John Lennon was playing guitar with his skiffle band, The Quarrymen, who were performing on a bill alongside the Liverpool police dogs display team and the Band of the Cheshire Yeomanry.
As Lennon walked from his limousine to the Dakota building’s front entrance, Mark David Chapman fired five rounds at his back, of which four hit him.
Traffic was stopped on the B507 road in London so The Beatles could pose for their iconic Abbey Road album cover.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band won four Grammy Awards following its release and is widely regarded as one of the most influential albums ever recorded.
The band landed at New York’s Kennedy Airport on 7 February to be greeted by 3,000 screaming fans.
At 10:50pm on the 8th December 1980, former Beatle and political activist John Lennon was murdered outside his apartment block in New York.
On the 7th February 1964, the Beatles visited the United States for the first time.
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