Today in Rock n' Roll History

[Prettymaid]

1997 Children's TV characters The Teletubbies went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Teletubbies Say-eh-oh'. The single spent a total of 32 weeks on the chart.

Not a Teletubbies fan, eh Koala?

[TimothyBFan]

Teletubbies are scary!!!!!

Tell me that doesn't scare you!

[Prettymaid]

Can't see it Willie, and now I really, really want to!

[TimothyBFan]

Oops---Is it better now? Scary little "things"!

[Prettymaid]

AH-H-H-H-H-H-H!!! THERE THEY ARE!!!

[Troubadour]

EH-OH!

[Prettymaid]

Lol!

[Koala]

Not a Teletubbies fan, eh Koala?

NO!
They are stupid!

Love your shocked mouse, very suitably, by the Teletubbies you can only run away!

[Koala]

1959 The Kingston Trio started an eight-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Here We Go Again!'

1962 Bill Wyman made his live debut with The Rollin' Stones at the Ricky Tick Club, Star and Garter Hotel in Windsor, England. The group were know as The Rollin' Stones during this period.

1967 Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones was rushed to St Georges hospital in London after collapsing. A doctor reported Jones was tired and suffering from over strain and was also recovering from having some teeth out.

1968 Marvin Gaye scored his first US No.1 single when 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' started a five-week run at the top. It was Marvin's 15th solo hit and also his first UK No.1 single in March 69.

1969 The Jackson Five made their first network television appearance in the US when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1972, 'Born To Boogie' the Ringo Starr directed movie featuring T Rex premiered in London.

1973 Bruce Springsteen appeared at the Pinecrest Country Club, Shelton, Connecticut. Only 200 tickets were sold for the show.

1985 Whitney Houston scored her first UK No.1 single with 'Saving All My Love For You'. The song had been a minor hit for Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. in 1978 and was also a US No.1 for Houston.

1985 Peter Gabriel participate in Artists Against Apartheid.

2003 Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Changes' a remake of a track first sung by Ozzy on the Black Sabbath album Volume IV in 1972. It was the first father and daughter chart topper since Frank & Nancy Sinatra in 1967.

　

[Koala]

1969The Peace For Christmas charity concert for UNICEF in London features John Lennon, Eric Clapton, George Harrison & Keith Moon.

1969 John Lennon played what would be his final ever gig in the UK when he appeared at The Lyceum Ballroom, London, with the Plastic Ono Band in a UNICEF 'Peace For Christmas' benefit. George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Delaney and Bonnie, Billy Preston and The Who's drummer, Keith Moon also took part.

1979 Pink Floyd releases their double-album epic, 'The Wall.' It stays at #1 for 15 weeks and has to date been certified 23 times platinum (signifying one million copies) in the US, making it the third best-selling album of all time.

1984 'Do They Know It's Christmas' by Band Aid entered the UK chart at No.1 and stayed at the top for five weeks. It became the biggest selling UK single of all time with sales over 3 and a half million. Band Aid was masterminded by former Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof, who had been moved by a TV news story of famine in Ethiopia. Geldof had the idea of raising funds with a one-off charity single featuring the cream of the current pop world. Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Paul Young, Culture Club, George Michael, Sting, Bono, Phil Collins, Paul Weller, Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt of Status Quo and Bananarama all appeared on the recording.

1998 Andrew Lloyd Webber is acquitted on charges that he plagiarized a liturgical composer’s 20-year-old song to write the theme from his 1988 global smash “The Phantom Of The Opera.”

2001 Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh was given an honorary Doctorate of Music from Kent State University in Ohio.