This Day in Music History: April 21

April 21, 2017

We cover all sorts of news, facts and historical and interesting facts that happened on this day in music history.

 

Today: April 21.

 

1962: Elvis Presley started a two week run at the top of the US singles chart with the single 'Good Luck Charm', his fifth US No.1 hit of the 60's. The song also topped the UK chart.

 

1967: While they were working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles completed the sessions for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. The final recordings were a short section of noise and gibberish which followed 'A Day in the Life', in the run-out groove. The band members recorded assorted noises and voices, which engineer Geoff Emerick then cut-up and randomly re-assembled and edits backwards. They also added a high-pitch 15 kilocycle whistle audible only by dogs, as John Lennon suggested. These were omitted from the American version of the album.

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1973: Tony Orlando & Dawn started a four week run at the top of the US singles chart with 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree', which became the biggest selling single of 1973, as it sold more than 6 million copies. The song was based on a true story of a prisoner who wrote to his wife, asking her to tie a yellow ribbon around an oak tree in the town square in White Oak, Georgia, if she still loved him.

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1984: Phil Collins started a three week run at the top of the US singles chart with the theme song from the movie 'Against All Odds'. It was Phil Collins's first US No.1 hit, and reached the No. 2 spot in the UK.

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1990: Sinead O'Connor started a four week run at the top of the US singles chart with her version to the song by Prince, 'Nothing Compares To You'. The song also topped the charts in 18 other countries, and was a big success. The video clip was shot in Paris, and consists almost solely of a close-up on Sinead O'Connor's face as she sings the lyrics. Towards the end of the clip, two tears roll down her face. It won Best Video at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards, which was also the first video by a female artist that won in this category.

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2013: Calvin Harris made chart history when he became the first artist that had eight top 10 hits from one studio album.

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2016: Prince was found dead at his home in Minnesota at the age of 57, after Police were called to his Paisley Park estate and found his body in a lift. Prince became a global superstar in the 1980s, with successful albums like Purple Rain, 1999 and Sign O' the Times. He recorded more than 30 albums during his music career.

 

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