On This Day

In 1964: Beatles for Sale is released in the UK:

“No band today would come off a long US tour at the end of September, go into the studio and start a new album, still writing songs, and then go on a UK tour, finish the album in five weeks, still touring, and have the album out in time for Christmas. But that’s what The Beatles did at the end of 1964. A lot of it was down to naivety, thinking that this was the way things were done: if the record company needs another album, you go and make one. Nowadays, if a band had as much success as The Beatles had by the end of 1964, they’d start making a few demands. John once said, ‘We gave the whole of our youth to The Beatles.’” - Neil Aspinall (from The Beatles Anthology, published October 2000)