This Day in Music History: May 12

May 12, 2017

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

 

Today: May 12.

 

1958: The Everly Brothers started a four-week run at the top of the US singles charts with the song 'All I Have To Do Is Dream'. It was written by the husband and wife Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and was recorded in only two takes.

 

1963: Bob Dylan decided to walk out of rehearsals for the US TV Ed Sullivan show. He was told that he couldn't perform his song Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues because it was mocking the US military and segregation. CBS officials asked Bob Dylan to change the song, but Dylan refused and said that this is what he wanted to do, and if he couldn't play my song, then he'd rather not appear on the show.

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1964: The Beach Boys started a four week run at the top of the US album chart with 'Beach Boys Concert', the band's first US No.1 hit.

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1965: The Rolling Stones recorded the song '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' at RCA Hollywood studios. Keith Richards came up with the guitar riff in the middle of the night a week before they recorded the song. The single gave the Stones their first No. 1 hit in the US.

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1967: The debut album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 'Are You Experienced', was released in the UK. It is considered today as one of the greatest debut albums in the history of rock music. It features Jimi's innovative approach to songwriting and the way he played his electric guitar, which eventually established a new direction in psychedelic and hard rock music.

 

1973: Led Zeppelin started a three-week run at the top of the US album chart with Houses Of The Holy, the band's fifth album. It spent 39 weeks on the US chart. The album has now been certified 11 times Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for US sales of more than 11 million copies.

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1975: Jefferson Starship gave a free concert in Central Park, New York, with 60,000 people attended this show. The band and concert sponsor, WNEW-FM, were forced to pay $14,000 in order to clean up and damage that was done to the park itself after this gig.

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1984: Lionel Richie started a two week run at the top of the US singles chart with 'Hello', Richie's second US solo No.1 and also a No.1 hit in the UK.

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1990: Adamski started a four-week run at the top of the UK singles chart with 'Killer'. The single featured singer Seal, who remade the song under his own name and reached the Top 10, the year after.

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