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December 26, 1966 J. Yuenger (guitarist for White Zombie) is born Jay Noel Yuenger in Chicago, Illinois.
December 26, 1966 Jimi Hendrix writes the lyrics to "Purple Haze" in his dressing room between performances at London's Uppercrust Club. He claims the song is not about drugs, but inspired by a dream where he was surrounded by a purple haze.
December 23, 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.
December 23, 1966 London's premiere psychedelic hangout, the UFO club, opens on Tottenham Court Road, with Pink Floyd as the house band.
December 22, 1966 Beatles producer George Martin and his engineer Geoff Emerick pull off one of the all-time great feats of sound editing: combining two takes of "Strawberry Fields Forever" - in different keys and tempos - to make one song. The edit is 59 seconds in, just before John Lennon sings, "Going to..."
December 16, 1966 The first Jimi Hendrix single is released: "Hey Joe." The song is about a guy shoots his "old lady" after catching her cheating.More
December 8, 1966 Rapper Bushwick Bill (of Geto Boys) is born Richard Stephen Shaw in Jamaica.
December 8, 1966 Sinead O'Connor is born in Glenageary, County Dublin, Ireland. At 23 she takes the Prince-written "Nothing Compares 2 U" to #1 around the world, but she struggles with fame and soon becomes known less for her music and more for courting controversy, especially after she tears up a photo of the Pope on Saturday Night Live in 1992.
December 6, 1966 No longer touring, The Beatles hunker down on their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. With "Strawberry Fields Forever" in the can, they start work on "When I'm 64," a song they started playing live in rough form years earlier.
December 3, 1966 Having been convicted of heroin and marijuana possession, Ray Charles is given a five-year suspended sentence and fined $10,000.
December 3, 1966 The New Vaudeville Band's "Winchester Cathedral" hits #1.
November 30, 1966 The brilliant but erratic guitarist Jeff Beck officially leaves The Yardbirds after a year and a half in the band. He later forms the Jeff Beck Group.
November 29, 1966 Elvis Presley hears Tom Jones' version of "Green Green Grass Of Home" on the radio just outside Little Rock, and calls the radio station to hear it several times. Elvis later covers the song.
November 28, 1966 The New Vaudeville Band's "Winchester Cathedral" is certified gold.
November 27, 1966 Mia Farrow is the mystery guest on the popular game show What's My Line?, surprising her new husband Frank Sinatra, who sits blindfolded on the panel. Sinatra was a mystery guest earlier in the night.
November 25, 1966 R&B and gospel singer Stacy Lattisaw is born in Washington, D.C. She has a #1 hit in 1989 with the duet "Where Do We Go From Here" with Johnny Gill.
November 17, 1966 Jeff Buckley, known as Scott "Scottie" Moorhead to his family, is born in Los Angeles, California.More
November 12, 1966 Teens on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip protesting a recent curfew are beaten by police, inspiring Stephen Stills to write the Buffalo Springfield hit "For What It's Worth."
November 9, 1966 John Lennon visits London's Indica Gallery to see the exhibit Unfinished Paintings and Objects and meets the artist behind the showing, Yoko Ono. She presents him with a card that simply says, "Breathe," and he responds by panting. He attempts to hammer a nail into one of her interactive artworks, which invites viewers to do just that; since the exhibit does not open to the public till the next day, however, Ono refuses, leading the gallery's owner to beg her to reconsider due to John's fame. Ono still refuses, claiming to have never heard of The Beatles, but says he can hammer one in for five shillings. John responds that he'll let her have an imaginary five shillings if he can hammer in an imaginary nail. Two years later, the two meet again and quickly fall in love.
November 9, 1966 According to the "Paul Is Dead" rumors, this was the day Paul McCartney "blew his mind out in a car," meeting his doom and being replaced with a lookalike.
November 2, 1966 Dressed in full revolutionary regalia, Paul Revere & the Raiders appear on an episode of Batman.
October 31, 1966 Adam Horovitz (aka Ad-Rock of Beastie Boys) is born in Manhattan, New York. He shouts out his own birthday in the song "The New Style."
October 29, 1966 Powered by a captivating Vox Continental organ riff and a lead singer who always wears sunglasses and goes by the name of "?", "96 Tears" by ? & the Mysterians hits #1 in America.More
October 22, 1966 Chain Reaction, which would later become Aerosmith, open for The Yardbirds at Staples High in Westport, Connecticut.
October 12, 1966 The Moody Blues split up, with Denny Laine signing a solo deal with their label, Deram. The group re-forms a month later with new members Justin Hayward and John Lodge.
October 11, 1966 Singer-songwriter Todd Snider is born in Portland, Oregon. Known for humorous story songs like "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues" and "Beer Run," he builds a following in the Pacific Northwest but is careful to stay out of the mainstream.
October 7, 1966 Smiley Lewis, New Orleans R&B musician, dies of stomach cancer at age 53. Originally recorded "One Night," which became a hit for Elvis Presley in 1958.
October 6, 1966 Tommy Stinson (bass guitarist for The Replacements) is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
October 4, 1966 The Vince Guaraldi Trio record music for the Halloween special It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown at Desilu's Gower Street Studio in Hollywood. The session includes a new arrangement of the theme "Linus and Lucy," with distinctive flute touches by Ronald Lang.
October 1, 1966 Jimi Hendrix makes his UK stage debut when he jumps onstage to jam with Cream at London Polytechnic.
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