One strange anniversary in rock music: Today in 1968, Paul McCartney and Jane Asher attended a concert of … Andy Williams: Eleven years later, not McCartney, but Elton John became the first Wes...
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Today in 1966, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who decided to replace for the evening the tardy drummer Keith Moon and bass player John Entwistle with the bass player and drummer of the b...
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The number-one album today in 1958, and for the next 31 weeks, was the soundtrack to the musical “South Pacific” went to number one and stayed there for 31 weeks. The film version starred Mit...
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If you wanna be happy, listen to the number one single today in 1963: Another one-hit wonder had the number one single today in 1968: The number one single today in 1974 might be the very definit...
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First, for those who believe the British are the height of sophistication and are so much more couth than us Americans: This was the number one song in the U.K. today in 1986: The chicken is no...
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Today in 1980, Brian May of Queen collapsed while onstage. This was due to hepatitis, not, one assumes, the fact that Paul McCartney released his “McCartney II” album the same day. Today’s ...
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The number one British single today in 1959 was not number one due to grammar: The number one album today in 1971 was Crosby Stills Nash & Young’s “4 Way Street”: The number one single toda...
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The number one British album today in 1983 (with the clock ticking on my high school days) was Spandau Ballet’s “True”: The number one British album today in 2000 was Tom Jones’ “Reload...
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The number one British single today in 1957 gave a name to a genre of music between country and rock (even though the song sounds as much like the genre as Kay Starr’s “Rock and Roll Waltz”...
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The number one single today in 1958: Today in 1963, the producers of CBS-TV’s Ed Sullivan Shew told Bob Dylan he couldn’t perform his “Talking John Birch Society Blues” because it mocked ...
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