The End of Beatlemania
1965 []
26 May. The Beatles record their final BBC radio program (their 52nd), broadcast on 7 June as The Beatles (Invite You to Take a Ticket to Ride).
11 June. The Queen's Birthday Honors list announces that the Beatles will recieve MBE [Members of the British Empire] awards.
23 July. "Help!" / "I'm Down" [Parlophone R 5305; UK release; UK #1]
29 July. Help! premiers at the Piccadilly Theatre.
6 August. Help! [Parlophone PCS 3071; UK release; UK #1]
3 December. "Day Tripper" / " We Can Work It Out" [Parlophone R 5389; UK release; UK #1]
—— Rubber Soul [Parlophone PCS 3075; UK release; UK #1]
—— Beatles begin UK tour
 
1966 []
5 January. Beatles overdub sections for the film, The Beatles at Shea Stadium.
21 January. George Harrison marries Patricia Boyd.
31 January. Paul attends performance by Stevie Wonder
21 February. Paul attends lecture and performance by Italian composer, Luciano Berio.
28 February. The Cavern Club closes.
1 March. The Beatles at Shea Stadium premiers on BBC1.
4 March. John Lennon comments to Marueen Cleave in The London Evening Standard: "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now. I don't know which will go first — rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
6 April. The Beatles begin recording items for their upcoming album: Revolver. Their first project, "Tomorrow Never Knows" embraced a variety of recording "tricks," such as tape loops. They also found willing accomplices in EMI's technical staff who helped them parallel mixing different tape decks and rewiring an organ amplifier.
10 June. "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" Released as Parlophone R 5452.
24 June. Munich. Beatles beging world tour in Germany.
28 June. Tokyo. The Beatles begin a disastrous tour with death threats in Japan and physical abuse in the Philippines.
5 August. Revolver.
Paperback Writer/Rain Ad
11 August. The Beatles arrive in Boston to begin their last tour, playing to huge audiences in the US. All the while, they were stalked by the KKK, and berated by Christian fundamentalists because of John's comments of the relative popularity of the Beatles and Jesus.
29 August. San Francisco. Beatles play their last public concert.
Fall 1966. John acts in the film, How I Won the War, George heads to India to study the sitar, and Paul embraces alternative London.
 
Beatles Recording Technology, 1966
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