Robert and Jean-Claude Lambot say they would wish to change the Beatles haircut style.

`We Can Work It Out', 7th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart). `Rubber Soul' number 1, 7th week (UK New Musical Express chart).

Brian Epstein returns to England from the Virgin Islands.

  We Can Work It Out by The Beatles. In UK Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out by The Beatles was in the top 5 hits.

We Can Work It Out' number 1, 2nd and last continued week (Billboard).

The #1 song in the US on January 14, 1966

We Can Work It Out - The Beatles

Ringo Starr and John Lennon leave England for a vacation in Trinidad.

People in US were listening to We Can Work It Out by The Beatles. In UK Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out by The Beatles was in the top 5 hits.

Top Hits - 50 years ago today

                                                           
  1. The Sounds of Silence -   Simon & Garfunkel (Columbia)                                  
                  
  2. We Can Work It Out - The Beatles (Capitol)                  
  3. As Tears Go By - The Rolling Stones (London)               
  4. You Didn't Have to Be So Nice -   The Lovin' The Lovin' Spoonful                      
                              
  5. The Duck - Jackie Lee (Mirwood)                            
  6. Turn! Turn! Turn! - The Byrds (Columbia)                    
  7. She's Just My Style - Gary Lewis & the Playboys (Liberty)  
  8. The Men In My Little Girl's Life - Mike Douglas (Epic)     
  9. Flowers On the Wall - The Statler Brothers (Columbia)      
 10. A Must to Avoid - Herman's Hermits (MGM)                   

Brian Epstein is appointed a director of Lennon Books Limited, John Lennon’s book royalty collection company.

People in US were listening to We Can Work It Out by The Beatles. In UK Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out by The Beatles was in the top 5 hits.

We Can Work It Out becomes the #1 single in the US.

The Beatles' album Rubber Soul is #1 in the US. It remains at #1 for six weeks and stays on the charts for 56 weeks. Rubber Soul is the seventh Beatles LP to reach #1 in the US (the other six are Meet the Beatles, The Beatles Second Album, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles '65, Beatles VI, and Help!).

Also 50 years Ago - John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr attend a party thrown by Mick Jagger at his London townhouse.

We Can Work It Out - Number One!

We Can Work It Out (Number One 50 years ago) Behind the song.......

McCartney wrote the words and music to the verses and the chorus, with lyrics that "might have been personal", probably a reference to his relationship with Jane Asher. McCartney then took the song to Lennon:

I took it to John to finish it off, and we wrote the middle together. Which is nice: 'Life is very short. There's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.' Then it was George Harrison's idea to put the middle into 3/4 time, like a German waltz. That came on the session, it was one of the cases of the arrangement being done on the session.

With its intimations of mortality, Lennon's contribution to the twelve-bar bridge contrasts typically with what Lennon saw as McCartney's cajoling optimism,a contrast also seen in other collaborations by the pair, such as "Getting Better" and "I've Got a Feeling". As Lennon told "Playboy" in 1980:

In We Can Work It Out, Paul did the first half, I did the middle eight. But you've got Paul writing, 'We can work it out / We can work it out'—real optimistic, y'know, and me, impatient: 'Life is very short, and there's no time / For fussing and fighting, my friend.'

Based on those comments, some critics overemphasised McCartney's optimism, neglecting the toughness in passages written by McCartney,such as "Do I have to keep on talking until I can't go on?". Lennon's middle shifts focus from McCartney's concrete reality to a philosophical perspective in B minor, illustrating this with the waltz-time section suggested by George Harrison that leads back to the verse,possibly meant to suggest tiresome struggle.

Following their record breaking concert at New York's Shea Stadium on August 15, 1965, it was decided that extra recordings would be needed if the footage was to be released to the public.

The concert performance suffered for The Beatles' problems hearing themselves against the screams of 55,600 fans, and the mobile recording facilities had left the sound quality of the recordings below standard.

A secret booking was made for The Beatles to re-record some of the instrument parts on this day. The session took place at CTS (Cine Tele Sound) Studios at 49-53 Kensington Gardens Square in London.

Initially Paul McCartney overdubbed new bass parts onto Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Can't Buy Me Love, Baby's In Black and I'm Down. The latter song - the finale to the concert - also featured a new organ track from John Lennon.

