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Charts
1971 : George Harrison's All Things Must Pass begins a seven-week run at the top of the US album charts. |
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Band Dynamics (2)
| 1969 : The Beatles begin work on what will be their Let It Be album and accompanying film. The project is filled with tension as the band quarrels over the songs and the direction of the band. Both the film and the album are eventually released after the band breaks up. |
| 1978 : Two months after quitting the band, Ozzy Osbourne rejoins Black Sabbath. |
Births (7)
Certifications and Milestones (1)
| 1926 : The first edition of the legendary British music magazine Melody Maker is published, promising news and information for "all who are interested in the production of popular music." |
Charts (4)
| 1954 : Eddie Fisher's Oh! My Pa-Pa hits #1 |
| 1965 : Elvis Presley's soundtrack LP Roustabout hits #1 |
| 1971 : George Harrison's All Things Must Pass begins a seven-week run at the top of the US album charts. |
| 1999 : Isaac Hayes suddenly finds himself with his first UK hit in years when the novelty song Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You) done under the pseudonym Chef, his character on TV's South Park, hits Number One. |
Deaths (6)
| 1974 : Tex Ritter |
| 1980 : Larry Williams |
| 1981 : David Lynch (The Platters) |
| 1997 : Randy California (Spirit) |
| 2000 : Nat Adderley |
| 2003 : Edward Farran (The Arbors) |
Debuts (1)
| 1842 : The opera Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) by Richard Wagner premieres in Dresden. |
Legal Issues (2)
| 1968 : John Lennon and Yoko Ono's new experimental album, Two Virgins, is seized by New Jersey authorities after viewing the front cover, a non-sexual full-frontal nude shot of the couple. Apple eventually gets around the problem by issuing the LP in a plain brown wrapper, like pornography. |
| 1975 : US District Court judge Richard Owen allows John Lennon and his counsel access to his FBI files in his ongoing deportation case, on Lennon's suspicion that the deportation attempt is politically motivated. |
Marriages and Breakups (1)
Miscellaneous (3)
| 1955 : Johnny Ace's funeral is held in Memphis, TN, attracting an unprecedented 5,000 mourners. Junior Parker and Roscoe Gordon, fellow blues/R&B stars, are among his pallbearers. |
| 2008 : Despite his best attempts to keep the operation a secret, Paul McCartney is revealed by Billboard magazine to have undergone a recent coronary angioplasty. |
| 2008 : With talk of a Kinks reunion in the air, the band's guitarist, Dave Davies, takes to the Internet to share his feelings: "It would be like a poor remake of Night Of The Living Dead." |
Music and Politics (1)
| 1962 : An upcoming appearance by The Weavers on NBC-TV's influential Tonight Show, with host Jack Parr, is canceled after the left-leaning folkies refuse to sign a statement denying any involvement with the US Communist Party. |
Releases (5)
| 1941 : The Andrews Sisters, "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" |
| 1968 : Elvis Presley, Elvis Golden Records Volume 4 |
| 1971 : Elvis Presley, Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) |
| 1974 : Elvis Presley, Elvis: A Legendary Performer Volume 1 |
| 1978 : An independent record store in Los Angeles called Rhino Records releases their first LP, Wildmania by local character Wildman Fischer, three years after releasing a novelty single by Fischer called "Go To Rhino Records." |
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