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23 EVENTS 1939–2025

1939 Eleanor Rigby died in Liverpool at 44. The Beatles’ later song was not written about her—Paul McCartney’s first draft used the name Daisy Hawkins—but her gravestone… 1956 Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender” entered Billboard’s retail-sales chart for a 19-week run that included five weeks at No. 1 and more than three million sales.…

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1961 Ray Charles earned his second Billboard pop No. 1 with “Hit the Road Jack,” which also reached No. 6 in Britain. Rolling Stone placed it at No. 387 on its 2010 list of the 500 greatest songs.
1962 The BBC banned Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s harmless Halloween novelty “Monster Mash” under a rule against material considered too morbid. After restrictions eased and the single was reissued in 1973, it climbed to No. 3 in Britain.
1962 Bobby Vee recorded “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes” at United Recorders in Hollywood. Written by Benjamin Weisman, Dorothy Wayne, and Marilyn Garrett, it later reached No. 3 in both the United States and Britain.
1964 The Rolling Stones canceled a proposed South African tour in accordance with the British Musicians’ Union boycott of segregated audiences. The band did not perform in the country until March 1995, after apartheid had ended.
1964 The Beach Boys recorded “Dance, Dance, Dance” at RCA Victor Studios in Los Angeles with Glen Campbell on guitar. It became the group’s twelfth U.S. Top 40 single, reaching No. 8, and Campbell toured with them from December 1964 into March 1965.
1965 The Beatles’ “Yesterday” led both the Billboard Hot 100 and Cashbox. Although Britain did not receive it as a contemporary single, it won the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song of 1965 and finished second to “Michelle” among the year’s most-performed works.
1969 Top of the Pops refused for the first time to broadcast Britain’s No. 1 single, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s provocative French-language “Je t’aime... moi non plus.” Dropped by Fontana but rescued by Major Minor, it became the first French song to top the UK chart and reached No. 58 in America despite limited radio support.
1969 A&M released the Carpenters’ debut album, Offering, which included their cover of “Ticket to Ride.” The LP initially reached only No. 150 and the single No. 54, but after the duo’s breakthrough the record was reissued under the title Ticket to Ride.
1970 Elvis Presley purchased a prototype 1971 Stutz Blackhawk. A chauffeur crashed it while taking it for a wash the following July, and the stored car was not fully restored until the early 1980s, when headlights from a 1961 Chrysler Imperial were fitted.
1971 John Lennon marked his 31st birthday at Yoko Ono’s first major exhibition, This Is Not Here, at Syracuse’s Everson Art Museum. Ringo Starr, Phil Spector, Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, and numerous actors attended.
1972 Polydor issued Cream’s two-record compilation Heavy Cream internationally, combining “White Room,” “Sunshine of Your Love,” “Strange Brew,” and other catalogue tracks. Existing UK compilations limited domestic interest, while the delayed North American release eventually reached No. 135 in 1973.
1973 Elvis and Priscilla Presley finalized their divorce after six and a half years. Priscilla received property, $725,000, $4,200 monthly support for Lisa Marie, half the proceeds from a Los Angeles home, and shares in two publishing companies; the former couple left the Santa Monica courthouse arm in arm and kissed goodbye.

