October 12 – Today in Beatles History

1962
Performance at the Tower Ballroom, New Brighton, as main support act for Little Richard, along with 10 other Liverpool groups. Among them: the Undertakers, Rory Storm, Billy J. Kramer, Lee Curtis, and the All Stars (with Pete Best). It is rumored that during the evening Little Richard tries to seduce Paul.
Later, performance at the Cavern, with Little Richard.

1963
‘Please Please Me’ LP number 1, 23rd week (UK Record Retailer chart).

[Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play ‘A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum’.

1964
Studio 2 (control room only). 10.00-10.30am. Mono mixing: ‘She’s A Woman’ (remix 1, from take 6). Stereo mixing: ‘She’s A Woman’ (from take 6). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
Studio 2 (control room only). 2.30-3.00pm. Mono mixing: ‘Eight Days A Week’ (remix 1, from take 13). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.

Brian Epstein Automobiles Limited is incorporated, with Brian one of its opening directors.

Wendy Hanson returns from the USA to work at Argyll Street NEMS office.

US LP release: ‘Songs, Pictures And Stories Of The Fabulous Beatles’.

1965
Studio 2. 2.30-7.00pm. Recording: ‘Run For Your Life’ (takes 1-5). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott/Phil McDonald. Studio 2. 7.00-11.30pm. Recording: ‘This Bird Has Flown’ (working title of ‘Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)’) (take 1). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Norman Smith; 2nd Engineer: Ken Scott.
First session for ‘Rubber Soul’. First use of the sitar.

Opening night of James Baldwin’s play ‘Amen Corner’, at the Saville Theatre, presented by Brian. Attendance of Brian, and his guests, Dusty Springfield, Sir Joseph Lockwood, Lionel Bart, Andrew Oldham, Walter Shenson, Dick James.

1966
‘Yellow Submarine’, 10th and last week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).
‘Eleanor Rigby’, 10th and last week in the Top 30 (UK New Musical Express chart).

NEMS Enterprises admits that the Moody Blues have splitted up.

1967
De Lane Lea Music Recording Studios. 2.30-8.00pm. Mono mixing: ‘It’s All Too Much’ (remixes 1, 2, from take 2). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Dave Siddle; 2nd Engineer: Mike Weighell.
Studio 3. 6.30pm-2.00am. Mono mixing: ‘Blue Jay Way’ (remixes 2-9, from take 3). Editing: ‘Blue Jay Way’ (of mono remixes 6, 9). Recording: ‘Accordion (Wild)’ (working title of ‘Shirley’s Wild Accordion’) (takes 1-8, tape reduction take 8 into takes 9, 10, overdub onto take 10, takes 11-15). Mono mixing: ‘Accordion (Wild)’ (working title of ‘Shirley’s Wild Accordion’) (remixes 1, 2, 3, from takes 10, 7, 14, respectively). Producer: John Lennon; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: Richard Lush.
First John official credit as producer in a Beatles session.

1968
‘Hey Jude’ number 1, 3rd week, 7th week in the Top 30 (Billboard).

Studio 2 (control room only). 7.00pm-5.45am. Stereo mixing: ‘Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey’ (remix 1, from take 12); ‘Helter Skelter’ (remix 1-5, from take 21); ‘Mother Nature’s Son’ (remixes 1, 2, from take 26); ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ (remixes 1-4, from take 23). Mono mixing: ‘Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey’ (remix 1, from take 12); ‘Mother Nature’s Son’ (remixes 1, 2, from take 26); ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ (remix 10, from take 23); ‘Long Long Long’ (remix 1, from take 67). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: John Smith.

1st showing on US television of a 7-minute promotional short entitled ‘A Mod Odyssey’, including a footage of the Beatles at TVC (TV Cartoons Ltd).

1969
Russ Gibbs, of the WKNR-FM, affirms he has received an anonymous phone call saying that Paul has died.

Yoko miscarries. End of Yoko’s stay at the King’s College Hospital, London.

1983
‘Say Say Say’ number 1, 1st week (Billboard).

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October 12 – Retro History From The 50s to 80s

On October 12, 1975 New York Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award.

