On This Day:
In 1964 The Beatles started recording their fourth album, “Beatles for Sale.”
In 1966 John Lennon formally apologized at Astor Tower Hotel on Chicago’s Gold Coast for his comments in an interview about the Beatles being more popular than Christ. The singer’s exact quote in the 1966 interview was: “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue about that. I’m right and I’ll be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.”
In 1968 The Beatles formed the Apple Records label.
In 1976 The Who drummer Keith Moon was hospitalized in Miami after collapsing.
In 1978 Dance clubs “freaked out” over the release of the album “C’est Chic” by Chic. The album reached number four on the Billboard 200 and “Le Freak” spent six weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
In 1979 Led Zeppelin played their last ever U.K. show when they appeared at Knebworth House, England. The set list included: “The Song Remains The Same,” “Black Dog,” “Over The Hills And Far Away,” “Since I’ve Been Loving You” and “Stairway To Heaven.”
In 1987 “Rolling Stone” magazine proclaimed The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was “the best album made during the last 20 years.”
In 1993 Author Salman Rushdie, while still under a death threat, made a surprise appearance onstage at a U2 concert in London.
In 1998 The Rolling Stones played their first concert in Russia, performing at Luzhniki [[ loozh-nik-EE ]] stadium in Moscow.
In 1999 Kiss got a star on Hollywood Boulevard’s “Walk Of Fame.”
In 2001 Former Allman Brothers Band lead guitarist Dickey Betts was arrested in Sarasota, Florida and charged with domestic violence, accused of punching his wife in the face while she was driving. He was released on bail the next day.
In 2008 Paul McCartney’s family grew when his daughter Mary gave birth to a boy. Sam was Mary’s third son, and the former Beatles’ sixth grandchild. McCartney, who had been traveling across the U.S. with his new girlfriend, Nancy Shevell, interrupted their road trip to return to England for Sam’s arrival. Nancy accompanied him for the family visit to England.
In 2009 Chicago singer-keyboardist Bill Champlin, who had been with the group for 28 years, announced that he was leaving the group to pursue a solo career.
In 2011 Former Warrant frontman Jani Lane was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel room. He wrote the 1990 hit “Cherry Pie” as well as other anthems. Lane was 47.
The Go-Go’s received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 2012 The funeral for the Marshall Tucker Band’s Stuart Swanlund took place in Boiling Springs, South Carolina. The guitarist had passed away in his sleep. He had been taking a hiatus from the band to deal with health issues.
In 2025 Fictional girl group HUNTR/X from Netflix movie ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ reached number one on Billboard Hot 100, the first all-woman group to do so in 24 years (the last being Destiny’s Child in 2001).
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