The Beatles then made entirely new recordings for I Feel Fine and Help!, as the quality of the concert recordings couldn't be salvaged. The songs were taped quickly, as they required the necessary live feel, although care was taken to match the on-screen images to the music.

The group also recorded overdubs for Ticket To Ride. For Act Naturally, however, the EMI studio recording was used.

Although George Martin wished to have a new version of Twist And Shout, there was no time to record one. Instead, the recording of The Beatles' August 30th 1965 version from their third and final Hollywood Bowl concert was used to enhance the sound.

No work was done on She's A Woman, and Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby, which were omitted from the final production.

The concert film was first broadcast in black and white on BBC 1 on March 1, 1966, as The Beatles At Shea Stadium.

As the Beatles were laying low, We Can Work It Out by The Beatles was a hit.

Listening to We Can Work It Out by The Beatles

The Beatles starting to make plans for the year ahead.

Beatles - Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out - Number 1 in UK

The Beatles attend New Year’s Eve parties

Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, George Harrison and Pattie Boyd welcomed in 1966 at a New Year's Eve party hosted by EMI executives in London.

John Lennon and his wife Cynthia, meanwhile, spent the evening at a party held by record producer and songwriter Norman Newell.

Hmmmmnnnnn, Ringo is unaccounted for....

The #1 song on the UK Singles Chart on December 30, 1965

Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out - The Beatles

The Beatles enjoying their Christmas break.

The Beatles enjoying their Christmas break.

The Beatles are having a quiet day after the Chrismas Rush

Paul McCartney has a moped accident in Liverpool

In what would become one of the key 'clues' in the "Paul is Dead myth, on this day Paul McCartney suffered a moped accident while visiting his family in Liverpool.

McCartney fell from his moped and chipped a front tooth. He also cut his lip and was left with a scar.

Also on the night time ride was Tara Browne, McCartney's friend. Browne was the Guinness heir whose death later inspired John Lennon to write the opening lines of A Day In The Life.

Paul McCartney "I had an accident when I came off a moped in Wirral, near Liverpool. I had a very good friend who lived in London called Tara Browne, a Guinness heir - a nice Irish guy, very sensitive bloke. I'd see him from time to time, and enjoyed being around him. He came up to visit me in Liverpool once when I was there seeing my dad and brother. I had a couple of mopeds on hire, so we hit upon the bright idea of going to my cousin Bett's house.

We were riding along on the mopeds. I was showing Tara the scenery. He was behind me, and it was an incredible full moon; it really was huge. I said something about the moon and he said 'yeah', and I suddenly had a freeze-frame image of myself at that angle to the ground when it's too late to pull back up again: I was still looking at the moon and then I looked at the ground, and it seemed to take a few minutes to think, 'Ah, too bad - I'm going to smack that pavement with my face!' Bang!

There I was, chipped tooth and all. it came through my lip and split it. But I got up and we went along to my cousin's house. When I said, 'Don't worry, Bett, but I've had a bit of an accident,' she thought I was joking. She creased up laughing at first, but then she went 'Holy...!' I'd really given my face a good old smack; it looked like I'd been in the ring with Tyson for a few rounds. So she rang a friend of hers who was a doctor.

He came round on the spot, took a needle out and, after great difficulty threading it, put it in the first half of the wound. He was shaking a bit, but got it all the way through, and then he said, ''Oh, the thread's just come out - I'll have to do it again!' No anaesthetic. I was standing there while he rethreaded it and pulled it through again.

In fact that was why I started to grow a moustache. It was pretty embarrassing, because around that time you knew your pictures would get winged off to teeny-boppery magazines like 16, and it was pretty difficult to have a new picture taken with a big fat lip. So I started to grow a moustache - a sort of Sancho Panza - mainly to cover where my lip had been sewn.

It caught on with the guys in the group: if one of us did something like growing his hair long and we liked the idea, we'd all tend to do it. And then it became seen as a kind of revolutionary idea, that young men of our age definitely ought to grow a moustache! And it all fell in with the Sgt. Pepper thing, because he had a droopy moustache.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Happy Christmas Eve! The Beatles were enjoying Christmas Eve with their families.

The Beatles were getting ready for Christmas......

The #1 song on the UK Singles Chart on December 22, 1965

Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out - The Beatles