April 7th 1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, sometimes cited as marking the beginning of musical Romanticism and the end of the Classical Era, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

April 10th 1970 – Paul McCartney announces the break up of The Beatles.

April 10th 1970 – Paul McCartney announces the break up of The Beatles.


And that date was also a Friday, just as it was this year. :(



And next year it'll be the 40th anniversary of their breakup. :(

And that date was also a Friday, just as it was this year. :(



And next year it'll be the 40th anniversary of their breakup. :(


  Nuh-uh...

April 20th 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performed in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.

April 23rd 1988 – Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon leaves the charts for its first time after spending a record of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200.

April 23rd 1988 – Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon leaves the charts for its first time after spending a record of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200.


I seem to recall it was on the charts for a long, long time. 14+ years?, not bad.

Is there a list somewhere of other albums which spent a large number of weeks on the billboard charts?
Would be interested to see how long Tapestry or Rumours spent on the charts

I seem to recall it was on the charts for a long, long time. 14+ years?, not bad.
...and I still do not have a copy of it.

Is there a list somewhere of other albums which spent a large number of weeks on the billboard charts?
Would be interested to see how long Tapestry or Rumours spent on the charts
I know the British ones.

April 25th 1974 – The song "Grândola, Vila Morena" by Zeca Afonso was broadcast on radio, signalling the start of the Carnation Revolution, a bloodless coup against the Estado Novo regime in Portugal.

April 25th 1792 – La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996)

April 27th 1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.

April 29th 1968 – The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

April 30th 1993 – Virgin Radio broadcasts for the first time in the United Kingdom.

May 1st 1983 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is awarded the Lenin Peace Prize.

May 5th 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

May 7th 1824 – Ludwig van Beethoven's last complete symphony, the Symphony No. 9 in D minor, which incorporates part of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" in its fourth movement, premiered at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna.

May 10th 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

May 12th 1967 – At Queen Elizabeth Hall, England, Pink Floyd stages the first-ever quadraphonic rock concert.

May 13th 1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.

May 24th 1956 – The first ever competition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.

May 24th 1830 – "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.

WABC AM Radio , NY
Top 10 on this day 30 yrs. ago
TW                                                            LW
  1. Reunited - Peaches & Herb (Polydor)          *4 weeks #1*  1
  2. Hot Stuff - Donna Summer (Casablanca)                      2
  3. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now -                                 
              McFadden & Whitheead (Philadelphia International)  4
  4. Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) - The Jacksons (Epic)  6
  5. In the Navy - The Village People (Casablanca)              3
  6. We Are Family - Sister Sledge (Cotillion)                  7
  7. Heart of Glass - Blondie (Chrysalis)                        5
  8. Ring My Bell - Anita Ward (Juana)                          15
  9. Goodnight Tonight - Wings (Columbia)                      12
10. Take Me Home - Cher (Casablanca)                            9

May 25th 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.

1973 - Carole King performed in New York's Central Park. The show attracted an audience of 100,000.

1974 - Pam Morrison, Jim Morrison's widow, died of a drug overdose.

1978 - Keith Moon performed with the Who for the last time.

1983 - Dio released the album "Holy Diver."

1973 - Deep Purple's single "Smoke On The Water" was released.

1974 - In London, 1,000 people needed medical treatment and a 14 year old girl died when a crowd lost control at a David Cassidy concert.

1994 - Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were married in the Dominican Republic. They were divorced in January of 1996.

May 27th 1957 – Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format.

May 27th 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

May 29th 1913 – The Rite of Spring, a ballet with music by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky was first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

May 29th 1999 – Charlotte Perrelli wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 for Sweden in Jerusalem, Israel with the song Take Me to Your Heaven.

June 1st 1967 – The groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by The Beatles is released in the UK

June 2nd 1967 – The groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by The Beatles is released in the USA

June 5th 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.

June 6,1990 - A Federal judge in Florida declared that 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" LP was obscene.

June 7th 1982 – Graceland, Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, opened to the public.

June 11th 1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.

June 25th 2009

This date will go down in history as the day music died

RIP Michael Jackson

As well as an Angel......................