Retro Events For The Decade 1980

1989 George Forest’s musical “Grand Hotel,” premieres in New York City
1988 Japan beats MLB All-Star team 5-4 in Tokyo (Game 6 of 7)
1988 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1987 “Teddy and Alice” opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 77 performances
1987 Heavy snow closes schools from Washington D.C. to Maine
1987 Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World
1986 France performs nuclear test
1986 Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award unanimously
1985 R. Hadlee takes 15-123 for Cricket match vs. Australia at Brisbane
1985 STS-61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Cozzene, Life’s Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge at Aqueduct
1984 Paul McCartney releases “We All Stand Together”
1984 Space shuttle astronauts retreive a satellite – 1st space salvage
1983 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas
1983 New Jersey Devils 1st overtime game, lose to Calgary Flames 4-3
1982 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader
1982 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket vs. India, goes to 215
1981 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed, Double Eagle V
1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)
1981 Bill C. Davis’ “Mass Appeal,” premieres in New York City
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A’s
1981 Great Britain performs nuclear test
1981 Pilin Leon of Venezuela, crowned 31st Miss World
1980 Baltimore’s Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
1980 U.S. space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn

Retro Events For The Decade 1970

1979 President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
1979 Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
1979 U.S. halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets
1978 “Platinum” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 33 performances
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1977 Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest “Dutch” Morial
1975 New York Mets Tom Seaver wins his 3rd Cy Young Award
1975 Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired after 36 years
1974 South Africa suspended from United Nations General Assembly over racial policies
1973 Dmitri Shostakovich’ 14th String Quartet premieres
1970 240 KPH cyclone hits East Pakistan (Bangladesh); 3-500,000 die
1970 Cleveland Cavaliers 1st NBA victory (11th game), beating Portland 105-103
1970 Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell

Retro Events For The Decade 1960

1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1969 Minnesota’s Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP
1969 U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
1969 WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast
1968 KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional
1967 Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
1967 Packers’ Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
1966 Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record
1966 High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame
1965 Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines
1965 General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka
1965 Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ
1965 Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1964 Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1963 Train crash in Japan, kills 164
1960 Coup against South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem fails

Retro Events For The Decade 1950

1959 White Sox 2B Nellie Fox wins AL’s MVP
1958 Bob Turley of Yankees wins Cy Young Award
1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1955 1st West German officers sworn in
1955 E. Arcaro, E. Sande and G Woolf 1st inductees in Jockey hall of fame
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in New York Harbor, closed
1953 David Ben-Gurion, resigns as premier of Israel
1953 U.S. district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1952 Philadelphia A’s pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1951 “Paint Your Wagon” opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 289 performances
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala
1950 Gene Roberts sets NFL New York Giant rushing record (218 yards) vs Chicago Cards

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October 11 – Today In Rock Music History

Happy Birthday Daryl Hall!

Musicians Born On October 10

1949 Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates)
1950 Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1962 Scott Johnson (Gin Blossoms)

Deaths On October 11

1968 Edith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)

Number 1 In The Charts On October 11

1967 Bee Gees: ‘Massachusetts’ UK 45
1969 Jane Birkin: ‘Je t’Aime’ UK 45
1975 Neil Sedaka: ‘Bad Blood’ US 45
1980 Police: ‘Zenyatta Mondatta’ UK LP
1986 Madonna: ‘True Blue’ UK 45
1986 Janet Jackson: ‘When I Think of You’ US 45
1997 Elton John : Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight :US single
1997 The Verve ; Urban Hymns : UK LP
1998 Billie : Girlfriend : UK single

Various Music Events On October 11

1959 Miracles debut on US chart with ‘Bad Boy’

1960 Aretha Franklin makes her stage debut, at New York Vanguard Club

1962 Beatles enter UK chart for the first time with ‘Love Me Do’

1962 Del Shannon hits UK chart with ‘Swiss Maid’

1963 Beatles receive first gold disc for ‘She Loves You’

1968 Aretha Franklin goes gold with ‘I Say a Little Prayer’

1975 First edition of comedy and music show ‘Saturday Night Live’ broadcast on US TV

1975 Elton John hits US chart with his eighteenth hit ‘Island Girl’, on way to No. 1

1978 Nancy Spungen found murdered in the bathroom of the Greenwich Village apartment she shared with Sid Vicious

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October 11 – Today in Beatles History

1962
‘Love Me Do’ enters the favorite songs ranking published by ‘Record Retailer’.

Cavern lunch session: Freddie and the Dreamers.

