Today in Rock n' Roll History

[Koala]

1964 The top five slots on the 'Billboard' chart are held by the Beatles, a feat never before or since matched.

1981 Styx went to No.1 on the US album chart with 'Paradise Theatre'.

1987 Genesis hits #3 in the US with "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight".

1987 U2 entered the US album chart at No.7 with 'The Joshua Tree' making it the highest chart new entry in America for seven years.

1992 Bruce Springsteen scored his third UK No.1 album with 'Human Touch.'

[Koala]

1962 The Beatles performt at tue Carvern Clup in Liverpool as part of a special night presented by the Beatle’s fan club.

1980 Genesis scored their first UK No1 Album when “Duke” went to the top of tue Charts.

1994 Kurt Cobain committed Suizide by shooting himself in tue head at his home in Seattle.

2003 Paul McCartney off tue UK leg of his “Back In The World Tour”at Hallam FM Arena a year after it began in America. The set included22 Beatles Songs.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

1964 The top five slots on the 'Billboard' chart are held by the Beatles, a feat never before or since matched.

I remember this - what an amazing feat. And I'm also thinking there was a time (I'm sure must have been right around here) where maybe The Beatles also had 8 songs in the Top 10. I'm not positive I'm correct, but I'm close.

[Prettymaid]

2003 Paul McCartney kicked off the UK leg of his 'Back In The World Tour' at Hallam FM Arena a year after it began in America. The set included 22 Beatles songs.

I had the pleasure of seeing this show in America. Fabulous!

[Koala]

1968 Simon & Garfunkel went to No1 on tue US Album Chart wich
“The Graduate”

1968 The Beatles Apple Corps. LTD record Company managment and puplishing firm, opend their Office in London.


1971 The Rolling Stones launched their own record lable “Rolling Stons Records” with Atlantic Records.

1974 Billy Joels “ Piano Man” enters the “Billboard” single Charts.

1974 Waterloo by ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest.

1999 Benny Anderson and Björn Ulvaeus from ABBA, take to the stage in London, 26 years after the Band’debut at the Eurovision Song Contest for tue opening of “Mamma Mia” tue musical set to ABBA’s geratest Hits.

[Koala]

1962 While at Ealing Jazz Club, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met Brian Jones for the first time. Jones was calling himself Elmo Lewis and was playing guitar with Paul Jones. 1962 The Beatles played at the Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool without George Harrison who was ill. This was the group’s last performance before leaving for their third extended engagement in Hamburg, West Germany.

1981 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off their first full-scale tour in Hamburg, Germany. This was Springsteen's first tour outside North America, which would take in 10 countries.

[Koala]

1970 The UK premiere of the Woodstock movie took place in London. The film was a documentary of the festival that took place in August 1969 at Bethel in New York.

1977 during a UK tour Fleetwood Mac played the first of three sold-out nights at the Rainbow Theatre in London.

1995 Take That's "Back For Good" debuts at #1 in the UK. It sells 300,000 units in the first week, the highest tally in ten years.

1998 Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood was rescued along with 11 other passengers from a boat off the coast of Brazil after the engine exploded. The boat was exploring the islands near Angra Dos Reis, south of Rio De Janeiro, when one of the boat's engines caught fire. Passengers were rescued by nearby journalists, the boat exploded moments after the group was evacuated.

2000 "Maria Maria," another single from Santana's 'Supernatural', hits #1 for the first of ten straight weeks.

[Koala]

1970 Paul McCartney announces his "break with the Beatles" in a typed statement enclosed in copies of the solo album McCartney sent to the British press. Paul McCartney attributes the split to "personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family."

1977 Abba went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Dancing Queen', the group's 7th US Top 40 hit and first No.1. Also a No.1 in the UK in 1976.

1983 David Bowie was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the title track from his latest album 'Let's Dance', his fourth UK No.1 and featuring blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. A US No.1 hit, it was Bowie’s first single to reach number one on both sides of the Atlantic.

1989 Rolling Stone Bill Wyman announced his forthcoming marriage to 19-year old Mandy Smith. He revealed the couple had been dating for six years.

1999 Bruce Springsteen's reunion tour with the E Street Band kicks off in Barcelona, Spain. The band plays for three hours without a break.

2003 Paul McCartney played his first Manchester show in 24 years when he appeared at the MEN Arena as part of the UK leg on the 'Back In The World Tour 2003.'

[Prettymaid]

1970 Paul McCartney announces his "break with the Beatles" in a typed statement enclosed in copies of the solo album McCartney sent to the British press. Paul McCartney attributes the split to "personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family."

[Koala]

1962 Original Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe dies in Hamburg after collapsing. His artistic ideas and close friendship with John Lennon had a lasting influence on the band. Sutcliffe’s picture appears on the cover of Sgt. Pepper.

1967 Paul McCartney visits a Beach Boys recording session and is said to have loaned his production assistant to the track “Vegetables” for the now-lost Smile album.

1976 UK music weekly The Melody Maker reviewed a Sex Pistols gig with the words, ‘I hope we shall hear no more of them.’

1992 Axl Rose leaves town before a Chicago sheriff can arrest him for allegedly starting a riot at a St. Louis Guns N’ Roses show in the summer of 1991. GNR cancel their shows in Chicago and Detroit.

1999 George Michael, Sinead O’Connor, Chrissie Hynde, and Paul McCartney all perform at Here There and Everywhere: A Concert for Linda, a charity tribute to Linda McCartney held at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

2001 Bruce Springsteen won a court battle to keep the rights to his early songs. Ronald Winter of Masquerade Music had released the album ‘Before The Fame’ was found to be in breach of copyright. Springsteen was awarded more than £2m damages.