23 December

Pick a Day

23 DECEMBER

In Music History

Page 2
1 2 3

1972 At the Grand Funk Railroad concert in Madison Square Garden, the group's former manager, Terry Knight, brings a court order allowing him to confiscate the group's equipment, which he does at the end of the show.

1969 Elton John meets for the first time with what would become his classic team - songwriter Bernie Taupin, arranger Paul Buckmaster, and producer Gus Dudgeon - to begin work on his first solo album.

1967 John Lennon makes the first contact with his estranged father, Alf, in years: After hearing that he's taken ill, John sends him a get well note and a car so that he can visit his famous son.

1967 Jeremy Clyde of Chad & Jeremy appears on CBS-TV's My Three Sons in the episode "Liverpool Saga."

1966 Eighteen-year-old Olivia Newton-John makes her film debut in the Australian musical comedy Funny Things Happen Down Under, about a group of kids who stumble upon a formula to make rainbow-colored sheep's wool. Olivia has a minor role but sings "Christmas Time Down Under."

1966 London's premiere psychedelic hangout, the UFO club, opens on Tottenham Court Road, with Pink Floyd as the house band.

1966 With union rules ending the practice of lip-synching on British TV, the popular show Ready Steady Go! broadcasts its last show with guests, featuring The Who, Mick Jagger and Eric Burdon.

1964 Boasting a hipper, more commercial staff of on-air DJs, Radio London, Britain's third major "pirate radio" station, begins broadcasting from MV Galaxy, a former American vessel used as a minesweeper in WWII.

1961 The Beach Boys make their live debut, performing two songs during the intermission of Dick Dale's concert at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Newport Beach, California.

1959 The Drifters record "This Magic Moment."

1958 Folk rocker Victoria Williams, known for "Crazy Mary" and "Century Plant," is born in Shreveport, Louisiana.

1957 Simon & Garfunkel (then known as Tom & Jerry) release their first single.

1956 Dave Murray (guitarist for Iron Maiden) is born in Edmonton, London, England.

1955 Fats Domino records "My Blue Heaven" at J&M Studios in New Orleans.

1951 Johnny Contardo (of Sha Na Na) is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Page 2
1 2 3

Cat Stevens Becomes Yusuf Islam

1977

Cat Stevens converts to Islam and changes his name to Yusuf Islam.

Read more

©2024 Songfacts®, LLC