1963
[Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play ‘A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum’.

Concert at the Stoke Trentham Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent.

1964
17.00 and 19.45. Concerts at the Odeon, Birmingham.

1965
Paul attends a session at Decca Studios, London, for Marianne Faithfull’s version of ‘Yesterday’, meeting the producer Mike Leander.

Marriage of Gerry Marsden and Pauline Behan, at St Mary’s Church, Woolton, Liverpool. Brian attends.

US release of 6 Capitol singles: ‘Twist And Shout’/'There’s A Place’; ‘Love Me Do’/'P.S. I Love You’; ‘Please Please Me’/'From Me To You’; ‘Do You Want To Know A Secret’/'Thank You Girl’; ‘Roll Over Beethoven’/'Misery’; ‘Boys’/'Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!’

1967
Opening of Yoko’s art exhibition, ‘Half-A-Wind Show’, at the Lisson Gallery, London.

1968
Studio 2. 3.00-6.00pm. Recording: ‘Savoy Truffle’ (overdub onto take 1).
Studio 2 (control room only). 6.00-12.00pm. Mono mixing: ‘Piggies’ (remixes 1-4, from take 12); ‘Don’t Pass Me By’ (remix 1, from take 7 and edit of edit piece 4); ‘Good Night’ (remixes 1, 2, from take 34). Stereo mixing: ‘Piggies’ (remixes 1-3, from take 12); ‘Don’t Pass Me By’ (remix 1, from take 7 and edit of edit piece 4); ‘Good Night’ (remix 1, from take 34). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: John Smith.
Recording of brasses for ‘Savoy Truffle’.

1971
US single release: ‘Imagine’/'It’s So Hard’.

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October 11 – Retro History From The 50s to 80s

On October 11, 1975 Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host.

Retro Events For The Decade 1980

1987 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1986 Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Iceland
1985 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
1985 President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1985 U.S. intercepts Egyptian Boeing with Achille Lauro terrorists
1984 1st space walk by U.S. woman, Kathryn D. Sullivan
1984 August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” premieres in New York City
1984 NASA launches space vehicle S-208
1984 Vice President candidate debate-Graldine Ferraro (D) and George Bush (R)
1983 Last hand-cranked telephones U.S. went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial
1982 16th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson and Ricky Skagg
1982 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England
1982 Riot in Amsterdam as tram catches fire
1981 Expos beat Phillies, 3 games to 2, in NLCS
1981 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1981 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yards)
1981 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum
1981 Yankees beat Brewers 7-3 and win only Eastern Championship Series
1980 Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
1980 Dallas Mavericks 1st game at Reunion Arena beat San Antonio 103-92
1980 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.

Retro Events For The Decade 1970

1979 “Most Happy Fella” opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 53 performances
1979 East Germany frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Nico Hubner
1979 Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan
1978 Aristides Royo elected president of Panama
1978 Belgium government of Tindemans resigns
1978 Dodgers Bob Welch dramatically strikes out Reggie Jackson in 9th
1977 Soyuz 25 returns to Earth
1976 10th Country Music Association Award: Mel Tillis wins
1976 Mao Tse-Tung’s widow Jiang Qing and “Gang of Four,” arrested and charged with plotting a coup
1975 Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham
1975 Islander’s Bryan Trottier’s 1st career hat trick
1975 Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host
1974 A’s Catfish Hunter charge owner Charlie Finley with breach of contract
1973 Oakland beats Baltimore 3 games to 2 to win AL pennant
1972 Panama adopts constitution
1972 Prison uprising at Washington D.C. jail
1972 Reads beat Pirates in NLCS
1971 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)
1971 Brooks Robinson ties Series record, reaches base 5 straight times
1971 Frank McGee becomes news anchor of Today Show
1971 Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam

Retro Events For The Decade 1960

1969 Rome: 2nd bishop synod
1969 Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
1969 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 and 8 follow in next 2 days
1968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours
1968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins
1968 Panama revolts
1967 World Series record 3 consecutive home runs (Carl Yastremski, Reggie Smith, and Rico Petrocelli) by Red Sox
1967 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
1964 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies’ Golf Open
1962 1st appearance of a Gabor sister on Merv Griffin Show
1962 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII
1961 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m
1961 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test
1960 Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
1960 Radio – TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers

Retro Events For The Decade 1950

1959 KTHI TV channel 11 in Fargo-Grand Forks, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
1958 “Goldilocks” opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 161 performances
1958 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
1956 1st Pakistan vs. Australia Test 95 runs scored on 1st day
1956 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1956 AL President Will Harridge bars Washington Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners
1955 All Peron feast days disposed of in Argentina
1955 Persia signs Pact of Baghdad
1954 “On Your Toes” opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 64 performances
1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad caeli Reginam

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October 10 – Today In Rock Music History

Happy Birthday David Lee Roth!

