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1969 The Beatles begin work on what becomes 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.

1965 Elvis Presley's soundtrack LP Roustabout hits #1.

1962 A scheduled appearance by The Weavers on the Tonight Show with host Jack Paar is canceled after the folk group refuses to sign a statement denying any involvement with the US Communist Party.

1955 In Memphis, the funeral is held for Blues star Johnny Ace, who accidentally shot himself on December 25, 1954. His pallbearers include Junior Parker and Roscoe Gordon.

1954 Eddie Fisher's "Oh! My Pa-Pa" hits #1 in the US.

1954 Glenn Goins (singer, guitarist for Parliament, Funkadelic) is born in Plainfield, New Jersey.

1950 Sam Phillips opens the Memphis Recording Service, which he later renames Sun Studio. Among the artists to record there is Elvis Presley, who gets his start recording with Phillips.

1946 Chick Churchill (keyboardist for Ten Years After) is born Michael George Churchill in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England.

1941 The Andrews Sisters release "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."

1930 Pop singer Julius La Rosa - known for '50s hits like "Anywhere I Wander" and "Eh Cumpari" - is born in Brooklyn, New York.

1905 Composer Michael Tippett - known for the 1955 opera The Midsummer Marriage, among many other notable works - is born in Cornwall, England.

1843 The opera Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) by Richard Wagner premieres in Dresden.

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George Harrison's Solo Album Starts 7-Week Run At #1

1971

George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, his first album released after the breakup of The Beatles, begins a seven-week run at the top of the US albums chart.

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