CBS broadcast The Edsel Show, an hour-long promotion for Ford’s new automobile starring Bing Crosby with Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong, Lindsay Crosby, and the Four Preps. It earned an Emmy nomination for Best Single Program but lost to Rod Serling’s Playhouse 90 drama “The Comedian.”

Billboard noted that 18-year-old Phil Spector, writer and arranger of the Teddy Bears’ “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” was studying to become a court reporter. The same issue retired the Best Sellers in Stores chart because retail data had been incorporated into the new Hot 100.

Little Anthony and the Imperials’ debut chart entry, “Tears on My Pillow,” reached No. 4 and became their biggest hit. Six more hits followed through 1965, including the Top 10 singles “Goin’ Out of My Head” and “Hurt So Bad.”

Don Everly collapsed during a London rehearsal on the eve of the Everly Brothers’ 22-date British tour. He returned urgently to America for treatment while Phil completed the scheduled concerts alone.

An early eruption of Beatlemania surrounded the Beatles’ appearance on ITV’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Fans struggled with police outside as an estimated 15 million viewers watched the group perform “She Loves You,” “Twist and Shout,” and other hits.

The Who recorded “My Generation,” Pete Townshend’s expression of youth frustration. Roger Daltrey said he stuttered to fit the rhythm; the BBC initially feared the effect mocked people who stammer, then relented. The single reached No. 2 in Britain but only No. 74 in America.

The Who released “I Can See for Miles” in Britain, where it peaked at No. 10. Already issued in America, it became the band’s only Billboard Top 10 single at No. 9 and later ranked No. 262 on Rolling Stone’s 2010 greatest-songs list.

Nine days after Janis Joplin’s death, ten mourners attended a private Los Angeles service before her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean and along California’s Stinson Beach.

The Rolling Stones earned their fourth American No. 1 album as Goats Head Soup began four weeks at the summit. Its ballad “Angie” topped the Hot 100 one week later.

Television host Ed Sullivan died from esophageal cancer at 73. His 23-year Sunday variety show introduced the Beatles and scores of other performers to mass American audiences, won Emmy and Golden Globe honors, and led to his Television Academy Hall of Fame induction in 1985.

Shirley Brickley of the Orlons was shot dead by an intruder in her Philadelphia home at 32. The unsolved killing ended the life of a singer whose group scored five Top 20 hits in 1962–63, including “The Wah-Watusi,” “Don’t Hang Up,” and “South Street.”

Queen released the double A-side “Fat Bottomed Girls” and “Bicycle Race” in Britain. It reached No. 11 there and, after an American issue eleven days later, No. 24 in the United States.

Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough” reached No. 1, his second solo Hot 100 chart-topper and his first U.S. Top 10 single since 1975. It also peaked at No. 3 in Britain.

Stevie Wonder began three weeks atop the Hot 100 with the self-produced “I Just Called to Say I Love You,” his eighth American No. 1. Written for The Woman in Red, it also led the British chart and reached No. 1 in at least eleven other countries.

Bob Dylan performed for more than 4,000 cadets at West Point’s Eisenhower Hall. In a striking moment, many future Army officers stood and sang along to his antiwar standard “Blowin’ in the Wind.”

Patty Smyth and Don Henley received a Gold record for “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough.” The lead single from Smyth’s second solo album spent six weeks at No. 2 in America and reached No. 22 in Britain.

Craig Atkinson, drummer for Count Five on the 1966 Top 10 hit “Psychotic Reaction,” died from surgical complications at a Houston hospital at 50.

New Seekers guitarist and vocalist Peter Doyle died from cancer at 52. The group placed twelve singles in Britain’s Top 40 and reached the American Top 20 with “Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma” and “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.”

The IRS charged Isley Brothers lead singer Ronald Isley with failing to report performance and royalty income from 1997 through 2002. Convicted in 2005, he received 37 months in federal prison and was ordered to pay $3.1 million in back taxes.

Cyrkle bassist Tom Dawes, who played on “Red Rubber Ball” and “Turn-Down Day,” died from a stroke after carotid-artery surgery at 64.

Ringo Starr posted a video asking fans to stop sending mail and items for signatures. He later explained that objects signed as a kindness were being resold online for thousands, so he would sign memorabilia only for charity.

Singer and actor Al Martino died at 82. He placed eleven songs in Billboard’s Top 40, played Johnny Fontane in The Godfather, and made UK chart history when “Here in My Heart” became the first No. 1 on the newly launched British singles chart in 1952.

Chairmen of the Board singer General Johnson died from lung cancer at 69. Beyond the group’s No. 3 hit “Give Me Just a Little More Time,” he won a Grammy for writing Clarence Carter’s “Patches” and also wrote Honey Cone’s “Want Ads” and Freda Payne’s “Bring the Boys Home.”

Robin Gibb entered an Oxfordshire hospital with recurring abdominal pain that had already interrupted a South American tour. The problem was soon revealed as colorectal and liver cancer, from which the Bee Gees singer died in May 2012.

The Smoking Gun published a Janet Jackson performance contract stipulating that any comedian sharing her bill could not mention Jackson or any member of her family.

Steve Morse told the GuitCast podcast that Deep Purple had completed several songwriting sessions. The material developed into inFinite, released in April 2017.

Bob Dylan became the first songwriter awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy honored the 75-year-old for creating new poetic expression within the American song tradition.

Britain’s Official Charts Company named Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band the nation’s most popular album of all time. Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours also placed in the Top 10.

Ozark Mountain Daredevils co-founder and harmonica player Steve Cash died after a long illness at 73. The band’s biggest hit, “Jackie Blue,” reached No. 3 in 1975.