This Day in Music History: January 22
January 22, 2017We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: January 22.
1959: With an acoustic guitar and a tape recorder in his New York City apartment, Buddy Holly made his last recordings, which included ‘Peggy Sue Got Married’, ‘Crying, Waiting, Hoping’, ‘That's What They Say’, ‘What To Do’, ‘Learning The Game’ and ‘That Makes It Tough’. The recordings were later overdubbed posthumously and later released by Coral Records.
1966: The Beach Boys went into the studio to begin recordings of 'Wouldn't It Be Nice'. It later became the opening track on their forthcoming album 'Pet Sounds'.
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1967: The Monkees made a live appearance for the very first time at The Cow Palace, San Francisco to a sell-out audience.
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1972: 'American Pie' album by Don McLean, started a seven week run at the top of the US album chart.
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1977: 'Wings Over America' by Paul McCartney reached the No.1 spot on the US album chart. This album was his sixth US No.1 after The Beatles.
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1994: D:Ream had their first UK No.1 single with 'Things Can Only Get Better'. The song stayed at the top of the chart for four weeks. In 1997, the single was adopted by the UK Labour Party as their theme for the 1997 UK General Election. Keyboard player Brian Cox became a renowned physicist and science broadcaster on the BBC.
2006: Arctic Monkeys scored their second UK No.1 single with 'When The Sun Goes Down', taken from their debut album, 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'. The song contains the line, "and he told Roxanne to put on her red light," a reference to the song 'Roxanne' by The Police.
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2012: Adele broke an American chart record that has stood for years after it was set by The Beatles and Pink Floyd. Her second album '21' clocked up 16 weeks at the top of the US chart matching the success of the Titanic original soundtrack. '21', released last January had beaten 'Sgt Pepper' by The Beatles 'The Wall' by Pink Floyd, which had previously held the accolade with a period of 15 weeks at the No.1 spot.
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