This Day in Music History: April 6
April 6, 2017We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: April 6.
1966: The first recording session of what would eventually become Revolver album by The Beatles, started in the evening at Abbey Road studios London, with the recording of the basic track of a new song by John Lennon, 'Tomorrow Never Knows.'
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1968: Cliff Richard performed with the song 'Congratulations' at the UK entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, which was held at the Royal Albert Hall London. He reached the second place, just behind the entry from Spain.
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1968: Pink Floyd announced that Syd Barrett, who was the founder of the band had officially left the group. He suffered from psychiatric disorders compounded by drug use. Barrett also suffered from diabetes for several years and on July 7, 2006 he died at home in Cambridge at the age of 60 years old.
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1968: Simon and Garfunkel topped the US album chart with the soundtrack to the movie The Graduate by Mike Nichols. The movie boosted the profile of the both Simon and Garfunkel and on the strength of the hit single 'Mrs. Robinson', the soundtrack album rose to the top of the charts.
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1971: The Rolling Stones started 'Rolling Stones Records' which was their own record label along with Atlantic Records. This was just after their recording contract with Decca Records expired. The first album that was released was Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka in 1971, and is widely credited with being the first world music LP.
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1973: David Bowie released 'Drive-In Saturday' which became a Top 3 UK hit. The lyrics mentioned Mick Jagger ("When people stared in Jagger's eyes and scored"), the model Twiggy ("She'd sigh like Twig the wonder kid"), and Carl Jung ("Jung the foreman prayed at work").
1987: The lawyers of Roger Waters issued a statement, that Waters believed he was the creative driving force behind Pink Floyd and due to that, Waters would contest the use of the name Pink Floyd by anyone else and any former member of the Pink Floyd band.
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