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Global Beatles Day 2026

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Global Beatles Day this year seems – for the first time – to have been officially taken under the wing of the Beatles’ company, Apple. The official page is giving it a big push in the lead-up to 25 June.

The day was first established back in 2009 by Faith Cohen, an American fan from Indianapolis, as a grassroots initiative through social media. The date was selected to mark the anniversary of the band’s 1967 performance of ‘All You Need Is Love’, which was broadcast live via satellite as part of the BBC’s then groundbreaking Our World program.

Now it has the imprimatur of Apple it definitely looks to become a bigger and ongoing thing in the yearly calendar of events.

The official Beatle page has launched a countdown and have been emailing subscribers with reminders and a whole list of ideas to help you get in the mood and celebrate, including what might be the premiere (on 26 June, 2026) of a newly-remastered video of that ‘All You Need Is Love’ performance – done live for the Our World broadcast. It went out to over 400 million people across 26 countries and was part of a first-ever live global satellite TV event.

Filmed at Abbey Road Studios, the band does live vocals over a pre-recorded backing track. In the broadcast we get to see George Martin in the control room co-ordinating the whole thing – don’t know if this will be included if there’s a newly remastered or colourised version of the video. The original was, of course, good old black and white TV!

The band is in the studio, surrounded by some of their mates including Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Keith Moon, and Marianne Faithful, and the performance stands as one of the defining cultural moments of 1967 — a message of hope and unity broadcast across the globe. The YouTube holding page for the premiere is here.

So, on Global Beatles Day why not check out the video, dig out a few records or CDs and immerse yourself in the music one more time – and think about the phenomenon that is The Beatles, somehow rolling on and on, from one generation to another.

What Will You Be Doing For Global Beatles Day?

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This coming Wednesday is officially Global Beatles Day. How will you be celebrating?

25 June is increasingly being recognised as a day set aside to celebrate The Beatles and their music and cultural legacy around the world.

Why is GBD June 25?

Well, it was on this day in 1967 that the Beatles first premiered their song ‘All You Need Is Love’. And they did it live before an audience estimated to be between 400-700 million people. Those millions had tuned in their TV sets to the ground-breaking Our World broadcast – the first of its kind to link up national broadcasters from fourteen countries across the globe in one celebratory program using what was then-new satellite technology. The resulting two-hour show was seen across 24 countries. And when it came to the United Kingdom’s turn The Beatles allowed the TV cameras into the Abbey Road Studios and let the world witness them putting the finishing touches to a previously un-heard song, ‘All You Need Is Love’. It went something like this:

So, on Global Beatles Day why not dig out a few Beatle records or CDs and immerse yourself in the music one more time, and think about the phenomenon that somehow rolls on and on, from generation to generation.