This Day in Music History: December 30
December 30, 2016We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: December 30.
1963: The Rolling Stones performed at Studio 51 in Soho, London, on the same bill as Jimmy Powell and the Five Dimensions, who then featured Rod Stewart when he was young. The Rolling Stones played a regular Sunday afternoon show at the club from 4:00pm-6:30pm and were billed as Rhythm and Blues with The Rolling Stones.
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1967: The Beatles scored their 15th US No.1 with 'Hello Goodbye'. Gladys Knight and the Pips were at the No.2 spot with 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' and The Monkees took the No.3 spot with 'Daydream Believer'.
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1969: Peter Tork quit The Monkees when he bought himself out of his contract, which in-fact left him broke. He went on to form a band called Release and played banjo on George Harrison's soundtrack to the film Wonderwall.
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1998: Johnny Moore, lead singer for The Drifters on their 1960s hit 'Under The Boardwalk', died. He was 64 years old.
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2002: The funeral of Joe Strummer, former Clash singer and guitarist, took place in London. He had died of a suspected heart attack on December 22, 2002 at the age of 50.
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