This Day in Music History: March 29
March 29, 2017We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.
Today: March 29.
1966: Mick Jagger was injured during a concert in Marseilles, Southern France. A fan threw a chair at the stage which injured Mick Jagger, who had required eight stitches in order to close the cut.
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1967: The Beatles finished recording ‘Good Morning Good Morning’ at Abbey Road studios. Right after, the band members began working on a new song, ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’, (originally titled ‘Bad Finger Boogie’). They recorded 10 takes of the rhythm track, and then Ringo overdub a double-tracked lead vocal.
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1975: Labelle topped the US singles chart with 'Lady Marmalade', the band's only No.1. British band All Saints also reached the No.1 spot in the UK with the song in 1998.
1979: After Bob Dylan attended a Dire Straits concert during their residency at the Roxy in Los Angeles, he asked Mark Knopfler and drummer Pick Withers to play on the sessions for his next album that would be Slow Train Coming. The album was recorded in Muscle Shoals in May of 1979, with Jerry Wexler producing the album. Bob Dylan had first heard Mark Knopfler when his assistant Arthur Rosato played him the Dire Straits single, 'Sultans of Swing'.
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1980: The Dark Side of The Moon album by Pink Floyd spent its 303rd week on the US album chart, and with that beat the record that was set by Carole King's album Tapestry from 1971. The album remained in the US Billboard charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 all the way to 1988, which was longer than any other album in chart history. After moving to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, the album notched up another 759 weeks, and had reached a total of over 1,500 weeks on the combined charts by May of 2006.
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1986: Austrian singer Falco started a three-week run at the top of the US singles chart with 'Rock Me Amadeus', which also topped the UK chart. He became the first German speaking artist that achieved a No.1 hit on the US charts. Unfortunately, Falco died on 6 February 1998 of severe injuries due to a car accident, when his car (Mitsubishi Pajero) collided with a bus on the road linking the towns of Villa Montellano and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. It seems that Falco was under the influence of alcohol and cocaine. Falco was buried in the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) in Vienna, Austria.
2007: ‘Umbrella’, by Rihanna and featuring Jay-Z was released in the US. The single reached the No.1 spot in various countries worldwide, including the US. The single spent 10 consecutive weeks at the top of the UK chart, which made it the longest running No.1 single since ‘Love Is All Around’ by Wet Wet Wet in 1994, and also the longest running No.1 by a female artist since ‘I Will Always Love You’ by Whitney Houston.
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