June 25th 2009

This date will go down in history as the day music died

RIP Michael Jackson

July 6th 1957 – At a concert by The Quarrymen at the St. Peter's Church Woolton Garden fête, band member John Lennon met Paul McCartney, triggering a series of events that led to the forming of The Beatles.

July 13th 1985 – Live Aid rock music concerts, organised by singers Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia, were held at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.

July 15,1978 - Bob Dylan performed before the largest open-air concert audience (for a single artist). About 200,000 fans turned out at Blackbushe Airport in England.

July 13th 1985 – Live Aid rock music concerts, organised by singers Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia, were held at Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia.


I woke up quite early and watched the whole thing.

I woke up quite early and watched the whole thing.
I was out that day, spent in a hot garden with friends and got home to see the USA part of it.

July 16,1976 - Loggins and Messina officially went their separate ways.....

July 17,1968 - The Beatles’ feature-length cartoon, "Yellow Submarine," premiered at the London Pavilion.

July 17,1967 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience opened for The Monkees at The Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York.

July 17,1975 - Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox were divorced.

July 18,1964 - The Beatles album "A Hard Days Night" was released.
And I Love Her is one of My favorite tracks ........

July 18,1974 - The U.S. Justice Department ordered John Lennon out of the country by September 10. The Immigration and Naturalization Service denied him an extension of his non-immigrant visa because of his guilty plea in England to a 1968 marijuana possession charge.

July 19,1966 - Frank Sinatra, at the age of 50, married the 20-year-old actress Mia Farrow.

July 19,1976 - Deep Purple calls it quits...

July 20,1965 -The  Lovin' Spoonful's first record, "Do You Believe in Magic," was released.

July 20,1965 -The  Lovin' Spoonful's first record, "Do You Believe in Magic," was released.

"Do you believe in Magic? Yes!"  (Almost an Al Michaels call from the 1980 Olympics)  :D

July 23rd 1984 – Vanessa Williams resigned as Miss America in scandal after Penthouse magazine published nude photos of her that were taken two years prior.

July 24,1978 - The movie "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," starring Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees, opened in New York City, NY.

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July 24,1978 - The movie "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," starring Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees, opened in New York City, NY.

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a clunker.

But with Grease in the theaters around the same time, Bee Gees made their $$ there (and with Saturday night fever 9 months earlier)

More enjoyable campy now ......
a clunker.

But with Grease in the theaters around the same time, Bee Gees made their $$ there (and with Saturday night fever 9 months earlier)

July 26th 1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at Bayreuth.

July 28th 1973 – Summer Jam at Watkins Glen: 600,000 people attend a rock festival at the Watkins Glen International Raceway.

July 29th 1966 – Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York.

July 30th:

1954: Elvis Presley makes his first official concert appearance as a solo act, opening for Slim Whitman at Memphis' Overton Park Shell outdoor auditorium, billed third as "Ellis Presley" and performing "That's All Right, Mama," "Blue Moon Of Kentucky," and "I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin')." In the middle of the first song, a badly stage-frightened Elvis unconsciously begins to duplicate a move he usually made in the studio, shaking his leg in time with the music. The crowd of (mostly) girls goes absolutely wild, confusing Elvis and his band.


1969: The Beatles, producer George Martin, and the Abbey Road engineers assemble the first rough cut of the proposed Abbey Road medley. Paul McCartney, feeling that the song "Her Majesty" distracts from the flow of the medley, has it removed and orders it erased. Second engineer John Kurlander, not wanting to destroy a Beatles song, instead appends it to the end of the medley tape, adding 15 seconds of leader to make sure it's kept separate. When he finds out, Paul likes the effect so much that he leaves the ending of the album just that way.


Charts
1966: The Troggs' "Wild Thing" hits #1
1966: The Beatles' Yesterday ...And Today LP hits #1
1977: Andy Gibb's "I Just Wanna Be Your Everything" enters the charts

July 31:

1959: England's first big rock-era sensation, Cliff Richard, scores his first #1 in that country with "Living Doll," which would eventually go on to sell half a million records.

1967: The drug conviction appeals of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, stemming from an earlier marijuana bust in February, are heard in London, with Richards' conviction overturned and Jagger's sentence reduced to probation.

