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Jose Jimenez

Jose Jimenez b. 1924 D. 2017

Carlo Mastrangelo

Carlo Mastrangelo Dion And The Belmonts, The Belmonts · vocals, drums b. 1938 D. 2016 WL Wally Lester b. 1941 85 YRS

Richard Street

Richard Street The Temptations · vocals b. 1942 D. 2013

Steve Miller

Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band · guitar, harmonica, keyboards, vocals b. 1943 83 YRS

Brian Connolly

Brian Connolly Sweet · vocals, guitar, keyboards b. 1945 D. 1997

Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson AC/DC · vocals b. 1947 79 YRS

B.W. Stevenson

B.W. Stevenson guitar, vocals b. 1949 D. 1988

Fast” Eddie Clarke

Fast” Eddie Clarke Motorhead · guitar b. 1950 76 YRS

Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof The Boomtown Rats · guitar, harmonica, vocals b. 1951 75 YRS

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Today in Rock History

26 EVENTS 1959–2022

1959 MGM released Girls Town, starring Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, and Ray Anthony. Paul Anka made his acting debut and performed four songs, including “Lonely Boy”… 1959 Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife” began a six-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The recording won Grammys for Record of the Year…

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1961 Bob Dylan gave his first ticketed concert at Carnegie Chapter Hall, a small recital room above Carnegie Hall. Promoter Izzy Young drew only 53 people—mostly Dylan’s friends and folk-scene colleagues—at two dollars each, leaving Dylan with $10 instead of the promised $20 fee.
1961 The Alvin Show, built around the Chipmunks, premiered on CBS after the novelty act scored hits with “The Chipmunk Song,” “Alvin’s Harmonica,” and “Ragtime Cowboy Joe.” It failed in prime time after one season but found a successful second life in Saturday-morning reruns through 1965.
1963 Billboard reported that hot-rod records were replacing surf songs as the latest teenage trend, with the Beach Boys’ “Little Deuce Coupe” at No. 15. Because automotive slang varied by region, Capitol supplied disc jockeys and retailers with a special glossary of hot-rod terminology.
1963 Sixteen-year-old Anthony “Top” Topham left the Yardbirds amid parental concern and uncertainty about abandoning art school, and 18-year-old Eric Clapton took his place. Topham later worked as a designer, painter, and musician before rejoining the group from 2013 to 2015.
1963 The Beatles made their first appearance on Britain’s Ready Steady Go!, where Dusty Springfield interviewed them. Wearing their grey collarless suits, they mimed “Twist and Shout,” “I’ll Get You,” and “She Loves You” as Springfield’s solo career was beginning with “I Only Want to Be with You.”
1965 Johnny Cash was arrested in El Paso after returning from Mexico with prescription amphetamines and sedatives concealed in his guitar case. He spent the night in custody, paid a $1,000 fine, and received a suspended 30-day sentence.
1966 Bobby Hebb received a Gold record for “Sunny,” a No. 2 U.S. and No. 12 UK hit. He wrote the hopeful song after the devastating day in November 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and Hebb’s brother Harold was killed outside a Nashville nightclub.
1968 Cream opened its farewell tour at the Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland. The Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Jack Bruce trio began its final run while “White Room” was climbing toward No. 6, following the earlier No. 5 success of “Sunshine of Your Love.”
1969 Abbey Road entered the British album chart at No. 1 and remained there for eleven weeks. The final album recorded by the Beatles became one of their two biggest UK sellers, rivaling Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival began a four-week run atop Billboard’s album chart with Green River, its first No. 1 LP. Featuring “Bad Moon Rising” and the title track, it later placed No. 95 on Rolling Stone’s 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums.
1970 Janis Joplin died from a heroin overdose at Hollywood’s Landmark Hotel at 27, only days after recording what became her greatest hit. “Me and Bobby McGee” reached No. 1 posthumously in early 1971, surpassing her previous peak with Big Brother and the Holding Company’s “Piece of My Heart.”
1973 The BBC broadcast the 500th edition of Top of the Pops with Slade, Gary Glitter, and the Osmonds among the acts. The Who broke the program’s miming rules and smashed a guitar onstage, an act that earned the band a lifetime ban from the show.