1939 Eleanor Rigby died in Liverpool at 44. The Beatles’ later song was not written about her—Paul McCartney’s first draft used the name Daisy Hawkins—but her gravestone stands near the spot at St. Peter’s Church where McCartney and John Lennon first met in 1957.
1956 Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender” entered Billboard’s retail-sales chart for a 19-week run that included five weeks at No. 1 and more than three million sales. Written for his first film, the melody was adapted from the 1861 Civil War-era song “Aura Lee.”
1958 Eddie Cochran recorded “C’mon Everybody” for Liberty, initially released as the B-side of “Don’t Ever Let Me Go.” Disc jockeys quickly favored the more energetic side, which became Cochran’s final American Top 40 hit at No. 35.
1959 Motown’s first release, the Miracles’ “Bad Girl,” entered the Hot 100 at No. 98 but remained for only one week. The record later gained recognition as a doo-wop classic and appeared on multiple Miracles compilations.
1959 Jerry Keller’s “Here Comes Summer” topped Britain’s singles chart just as autumn began. The song had reached No. 14 in the United States earlier in the year.
1960 Larry Verne’s novelty narrative “Mr. Custer” topped the Hot 100 and reached No. 9 on the R&B chart. Verne’s version failed in Britain, but Charlie Drake scored there with a cover of the comic plea from a reluctant Little Bighorn cavalryman.
1962 While filming It Happened at the World’s Fair at MGM in Culver City, Elvis Presley received Norway’s Silver Record Award for “Good Luck Charm.”
1964 The Shangri-Las entered the Hot 100 with “Leader of the Pack,” which became their only No. 1 seven weeks later. It reached No. 11 in Britain despite a BBC ban prompted by its fatal motorcycle-crash storyline.
1964 The Honeycombs followed their British No. 1 with an American breakthrough as “Have I the Right?” entered Billboard’s Top 40. The London quintet’s recording eventually reached No. 5 and sold more than two million copies worldwide.
1969 King Crimson released In the Court of the Crimson King, often cited as the first fully realized progressive-rock album. It peaked at No. 5 in Britain and No. 28 in America and later received RIAA Gold certification.
1970 Neil Diamond earned his first American No. 1 when “Cracklin’ Rosie” topped the Hot 100 for one week. The single became his UK breakthrough at No. 3 and reached the Top 10 in eight additional countries.
1976 The Who and the Grateful Dead played the second of two consecutive concerts at Oakland Stadium. Despite intense promotion and both groups’ reputations as premier live acts, neither date sold out.

1955 Sun Records artists Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins opened an eleven-date Southern tour at Fair Park Auditorium in Abilene, Texas. The bill joined three future icons while each was helping define rockabilly’s emerging sound.
1965 Gerry Marsden married Pauline Behan, secretary of the Gerry and the Pacemakers fan club and formerly George Harrison’s girlfriend. Marsden had written “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying” after one of their disagreements; they reconciled and remained married until his death in 2021.
1969 Grand Funk Railroad’s debut album On Time entered Billboard’s LP chart at No. 65. Despite hostile reviews from many critics, the Michigan trio went on to become one of rock’s biggest-selling concert and recording acts.
1975 Neil Sedaka’s comeback produced a second U.S. No. 1 of the year with “Bad Blood.” Within eight months he also wrote the chart-toppers “Laughter in the Rain” for himself and “Love Will Keep Us Together” for the Captain and Tennille.
1975 Janis Ian performed “At Seventeen” on the premiere of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, hosted by George Carlin. Billy Preston was the other musical guest and sang his No. 1 hit “Nothing from Nothing.”
1976 Casablanca released Donna Summer’s fourth studio album, Four Seasons of Love. Its five tracks occupied two sides of the LP, which peaked at No. 29 and earned U.S. Gold certification for 500,000 sales.
1976 ABBA released Arrival, featuring “Dancing Queen,” “Money, Money, Money,” and “Knowing Me, Knowing You.” The album topped Britain’s chart, reached No. 20 in America, became the UK’s best-selling LP of 1977, earned RIAA Gold status, and was selected for the U.S. National Recording Registry in 2024.
1978 Billy Joel released his sixth studio album, 52nd Street. It spent eight nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, produced “My Life,” “Big Shot,” and “Honesty,” won Grammys for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and became one of the first fifty titles issued on compact disc in 1982.
1989 Michael Jackson attended the dedication of an auditorium bearing his name at Hollywood’s Gardner Street Elementary School. Officials covered the name after his 2003 arrest, but following Jackson’s death a fan petition led the district to restore it.
1997 Elton John reached No. 1 in America with “Candle in the Wind 1997,” his eighth solo chart-topper. Written in memory of Princess Diana, it sold an estimated 33 million copies worldwide, ranking behind only Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” in Guinness sales records.
2003 Mojo readers selected Elvis Presley’s July 1954 recording of “That’s All Right” as rock history’s most pivotal moment. Bob Dylan going electric ranked second, followed by the Clash’s “White Riot,” the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”
2008 Liverpool singer Russ Hamilton died in North Wales at 76. His 1957 hit “Rainbow” made him the first Liverpool performer to break the American market, reaching No. 4 after U.S. distributors accidentally promoted it instead of the intended A-side “We Will Make Love.”