This Day in Music History: February 9

February 9, 2017

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

 

Today: February 9.

 

1961: The Beatles performed for the very first time at The Cavern Club, Liverpool (as The Beatles). The band made a total of 292 other appearances at the Club. They were paid £5 for this lunchtime show and George Harrison was nearly denied admission to play, only because he was wearing jeans.

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1964: The Beatles made their US live debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'. They performed with five songs including their current No.1 hit at that time, 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'. Never before had so many viewers tuned-in to a live television program, which with 73 million viewers, was three-fourths of the total adult audience in the United States. The show had received over 50,000 applications for the 728 seats in the TV studio.

 

1985: Madonna started a three-week run at the top of the US album chart with 'Like A Virgin', also a No.3 hit in the UK.

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1997: Brian Connolly, singer with the 1970's Glam rock band The Sweet, died of kidney and liver failure at the age of 51. Brian Connolly replaced Ian Gillan (later of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath ) in Wainwright's Gentlemen who became Sweetshop and then was changed to The Sweet.

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2009: Ringo Starr became the 2,401st person that was added to the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, during a ceremony that marked the 50th anniversary of the attraction. The Beatles as a band were given a star in 1998.

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2010: The White Stripes were taking on the US Air Force, as they complained it used one of the band's songs, 'Fell In Love With A Girl' in a TV advert without their permission. In a statement on their website, the band stated that they took strong insult and objection, with the implication that they so-called licensed one of their songs to encourage recruitment during a war that they did not support.

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