1969: After two hours of opening acts (during which time he grapples with a severe case of stage fright), Elvis Presley debuts his new Vegas show at the International Hotel, his first stage appearance anywhere since 1961. The show goes on at 10:15 pm with a fiery rendition of "Blue Suede Shoes" and is an instant sensation, with the audience, filled with members of the press corps, A-list celebrities, and former Presley associates like Sam Phillips, rapturous in its appraisal. Later that evening manager Colonel Tom Parker renegotiates Elvis' contract on a pink tablecloth in the hotel coffee shop, a contract which will guarantee the singer one million dollars per year through 1974 (minus expenses). Presley's contract holds him to only two months a year, which will allow him to get back out on the road, as well.


Releases
1976: Blue Oyster Cult, "Don't Fear The Reaper"
1976: Orleans, "Still The One"

Recording
1942: Harry James, "I've Heard That Song Before"
1959: Neil Sedaka, "Oh! Carol"
1968: The Beatles, "Hey Jude"
1969: The Beatles: "You Never Give Me Your Money," "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight"

Charts
1971: James Taylor's "You've Got A Friend" hits #1
1976: George Benson's Breezin' LP hits #1
1978: The Rolling Stones' "Miss You" hits #1

August 1st 1981 – The American cable television network MTV made its debut with the music video for the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.

Aug.2,1961 - The Beatles began their engagement as regular headliners at Liverpool's Cavern Club. They performed over 250 shows over the next two years.

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August 2nd 1969 Badfinger records in one day `Come And Get It', at Abbey Road Studios.

Aug.2,1961 - The Beatles began their engagement as regular headliners at Liverpool's Cavern Club. They performed over 250 shows over the next two years.

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The Rutles?

August 5th 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

August 8th 1969, 11.35am. Appointment with photographer Iain MacMillan at EMI Studios, for the photographic session for the `Abbey Road' cover. After this, Paul chooses out of the 6 pictures taken the best one for the LP. 

November 8th 1971 - The album "Led Zeppelin IV," which included the song "Stairway to Heaven," was released.

November 9th 1967 – Rolling Stone, the American-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics and popular culture, was first published.

November 14th 1952 – The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.  The chart, described as a top 12 although the first one actually listed 15 records due to tied positions, was the creation of the paper's advertising manager, Percy Dickins, who compiled it by telephoning around 20 major record stores and aggregating their sales reports. He would continue to personally oversee the compilation of the chart well into the 1960s. Al Martino's single "Here in My Heart" was the first number one.

November 19th 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

November 21st 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.

November 26th 1962 - The Beatles recorded "Please Please Me."

November 28th 1811 – Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, was premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.

December 3rd 1968 – Elvis '68 Comeback Special airs nationwide on NBC.

December 3rd 1976 – An assassination attempt is made on Bob Marley. He is shot twice, but plays a concert two days later.

December 4th 1971 – The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".

December 7th 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.

December 8th 1980 – Former Beatle John Lennon was fatally shot in the entrance hallway of the Dakota apartments in New York City.  :\'(

December 8th 1980 – Former Beatle John Lennon was fatally shot in the entrance hallway of the Dakota apartments in New York City.  :\'(

29 years ago today.  :\'(

December 16th 1893 – Czech composer Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

December 17th 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven was baptized in a Roman Catholic service and was probably born the previous day, 16th December.

December 18th 1892 – The first performance of the fairy tale-ballet The Nutcracker, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and based on the story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

December 18th 1892 – The first performance of the fairy tale-ballet The Nutcracker, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and based on the story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, was held at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Would have been nice to be there :)

Would have been nice to be there :)
A glittering premier?

December 22nd 1808 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (pictured) premiered his Fifth Symphony, currently one of the most popular and well-known compositions in all of European classical music, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

December 22nd 1808 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (pictured) premiered his Fifth Symphony, currently one of the most popular and well-known compositions in all of European classical music, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
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December 28th: John's single "Mother"/"Why" (Yoko) is released in the US.

December 28th: John's single "Mother"/"Why" (Yoko) is released in the US.


1970?

1970?
Yes

January 3rd 1987 - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin

January 5th 1946 - "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City NY for 417 performances

January 13th 1968 – American singer Johnny Cash recorded his landmark album At Folsom Prison live at the Folsom State Prison in Folsom, California.

January 14th 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

January 23rd 1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.

