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The Beatles Love Pot, Blackmore Quits Deep Purple: This Day In Classic Rock...
KZOK’s kind and benevolent parent company CBS Radio was first in rock and roll today in 1956 with Alan Freed’s Rock ‘N Roll Dance Party, the first nationally broadcast show to feature what many at the...
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Beatles Get A Manager, The Hippie Thing Ends At Altamont, Roy Orbison Checks...
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Pete Best had another meeting with Brian Epstein today in 1961 to further discuss his proposal to manage them. Brian wanted 25% of their gross earnings...
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Chuck Berry Busted, Brian Wilson Quits Beach Boys: This Day In Classic Rock...
Chuck Berry was arrested today in 1959 for taking an underage girl across state lines. He didn’t know it at the time, but 14 year old Janice Norine was a professional, working as a prostitute. The...
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Jones Becomes Bowie, And The ’67 Winter Of Love “Be-In”: This Day In Classic...
Having joined the band a week earlier, Charlie Watts made his live debut as The Rolling Stones drummer tonight in 1963 at the Flamingo Jazz Club in London’s Soho borough. They’d played shows before...
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The Beatles Last Show On The Roof, And Sunday, Bloody Sunday: This Day In...
The Beatles played live for the last time today in 1969. Ringo Starr later remembered, “There was a plan to play somewhere. We were wondering where we could go…Oh, The Palladium or The Sahara, but we...
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Elvis Buys A House, U2 Win A Talent Show, Ray Davies Wins His CBE: This Day...
Elvis Presley, flush with cash from bringing rock and roll to the mainstream, bought himself a house today in 1957. The 23-room colonial-revival style mansion had been built in 1939 by a doctor on 14...
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Buddy Invades Britain, Airplane Becomes Starship, And Goodbye Randy Rhodes:...
Buddy Holly played two shows at a movie theater in Hull, Yorkshire England tonight in 1958 on his only trip there. Contrary to popular belief, John Lennon and Paul McCartney didn’t see him live. Though...
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Paul Meets Jane, Neil’s First Movie, Yes Break Up: This Day In Classic Rock...
The Beatles played a radio show recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London tonight in 1963. Backstage after their performance Paul McCartney was introduced to actress, model, and Telly personality...
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Townsend Beans Cop With Guitar, Plant Pulls Knife In Atlanta While He Is In...
It was today in 1963 that The Beatles appeared on the BBC’s Pops and Lenny children’s TV programme. Not exactly up to J.P.Patches standards, Pops was a smiling ventriloquist, Lenny was his hand-puppet...
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Beatles and McCartney Go To #1 At The Same Time, Tom Goes Bankrupt: This Day...
American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald earned the distinction of being the first of many artists to have a hit with a cover of a Beatles song when her rendition of Can’t Buy Me Love entered the charts...
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