A Day in the Life Blog

Hey Jude - Number One!

`Hey Jude' number 1, 5th week, 9th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).

The Beatles on the cover of Rolling Stone

Today George Harrison produced "Is This What You Want? by Jackie Lomax at Sound Recorders Studio.

Meanwhile, Stereo mixing and editing the B side of `Yellow Submarine'. 

The Beatles "Hey Jude" was playing world wide and Paul McCartney was enjoying a 10-day holiday with Linda Eastman. 

Studio 1. The George Martin Orchestra (41 musicians directed by Martin), re-records the B-side of `Yellow Submarine' LP.

Hey Jude is Number One!

Paul and Linda went to New York for a break after the White Album was completed.

`Hey Jude' is number 1 for the 4th week and 8th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).

Meanwhile, John and Yoko appear at the Marylebone Magistrate's Court. They are remanded on bail until a further hearing. Cover photograph of `Unfinished Music Number 2-Life With The Lions' taken. Hours later, Yoko is taken to the Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital.  

John and Yoko are arrested for drug possession at their home near Montagu Square in London, England. The arrests came at a tempestuous time for the couple. Only days earlier, an announcement was made that Ono was pregnant, creating a scandal because both Lennon and Ono were still married to other people. Her pregnancy ended in a miscarriage a few days after the arrest.

Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher, the instigator behind the raid on Lennon and Ono, was an anti-drug zealot who would later arrest George Harrison and his wife on similar charges. While Lennon was frantically trying to get rid of the evidence, the police read a warrant through a bedroom window and then broke down the front door. Drug-sniffing dogs found 200 grams of hashish, a cigarette rolling machine with traces of marijuana, and half a gram of morphine. However, the couple denied that the drugs belonged to them.

When the matter finally approached trial, Lennon pleaded guilty because he was worried that Ono would be deported. He was fined £150 and warned that another offense would bring a year in jail.

EMI Studios in London

George and Ringo were on a Holiday, leaving John, Paul and George Martin to complete "The White Album".

All the studio rooms were used at Abbey Road.

The day began with edits for the mono version, followed by a mono mix of Why Don't We Do It In The Road?, the last song to require a mix.

During the 24-hour session, engineer Ken Scott and tape operator Dave Harries made a copy of It's All Too Much, which had last been worked upon on 12 October 1967. It was not a contender for the White Album, however; it was to be issued in January 1969 on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack.

George Martin took a copy of the stereo master version of the White Album to be sent to Capitol Records in the USA. New copies of the mono mixes of Yer Blues and Don't Pass Me By were added to the mono master on 18 October, after which that version was complete.