2014 Annual Shareholder Meeting
The meeting commences at the Computer History Museum, 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View, California. Elon Musk asks the audience if they have any questions. The conference suddenly morphs into an awkward spectacle when a self-described “super-genius” Roy Philipose confronted Musk and asks if he could be named vice chairman.
I would like to come on board as vice chairman of Tesla
Funeral
The public funeral starts at 9:08 am in London, when the tenor bell sounds to signal the departure of the cortege from Kensington Palace. Diana’s coffin is carried from the palace on a gun carriage, along Hyde Park to St. James’ Palace. The official ceremony is held at Westminster Abbey, with 2000 people attending, and finishes at the resting place in Althorp. A Palace spokeswoman says: Although there is no lying in state, obviously we want to ensure that as many of the public who wish to can share in the grieving.
Two thousand people attend the ceremony in Westminster Abbey. As the hearse drove the 77 miles to Diana’s final resting place, so many people threw flowers onto the car that the driver uses his windscreen wipers to keep a clear view.
Diana’s brother Charles Earl Spencer delivers a eulogy:
I stand before you today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock…We, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned.
Elton John sings a revamped version of his 1974 hit Candle In the Wind, which was originally written as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe. The song begins with the line “Goodbye, England’s rose, may you ever grow in our hearts.”
All You Need Is Love
The BBC commissions the group to write the song for the United Kingdom’s contribution for Our World TV Series. The brief for the song was that it had to be simple so that viewers around the world would understand it. The show is seen by approximately 400 million people across five continents. Starr:
We were big enough to command an audience of that size, and it was for love. It was for love and bloody peace. It was a fabulous time. I even get excited now when I realise that’s what it was for: peace and love, people putting flowers in guns.
3 dead, 2 injured
Three people are killed and two others seriously injured after a Tesla traveling southbound on the 14 Freeway in the Antelope Valley plowed into the rear of another vehicle. The crash occurred in Palmdale about 10:35 p.m. when the Tesla crashed into a Toyota Corolla on the freeway near Avenue S, killing the Toyota’s 40-year-old male driver and two passengers, a 13-year-old boy and an 8-year-old boy, according to a statement from California Highway Patrol Officer Jordan Richards. The dead victims have not been identified.
Eleanor Rigby
The band released Elanor Rigby. McCartney:
I was sitting at the piano when I thought of it. The first few bars just came to me, and I got this name in my head … “Daisy Hawkins picks up the rice in the church”. I don’t know why. I couldn’t think of much more so I put it away for a day. Then the name Father McCartney came to me, and all the lonely people. But I thought that people would think it was supposed to be about my Dad sitting knitting his socks. Dad’s a happy lad. So I went through the telephone book and I got the name “McKenzie”.
Paperback Writer
The band releases Paperback Writer. The background vocal harmonies at the beginning of the third chorus are provided by Lennon and George Harrison who sing the title of the French nursery rhyme Frère Jacques in several slow incantations. These harmonies occur at a little over one minute into the track. Lennon:
I think I might have helped with some of the lyrics. Yes, I did. But it was mainly Paul’s tune.
We Can Work It Out
We Can Work It Out is the last of six number one singles in a row on the American charts, preceded by I Feel Fine, Eight Days a Week, Ticket to Ride, Help!, and Yesterday. This is the first double A side released single for the group, with the other A side being Day Tripper. Spends five weeks at the top of the UK charts. McCartney writes the words and music to the verses and chorus then takes the song to Lennon.
I took it to John to finish it off, and we wrote the middle together. Which is nice: ‘Life is very short. There’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend’
Help!
The band releases the single, Help! Lennon sings lead vocal and George Harrison plays a 12 string guitar on the track. Along with Yesterday, this is one of two Beatles US #1 hits with just one word in the title.
Ticket To Ride
The band release Ticket To Ride. The song features a coda with a different tempo that extends the song’s length past three minutes. Lennon says this double-time section (with the lyric “My baby don’t care”) was one of his “favourite bits” in the song. The single spends 3 weeks at the top of the UK charts. Harrison:
We are always worried with each record. With Ticket To Ride we were even more worried. There’s bound to be a time when we come in at 19 (on the charts). But this ‘number one’ business doesn’t seem to stop — great while it lasts — but now we’ll have to start all over again and people will start predicting funny things for the next one.
