This Day in Music History: February 7
February 7, 2017We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: February 7.
1959: Buddy Holly was buried in Lubbock, Texas. His tombstone reads "Holley", the correct spelling of his given surname and includes pictures of a guitar. On February 3, 1959, after a concert in Clear Lake, Iowa, Holly chartered an airplane in order to travel to his next gig in Moorhead, Minnesota. Just after takeoff, the plane crashed and killed Holly, Ritchie Valens, the Big Bopper and the pilot, an infamous milestone in rock history known as The Day the Music Died.
1963: 'Please Please Me', the first single by The Beatles was released in the US on the Vee Jay label. Capitol Records, EMI's United States label, were offered the right to release the single in the US, but they decided to turn it down. Dick Biondi, a disc jockey on WLS in Chicago and a friend of Vee-Jay executive Ewart Abner, played the song on the radio from February 1963, which made him the first DJ that played a Beatles record in the United States.
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1969: The Who recorded 'Pinball Wizard' at Morgan Studio's, London, England. The song is one of the band's most famous live songs. It was played at almost every Who concert since its debut live performance on 2 May 1969. The track which featured on their 1969 rock opera album Tommy was released as a single in 1969 and reached the No. 4 spot in the UK charts and the No. 19 spot in the US.
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1970: Led Zeppelin scored their first UK No.1 album with Led Zeppelin II. It was released in November 1969, and featured the US No. 4 single 'Whole Lotta Love', which stayed on the UK chart for 136 weeks. It also reached the No. 1 spot in the US. The RIAA in the US has now certified it as having sold more than 12 million copies in the US alone.
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1976: Paul Simon started a three week run at the top of the US singles chart with '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover', Simon's first solo US No.1 hit.
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1981: Kool & The Gang started a two week run at the top of the US singles chart with 'Celebration', the band's first No.1 hit and 8th top 40 hit, also a No.7 hit in the UK.
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1981: John Lennon topped the UK singles chart with 'Woman', an ode to his wife Yoko Ono. It was his third No.1 hit in seven weeks after his death on December 8, 1980.
1999: Blondie topped the UK singles chart with 'Maria', which gave the band their 6th UK No.1 single, 20 years after their first hit. At the age of 54, lead singer Debbie Harry became the oldest female to make No.1.
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