This Day in Music History: March 4

March 4, 2017

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

 

Today: March 4.

 

1966: The statement by John Lennon that The Beatles were 'more popular than Jesus Christ' was published in The London Evening Standard. "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. We’re more popular then Jesus now. I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity. Jesus was alright, but his disciples were thick and ordinary." Various Christian groups in the US were outraged after this statement, which resulted in some states burning records of The Beatles. Afterwards, John Lennon later apologized.

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1967: The Rolling Stones topped the US singles chart with 'Ruby Tuesday', the band's fourth US No.1 single. 'Lets Spend The Night Together' was the original A side, but after radio stations decided to ban the song, 'Tuesday' became the A side.

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1977: CBS released the debut album by The Clash in the UK. However, CBS in the U.S. refused to release it until 1979. Due to that, Americans bought more than 100,000 imported copies of the record, which made one of the biggest- selling import records of all time.

 

1979: Randy Jackson of The Jackson Five was seriously injured in a car crash. As a result, he broke both his legs and almost died in the emergency room when a nurse inadvertently injects him with methadone.

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1982: Dweezil and Moon Unit, Frank Zappa's son and daughter, formed a band called Fred Zeppelin. Their first single was 'My Mother is a Space Cadet'.

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1986: After finishing a two set show with The Band in Winter Park, Florida, 41 year old Richard Manuel of The Band committed suicide by hanging himself from a shower curtain rod in a hotel room in Florida. His band mate, Robbie Robertson honored his friend with the song, 'Fallen Angel' in 1987.

 

1994: Kurt Cobain was rushed to hospital after he overdosed on alcohol and drugs in a Rome hotel during a Nirvana European tour. He had taken 50-60 pills of Rohypnol which he had mixed with champagne. Rumours on the internet claimed that Kurt was dead.

 

2001: Glenn Hughes, singer of the Village People, died of lung cancer at the age of 50 in his Manhattan apartment in New York. He was the original "Biker" character in the disco band who scored the 1978 UK No.1 & US No.2 single Y.M.C.A.

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2001: Shaggy featuring Rikrok topped the UK singles chart with 'It Wasn't Me'. The song became the best-selling single of 2001, and was also a No.1 hit in the US.

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2007: Take That topped the UK singles chart with 'Shine', their 10th UK No.1 single. The song was featured in several commercials for the re-launched Morrisons supermarkets in the UK, and also won the British single of the year award at the 2008 Brit Awards.

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