BEATLE FIRSTS:
Recording session: June 6, 1962 @ EMI Studios, 3 Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, London
Single released: "Love Me Do" (October 5, 1962)
Album released: Please Please Me (March 5, 1963)
#1 single (UK): "From Me to You" (April 1963)
Composition to become a standard: "All My Loving"
#1 single (US): "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (February 1, 1964)
also: first track recorded on four-track equipment
Appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show: (February 9, 1964)
US tour: February, 1964
Album to entirely consist of original material: A Hard Day's Night (1964) (also only one to entirely consist of Lennon-McCartney material)
Feature length motion picture: A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Song to begin with a fade-in: "Eight Days a Week"
Feature length motion picture, color: Help! (1965)
First concept album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (June 2, 1967)
Self-produced television production: Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
Composition to be written by all four Beatles: "Flying" (also only instrumental)
Double album: The Beatles (The White Album) (November 22, 1968)
also: first album to be recorded using eight tracks
Animated feature-length presentation: Yellow Submarine (1968)
Single to be issued in stereo: "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (May 30, 1969)
BEATLE LASTS:
Live stadium concert: Candlestick Park (now 3Com Park), San Francisco (August 29, 1966)
(During this concert, performed last song on paid concert stage, "Long Tall Sally")
Live performance: Rooftop, Apple Studios, 1 Savile Row, London (January 30, 1969)
#1 single (UK): "The Ballad of John and Yoko (July 1969)
Album to be recorded: Abbey Road (1969)
All four Beatles were in the studio together: August 20, 1969
Photo session together: August 22, 1969
Album released: Let It Be (May 8, 1970)