Happy birthday to Rod Argent, keyboardist for The Zombie & Argent born in 1945.
1965: Paul McCartney went into the studio to record “Yesterday”. That song would become the most recorded song in history with over 3,000 recorded covers of the song to date.
1970: Grand Funk Railroad unveiled their “Closer to Home” block long billboard on New York City’s Times Square. The cost of that billboard: $100,000.
1980: Billy Joel’s “Glass Houses” tops the album Charts.
1995: Police in Columbus, OH received 20 Noise complaints that Ted Nugent’s concert was too loud. Nugent never did turn down the volume because he was within the legal noise limits.
2017: Yoko Ono was given co-songwriting credit for the song “Imagine“. John Lennon initially took the sole credit, but later admitted he got the idea from Yoko Ono with lines like “Imagine 1000 suns in the sky at the same time.”