Song of the day: I Will (The White Album, 1968)

In honor of Paul McCartney's 72nd birthday on Wednesday, I'm going to post some of my favorite Paul compositions of The Beatles this week. Here is the White Album's (The Beatles for sticklers) "I Will" from 1968.

This day in 1966

On June 6, 1966, Paul McCartney recorded the final dubbing for Revolver's "Eleanor Rigby." This is also a few months before "Paul is Dead" conspirators believe Paul was killed in his Aston Martin in a car accident and Billy Shears took over as the Beatle. Just as a side note, today is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.

This day in 1964

On June 5, 1964, The Beatles arrived in Holland at the Schipol Airport, where they immediately went to a press conference. From there, they were driven to Hillegom to record a program for VARA-TV. In addition, they answered questions at the Cafe-Restaurant Treslong from the audience. What started as a fairly routine performance, turned into a conflict, as the picture above displays. By the sixth song, the audience came on stage and completely smothered them while playing. The audience was resilient and was not able to be ushered off, causing The Beatles to leave. This performance was watched from afar in London by Ringo, who was recovering in the hospital after having his tonsils removed. Jimmy Nichols was filling in as drummer during this period. The Beatles were experiencing even higher levels of mania since they were last on the European mainland in 1963. They had only recently returned from their now legendary first US tour in which they performed to 73 million on the Ed Sullivan Show.

This day in 1963

On June 4, 1963, the first broadcast of The Beatles' own BBC radio series, Pop Go The Beatles! was aired. 1963 was the year Beatlemania broke out and as a result, a whopping 2.8 million people listened to that first broadcast. The boys' popularity would only go up from here. In addition, The Beatles travelled to the north of England to the Town Hall in Congreve, Birmingham.