What do you do when you're the biggest band in the world and have just recorded one of the most definitive records of all time? You open a boutique, of course. Not a shop. A boutique. Is there a difference?
The Beatles Apple store opened on this day at 94 Baker Street, London. The Beatles had given the hippy collective The Fool £100,000 to decorate and stock the shop. This was back when 100 grand was serious bread.
Paul said it'd be a beautiful place where you can buy beautiful things. Trouble was, most people nicked stuff instead and it only lasted until the following summer when, due to being a financial disaster, it closed and the remaining stock was given away.
Proof that it's hard to run a business when you're whacked out of your gourd on LSD.
