1960 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “The Twist,” Chubby Checker.
1963 – In the U.K., the No. 1 single is the Beatles’ “She Loves You.” It becomes England’s best-selling single until the record is broken by Paul McCartney’s “Mull of Kintyre” in 1977.
1964 – It’s announced that Beatles manager Brian Epstein will record his own album, reading from his book A Cellarful of Noise.
1968 – 40 foreign officials of the U.S. Information Agency attend a Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in Washington, D.C. The reason? To familiarize them with cultural developments in the U.S.
1968 – The Archies premieres on CBS. Producer Don Kirshner later succeeds on sending the Archies’ single “Sugar Sugar” to No. 1.
1968 – What’s next for the Who’s Pete Townshend? He tells Rolling Stone today that he’s working on a rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy.
1969 – Genesis play their first paying gig at an English cottage owned by Peter Gabriel’s former Sunday school teacher.
1974 – People ask “How many more years to punk rock?” as Eric Clapton’s “I Shot the Sheriff” goes to No. 1, while Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends – Ladies and Gentlemen is a new entry on the albums chart.
1978 – The Grateful Dead play a concert at the foot of Egypt’s Great Pyramid. There’s more than just T-shirt sales at stake. The band intends to get the Arabs and Israelis to settle their differences to music. Using King Cheops’ tomb as an echo chamber, the Dead play with a team of Nubian drummers in heat that ends up welding their speaker cabinets together. Accompanist Ken Kesey said that the 700-strong audience of “government operatives and spoiled Saudis” enjoyed the show.
1981 – Director Alan Parker begins production on Pink Floyd the Wall. The film was originally to interpolate live footage of the band performing at Earls Court, but instead tells the story of a confused rocker portrayed by Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof.
1984 – The first MTV Awards ceremonies are held at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, co-hosted by Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler.
1990 – Talking about his new album Under the Red Sky, Bob Dylan describes the title track as “intentionally broad and short, so you can draw all kinds of conclusions.”
1995 – At a Sotheby’s auction, the star lot is Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics for “Getting Better.” It sells for $249,000.
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