Beatles Firsts & Lasts

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BEATLE FIRSTS

First live performance by original band, The Quarry Men:
"TV Star Search" audition, Liverpool Empire, June 9, 1957

First meeting between John and Paul:
St. Peter's Church garden fete, Woolton, Liverpool, July 6, 1957

First Quarry Men live performance featuring Paul:
New Clubmoor Hall, Norris Green, Liverpool, October 18, 1957

First meeting of George with The Quarry Men:
Wilson Hall, Garston, Liverpool, February 6, 1958

First EMI recording:
June 6, 1962

First official Beatles concert performace featuring John, Paul, George, and Ringo:
Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, Birkenhead, August 18, 1962

First professional recording by John, Paul, George, and Ringo:
"Love Me Do"

First radio appearance:
BBC's Teenager's Turn-Here We Go, recorded March 7, 1962, broadcast March 8.

First TV appearance:
Granada's People And Places, October 17, 1962

First Single:
"Love Me Do"/"PS I Love You," October 5, 1962

First Album:
Please Please Me, March 22, 1963

First movie:
A Hard Day's Night (1964)

First U.S. TV appearance:
The Ed Sullivan Show, February 9, 1964

First U.S. concert:
Washington Coliseum, Washington, D.C., February 11, 1964

BEATLE LASTS

Last performance at Liverpool's Cavern Club:
August 2, 1963

Last radio performance:
BBC's The Beatles (Invite You To Take A Ticket To Ride), recorded May 26, 1965, broadcast June 7

Last live TV performance:
Singing "All You Need Is Love" on Our World, June 25, 1967

Last UK concert performance:
Empire Pool, Wembley, May 1, 1966

Last live appearance:
On the rooftop of the band's Apple office building in Central London, January 30, 1969

Last filmed performance:
Playing "The Long and Winding Road," "Let It Be," and "Two of Us," January 31, 1969

Last recorded album:
Abbey Road (1969)

Last released album during group years:
Let It Be (1970)

Last time all four member together in recording studio:
EMI Studios, Abbey Road, London, January 3, 1970

Last photographic session together:
The Tittenhurst Park grounds of John's home in Ascot, Berkshire, August 22, 1969

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