January 23rd 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

January 27th 1984 – Pop singer Michael Jackson suffer second and third degree burn on his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.

January 30th 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.

January 30th 1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released, it would become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide.

February 2nd 1940 – Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra.

February 9th 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.

February 11th 1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.

February 11th 1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.

February 11th 1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.

February 11th 1941 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

February 11th 1964 – The Beatles hold their first concert in the United States at the Washington Coliseum in Washington, D.C.

February 13th 1970 – Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.

February 17th 1904 – Madama Butterfly receives its premiere at La Scala in Milan.

February 21st 1743 – The premiere of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, "Samson" takes place in London.

February 21st 1970  Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"

February 25th 1969  Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album

February 26th 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first ever jazz record for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.

March 3rd 1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique of Paris.

July 6th 1957 – John Lennon meets Paul McCartney at a fete in Woolton.

July 7th 1980, Led Zeppelin played their last-ever concert when they appeared in West Berlin at the end of a European tour. The set included ‘Black Dog’, ‘Rock and Roll’, ‘Kashmir’, ‘Trampled Underfoot’ and ‘Stairway To Heaven’. They finished the show with ‘Whole Lotta Love’.

July 16th 1782 – First performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.

July 7th 1980, Led Zeppelin played their last-ever concert when they appeared in West Berlin at the end of a European tour. The set included ‘Black Dog’, ‘Rock and Roll’, ‘Kashmir’, ‘Trampled Underfoot’ and ‘Stairway To Heaven’. They finished the show with ‘Whole Lotta Love’.

Bonham died just 2 months later, a few days after school started. I think "Kashmir" is one of their best efforts.

July 17th 1717 – King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel's Water Music is premiered.

July 25th 1788 – Wolfgang Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).

July 25th 1946 – At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.

July 26th 1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.

August 1st 1981 – The American cable television network MTV, the first dedicated video-based outlet for music, made its debut with the music video for the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.

August 4th 1958 – The Billboard Hot 100 is founded.

August 6th 1965 - Beatles release "Help" album in UK

August 14th 1888 – A recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's The Lost Chord one of the first recordings of music ever made, was played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London.

August 15th 1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock.

August 15th 969 – The Woodstock Music and Art Festival opens.

August 20th 1882 – Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture was first performed at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.

August 28th 1850 – German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin, containing the Bridal Chorus, was first performed under the direction of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in Weimar, present-day Germany.

August 29th 1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

September 5th 1840 – Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's Un giorno di regno at La Scala of Milan.

September 12th 1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)

September 14th 1741 – George Frideric Handel completed his oratorio Messiah

September 18th 1809 – The Royal Opera House in London opens.

September 19th 1970 – The first Glastonbury Festival is held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, United Kingdom.

September 19th 1985 – Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.

September 19th 1981 - Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert

September 22nd1869 – Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen by German composer Richard Wagner, was first performed in Munich.

September 27th 1968 – The stage musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.

September 30th 1791 – The Magic Flute, one of the last operas composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premiered at Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

September 30th 1967 – BBC Radio 1 is launched and Tony Blackburn presents its first show; the BBC's other national radio stations also adopt numeric names.

October 1st 1880 – John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.

October 1st 1905 – František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.

October 2nd 1990 - Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by the Doors

October 3rd 1990 - Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obscenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records

October 3rd 1975 - George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK

October 9th 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

October 10th 1935 - George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway

October 10th 1987 - Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album "Tunnel of Love"

Go back a couple of days.  Somebody forgot:

October 9 --

October 9, 1940, John Winston Lennon born in Liverpool.  He was in a band called Silver Beetles and later some crazy guy shot him.  I thought somebody might remember him here.

8)

Go back a couple of days.  Somebody forgot:

October 9 --

October 9, 1940, John Winston Lennon born in Liverpool.  He was in a band called Silver Beetles and later some crazy guy shot him.  I thought somebody might remember him here.

8)

Yes, one of the most important dates in pop music history. Especially this year since it would have been a milestone birthday for him.

October 15th 1977 - Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks

October 17th 1969 - Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK

October 17th 1831 - Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres

October 17th 1975 - Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely

October 17th 1972 - Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1

October 20th 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.

October 20th 1977 – A plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in Mississippi, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines along with backup singer Cassie Gaines, the road manager, pilot, and co-pilot.


