 January 3 - 4: George, Paul and Ringo record "I Me Mine" in the last studio session of the Beatles as a group. January 15: The London Arts Gallery opens an exhibit entitled "Bag One" of 14 John Lennon lithographs. January 16: Scotland Yard detectives confiscate eight of the Lennon lithos for suspected violation of Great Britain's Public Obscenity Laws. January 20: John and Yoko cut off most of their hair, which they intend to auction off at Sotheby's as a fund raiser for Michael Abdul Malik's ("Michael X") London Blackhouse. January 22: Paul, using the pseudonym Billy Martin, starts recording his first solo album "McCartney" at Abbey Road. January 27: John Lennon writes, records and mixes "Instant Karma" (We All Shine On) in one day. Ringo Starr makes a guest appearance on the NBC-TV show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" in the USA. January 29: The motion picture "The Magic Christian", featuring Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers, premieres in Los Angeles. Allen Klein is convicted in New York Federal District Court on 10 counts of tax violation. February 4: John and Yoko trade the hair they cut off two weeks earlier for a used pair of Muhammad Ali's boxing trunks, to auction them off to raise money for Michael X's legal defense. (Despite their and other people's efforts, Michael Malik was convicted of murder and hanged in Trinidad on 29 December 1975.) February 11: "The Magic Christian" opens in New York. February 12: The BBC-TV's "Top of the Pops" program broadcasts "Instant Karma!", which John and Yoko, with Mal Evans, Klaus Voorman and Alan White had recorded the day before. February 18 - 19: Ringo Starr records "Early 1970" and "It Don't Come Easy". February 20: John Ono Lennon with The Plastic Ono Band: "Instant Karma (We All Shine On)/Who has seen the Wind" (single) is released. February 23: "Hey Jude" (aka "The Beatles Again") (lp) is released by Apple Records. Ringo makes another appearance on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh In" TV show in the US. March 1: On American television, "The Ed Sullivan Show" airs two film clips ("Two of Us" and "Let it Be") from the movie "Let it Be". March 11: Apple Records releases the singles "Let it Be"/"You know my Name" (Look Up the Number) and "The Long and Winding Road"/"For You Blue", which sells 1,200,000 copies within two days. April 1: Phil Spector supervises the overdub and final mixing for the "Let it Be" LP, with Ringo Starr adding drum tracks, marking the last studio work of any of the Beatles on a Beatles recording. John and Yoko put out an April Fools Day press release, announcing a dual sex-change operation. April 10: Paul McCartney publicly announces, by way of the promotional material for his upcoming "McCartney" album, that he will be leaving the Beatles because of "personal, business and musical differences" and that the band would never work together again, thereby breaking the group's silence about their breakup. April 11: The "Let it Be" single hits Number 1 on the US charts. April 17: Apple Records releases "McCartney" LP by Paul McCartney in the UK. April 20: Apple releases "McCartney" LP in the US. April 24: Apple Records releases "Sentimental Journey" LP by Ringo Starr. April 27: A London Court rules the confiscated "Bag One" lithographs "Not Obscene" and orders them returned to John Lennon. May 8: The "Let it Be" LP is released as a deluxe boxed set, together with the book "Get Back" in the UK. May 13: The Beatles last motion Picture, "Let It Be", directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, premieres in New York. May 18: Apple Records releases the (standard) "Let it Be" LP in the US, after receiving some 3,700,000 advance orders.  May 20: The "Let It Be" movie opens in the UK, with none of the Beatles attending the premiere. May 23: Paul's "McCartney" LP reaches Number 1 in the US. June 6: The "Let it Be" LP hits Number 1 in the UK. June 13: The "Let it Be" album and the "The Long and Winding Road" single reach Number 1 on the same day in the US. July 7: George's mother, Louise Harrison, dies of cancer in Liverpool. September 22: John and Yoko Ono appear on "The Dick Cavett Show" on US television, together with Dr. Arthur Janov, in whose Los Angeles Primal Institute John and Yoko have been undergoing several months of primal scream therapy earlier in the year. October 5: Ringo Starr's single "Beaucoups of Blues"/"Coochy Coochy" is released in the US.. November 6: Apple Records re-releases the "Let it Be" LP in a standard sleeve and without the "Get Back" book in the UK. November 11: Ringo and Maureen Starr's daughter Lee Parkin is born at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London. November 23: George Harrison's single "My Sweet Lord"/"Isn't it a Pity" is released in the US.. November 27: George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" album is released in the US. November 30: The "All Things Must Pass" LP is released in the UK. December 18: "The Beatles Christmas Album" (UK title : "From Then to You") is distributed to fan club members by "Beatles (USA) Ltd." in New York City. The album reprises all the previous (45 rpm singles) holiday greetings recorded by the Beatles, as a final Christmas gift from John, Paul, George and Ringo. December 26: George's "My Sweet Lord" single tops the charts in the US. December 28: John's single "Mother"/"Why" (Yoko) is released in the US. December 31: Paul McCartney initiates legal procedures in London High Court charging Allen Klein with mismanagement of Apple funds, requesting appointment of a receiver for Apple and to dissolve the Beatles partnership, which is estimated to be worth about $100,000,000 [US] at this time. (John, George and Ringo contest Paul's action and the case is continued until March 13, 1971.)  13th
Annual GRAMMY AWARDS - 1970 Best Original Score written for a Motion Picture or TV Special: The Beatles "Let it Be" ~
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