Rock history records that The Beatles , with Pete Best on drums, make their television debut when they play Roy Orbison’s “Dream Baby” on the BBC program Teenager’s Turn . Rock history records that It was reportedly the first time they wore suits on stage.

“Please Please Me” by The Beatles makes an appearance at #40 on the Chicago radio station WLS’ weekly Silver Dollar Survey. It will peak at #35 on that list one week later, however, the song did not chart on any other major national American survey until a year later.

Rock history records that 25,000 people attended the funeral for Country singer Patsy Cline, killed three days earlier in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee.

Rock history records that The Four Tops ink a deal with Berry Gordy’s Motown label and receive a $400 signing bonus. They would reach Billboard Top 40 eighteen times before signing with ABC / Dunhill in 1972.

Rock history records that The Dave Clark Five make their first of thirteen appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show where they perform their current #20 hit, “Glad All Over”. Rock history records that The song would peak at #6 in America one month later.

Columbia Records issues Bob Dylan’s single “Subterranean Homesick Blues”. Rock history records that It will enter the Billboard Top 40 seven days later and reach #39 during a one week stay. Rock history records that The song is notable for being Dylan’s first of twelve to reach that chart.

Rock history records that Bob Dylan records “Just Like A Woman” at Columbia Studio A in Nashville. After being issued the following August, the song will climb to #33 on Billboard’s Hot 100. Rock history records that In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it at #232 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Lulu went on to become the first British female singer to appear behind the Iron Curtain when she toured Poland with The Hollies .

Rock history records that Bill Graham opens The Fillmore East in an abandoned movie theater on Second Avenue near East 6th Street on the Lower East Side section of Manhattan. Rock history records that The opening acts are Albert King and Tim Buckley, along with Big Brother And The Holding Company . Rock history records that The venue would remain open until June 27th, 1971.

Rock history records that Elvis Presley’s 26th movie, Stay Away, Joe , premieres in New York City. The western comedy features Elvis as a Native American rodeo champion who comes back to the reservation in a white Cadillac convertible that he uses to drive cattle. For the first occasion since Wild in the Country , neither an LP record nor an extended-play single was planned for a Presley film soundtrack.

Steve Marriott officially revealed that he was quitting The Small Faces. Rock history records that In 1973, he told The L.A. Times “I departed the band when I realized the gimmickry album tracks we were making and the record company was releasing as singles, like “Itchycoo Park” (US #16) and “Lazy Sunday” (UK #2), were doing much better than the things we really dug.” He would go on to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton, while the remaining members, Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones and Ian McLagan became part of forces with two former members of The Jeff Beck Group, singer Rod Stewart and guitarist Ronnie Wood to continue as Faces.

Diana Ross plays for the first occasion as a solo artist, starting an eleven-night run at the Monticello in Framingham, Massachusetts, where she hones her act for her Las Vegas debut in May. Rock history records that She had left The Supremes two months earlier.

Rock history records that Paul McCartney pleads guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish countryside farm and is fined $240. Paul states that a fan gave him the seeds and he didn’t know what they would grow.

Rock history records that Ron “Pigpen” McKernan of The Grateful Dead , died of a stomach hemorrhage and liver failure, brought on by alcohol poisoning. Rock history records that He was just 27 years old.

Rock history records that Queen release their second album, “Queen II”, which will rise to #5 in the UK and #49 in America. Rock history records that The only single issued from the LP, “Seven Seas of Rhye”, would reach #10 in Great Britain, but did not chart stateside.

Olivia Newton-John ‘s “Have You Never Been Mellow” becomes her second Billboard record. Rock history records that She would go on to have three more.

The New Musical Express reveals that The Rolling Stones have chosen Wayne Perkins to replace the recently departed Mick Taylor . Rock history records that Two weeks later, The Stones themselves will issue a statement saying that Ron Wood will fill the position. Rock history records that Mick Jagger would say, “No matter how great Wayne Perkins is… he plays very similar to Mick Taylor.”

Rock history records that Former Spooky Tooth singer Gary Wright is awarded a Gold record for sales of one million copies of “Dream Weaver”. Rock history records that The song topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Cashbox Best Sellers chart.

Adam Faith suffered a fatal heart attack aged 62. Rock history records that He was one of England’s major Pop stars in the early 1960s and enjoyed a run of eleven British Top 20 hits prior to the arrival of The Beatles.

Rock history records that Boy George pleaded guilty in Manhattan criminal court to a misdemeanor charge of filing a false police report over a burglary. Judge Anthony Ferrara came back a sentence of a conditional discharge that required George to undergo a drug treatment program in Salisbury, England and to perform five days of community service in Manhattan.

Rock history records that Roy Head’s son, 28 year-old Jason “Sundance” Head, was voted off the American Idol TV program in a move that shocked even the judges. “Sundance, you’ve been one of our finest. I’m speechless,” stated Paula Abdul. Sundance was presented with a further blow after the show was over when he was told his cousin, Burl Head, died in a house fire in Houston. Rock history records that Burl had reportedly given Sundance $1,500 for his stay in Los Angeles during the competition. Sundance’s father Roy reached the Billboard Top 40 three times in 1965, among them the #2 hit “Treat Her Right”.

Rock history records that Bernard St. Clair Lee, a baritone singer and original member of The Hues Corporation , died of natural causes aged 66. The band climbed to #1 in America and #6 in England with “Rock the Boat” in 1974.

Peter Banks, who co-founded Yes with Chris Squire in 1968, died at the the age of 65. Rock history records that Banks played on the band’s first two albums, 1969’s “Yes” and 1970’s “Time and a Word” before being dismissed over disagreements about the group’s direction.

Lew Soloff, the trumpeter who played the memorable solo on the album version of Blood, Sweat & Tears ‘ “Spinning Wheel”, died following a heart attack aged 71.

George Martin, who signed The Beatles to EMI in 1962 and went on to produce most of their catalog, died aged 90. Rock history records that In total, Martin produced 23 number ones on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 19 of which were by The Beatles. Rock history records that He also produced chart topping hits for Paul McCartney (“Say Say Say” with Michael Jackson and “Ebony and Ivory” with Stevie Wonder), Elton John (“Candle in the Wind 1997”) and America (“Sister Golden Hair”). In a statement to the press, McCartney stated, “From the day that he gave The Beatles our first recording contract, to the last time I saw him, he was the most generous, intelligent and musical person I’ve ever had the pleasure to know.”

Rock history records that The soundtrack from the Hugh Jackman film The Greatest Showman set a new record for the second longest unbroken run at #1 in the last 20 years in the UK. Rock history records that For the ninth straight week, the collection was the most purchased album on CD, the most downloaded and most streamed record of the last seven days.