Chuck Berry was released from prison on his 21st birthday after serving three years for armed robbery. Back in St. Louis he worked factory, janitorial, and beautician jobs before Chess Records released his breakthrough “Maybellene” in 1955.

Elvis Presley attracted autograph seekers at a Memphis gas station until manager Edd Hopper struck him and Presley punched back. Employee Aubrey Brown joined the confrontation; police charged Hopper and Brown with assault and fined them $25 and $15 respectively.

Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney made his Quarry Men debut on lead guitar at New Clubmoor Hall in Liverpool. Though nerves spoiled his “Guitar Boogie” solo, the John Lennon-led group secured regular Saturday dance bookings.

During a single day off from touring, the Beatles completed a nine-hour Abbey Road session that produced “I Feel Fine” and finished “Eight Days a Week,” “Mr. Moonlight,” and “I’ll Follow the Sun.”

The newly formed Jimi Hendrix Experience played a fifteen-minute opening set for Johnny Hallyday at Paris’s Olympia. It closed a short promotional tour whose combined audience totaled about 14,500.

How I Won the War premiered in London with all four Beatles attending and John Lennon appearing as Private Gripweed. Reviews were largely negative, with critic John Simon dismissing it as pretentious foolishness.

Police raided John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Montagu Square flat and found cannabis resin. Lennon accepted sole responsibility to protect Ono; obstruction charges were cleared, charges against her disappeared, and he paid a £150 possession fine.

The Temptations began two weeks at No. 1 with “I Can’t Get Next to You,” the second of their four American pop chart-toppers. It reached No. 13 in Britain.

Richard Nader staged his first 1950s Rock & Roll Revival at Madison Square Garden’s Felt Forum. Bill Haley and His Comets made their first major U.S. appearance in more than a decade and received an eight-minute standing ovation.

The Jackson 5 made their national television debut on Hollywood Palace. Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and 11-year-old Michael performed “I Want You Back,” “Can You Remember,” and a dance routine to “Sing a Simple Song.”

After an argument, Al Green’s girlfriend Mary Woodson poured boiling grits over him as he left a bath, causing second-degree burns. Woodson then died by suicide with Green’s pistol; police found a note and closed the case without charges.

Paul Simon hosted Saturday Night Live’s second episode and reunited onstage with Art Garfunkel for “Scarborough Fair,” “The Boxer,” and “My Little Town.”

John Denver’s Windsong replaced Pink Floyd at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart. It included the chart-topping double-sided single “I’m Sorry” and “Calypso,” plus the No. 13 “Fly Away.”

Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson released “The Girl Is Mine,” which reached No. 2 in America. Despite the commercial success, Jackson never performed it in concert.

Christine McVie married Portuguese keyboardist and songwriter Eduardo Quintela, twelve years her junior. Their creative partnership produced Fleetwood Mac songs including “Little Lies”; the marriage ended in 2003.

George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty released Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1. The triple-Platinum U.S. album reached No. 3, produced “Handle with Care” and “End of the Line,” and earned an Album of the Year Grammy nomination.

Rod Stewart recorded his part for “All for Love,” joining tracks Bryan Adams and Sting had made two days earlier for The Three Musketeers. The collaboration topped Billboard and charts in eleven other countries and reached No. 2 in Britain.

Singer and actor Julie London died from complications of a stroke at 74. Her 1955 “Cry Me a River” reached No. 9, and she balanced screen work with 32 albums of pop and jazz standards.

New York’s highest court ruled that the Ronettes could not collect film and advertising royalties from their Phil Spector-era recordings, overturning a $3 million lower-court judgment in litigation that had begun in 1988.

R&B singer Dee Dee Warwick died at a New Jersey nursing home at 66 with sister Dionne beside her. Her chart records included “We’re Doing Fine,” “I Want to Be with You,” and “Foolish Fool.”

A Chicago auction of Gary Pepper’s Elvis memorabilia sold hair saved from Presley’s 1958 Army haircut for $15,000. A cream monogrammed shirt brought the event’s highest price at $52,000.

A contemporary reworking of Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds” reached radio ahead of Viva Elvis—The Album. The collection of modernized Presley recordings later charted at No. 48 in America and No. 19 in Britain.

Brian Wilson said a planned Beach Boys 50th-anniversary reunion would not stop work on another solo record. The project became 2015’s No Pier Pressure, which reached No. 25 in Britain and No. 28 in America.

Barbra Streisand’s archive collection Release Me debuted at No. 7, making her the first artist with multiple Billboard Top 10 albums in every decade from the 1960s onward.

On his 90th birthday, Chuck Berry announced Chuck, his first new album in 38 years, and dedicated it to his wife Thelmetta after 68 years of marriage. Released after his death five months later, it reached No. 9 in Britain and No. 49 in America.

Tony Bennett, 95, earned a fifth Guinness World Record as the oldest person to release an album of new material with Love for Sale, his jazz collaboration with Lady Gaga.