Beatle News # 16
- 1940 – Ringo Starr born as Richard Starkey, in Liverpool, UK
- 1967 – All You Need is Love & Baby, You are a Rich Man, released in the United Kingdom.
- 1969 – The Plastic Ono band releases Give Peace a Chance & Remember Love, in the United States (The two songs were released in the United Kingdom on the 4th of July 1969).
The song, Give Peace a Chance, was written during Lennon & Ono’s famous ‘Bed-In‘ in Montreal, Canada; sung by Lennon & Ono, they were joined in by all the journalists who had come to interview the couple (on 1st June, 1969), and many celebrities; which included famed poet Allen Ginsberg and singer/actress Petula Clark. Give Peace a Chance also happens to be the first release of the Plastic Ono band. The Plastic Ono band was formed by Lennon & Ono, in 1969, before The Beatles famous Break-up the following year.
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[…] In early 2012, I was in New Delhi, India, during the annual World Book Fair, and, among many, ended up buying two books on the Beatles; The Beatles: The Days of their Life by Richard Havers (copyright:2010) and A Hard Days Write: The Stories behind every Beatles Song (New and Updated Edition (copyright:1994, new edition:2010)) by Steve Turner. I started blogging in March 2012, and meanwhile, after going through theses books, they soon inspired me to start a Beatle News segment, on my Blog. Do check out all my Beatle News, from #1 to #33, I posted between March 2013 and February 2014, especially the ones on John Lennon & Yoko Ono, and their famous Bed-In’s (Bed Peace & Hair Peace) and Bagism, for World Peace (including Beatle News #4, Beatle News #5, Beatle News #11, Beatle News #12 and Beatle News #16). […]