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In Music History
1970 A billboard taking up an entire city block to promote Grand Funk Railroad goes up in New York City's Times Square. It costs Capitol Records about $100,000 but pays off when their Closer To Home album sells over 2 million copies and they sell out Shea Stadium the next summer.
1969 Blues singer Wynonie Harris, known for ribald tunes like "I Like My Baby's Pudding" (1950), dies of esophageal cancer at age 53.
1968 The Jeff Beck Group, with lead singer Rod Stewart, make their US concert debut, opening for the Grateful Dead at the Fillmore East in New York City. Stewart has stage fright, which is cured when he takes some swigs of rum from a bottle he shares with guitarist Ron Wood.
1967 At Olympic Sound Studios in London, The Beatles start working on "All You Need Is Love," written specifically for a global satellite broadcast. The simple, repetitive chorus makes it a great fit for the international audience.
1967 The Monkees record "Daydream Believer."
1965 The Beatles log a productive session at Abbey Road studios, with Paul McCartney laying down vocals and acoustic guitar for "Yesterday" (a string section is overdubbed later), and the group completing the songs "I've Just Seen a Face" and "I'm Down."
1963 Chris DeGarmo (lead guitarist for Queensrÿche) is born in Wenatchee, Washington.
1961 Culture Club lead singer Boy George is born George Alan O'Dowd in Eltham, London, England. He starts wearing makeup and women's clothes in secondary school, a look he adapts with Culture Club to provide a striking visual presence that gets lots of attention on MTV. The band has a run of hits in the early '80s that includes "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?," "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" and "Karma Chameleon."
1961 After a performance at the Majestic Theatre in Newcastle, England, Gene Vincent is mobbed by admirers who accidentally push him down a flight of stairs, where he is knocked out.
1961 Elvis Presley's 7th movie, Wild In The Country, premieres in his hometown of Memphis.
1958 Nick Van Eede (of Cutting Crew) is born in Cuckfield, West Sussex, England.
1957 Ava Gardner divorces Frank Sinatra.
1953 Elvis Presley graduates from Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee.
1949 Jim Lea (multi-instrumentalist of Slade) is born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England.
1949 Yes drummer Alan White is born in Ferryhill, County Durham, England.
Beatles Butcher Cover Gets Chopped
1966Deeming its "butcher cover" in poor taste, Capitol Records recalls the new Beatles album, Yesterday and Today, which is scheduled for release the next day and has already been sent to stores.
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1990 Four days after being arrested for performing obscene songs at a Florida nightclub, the rap group 2 Live Crew performs at the Ozone Club outside of Atlanta. Authorities had warned the group that they would be arrested if they performed their dirty songs, so the rappers encourage the crowd to sing the obscene lyrics for them, resulting in about 500 people singing lines like "that's the way we like to f--k" as police officers look on. No arrests are made, and the group gets even more publicity and a bump in sales for the album they released a year earlier.
1971 Emerson, Lake & Palmer release their second album, Tarkus. The creature on the cover is a weaponized armadillo.More
1966 Workers at a London railway station notice a large package wiggling, so they open it to discover 12-year-old Carol Dryden, a Beatles fan trying to mail herself to the group.
1961 Patsy Cline gets in a nasty car accident in Nashville, when she is thrown through the windshield. She is hospitalized for about a month, during which time she is visited by the woman who will become her protégé: Loretta Lynn.
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