This Day in Music History: February 2
February 2, 2017We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: February 2.
1962: The Beatles played their first professionally organised concert outside of Liverpool , Manchester. The band's set list began with their version of 'Hippy Hippy Shake'.
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1969: Yoko Ono divorced her husband Tony Cox, and was granted custody of their daughter Kyoko. John Lennon married Yoko Ono the following month on March 30.
1973: Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake and Palmer injured his hands when his piano rigged to explode as a stunt, detonated prematurely during a show in San Francisco.
1974: The Carpenters started a four week run at the top of the UK album chart with 'The Singles 1969-73'. The album features 12 hits and the US No.1 'Top Of The World'.
1976: Genesis released their seventh studio album, 'A Trick Of The Tail'. It featured drummer Phil Collins for the first time as a full-time lead vocalist after Peter Gabriel left the band. After the bad auditioned more than 400 vocalists, with Phil Collins teaching the potential lead singers the songs, the band eventually decided that Collins should be the new lead singer.
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1979: Sid Vicious, basist of Sex Pistols died of a heroin overdose in New York City. There had been a party in order to celebrate the release of Sid Vicious on $50,000 (£29,412) bail pending his trial for the murder of his former girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, the previous October. the guests at the party said that Vicious had taken heroin at midnight. An autopsy confirmed that Vicious died from an accumulation of fluid in the lungs that was consistent with heroin overdose. A syringe, spoon and heroin residue were discovered next to Vicious.
1980: The Specials topped the UK singles chart with 'The Special A.K.A. Live E.P'. The lead track 'Too Much Too Young' was the shortest song that reached the No.1 spot on the UK singles chart in the 1980s at length of 2'04".
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