC film the boys in concert, but th Fab Four fail to show up for their
photo shoot for the cover of Life magazine
12/16/63
- The single I
Want To Hold Your Hand/ I Saw Her Standing There is released in the U.S. by Capitol Records
12/27/63
- John Lennon
and Paul McCartney are named the Outstanding English Composers of 1963 by The Times of London
12/29/63 - The Sunday Times declares Lennon and McCartney
the Greatest composers since Beethoven. The Love Me Do Boys have come a long way in just one year
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