This Day in Music History: October 24

October 24, 2016

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

 

Today: October 24.

 

1962: James Brown recorded his legendary 'Live At The Apollo' album. It was listed at No.24 in Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

 

1970: Pink Floyd were at No.1 on the UK album chart with the 'Atom Heart Mother', the group's first No.1. The album cover shows a cow standing in a pasture with no text nor any other clue as to what might be on the record. This was the first Pink Floyd album to be specially mixed for four-channel quadraphonic sound as well as conventional two-channel stereo.

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1977: Rolling Stone band member, Keith Richards, was fined £205 after admitting having cannabis, Chinese heroin, mandrax tablets and a revolver at his Chelsea home in the UK. Later that evening, Keith and Anita Pallenberg accidentally set fire to their London hotel bedroom.

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1979: Paul McCartney received a medallion cast in rhodium, after he was declared the most successful composer of all time. From 1962 to 1978, McCartney had written or co-written 43 songs that had sold over a million copies each.

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1987: Sting went to No.1 on the UK album chart with his third solo release 'Nothing Like The Sun.' The title comes from Shakespeare's Sonnet No.130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"), which Sting used in the song "Sister Moon". The album won Best British Album at the 1988 Brit Awards.

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