1959 MGM released Girls Town, starring Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, and Ray Anthony. Paul Anka made his acting debut and performed four songs, including “Lonely Boy” and “It’s Time to Cry,” while the Platters appeared in a nightclub scene singing “Wish It Were Me.”
1959 Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife” began a six-week run at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The recording won Grammys for Record of the Year and Best New Artist and later ranked No. 251 on Rolling Stone’s 2003 list of the 500 greatest songs.
1961 Neil Sedaka recorded “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen” at RCA Victor Studio A in New York. It became the eighth of his 21 Billboard Top 40 singles.
1961 The Marcels followed their No. 1 version of “Blue Moon” with the similarly arranged “Heartaches.” It reached No. 7 but became the Pittsburgh quintet’s final Top 40 appearance despite fifteen more single releases over the next fourteen years.
1962 The Beatles’ debut single, “Love Me Do” backed with “P.S. I Love You,” was released in Britain and played that evening on EMI-owned Radio Luxembourg. It reached No. 17 on the UK chart in December.
1965 The Beatles visited EMI headquarters to receive four Russian-made acoustic guitars and posed with them for photographs sent to the factory. Brian Epstein said the gift challenged assumptions that Soviet teenagers were discouraged from listening to beat music, while George Harrison said the band was delighted by the gesture.
1965 Henry Mancini’s soundtrack for The Pink Panther was certified Gold after selling 500,000 copies. The No. 8 album spent 41 weeks on Billboard’s LP chart, won three Grammys, and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.
1970 Atlantic released Led Zeppelin III in North America nearly three weeks before its British issue. Propelled by “Immigrant Song,” the LP topped charts in both countries and ultimately earned Platinum status in Britain and six-times-Platinum certification in the United States.
1974 Olivia Newton-John earned her first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 with “I Honestly Love You.” Its success helped the album If You Love Me, Let Me Know reach No. 1 one week later.
1974 The Guess Who’s “Clap for the Wolfman” peaked at No. 6, featuring the unmistakable voice of disc jockey Wolfman Jack. He liked the tribute enough to leave his well-paid WNBC position and tour with the Canadian band in support of the single.
1974 The Beach Boys returned to No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart with Endless Summer, a double-LP collection of original 1960s recordings. The compilation spent 155 weeks on the chart and was certified triple Platinum for sales beyond three million.
1979 A little over a year after Keith Moon’s death, the Who’s soundtrack compilation The Kids Are Alright received RIAA Platinum certification. It had reached No. 8 in America and No. 26 in Britain.

1958 Billboard warned that payola—record companies secretly rewarding disc jockeys for airplay—had become so widespread that industry executives could no longer measure its influence. The scandal soon destroyed the career of pioneering rock-and-roll broadcaster Alan Freed.
1963 The Ed Sullivan Show featured Dick Dale performing “Surfin’ and a Swingin’” and the Angels singing “My Boyfriend’s Back.” The varied bill also included Kate Smith, Totie Fields, Stiller and Meara, and the Three Stooges performing their “Maharajah” routine.
1964 The Beatles began recording “Eight Days a Week” at EMI Studios. Paul McCartney later traced the title to a chauffeur who described himself as working eight days a week; issued as an American single in February 1965, the song became the group’s seventh U.S. No. 1.
1969 Apple released George Harrison’s “Something” as the A-side of a Beatles single, the first Harrison composition given that billing. Paired with “Come Together,” it topped the American chart, reached No. 4 in Britain, and made the Top 10 in eight other countries.
1973 Cher led the U.S. singles chart with “Half-Breed,” written for her by Mary Dean, Al Capps, and Snuff Garrett. The record later received Gold certification for one million American sales.
1976 Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots received a Gold record for “Disco Duck,” which became only the fourth Platinum-certified single that December. WMPS fired Dees after he complained on air that the station would not play his near-No. 1 novelty hit, but a rival hired him and he went on to a Hall of Fame radio career.
1977 Britt Ekland filed a $15 million palimony lawsuit against former partner Rod Stewart. The closely watched dispute never reached trial and ended with an out-of-court property settlement valued at roughly $500,000.
1978 ABBA members Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad married privately in Lidingö, Sweden. The pressures surrounding the group’s extraordinary fame contributed to their separation and divorce three years later.
1978 Atlantic Records chairman Ahmet Ertegun met Jesse Jackson in Chicago over a racially and sexually offensive lyric in the Rolling Stones’ “Some Girls.” Atlantic declined to alter later editions, while Mick Jagger defended the song as a satire of real-world stereotypes rather than an endorsement of them.
1978 Johnny O’Keefe, widely regarded as Australia’s first great rock-and-roll star, died at 43 after an accidental prescription-drug overdose caused a heart attack. From 1959 to 1974 he accumulated 29 Australian Top 40 hits.
1979 Robert John topped the Billboard Hot 100 with “Sad Eyes,” which also reached No. 31 in Britain. The breakthrough came nearly 21 years after his first chart appearance with the minor 1958 hit “White Bucks and Saddle Shoes.”
1980 The Bee Gees sued manager Robert Stigwood for $136 million, alleging fraud and withheld royalties despite his role in their mid-1970s revival. Stigwood countersued for $310 million in defamation; both sides settled privately in May 1981 and exchanged public apologies.