Musicians Born On October 10

1914` Ivory Joe Hunter (blues musician)
1946 Keith Reid (Procol Harum)
1946 John Prine
1953 Midge Ure (Ultravox)
1955 David Lee Roth (Van Halen)
1958 Tanya Tucker (US country singer)
1959 Kirsty McColl (A New England)
1959 Chris Lowe (Pet Shop Boys)
1961 Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
1967 Mike Malinin (Goo Goo Dolls)
1968 Michael Bivens (Bell Biv Devoe)

Number 1 In The Charts On October 10

1960 Larry Verne: ‘Mr. Custer’ US 45
1963 Brian Poole: ‘Do You Love Me’ UK 45
1970 Black Sabbath: ‘Paranoid’ UK LP
1970 Neil Diamond: ‘Cracklin’ Rosie’ US 45
1976 Walter Murphy: ‘A Fifth of Beethoven’ US 45
1981 Police: ‘Ghost in the Machine;’ UK LP
1987 Whitesnake: ‘Here I Go Again’ US 45
1992 R.E.M. : Automatic for the People : UK LP

Various Music Events On October 10

1964 Rufus Thomas’s ‘Jump Back’ single enters US R&B chart

1964 Shangri-Las hit US chart with ‘Leader of the Pack’, their second hit and only No. 1 single

1969 Frank Zappa’s ‘Hot Rats’ LP released in UK

1970 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles hit US chart with ‘Tears of a Clown’ on way to No. 1

1978 ‘Smash Hits’ magazine publishes first edition

1978 ‘Be Stiff’ tour opens at Bristol University with Lene Lovich, Jona Lewie, Wreckless Eric and Rachael Sweet

1979 ‘The Rose’, starring Bette Midler, as a Janis Joplin-type singer, opens in Los Angeles

1979 Los Angeles declares a Fleetwood Mac Day and the band gets its own star on Hollywood Boulevard’s ‘Walk of Fame’

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October 10 – Today in Beatles History

1962
Cavern lunch session: the Beatles.
Cavern evening session: the Beatles, the Four Jays, Ken Dallas and the Silhouettes.

1963
[Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play ‘A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum’.

1964
‘A Hard Day’s Night’ LP number 1, 12th week (UK Record Retailer chart).

18.15 and 20.45. Concerts at the De Montfort Hall, Leicester.

Brian gets the British representation of the American group New Christy Minstrels, and plans to take them to the UK for one week of radio and television promotion in January.

1968
Studio 2. 7.00pm-7.15am. Recording: ‘Piggies’ (overdub onto take 12); ‘Glass Onion’ (overdub onto take 33). Stereo mixing: ‘Glass Onion’ (remixes 1, 2, from take 33); ‘Rocky Raccoon’ (remix 1, from take 10); ‘Long Long Long’ (remixes 1-4, from take 67). Mono mixing: ‘Glass Onion’ (remixes 10, 11, from take 33). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: John Smith.
Studio 3. Time unknown. Recording: ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’ (overdub onto take 5, tape reduction take 5 into take 6, overdub onto take 6). Producer: not assigned; Engineer and 2nd Engineer: Ken Townsend.
Recording of strings for ‘Piggies’ and ‘Glass Onion’.

1989
Paul’s concert in Paris (Get Back Tour).

1995
LP release: ‘Working Class Hero’, tribute album for John.

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October 10 – Retro History From The 50s to 80s

On October 10, 1975 Liz Taylor gets married for the 6th time (re-marries Richard Burton).

