This Day in Music History: July 6
July 6, 2017We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: July 6.
1957: John Lennon met Paul McCartney for the very first time at The Woolton Church Parish Fete, where The Quarry Men were performing. As The Quarry Men were setting up for their evening performance, McCartney was eager to impress John Lennon, and so he decided to picke up a guitar and play the songs ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ by Eddie Cochran and ‘Be-Bop-A-Lula’ by Gene Vincent. John Lennon was impressed by McCartney's acts, and even more when McCartney showed both Lennon and Eric Griffiths how to tune their guitars. This was something the two had been paying someone else to do for them.
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1963: James Brown reached the No.2 spot on the US album chart with 'Live At The Apollo'. The album was recorded on the night of October 24, 1962 at Brown's own expense. It went to spend 66 weeks on the Billboard Albums chart. In 2003, it was ranked on the No.25 spot on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
1967: Pink Floyd made their first ever appearance on the music show Top Of The Pops. This show came to promote their new single 'See Emily Play'. A badly damaged home video recording that was recovered by the British Film Institute of that show got a public screening in London on January 9, 2010 at the "Missing Believed Wiped" event, which was devoted to recovered TV shows. It was the first time that any footage of this performance was ever seen, since its original broadcast.
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1968: The Rolling Stones scored their fifth US No.1 hit when their single 'Jumpin Jack Flash' topped the charts. Keith Richards said that he and Mick Jagger wrote the lyrics for the song while the two were staying at Richards' country house, where they were awoken one morning by the sound of gardener Jack Dyer walking past the window. When Mick Jagger asked what was that noise, Keith Richards said that that's just jack, jumpin' Jack.
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1971: Louis Armstrong, the American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader, died. He was 69 years old. Armstrong scored many hits including 'Hello Dolly!' from 1964, 'What A Wonderful World’ from 1968, ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’, ‘Ain't Misbehavin’, and ‘We Have All the Time in the World.’
1973: Queen released 'Keep Yourself Alive' in the UK, their debut single. However, the single failed to enter the charts. The track didn't make the charts.
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1985: Phil Collins topped the US singles chart with the song 'Sussudio', his third US No.1 hit. The song reached the No.12 spot on the UK chart.
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2003: Beyonce featuring Jay-Z started a three-week run at the top of the UK singles chart with the song 'Crazy In Love.' The single features a sample from the 1970 song 'Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)' by The Chi-Lites.
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