BEATLES NEWS JAN 10 1958, The Quarry Men (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Eric Griffiths, Colin Hanton, and Len Garry) played at the New Clubmoor Hall, Norris Green, Liverpool. 1964, The first US Beatles album, Introducing The Beatles, was released on Vee-Jay records. The album cover showed John, Paul and George with their now famous mop top haircuts, but Ringo had yet to convert. Vee-Jay would be forced to stop selling the disc by the end of the year because of legal complications, but by then over 1.3 million copies had been sold. 1965, John Lennon appeared on the UK TV Peter Cook and Dudley Moore show, Not Only But Also. 1967 : The Beatles, Penny Lane is recorded 1969 : George Harrison quits The Beatles for a short while, making him the second Beatle to do so (Ringo Starr had left the group for a brief period a year earlier). 1981, John Lennons Imagine started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart, 10 years after it was recorded. Lennon had two other songs in the Top 5 this week, Happy Christmas, (War Is Over) and (Just Like) Starting Over. Imagine was voted by the viewers of BBC TV as the best lyrics of all time in a poll broadcast in Oct 1999. Also on this day John and Yokos Double Fantasy album started an eight-week run at No.1 on the US chart. Just Like Starting Over was at No.1 on the US singles chart. 2003, A haul of 500 Beatles tapes known as the Get Back sessions stolen in the 1970s were found after UK police cracked a major bootleg operation in London and Amsterdam. Five men were arrested.
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