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20 EVENTS 1957–2025

1957 Buddy Holly released “Peggy Sue,” later No. 3 U.S., No. 6 UK, and a sixteen-week chart record. Crickets Joe Mauldin and Jerry Allison played despite lacking… 1964 The Beatles ended their first North American tour with a New York Paramount charity concert for 3,682 fans, raising money for children’s health through tickets costing…

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1957 Sixteen-year-old Harry Webb, later Cliff Richard, joined the Dick Teague Skiffle Group while working days at Atlas Lighting; the group began playing around Hertfordshire.
1960 Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” topped Billboard for one week and returned to No. 1 in January 1962, the first single to lead the chart in two separate runs.
1964 Chad and Jeremy’s “A Summer Song” entered the Top 40 and reached No. 7, their only U.S. Top 10 among seven Top 40 hits.
1966 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass performed for Princess Grace at Monaco’s palace after already placing nine songs in America’s Top 40.
1968 Steppenwolf received Gold for million-selling No. 2 “Born to Be Wild,” also No. 18 UK. Mars Bonfire originally wrote it as a slow ballad, and its lyrics never explicitly mention motorcycles.
1969 Tiny Tim announced his engagement to seventeen-year-old Victoria Budinger on The Tonight Show. Their televised wedding drew more than forty million viewers; daughter Tulip followed, but divorce proceedings began in 1972 and ended in 1977.
1969 ATV won 54 percent control of the Beatles’ Northern Songs after defeating Lennon and McCartney’s counterbid. The pair then sold their remaining shares for £3.5 million.
1970 Freda Payne’s initially unwanted “Band of Gold” began six weeks at No. 1 UK, reached No. 3 U.S., and sold more than a million.
1970 After twelve Supremes chart-toppers, Diana Ross earned her first solo U.S. No. 1 with “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” also No. 6 UK.
1971 ABC aired the Jackson 5’s Goin’ Back to Indiana special with Tommy Smothers, Bill Cosby, Bobby Darin, and Diana Ross; its soundtrack included “I Want You Back.”
1972 Police seized five cannabis plants from Paul McCartney’s Scottish farm after a Swedish drug case. He pleaded guilty in 1973, paid £100, and encountered U.S. visa trouble.
1973 Gram Parsons died from an overdose at 26. Manager Phil Kaufman and roadie Michael Martin stole and burned his coffin in Joshua Tree to honor his wishes, receiving suspended terms and $300 fines for casket theft.

1957 Buddy Holly released “Peggy Sue,” later No. 3 U.S., No. 6 UK, and a sixteen-week chart record. Crickets Joe Mauldin and Jerry Allison played despite lacking label credit; it entered the Grammy Hall of Fame.
1964 The Beatles ended their first North American tour with a New York Paramount charity concert for 3,682 fans, raising money for children’s health through tickets costing up to $100.
1969 Ron Dante and studio musicians took fictional Archies single “Sugar, Sugar” to No. 1 for four weeks. Already Gold, it later led Britain for eight weeks and became bubblegum pop’s defining hit.
1969 John Lennon privately told McCartney and Starr he wanted a Beatles divorce. Allen Klein secured silence to protect a new EMI/Capitol deal, leaving the public unaware until McCartney’s April 1970 announcement.
1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival earned its only UK No. 1 with “Bad Moon Rising,” previously a U.S. No. 2.
1969 Blind Faith’s debut topped U.S. and UK album charts and sold half a million in a month; the supergroup comprised Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech.
1970 Jim Morrison was acquitted of lewd behavior but convicted of exposure and profanity over the Miami Doors concert. He appealed sentences totaling eight months’ hard labor and died before retrial; Florida pardoned him posthumously in 2010.
1973 Jim Croce, guitarist Maury Muehleisen, and four others died when their charter plane struck a tree after a Louisiana concert. Croce had just completed I Got a Name; investigators cited darkness, fog, and pilot disorientation.
1975 David Bowie’s “Fame,” co-written with Carlos Alomar and John Lennon, topped Billboard; Lennon also supplied guitar and falsetto backing vocals.
1975 Bay City Rollers debuted on American television during Howard Cosell’s variety premiere with a Les McKeown remake of “Saturday Night,” which reached No. 1 in January 1976.
1976 ABC premiered Captain and Tennille’s variety show; after twenty episodes the duo left television to concentrate on music.
1977 Ringo Starr released critically rejected Ringo the 4th, which reached only No. 162 U.S., missed Britain, produced no chart singles, and contributed to Atlantic dropping him.

1955 The Platters ' "Only You" entered the Billboard Top 100 chart at No. 24, where it eventually peaked at No. 5 while simultaneously becoming a seven-week No. 1 hit on the US R&B chart. The record later became the first single to sell over one million copies in France. Celebrating its cultural impact, it entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
1957 Guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black resigned from Elvis Presley's band over a bitter salary dispute with Colonel Tom Parker, while drummer D.J. Fontana chose to stay on. After leaving, Black successfully formed Bill Black's Combo, placing eight instrumental tracks in the US Top 40 before his untimely death from a brain tumor in 1965.
1959 A guitar and steel guitar instrumental called "Sleep Walk" by Santo And Johnny reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. While a major success in the United States, the original rendition was held to a No. 22 peak on the UK Singles Chart due to heavy competition from British artists releasing localized cover versions of the track.
1963 Bobby Vinton's second US Top Ten entry, a cover of Tony Bennett's 1951 hit, "Blue Velvet", reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was a song that Bobby recorded in two takes as a filler for an album of all "blue" songs. Session musicians on the track included Floyd Cramer ("Last Date") and Boots Randolph ("Yakety Sax").
1963 26-year-old Trini Lopez scored his biggest hit when "If I Had A Hammer" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Pop chart. He later had three more Top 40 hits and co-star in the Oscar winning film The Dirty Dozen in 1967.
1968 The Grass Roots ' "Midnight Confessions" entered the Billboard Top 40 chart where it eventually peaked at No. 5, becoming their most successful record. The music was recorded by The Wrecking Crew, with The Grass Roots' Rob Grill singing the verses and Warren Entner, the choruses.
1968 It was rare that a Country tune could top the Billboard Pop chart, but Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley P.T.A." did just that. The record sold over 1,750,000 copies in the first two weeks after its release. Although she never cracked the Top 50 on the Hot 100 again, Riley went on to have several big Country hits, including five that made the Top Ten.
1968 Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" entered the Billboard Hot 100 where later became his only Top 40 hit single, topping out at No. 20. In the UK the song later reached No. 5 and be awarded a Platinum Record for sales of 600,000.
1971 Paul McCartney's first post-Beatles US No. 1 hit, "Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey" earned an RIAA Gold certification.
1974 Canada's Bachman-Turner Overdrive entered the Billboard Hot 100 with "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet", which later became their third US Top 30 entry and their only number one.
1974 At three hundred pounds, he didn't look like a Rock star, but Barry White scored his first US number one and third of six Top Ten singles with "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe". It made No. 8 in the UK.
1974 Iconic character actor Walter Brennan died at age 80 from emphysema. Twelve years earlier, the three-time Oscar winner scored an unexpected musical triumph when his spoken-word release "Old Rivers" reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. That 1962 chart run temporarily made the 67-year-old Brennan the oldest living artist to secure a Top 5 Pop hit in American history.