Just 2 months after Elvis died.

October 21st 1937 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres

October 22nd 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.

October 22nd 1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).

October 23rd 1989 - George Harrison releases "Best of Dark Horse 1976-89" album

October 24th 1965 - Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today," premieres

October 24th 1968 - Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail

October 24th 1979 - Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc

October 24th 1818 - Felix Mendelssohn, aged 9, performs his first public concert in Berlin

October 24th 1939 - Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"

October 25th 1980 - Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks

October 25th 1968 - Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby

October 26th 1964 - Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show

October 26th 1962 - Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"

October 26th 1962 - Beatles tape "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why"

Ringo the durmmer? Or Pete Best? Or someone else?

Ringo the durmmer? Or Pete Best? Or someone else?
Both tracks Ringo.

October 28th 1893 – Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer's death.

October 29th 1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.

October 31st 1983 - Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album

October 31st 1968 - Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently

October 31st 1975 - Bob Geldof 1st appearance with Boomtown Rats

October 31st 1984 - Howard Goodall/Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man," premieres in London

November 4th 1783 – W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.

November 4th 1955 – After being totally destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.

November 5th 1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. Survivors include Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees.

November 7th 1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.

November 7th 1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

November 7th 1969 - John & Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK

November 8th 1968 - Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John Lennon

November 9th 1967 – First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.

November 13th 1960 - Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress May Britt

November 13th 1989 - Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & Ou Est Le Soleil"

November 13th 1981 - Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"

November 14th 1952 – The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.

November 14th 1952 – The first regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
The first number one record was "Here in My Heart" by Al Martino, it stayed there for 9 weeks.

November 14th 1991 - Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video was premiered on FOX TV

November 17th 1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March is given its première performance in Moscow.

November 17th 1967 - Beatles Ltd & Apple Music Ltd swap names

November 18th 1993 - Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness

November 18th 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

November 18th 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

Already 20 years ago? Time goes by fast.

November 20th 1981 - Ringo releases "Stop & Smell the Roses" album

November 20th 1805 - Beethoven's opera, Fidelio was first produced in a three-act version Vienna's Theater an der Wien

November 20th 1995 - "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released

November 20th 1964 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow

November 21st 1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped

November 21st 1980 John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum

November 21st 1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks

November 21st 1995 - New double Beatle CD released with new song "Free as a Bird"

November 22nd 1928 – The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

November 23rd 1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

November 23rd 1964 - Beatles release "I Feel Fine" & "She's a Woman"

November 23rd 1977 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 perfs

November 23rd 1979 - Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks

November 23rd 1991 - A day before he dies, Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS

November 23rd 1979 - Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks

That was one albun I got around X'mas time that year, maybe early in the new year 1980.

November 24th 1966 - The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper"

November 24rd 1991 - The day after he has confirms AIDS Freddie Mercury dies at 45

November 25th 1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

1902 - Franz Lehars opera "Wiener Fraueen," premieres in Vienna

1969 - John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War

1966 - Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its London debut at Bag O' Nails Club

1966 - Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down (reopen 12/31)

1976 - Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single

1990 - 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson wins

1989 - George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" & "Poor Little Girl"

1987 - "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney

1977 - "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial NY after 66 perf

1970 - George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"

1967 - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"

1896 - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) debuts in Frankfurt

1811 – Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, was premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.

1963 Beatles "She Loves You" returns to #1 on UK record chart

1963 1st million copy record prior to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

1968 John Lennon is fined œ150 for unauthorized drug possession

1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars/Rock Show" medley

1974 - John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in MSG NYC)

1970 - George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass"

1980 - "West Side Story" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 341 perfs

1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.

1944 - Prokofjev's 8th Piano sonata, premieres

1951 - Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd," premieres in London

1957 - Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly and Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show

1958 - "Flower Drum Song" opens at St James Theater NYC for 602 performances

1971 - John & Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US

1972 - Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK

1982 - Michael Jackson releases "Thriller"

1986 - Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"

1985 - Rupert Holmes' musical "Mystery of Edwin Drood," premieres in NYC

1978 - Neil Diamond & Barbra Striesand's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1

1953 - "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances

1960 - Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner's "Camelot," premieres in NYC