Retro Events For The Decade 1980

1988 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win
1988 Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club in 1989
1987 Bruce Springsteen releases his 9th album “Tunnel of Love”
1987 Garfield Park Nature Center opens, latest in Cleveland Metroparks
1987 Giant’s Jeffrey Leonard hits playoff record home run in his 4th cons game
1986 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador
1986 Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns
1985 Sudan adopts interim constitution
1985 U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
1983 17th Country Music Association Award: Alabama wins
1983 Israel’s Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM
1983 Tom Monaghan becomes CEO of Detroit Tigers
1982 Brewers beat Angels in ALCS
1982 Hernan Siles Zuazo installed as president of Bolivia
1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Reverend M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint
1982 U.S. imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
1981 Anwar Sadat’s funeral service is held in Cairo
1980 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria
1980 Very Large Array radio telescope network dedicated
1980 Yankees lose 4-2 and are swept by Royals in AL Championship series

Retro Events For The Decade 1970

1979 Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
1979 Nordiques’ Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
1979 Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
1979 Recorded trace of snow in Central Park New York City
1978 Aerosmith’s Steve Tyler and Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb
1978 British pop magazine “Smash Hits,” 1st published
1978 Congress approves Susan B. Anthony Dollar
1978 Daniel Arap Moi succeeds Kenyatta as president of Kenya
1978 Steve Perry joins Journey
1978 Yankees and Dodgers play in World Series # 75
1977 11th Country Music Association Award: Ronnie Milsap wins
1976 Beijing reports arrest of Mao Tse Tung’s widow
1976 New Jersey Meadowlands’ Giant’s Stadium opens
1976 Greece’s 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33
1975 Israel formally signs Sinai accord with Egypt
1975 Liz Taylor’s 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
1974 A’s Mike Andrews files $25 million lawsuit against Charlie Finley
1974 Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles
1974 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1974 U.S. General George Brown’s speech deplores Jewish influence in U.S. over his treatment during the 1973 World Series
1973 New York Mets beat Cincinnati Reds in Game 5 of the NLCS
1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns
1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1971 1st game played at Philadelphia’s Veteran Stadium, Phils win 4-1
1971 5th Country Music Association Award: Charlie Pride wins
1971 Fenholt and Webber’s musical “Jesus Christ Superstar,” premieres in New York City
1971 Rain washes out Game 2, 1st World Series postponement since 1962
1970 Fiji gains independence from Britain (National Day)

Retro Events For The Decade 1960

1968 Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series
1968 George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd.
1968 Lee Evans of U.S. sets 400 meter record at 43.86
1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Brendan Behans “Norstal Boy,” premieres in Dublin
1965 “Drat! – The Cat!” opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 8 performances
1965 Supreme appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1965 “Vinland Map” is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn between 1423 and 1445
1964 18th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto
1964 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
1963 Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die
1963 Netherland population hits 12,000,000
1963 Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., UK, U.S.S.R.
1962 Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack
1961 “Milk and Honey” opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 543 performances
1961 Expansion draft to stock Houston Astros and New York Mets
1961 Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court
1961 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 “Laughs and Other Events” opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 8 performances
1960 16 California Poly football team members die in plane crash in Toledo
1960 Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die
1960 Ron Stewart of Ottawa rushes for CFL-record 287 yards
1960 WGTE TV channel 30 in Toledo, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting

Retro Events For The Decade 1950

1959 “Happy Town” closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 5 performances
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald signs guestbook in hotel Helsinki
1959 Pan Am begins regular flights around World
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1957 Accident at British nuclear reactor in Windsdale
1957 Braves’ Lew Burdette beats Yankees for 3rd time in 1 World Series
1957 Milwaukee Braves beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 54th World Series
1957 President Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant
1957 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1956 Fazal Mahmood takes 13-114 for match vs. Aus, Karachi
1956 On Skowron’s grand slammer New York Yankees beat Dodgers 9-0 in series game 7
1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out
1951 Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in World Series, DiMaggio’s final game

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October 9 – Today In Rock Music History

Happy 70th Birthday John Lennon! Your spirit lives on…

Musicians Born On October 9

1937 Pat Burke (Foundations)
1939 P.V. Wright (That’s How Strong My Love Is)
1940 John Lennon
1944 John Entwhistle (Who)
1948 Jackson Browne (Stay)
1969 P.J. Harvey
1975 Sean Ono Lennon

Number 1 In The Charts On October 9

1959 Jerry Keller: ‘Here Comes Summer’ UK 45
1961 Ray Charles: ‘Hit the Road Jack’ US 45
1965 Beatles: ‘Yesterday’ US 45
1971 Rod Stewart: ‘Maggie May’ UK 45
1976 Dr Feelgood: ‘Stupidity’ UK LP
1993 Take That/Lulu : Relight My Fire : UK single
1993 Pet Shop Boys : Very : UK LP