I Feel Fine
The band release I Feel Fine, the 8th British single for the band. I Feel Fine is one of the earliest examples of the use of feedback as a recording effect in popular music. The song is the first Beatles single to be released almost concurrently in the US and the UK. 1.41 million copies are sold in the UK.
Can’t Buy Me Love
The Beatles’ sixth British single, released with the b-side You Can’t Do That was written by Paul McCartney while the group were in Paris for a 19-date residency at the city’s Olympia Theatre. Can’t Buy Me Love is the first of the group’s singles to feature just one singer. The record is no 1 in the UK for 3 weeks.
A Hard Day’s Night
The group’s 5th No. 1 hit stays at the top of the charts for 3 weeks. The title is taken from an expression Ringo used to say. In a 1964 interview with DJ Dave Hull, Ringo explained:
We went to do a job, and we’d worked all day and we happened to work all night. I came up still thinking it was day I suppose, and I said, ‘It’s been a hard day…’ and I looked around and saw it was dark so I said, ‘Night!’ So we came to ‘A Hard Day’s Night.
I Want To Hold Your Hand
The band releases I Want To Hold Your Hand, the first track made using 4-track equipment. Lennon:
We wrote a lot of stuff together, one on one, eyeball to eyeball. Like in I Want to Hold Your Hand, I remember when we got the chord that made the song. We were in Jane Asher’s house, downstairs in the cellar playing on the piano at the same time. And we had, ‘Oh you-u-u/ got that something…’ And Paul hits this chord and I turn to him and say, ‘That’s it!’ I said, ‘Do that again!’ In those days, we really used to absolutely write like that — both playing into each other’s noses.
Charles & Diana split
British Prime Minister John Major announces the formal separation of Charles and Diana. He issued a directive from Buckingham Palace making it clear that
Their Royal Highnesses are not seeking a divorce, The royal couple are separating amicably.
From Me To You: First UK no 1
The band earns its first No. 1 single in the United Kingdom with From Me to You. The Lennon/McCartney composition stays at the top of the charts for seven weeks but fails to make an impact in the United States.
She Loves You
The band releases She Loves You. McCartney and Lennon were inspired to write this after a concert at the Majestic Ballroom in Newcastle when they were part of a tour with Roy Orbison and Gerry & the Pacemakers. The song is the Beatles best selling single of all time. McCartney:
We were in a van up in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. I’d planned the song where a couple of us would sing ‘She loves you’ and the other ones would answer ‘Yeah Yeah.’ We decided that was a crummy idea but at least we then had the idea of a song called She Loves You. So we sat in the hotel bedroom for a few hours and wrote it; John and I, sitting on twin beds with guitars.
Prince Harry born in London
Prince Henry (Harry) Charles Albert David Windsor is born weighing six pounds, 14 ounces at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, Prince Harry arrived a week before expected. He is the second child for Prince Charles and Princess Diana after William and is third in line to the throne. Charles:
Absolutely marvelous. It didn’t matter whether it was a boy or a girl
Charles, Diana engagement
Charles and Diana announce their engagement. The couple have been courting for 6 months. Charles says:
I feel positively delighted and frankly amazed that Di is prepared take me on
Lady Diana Spencer born in Sandringham, England
Lady Diana Frances Spencer, is born at Park House near Sandringham, Norfolk. She is the youngest daughter of Viscount and Viscountess Althorp and has two older sisters; Sarah, Jane. Lady Diana was educated first at a preparatory school, Riddlesworth Hall at Diss, Norfolk, and then in 1974 went as a boarder to West Heath, near Sevenoaks, Kent.
At school she showed a particular talent for music (as an accomplished pianist), dancing and domestic science, and gained the school’s award for the girl giving maximum help to the school and her schoolfellows.
Prince William born in London
Prince William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor is born weighing 7lb 1½oz. The Prince is the first child of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and his official title is “Prince William, Duke of Cambridge”. His paternal grandparents are Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He is second in line to succeed his grandmother, after his father.
Prince Charles is present at the birth and calls the Palace from St Mary’s Hospital Paddington, to tell his mother, who was said to be “absolutely delighted.” The Queen Mother, driving back to her home at Clarence House was “overjoyed.” The news was also flashed to Prince Andrew in the South Atlantic task force and to the rest of the Royal Family.
The crowd outside the hospital were chanting “Nice one Charlie, let’s have another one,” the Prince laughed and said:
Bloody hell, give us a chance.