This Day in Music History: April 28

April 28, 2017

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

 

Today: April 28.

 

1968: The Broadway musical 'Hair' opened at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City. It featured the songs 'Good Morning Starshine', 'Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In' and the title song. The show ran for 1,729 performances, and was closed on July 1st, 1972.

 

1973: The Dark Side of The Moon album by Pink Floyd The Dark topped the US albums chart. It set a record-breaking 741 discontinuous weeks on the Billboard chart, and has now sold more than 45 million copies all over the world. After moving to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, it notched up a further 759 weeks there, and had reached a total of more than 1,500 weeks on both charts by May 2006.

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1981: Steve Currie, former member of T. Rex, was killed in a car crash when he returned to his home near Vale de Parra, Algarve, Portugal. He was 33 years old when he died. Currie joined the band as bass guitarist in late 1970 and also worked as a session player. He also played on 'Motorbikin' by Chris Spedding.

 

1999: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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2002: Sugababes had their first UK No.1 single with 'Freak Like Me.' It was originally by American Adina Howard (1995) and was mixed with the synth line from Gary Numan's 1979 hit 'Are 'Friends' Electric?'.

 

2013: Emeli Sande set a new record for the most consecutive weeks on the UK's Official Album Chart top 10 of any debut album. The album 'Our Version Of Events' was released in February 2012 and became the biggest selling album of the year. It hadn't dropped out of the top 10 since its release and had been in the UK's Official Album Chart for 63 weeks. With this record, Emeli Sande had overtaken The Beatles who held the record before him.

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