| Event | Date | John | Paul | George | Ringo | Notes |
| pre-1962 | prior to joining Beatles | clean shaven | clean shaven | clean shaven | moustache and sideburns | Before joining the Beatles in 1962, Ringo frequently wore a moustache and sideburns or a beard. None of the other 3 Beatles wore any facial hair until late 1966. |
| George visits India | 9/1/66 | - | - | moustache | - | On George's first trip to India, he grows a moustache. |
| Sgt Pepper recording sessions | 11/15/66 | moustache | moustache | moustache | moustache | Moustaches were catching like the flu- not only do the Fab Four grow them, Beatles assistants Mal Evans and Neil Aspinall grow 'em too. There's a whole section devoted to this in The Beatles Anthology book. |
| "Strawberry Fields Forever" film | 1/30/67 | moustache | moustache | moustache and chin whiskers | moustache | By the time they film a video for "SFF", George has grown chin whiskers to accompany his moustache. |
| Sgt Pepper cover photo | 3/30/67 | moustache | moustache | moustache | moustache | George's chin whiskers are gone for the Sgt Pepper cover photo. |
| Sgt Pepper LP release party | 5/19/67 | moustache | clean shaven | moustache | moustache | Paul shaves his moustache before the Sgt Pepper LP is released |
| "Our World" TV broadcast | 6/25/67 | clean shaven | clean shaven | moustache | moustache | John loses his moustache too: he's clean-shaven for the "All You Need Is Love" TV broadcast. |
| The Beatles visit India | January 1968 | beard | beard | moustache | beard | Everyone leaves their razors in England as they visit India for an extended stay. |
| Geoff Emerick's Grammy | 3/1/68 | - | - | - | beard | In a photo dated 3/1/68, Ringo presents engineer Geoff Emerick with a Grammy. Ringo keeps his thin, patchy beard for awhile. He shaves everything off and starts fresh before the "Hey Bulldog" recording sessions, but otherwise he has a moustache from 1966-thru 1970 and beyond. |
| Apple press conference in NYC | 5/1/68 | clean shaven | clean shaven | - | - | Paul and John clean up for a Apple Records press conference in NYC. |
| White Album sessions | 7/8/68 | sideburns | clean shaven | - | - | In a Linda McCartney photo, John wears huge sideburns. |
| "Revolution"/"Hey Jude" films | 9/4/68 | clean shaven | clean shaven | clean shaven | moustache | Only Ringo is hairy for the filming of videos for "Hey Jude" and "Revolution". |
| White Album sessions | 9/9/68 | - | clean shaven | moustache | - | In some White Album session photos, George's moustache is back. The poster photos included with the 2 record set were taken during this period. |
| Let It Be sessions | 1/30/69 | clean shaven | beard | moustache | moustache | During the sessions for what would become Let It Be, Paul wears a full beard. A somewhat patchier, less full beard can be seen on the back of Paul's solo debut LP, McCartney. |
| Paul's wedding | 3/12/69 | - | clean shaven | clean shaven | moustache | Paul and Linda are married, and the cops bust George for pot possession on the same day. |
| John's wedding | 3/20/69 | beard | - | - | - | Eight days later, John and Yoko get married in Gibraltar, in the middle of a whirlwind tour of Europe, as documented in "The Ballad Of John & Yoko". |
| Abbey Road sessions | 7/1/69 | - | clean shaven | moustache and chin whiskers | moustache | George starts his beard, which will be full grown… |
| Abbey Road cover photo | 8/8/69 | beard | clean shaven | beard | beard | …by the time the Abbey Road cover photo is taken. |
| Last photo shoot | 8/22/69 | beard | clean shaven | beard | moustache | The Beatles last ever photo session, at John's Tittenhurst Park estate. |
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