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1967, The Monkees second album ‘More Of The Monkees’, went to No.1 on the charts. In 1967 only four albums reached No.1; ‘The Sound Of Music’ which spent 17 weeks at No.1, The Beatles ‘Sgt Pepper’s’, 25 weeks at No.1 and The Monkees first and second albums spent 9 weeks at No.1. 1967, The Supremes [...]
1966, At Abbey Road, the Beatles record “Paperback Writer.” 1966, During a four month world tour, Bob Dylan appeared at Sydney Stadium in Sydney Australia, the first of seven shows in Australia. 1967, Nancy and Frank Sinatra were at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘Somethin’ Stupid’, making them the only father and daughter to [...]
1964, The Supremes record ‘Where Did Our Love Go’ at Motown Studios in Detroit. The song would become the first of their five number one singles. 1965, Unit Four Plus Two were at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘Concrete And Clay’, the English group’s only No.1 hit. 1967, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Eddie [...]
1964, The Rolling Stones release their self-titled debut album as an antidote to all the Beatlemania. 1965, John Lennon and Paul McCartney compose “Help!”, the title track to the Beatles’ second film. 1967, Jimi Hendrix was the special guest on the first edition of the UK BBC-TV’s ‘Dee Time’, along with Kiki Dee and Cat [...]
1966, At a photo session with Bob Whitaker’s studio in London, The Beatles posed in white coats using sides of meat with mutilated and butchered dolls for the cover of their next American album, ‘Yesterday and Today’. After a public outcry, the L.P. was pulled from stores and re-issued with a new cover. 1967, The [...]
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 [...]
1964, Responding to claims that the Kingsmen’s incomprehensible “Louie Louie” is pornographic, the song’s publisher, Max Firetag, offers $1,000 to anyone who can point out the lyrics’ supposedly “suggestive” elements. 1969, ‘TBC’ by The Supremes with Temptations went to No.1 on the album chart. 1969, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Stevie Winwood announce they are [...]
1967, The Doors appeared on the Jonathon Winters Show CBS TV show from Los Angeles. 1967, Bob Dylan releases his long-awaited follow-up to Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding. Rolling Stone declares, “Without a doubt this is another major musical step for Bob Dylan. The predominance of country blues, white and black, from Hank Williams [...]
1967, The Beatles held a party at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London to preview their new movie ‘Magical Mystery Tour’. 1967, The Rolling Stones release their psychedelic stinker Their Satanic Majesties Request in the United States. The album reaches No. 2 in the American album charts, below the Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour. The Beatles [...]
1964, The Beatles fourth album ‘Beatles For Sale’ started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK album charts. Recorded when Beatlemania was just at its peak ‘Beatles for Sale’ was The Beatles’ fourth album in just 21 months. 1964, The Supremes scored their third No.1 single of the year when ‘Come See About Me’, [...]
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