Various Music Events On October 9

1958 Eddie Cochran records ‘C’mon Everybody’, using backtrack to a song with the same tune but different lyrics, called ‘Let’s Get Together’

1959 At the age of 21, Bobby Darin becomes the youngest artist ever to appear at Copa Room, Sands Hotel, Las Vegas

1959 Johnny and the Hurricanes debut on UK chart with ‘Red River Rock’

1966 John Lennon and Yoko Ono meet for the first time at an exhibition at the Indica Gallery in London

1973 Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla are divorced

1975 On John Lennon’s 30th birthday, he and his wife Yoko celebrate the arrival of their only child, Sean Ono Lennon

1980 Gary Glitter declared officially bankrupt

1980 John Lennon releases ‘Just Like Starting Over’ to celebrate his 40th birthday. Yoko hires a sky-writer to etch him a ‘Happy Birthday’ message above the New York skyscrapers

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October 9 – Today in Beatles History

1940
18.30. John Lennon is born at the Maternity Hospital, Oxford Street, Liverpool.

1962
Cavern lunchtime session: the Big Three.
Cavern evening session: Buddy Brittain and the Regents, the Big Three, the Undertakers, and the Strangers.

Visit to the editorial office of ‘Record Mirror’, 116 Shaftesbury Avenue, London.

1963
‘She Loves You’, 6th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).
‘Please Please Me’ LP, 29th week in the Top 10 (UK New Musical Express chart).

BBC Paris Studio, London. 10.00-11.00pm. Recording for BBC’s ‘The Ken Dodd Show’: ‘She Loves You’.

Broadcast of ‘The Mersey Sound’ ['The Mersey Beat'?], television BBC documentary. It includes images and an interview with Brian.

[Some day between 7-13 October.] Strand Theatre, London. The Beatles see the play ‘A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum’.

Recording for BBC’s ‘The Public Ear’.

(After 8 October’s midnight.) The Beatles see a Ronald Kirk performance at the Ronnie Scott Club, London.

1964
18.15 and 20.40. Concert at the Gaumont Theatre, Bradford.
Start of UK tour, with Mary Wells, Tommy Quickly, Sounds Incorporated, Michael Haslam, the Remo Four, the Rustiks, and Bob Bain.

Brian and Lionel Bart announce a concert starring Judy Garland.It never materializes.

Recording of three themes at the Granville Theatre, London, before an audience, for the US TV programme ‘Shindig’. One of the songs is ‘The House Of The Rising Sun’.

1965
Party organized by Lionel Bart to celebrate the opening of his new musical ‘Twang!’. Brian and all 4 Beatles among the guests.

1968
Studio 2. 7.00pm-5.30am. Stereo mixing: ‘The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill’ (remix 1, 2, from take 3). Mono mixing: ‘The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill’ (remix 1, from take 3). Recording: ‘Long Long Long’ (overdub onto take 67). Tape copying: ‘Helter Skelter’ (of take 3). Producer: George Martin; Engineer: Ken Scott; 2nd Engineer: John Smith.
Studio 1. Time unknown. Recording: ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’ (takes 1-5). Producer: not assigned; Engineer and 2nd Engineer: Ken Townsend.
Copy of take 3 of ‘Helter Skelter’, for Paul. Paul alone works on ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road’.

1969
Yoko is taken to the King’s College Hospital, London. She suffers a miscarriage.

1970
Abbey Road. End of recordings for ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’.

1971
Opening of Yoko’s exhibition ‘This Is Not Here’ at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. John is guest artist.

John, Yoko, Ringo, Mal Evans, Allen Ginsberg, Eric Clapton, Phil Spector, Klaus Voorman, Neil Aspinal and Jim Keltner celebrate John’s birthday in a New York hotel room. Drunken jam session.

1975
1.00am. Yoko has throes of childbirth.
New York Hospital. Morning. Sean Taro Ono Lennon is born.

1979
John and SEan’s birthdays are celebrated at the restaurant Tavern on the Green, Central Park, New York.

1980
In New York’s sky, planes write congratulatory words for John and Sean, for their birthday.

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