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1965, Herman’s Hermits started a three week run at No.1 in the singles chart with ‘Mrs Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter’. 1966, The Beatles played a 15-minute live set on stage for the last time in the UK when they appeared at the NME Poll Winners concert at Wembley Empire Pool. The Beatles set [...]
1965, Tom Jones was at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘It’s Not Unusual.’ 1966, This week’s ITV music show ‘Ready Steady Go’ in the UK, was entirely devoted to the music of James Brown. 1967, The Supremes had their ninth No.1 single with ‘Love Is Here And Now Your Gone’ 1967, music publisher, Dick [...]
1966, John Lennon’s statement that The Beatles were ‘more popular than Jesus Christ’ was published in The London Evening Standard. “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. We’re more popular then Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and [...]
1966, Nancy Sinatra was at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘These Boots Are Made For Walking’, Frank’s eldest daughters first No.1. 1967, The Beatles started recording a new John Lennon song ‘Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite’ at Abbey Road studio’s, London. John’s lyrics for the song came almost entirely from an antique [...]
1965, The film Ferry Cross the Mersey premieres at the Liverpool Odeon. Imagine A Hard Day’s Night, only starring Gerry & the Pacemakers. 1969, At the Apple Studios in London, the Beatles work on recording “On Our Way Home,” “Teddy Boy,” “Maggie Mae,” “Dig It,” “Dig A Pony,” and “I’ve Got A Feeling.” 1969, Jethro [...]
1966, Simon and Garfunkel started a two week run at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘The Sounds Of Silence’, 1967, The Doors made their first live television appearance lip-synching their first single ‘Break on Through’ on Shebang, KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles. The single peaked No. 126 on the chart mainly due to [...]
1964, The Beatles started a three week run at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘I Feel Fine’. It was the group’s 6th No.1 of the year in which they had 30 entries on the chart, giving them a total of 18 weeks at the top of the charts. 1964, The Rolling Stones placed an [...]
This time on The Award Winning 3D RadioActivity, the word lost can be taken many ways. * a person in Solitude * Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland * Mustard gas, also known as Lost. * “Lost”, a slang term for being under the influence of the hypnotic drug Ambien * abbreviation for Local option [...]
1969, Blind Faith started a two-week run at No.1 on the chart with their self-titled debut album. The only release from the Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker & Rick Grech line-up also reached No.1 in the US. The only UK gig was in Hyde Park, London on 7th Jun 1969. 1970, The Rolling Stones [...]
1966, The Beatles played their last concert before a paying audience, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California to a sold-out crowd of 25,000. John and Paul, knowing what the fans do not (that this will be the last concert ever) bring cameras on stage and take pictures between songs. During this tour, The Beatles [...]
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