Britain’s New Musical Express expanded its weekly singles ranking from a Top 12 to a Top 20. The chart was assembled by phoning roughly twenty record shops for their ten best sellers, and its popularity soon prompted competitors including Record Mirror and Melody Maker to publish charts of their own.

20th Century Fox recalled Elvis Presley to film a revised ending for Love Me Tender after preview audiences were devastated by his character’s death. The plot remained unchanged, but a ghostly image of Elvis singing the title song was placed over the closing credits; because he had recently dyed his naturally brown hair black, the added footage also created a continuity error. The reaction reportedly convinced Presley never again to let one of his screen characters die.

Elvis Presley reached West Germany aboard a troopship at Bremerhaven and traveled by dedicated military train to Ray Barracks in Friedberg. He joined Company D, 32nd Armor Regiment of the U.S. Army’s 3rd Armored Division, beginning a German posting that lasted into early 1960.

Lonnie Donegan earned his biggest American hit when the novelty song “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)” climbed to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The record had originally reached No. 3 in Britain two years earlier.

Brian Epstein formally signed his management agreement with the Beatles. John Lennon and Ringo Starr signed for themselves, while Harold Harrison and James McCartney signed for their underage sons; Epstein’s sliding commission could rise to 25 percent once the group’s combined weekly earnings exceeded £800.

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson premiered on NBC. Its familiar instrumental opening, “Johnny’s Theme,” was composed by Paul Anka, with unused lyrics credited to Carson; the theme reportedly earned each man about $200,000 annually during a run that ended in May 1992 after 6,714 episodes.

Vee-Jay Records issued the double album The Beatles vs. The Four Seasons before a legal deadline ended its Beatles distribution rights. The expensive package contained no new material, combining existing pressings of Introducing… The Beatles and Golden Hits of the Four Seasons; it lasted three weeks on Billboard’s album chart and peaked at No. 142.

Bob Dylan introduced a new touring group at Carnegie Hall consisting of Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Levon Helm. Then billed as Levon and the Hawks, the musicians would become known simply as the Band by 1968.

The Byrds released “Turn! Turn! Turn!” in the United States. Adapted by Pete Seeger from Ecclesiastes apart from its final line, the recording reportedly required 78 takes over five days, became the Byrds’ second No. 1 and final Top 10 single, and entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.

Chicago station WGN-TV aired the half-hour special An Evening with Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Alongside material from their seven consecutive Billboard Top 10 hits, the band performed the Beatles’ “Run for Your Life,” and Gary Lewis impersonated his comedian father Jerry Lewis during “Time Stands Still.”

Burglars ransacked Mick Jagger’s London flat while he was away, escaping with valuable jewelry and designer furs belonging to his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull.

John Sebastian officially left the Lovin’ Spoonful to begin a solo career that included twelve albums, session work, and music for children’s films and television. His greatest commercial success came in 1976 with the Billboard No. 1 “Welcome Back,” written as the theme for Welcome Back, Kotter.

Colgems released the Monkees’ eighth studio album, The Monkees Present Micky, David, Michael. The second LP made after Peter Tork’s departure and the last featuring Michael Nesmith until 1996’s Justus, it reached No. 100 in the United States; its singles “Listen to the Band” and “Good Clean Fun” peaked at Nos. 63 and 82 respectively.

Following a private service at Dunlop Baptist Church in Seattle, Jimi Hendrix was buried in his family plot at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, Washington. His original guitar-etched marker was later replaced by the larger domed memorial now standing at the cemetery.

Curtis Mayfield left the Impressions to concentrate on a solo career and Curtom Records, the independent label he had co-founded with Eddie Thomas in 1968. Over the next five years he placed nine songs on the Hot 100, including the million-selling 1972 hits “Freddie’s Dead” and “Superfly.”

Janis Joplin attended her final recording session at Sunset Sound in Hollywood and taped an unaccompanied performance of “Mercedes Benz.” The recording appeared on her posthumous album Pearl; unlike the automobile brand, the song title was printed without a hyphen.

John Lennon’s second solo studio album, Imagine, was certified Gold by the RIAA. It was later upgraded to double Platinum for more than two million U.S. sales.

Cat Stevens released his fifth album, Teaser and the Firecat. It reached No. 2 in both Britain and the United States and produced “Moonshadow,” “Morning Has Broken,” and “Peace Train,” all major chart singles on one or both sides of the Atlantic.

Booker T. and the M.G.’s drummer Al Jackson Jr. was shot dead at 39 during an apparent robbery at his Memphis home. His wife said an intruder forced her to answer the door before ordering Jackson face down and shooting him five times; neither his wallet nor jewelry was taken, and the suspected gunman died in an unrelated police shootout in July 1976.

David Bowie moved to West Berlin to escape Los Angeles and address his severe drug dependency. The relocation began the fertile period that produced his celebrated Berlin Trilogy and also saw him help revive roommate Iggy Pop’s career by co-writing and producing The Idiot and Lust for Life.

Meco’s disco arrangement of the Star Wars theme became America’s best-selling single. Led by producer and musician Domenico Monardo, both the single and its parent album, Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk, were certified Platinum in the United States.

Sony introduced the CDP-101 in Tokyo, the first compact-disc player sold commercially, at a price of 168,000 yen—about $730 at the time. Compact-disc titles reached North America slowly, with Billy Joel’s 52nd Street becoming the first album offered there in the format.

After what she called seven consecutive flops, Bonnie Tyler became the first Welsh woman to lead the Billboard Hot 100 when “Total Eclipse of the Heart” began a four-week run at No. 1. It later received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, losing to Irene Cara’s “Flashdance… What a Feeling.”

Forbes reported that New Kids on the Block had earned $78 million during the previous year, ranking them as the fifth-highest-paid entertainers in the United States.

Wilson Pickett received a one-year jail sentence for striking an 86-year-old pedestrian with his car while driving under the influence. During his incarceration, an altercation with another prisoner caused an eye injury that required several operations.

Eric Clapton’s From the Cradle entered the U.S. album chart at No. 1 as the follow-up to Unplugged. Despite mixed reviews, the blues collection won the 1995 Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album and was also nominated for Album of the Year.

London’s Daily Mirror published a photograph of Michael Jackson dressed as a scoutmaster with five Boy Scouts. The image actually came from a September 1990 ceremony at which the Los Angeles Area Council presented Jackson with its Good Scout Humanitarian Award; a council representative clarified that he had never served as a troop leader.

Creedence Clearwater Revival co-founder John Fogerty received the 1,356th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. Between 1968 and 1972, CCR placed seventeen singles in Billboard’s Top 40 and fourteen albums on the Billboard 200.

Former Buffalo Springfield bassist Bruce Palmer died from a heart attack in Belleville, Ontario, at 58. The band’s only Billboard Top 40 single, “For What It’s Worth,” had reached No. 7 in 1967.

Kingston Trio co-founder Nick Reynolds died from acute respiratory disease at 75. The group helped ignite the late-1950s folk revival with its American No. 1 recording of “Tom Dooley.”

After 28 years together and two children, Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, 62, married actor and former Playboy centerfold Shannon Tweed, 54, in an outdoor evening ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Peggy Sue Gerron, whose name inspired Buddy Holly’s 1957 No. 3 hit “Peggy Sue,” died in Lubbock at 78. Holly had written the song as “Cindy Lou” before drummer Jerry Allison persuaded him to rename it for his girlfriend; Gerron and Allison later married and divorced in 1964.