 January 2: George Harrison's LP "All Things Must Pass" hits #1 on US charts. An Associated Press story quotes John Lennon accusing Paul McCartney of "starting to take over" the band after Brian Epstein's death. January 13: John Lennon and Yoko Ono fly to Japan. January 19: Paul McCartney's lawyer David Hirst files papers requesting legal dissolution of the Beatles & Company partnership in the Chancery Division of London High Court. The suit against John Lennon, Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr), George Harrison and Allen Klein maintains that: 1. The group no longer performs together. 2. Allen Klein was appointed business manager by the other three defendants over McCartney's objections. 3. Paul McCartney has not been shown audited accounts of the band's income after Klein was brought in to manage the group. (The case is adjourned until January 26, on which date it is continued again until February 19.) January 20: John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents for the first time. January 21: John and Yoko return to England. January 22: John Lennon records "Power to the People". January 30: George's LP "All Things Must Pass" and his single "My Sweet Lord" hit #1 in the UK . February 15: George Harrison's single "What is Life"/"Apple Scruffs" is released in the US. February 19: Arguments in the Beatles & Co. case begin in London High Court. February 26: Paul McCartney testifies in court. The other Beatles submit affidavits. March 3: The South African Broadcasting Company lifts its 1966 ban on playing Beatles records, but leaves the ban on John Lennon's solo recordings in force. March 12: The Court grants Paul McCartney's request to have a receiver appointed to control the financial affairs of Beatles & Company. John's single "Power to the People"/"Open your Box" (aka "Hirake")" (Yoko) is released in the UK. March 16: The Beatles receive the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Original Score written for a Motion Picture or Television Special - "Let it Be" LP. Only Paul and Linda McCartney attend the ceremony to accept the award on behalf of the Beatles. March 20: Paul McCartney's single "Another Day" hits number one on UK charts. April 9: Ringo Starr's single "It Don't Come Easy"/"Early 1970" (A side produced by George Harrison) is released in the UK. April 15: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an 1970 Oscar to the Beatles, in the category of Best Film Music, for the Original Film Score for "Let it Be". April 23: John and Yoko Ono are taken into police custody in Mallorca. They're alleged to have abducted Yoko's daughter Kyoko from her father, Anthony Cox, in whose custody the girl has been since his divorce from Yoko in the US. May 17: Paul and Linda McCartney's "Ram" LP is released in the US. May 28: "Ram" LP is released in the UK. July 3: "Ram" LP hits number one on UK charts. July 28: George Harrison's single "Bangla Desh"/"Deep Blue"" is released in the US. July 30: "Bangla Desh"/"Deep Blue" is released in the UK. August 1: George Harrison and Ringo Starr appear at two "Concerts for Bangla Desh" at New York's Madison Square Garden, together with Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Ravi Shankar and Klaus Voorman. Parts of the concerts were recorded and also filmed for later release as an LP and a theatrical motion picture. August 3: Paul McCartney announces the formation of his new band "Wings", with Linda McCartney, guitarist Denny Laine and drummer Denny Seiwell. September 3: John Lennon and Yoko Ono leave England for the United States. John would never again see his native country. September 4: Wings' single "Uncle Albert-Admiral Halsey" hits number one in the US. September 9: John Lennon's LP "Imagine" is released in the US. September 13: Stella Nina McCartney, Paul and Linda's second child, is born. October 11: John Lennon's single "Imagine"/"It's So Hard" is released in the US. October 28 - 29: John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" with the Harlem Community Choir. October 30: "Imagine"/"It's So Hard" reaches number one in the US. November 19: The motion picture "Blindman", featuring Ringo Starr and shot in Italy between June and August of the year, premiered in Rome. November 30: John's "Imagine" LP hits number one in the UK. December 1: John and Yoko's single "Happy Xmas (War is Over)"/"Listen the Snow is Falling" (Yoko) in the US.  December 3: George Harrison guests on the "David Frost Show" on US television. December 7: Wings' first LP "Wild Life" is released in the US and UK. December 10: John and Yoko do a benefit concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for John Sinclair, an activist who had received a 10 year prison sentence for trying to sell two marijuana joints. A film of the performance was later used to make the motion picture "Ten for Two". December 17: John Lennon performs a benefit concert at the Apollo Theater in New York, to aid the families of victims of the deadly Attica State prison riot of September 9 - 13 1971. December 20: The "Concert for Bangla Desh" LP is released in the US. |
