1960 – Filming for the Elvis Presley movie “G.I. Blues” began. 1964 – The Beatles attended the 28th birthday party for Roy Orbison. 1966 – The New York Times reported Ray Charles would undergo tests to see whether or not he had abstained from narcotic drugs. 1967 – CBS-TV broadcasted “Inside Pop — The Rock […]
1953 – Leontyne Price sang Sauguet’s “La Voyante” at the Metropolitan Opera. 1965 – The Rolling Stones began their third North American tour with a show at the Forum in Montreal. 1971 – The Rolling Stones album “Sticky Fingers” was released. It was the band’s first release on the band’s newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records. […]
1956 – ABC premiered the TV show “Rhythm on Parade.” 1956 – Buddy Holly released his first single, “Blue Days, Black Nights.” 1964 – The Rolling Stones’ debut album, “The Rolling Stones” was released in the U.K. 1965 – The Hollies opened their first tour of the U.S. at the Brooklyn Paramount theater in New […]
Eddie Cochran is an American rock n’ roll legend from late 1950s and early 1960s, a contemporary of Elvis Presley with a particularly strong following in the UK. His life was tragically cut short when, after performing at the Bristol Hippodrome, England, he died in a car accident near Chippenham, Wiltshire on the 17th April […]
1967 – The Rolling Stones performed their first concert behind the Iron Curtain at the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland. 1969 – Diana Ross appeared solo on Dinah Shore’s NBC-TV special “Like Hep”. 1970 – Led Zeppelin became the first band to sell out the Montreal Forum. 1980 – The Broadway musical “Grease” closed […]
1964 – The Supremes recorded “Where Did Our Love Go.” The song was their first No. 1 single. 1968 – The Petula Clark TV special “Petula” aired on NBC. 1970 – In London, the U.K. premiere of the Woodstock movie took place. The film was a documentary of the August 1969 festival that took place […]
1962, The Beatles, played at the Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool without George who was ill. This was the group’s last performance before leaving for their third extended engagement in Hamburg, West Germany. 1978, The Police released ‘Roxanne’ as the first single from their debut album Outlandos d’Amour. The song was written from the point of […]
1958 – Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” was released. 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience began its first British tour. The show featured the first time that Hendrix set a guitar on fire. In 2008, the scorched instrument sold for more than $450,000 at auction. 1969 – Led Zeppelin’s debut album was released in the […]
1957 – Buddy Knox became the first artist in the Rock and Roll era to write his own number one hit. “Party Doll” hit #1 on this US Singles Chart. 1966 – Barbra Streisand’s “Color Me Barbra” special aired on CBS-TV. 1967 – The cover of the Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was […]
1958 – Elvis Presley was sworn in as a private in the U.S. Army. 1965 – Bill Wyman was knocked unconscious by an electrical shock from a microphone stand. It was the first date of the Rolling Stones anniversary tour. 1966 – The New York State Assembly passed a bill making it a misdemeanor to […]