Beatles

1981

Jan Yoko and Sean fly to Palm Beach for a break from upheaval surrounding John’s death.

In the wake of his death, many of John’s and the Beatles songs are re-released with constant airplay.

1/13Ringo concludes sessions for his Can’t Flight Lighting album in LA with Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood.

1/16Yoko’s assistant Fred Seaman flies to the UK to personally deliver John’s 1976-1980 diaries to Julian, as per John’s will.

Early Feb.~E. MARPaul records tracks at AIR Studios on the island of Montserrat for release on upcoming albums.

13/2Final mixing of Can’t Fight Lightning album in LA.

FEB.Ringo will record on his favorite drum set on Paul’s song “Take it Away.”

Paul and Linda relax at their rented house in the West Indies.

END,Carl Perkins joins Paul to record several songs, with Stevie Wonder arriving on the island to record.

26/2Paul and Stevie record several versions of Ebony and Ivory.

George is fined over half a million for “unconscious plagiarism” of He’s So Fine.

March.Ringo attends a press conference publicizing his upcoming film Caveman.

Phillip Norman’s Beatles biography Shout is published.

Paul comments, “What the book says about me being the great manipulator simply isn’t true.”

Ringo switched record companies to RCA who will eventually release Can’t Fight Lightening as Stop and Smell the Roses.

Yoko concludes recording sessions for the Seasons of Glass album.

4/19In NYC, Ringo and Barbara attend a private press screening of Caveman, with the official premiere the next day.

NYC mayor Ed Koch renames a section of Central Park Strawberry Fields.

4/27Ringo and Barbara are married in London, with a celebrity guest jam at the reception.

Ringo had two fragments of glass from the shattered windshield from their car crash set into two star-shaped gold rings.

A picture of all three Beatles taken that day is the first since late 1969.

It is also announced this same day that Wings have broken up for good.

5/11George ‘s tribute song for John,...