Today in Beatle History Mon, May 20th, 2013

Fri, May 20th, 1960	The Silver Beetles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stu Sutcliffe, and Tommy Moore) perform during the first night of their short tour of Scotland backing singer Johnny Gentle, at Town Hall, Alloa, Clackmannanshire. Gentle and the Silver Beetles rehearse together for the first time 30 minutes prior to going on stage. For this tour, three of the Silver Beetles adopt stage names: Paul McCartney becomes Paul Ramon, George Harrison goes by the name Carl Harrison, and Stuart Sutcliffe becomes Stuart de Stael.
Sat, May 20th, 1961	The Beatles perform at the Top Ten Club, Reeperbahn, Hamburg, West Germany.
Sun, May 20th, 1962	The Beatles perform at the Star-Club, Hamburg, West Germany.
Mon, May 20th, 1963	The Beatles, touring with Roy Orbison, perform at the Gaumont Cinema in Southampton, Hampshire.
Fri, May 20th, 1966	The Beatles do location filming for two color promo films for "Paperback Writer" and "Rain". Filming is done in the gardens of Chiswick House, Chiswick, London. Although filmed in color, these two promo films are broadcast in black and white on the UK television program "Top of the Pops". "Paperback Writer" is broadcast on June 2 and again on June 23. "Rain" is broadcast on June 9.
Sat, May 20th, 1967	Three Beatles (John, Ringo, and Paul) record interviews with Kenny Everett for same-day broadcast on the BBC radio program "Where It's At". The Beatles' about-to-be-released album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is played on the program, every track except "A Day in the Life", which has been banned by the BBC for encouraging a permissive attitude towards drug use. John introduces the title track and also "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". He also talks about Artificial Double Tracking, saying that The Beatles refer to it as "double-flanging". Ringo talks about the past year's activities for The Beatles. Paul chats about the lengthy process of recording "Pepper", then says cheerio at the end of the program.
Mon, May 20th, 1968	The Beatles, armed with a bunch of new songs after their visit to India, meet at George Harrison's home in Esher, Surrey. They tape 23 demos of songs on George's 4-track recorder. Many will end up on The Beatles' next album, "The Beatles" (the White Album). The demos include: "Cry Baby Cry", "Child of Nature" [a John Lennon song that was not used; John put a new lyric to the melody in 1971 to create the song "Jealous Guy"]; "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"; "I'm So Tired"; "Yer Blues"; "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"; "What's the New Mary Jane?"; "Revolution"; "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"; "Circles" [a George Harrison song that was not used; George released it as a solo recording in 1982]; "Sour Milk Sea" [a George Harrison song recorded by Jackie Lomax]; "Not Guilty" [a George Harrison song that was not used; George released a solo version in 1979]; "Piggies"; "Julia"; "Blackbird"; "Rocky Raccoon"; "Back in the USSR"; "Honey Pie"; "Mother Nature's Son"; "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da"; "Junk" [a Paul McCartney song that was not used; Paul included it on his 1970 first solo album]; "Dear Prudence"; and "Sexy Sadie". Some of these demos were released on "The Beatles Anthology 3": Happiness Is a Warm Gun" (Disc one, Track 2) and "Mean Mr. Mustard", "Polythene Pam", "Glass Onion", "Junk", "Piggies", and "Honey Pie" (Disc one, Tracks 4-9).
Tue, May 20th, 1969	It is publicly announced that Allen Klein has been made The Beatles' manager. Klein moves into Apple's offices, throwing out executives, hangers-on, and hustlers. Apple stopped losing money and Klein worked on maximizing record royalties for The Beatles.