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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, The Who appeared at the Trade Union Hall, Watford, England. 1967, Beatles: She Loves You US 45 is a number one chart topper. 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their ‘Bed-In’ at Amsterdam Hilton. 1970, Pink Floyd played the last date of their March European Tour at the Tivolis Koncertsal in Copenhagen, Denmark. [...]
1967, At the Atlantic Studios in New York, Aretha Franklin records her cover of Otis Redding’s “Respect.” 1967, The Doors play the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles. 1968, Manfred Mann were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of the Bob Dylan song ‘The Mighty Quinn’. A No.10 hit in [...]
Author of the daily InternetFM music column “Song of the Day,” Eric Berman joined me live in the Acid Flashback Radio studios for an afternoon and brought some great music by Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp and David Bowie, a couple of vintage Who songs, and newer material from Jack White, eels, and an obscure group [...]
1964, The Beatles started a seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’, the first US No.1 by a UK act since The Tornadoes ‘Telstar’ in 1962 and the first of three consecutive No.1′s from the group. 1967, during a UK tour The Jimi Hendrix Experience [...]
1964, The Beatles spent the day at Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France, The Beatles’ only studio recording session for EMI held outside the UK. They recorded new vocals for She Loves You , I Want to Hold Your Hand and Can’t Buy Me Love, after EMI’s West German branch persuaded Brian Epstein that they [...]
Psychedelic Ox from an album reviled by the band, but truly loved by fans. Today’s Song Of The Day was originally a 1968 B-side written by Who bassist John Entwistle. The song ended up on the album “Magic Bus: The Who On Tour”, which contrary to its title was not a live recording, but a [...]
1965, The Moody Blues were at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘Go Now!’ 1965, The Who made their first appearance on UK TV show Ready Steady Go! To project the desired image, the hand-picked audience consisted only of teens dressed in the current Mod fashion. 1966, The Cavern Club in Liverpool closes, having run [...]
1965, The Who released their first single ‘I Can’t Explain’. With Jimmy Page on guitar and The Ivy League on backing vocals, it went on to reach No.8 on the singles chart. 1967, The Rolling Stones were forced to change the lyrics of ‘Lets Spend The Night Together’ to ‘Lets Spend Some Time Together’ when [...]
1966, The Beatles started a six week run at No.1 on the album chart with ‘Rubber Soul’ the group’s seventh chart topper, which went on to spend 56 weeks on the chart. The group also started a three week run at No.1 on the singles chart with ‘We Can Work It Out’ the group’s 11th [...]
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