HISTORICAL THE BEATLES

**1926**
George Martin, Beatles musical director, born January 3, in London
**1934**
Brian Samuel Epstein, Beatles manager, born September 19 (in Rodney Street, in Liverpool)
**1940**
July
Richard Starkey, born July 7 (in family home, 9 Madyrn Street, Dingle, in Liverpool)
October
John Winston Lennon, born October 9 (at Oxford Maternity Hospital in Liverpool)
**1942**
James Paul McCartney, born June 18 (at Walton General Hospital in Liverpool)
**1943**
George Harold Harrison, born February 25 (in family's terraced home, 12 Arnold Grove, in Liverpool)
**1950**
George Martin, after working three months for the BBC, leaves and takes job at Parlophone Records as a result of being paid ?7, four shillings and threepence, ?1 more than the BBC was paying at the time. George Martin becomes an assistant to chief producer/owner of the label, Oscar Preuss. George is immediately given the task of handling the classical repertoire which included baroque, orchestral and choral music.

**1952** September John Lennon enters Quarry Bank High School