The Beatles & Bob Dylan Meet For The First Time On August 28, 1964

The Beatles & Bob Dylan met each other for the first time on August 28th of 1964. It was during this meeting at a hotel in New York that Bob Dylan introduced the Beatles to marijuana.

Ringo was the first to try it and he started laughing quite a bit, this made the others want to get in on it. They soon did and there were laughs all around. The Beatles manager Brian Epstein was also taking part and kept saying "I'm so high I'm on the ceiling, I'm up on the ceiling."

Paul McCartney was particularly thrilled by marijuana. He said "I'm thinking for the first time, really thinking." He had Mal Evans (the Beatles friend & roadie) follow him around writing down everything he was saying for posterity. Evans kept these notes until his death in 1976. Unfortunately they were confiscated and lost by the police.

Although the this was the first time the Beatles smoked marijuana they were already no strangers to drugs. They had been taking "prellies" (Preludin) for years. Prellies are a stimulent which the Beatles would use to keep a high energy level for their long shows during their early career. Prellies are now an illegal Schedule II drug in the United States, the same class that Cocaine & Meth are in.

Below are John Lennon & Bob Dylan on something. The videos are out takes from the Dylan documentary Eat The Document which is a documentary of Dylan's 1966 tour of Europe.

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The Animals go to #1 in the UK with "House of the Rising Sun" on July 13, 1964

The Animals version of the American folk song "House of the Rising Sun" went to #1 on the UK singles charts on July 13th of 1964.

It became the first song to reach #1 in the UK with a running time of over 4 minutes.

Live performance of "House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals in 1964:

The Beatles Movie A Hard Day's Night Made It's Debut On July 6, 1964

The Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night premiered on July 6th of 1964 in the UK. It was released just over a month later on August 11th in the United States.

The movie was joined by an album by the same name which was released on July 10th. The A Hard Day's Night album is the only Beatles album to contain only Lennon/McCartney originals this is because most of their other early albums contained some cover songs and their later albums had songs by George Harrison (and to a lesser extent Ringo Starr) as well.

A "Behind The Scenes" video:

The Beach Boys had their first #1 single with "I Get Around" on July 4, 1964

The Beach Boys had their first #1 US single with "I Get Around" on July 4th of 1964.

It also went to #7 in the UK, making it the groups first top ten hit in the UK.

"I Get Around" on American Bandstand in 1964:


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The Beatles arrived in Adelaide, Australia on June 12, 1964

The Beatles arrived in Adelaide, Australia on June 12th of 1964 and were greeted by a quarter of a million fans.

Jimmy Nicol was filling in for Ringo Starr who was recovering from having his tonsils removed at the time.

Watch this video documentary about Beatlemania in Australia in June of 1964:


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The Beatles occupy the top five slots of the Billboard charts on April 4, 1964

The Billboard charts for the week of April 4th of 1964 had the Beatles ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th on the singles chart.

This amazing feat has never been equaled by anyone since.

The songs were as follows:

5th - "Please Please Me"

4th - "I Want To Hold Your Hand"

3rd - "She Loves You"

2nd - "Twist & Shout"

1st - "Can't Buy Me Love"

They also had the following songs all in the top 100 the week of April 4th, 1964:

31st - "I Saw Her Standing There"
41st - "From Me To You"
46th - "Do You Want To Know A Secret?"
58th - "All My Loving"
65th - "You Can't Do That"
68th - "Roll Over Beethoven"

The Beatles also had an incredible 6 #1 singles released in 1964 in America:

I Want To Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Can't Buy Me Love, Love Me Do, A Hard Day's Night, and I Feel Fine all hit #1 in '64.

Check out the scene for "Can't Buy Me Love" from the A Hard Day's Night movie:

The Beatles "She Loves You" - Hits #1 In The United States On March 21, 1964

On this day, 43 years ago, "She Loves You" by the Beatles hit #1 in the US.

The song had been recorded & released in 1963 to little fanfare in America. It was released as a single again after the success of The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and "I Want To Hold Your Hand."

"She Loves You" was never included on a proper Beatles album as was often the case with The Beatles singles. Their reasoning was that they didn't want to cheat their fans by including a song that they already had as a single on the album as well.

But in America the record companies chopped up the official UK Beatles albums and released them in different forms without The Beatles consent. For example "She Loves You" was included on an American LP release The Beatles' Second Album.

The Beatles recorded German versions of "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You" and Beatlemania was so strong at this time that the German version of "She Loves You" which is called "Sie Liebt Dich" was released in America and charted at #97 on the singles charts.

You can hear this German version today on the Past Masters Volume 1 CD.

In this video you can see The Beatles performing "She Loves You" live in 1963 in Manchester before they broke big in the States.



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Bret Michaels of Poison was born on March 15, 1964.

Bret Michaels, lead vocalist for the 80s rock band Poison, was born on March 15th of 1964.

Poison's biggest hits include "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" "Nothing But A Good Time" and "Talk Dirty To Me" which all feature Michaels on vocals and C.C. DeVille on lead guitar.

Here's a photo montage of Bret Michaels with "Talk Dirty To Me" as the soundtrack.

The Beatles "I Want To Hold Your Hand" - #1 on the US charts - February 1, 1964

On February 1, 1964 (43 years ago today.) The Beatles started a 7 week run at #1 on the US singles charts with "I Want To Hold Your Hand."

This was the beginning (atleast as far as the United States is concerned) of a musical revolution we are still feeilng the effects of today. In fact I think The Beatles effect not only on popular music but our entire world is incalculable. If you take the Beatles out of our history you would have to completely rewrite it. I'm not really sure what would have happened.

I Want To Hold Your Hand remains the beatles all time highest selling single (despite what some erroronious reports say about Hey Jude besting it with it's run in 1968.)



This was the first #1 hit in the US by a band from the United Kingdom since The Tornados "Telstar" in 1962.

This is my first entry. Most days there will be an entry like this talking about something that happened on that day however many years ago. Some days there may be more than one entry. Some there won't be any.

This combines two of my favorite subjects. Music and Time. One thing I find very interesting about 1964. In 1964, 1921 was 43 years ago. If I think about that a bit it puts later Beatles songs like "When I'm 64" and "Your Mother Should Know" in a totally different light.

Alright, as you can see, I want things to be a bit open here. I want to use the topic, whatever it is, as a stepping off point to having some sort of discussion. Please comment and let me know what you think. Assuming that you do.

I've got big plans for this site. This music by day thing will be here on the main part of the site and it'll be updated frequently with interesting tidbits from music's past. I'll also be including an album review section. I'll be doing my own reviews as well as accepting guest reviews.

Enjoy yourself. Have some tea. And some donuts. I'm hungry.

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