This Day in Music History: October 8

October 8, 2016

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

 

Today: October 8.

 

1964: Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded their next single ‘She's a Woman’ in 7 takes plus overdubs. It took The Beatles 5 hours to record the song from start to finish.

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1965: The Florescents supported by The Castiles, which featured a young singer by the name of Bruce Springsteen, appeared at the I.B. Club in Howell, New Jersey. This was The Castiles first publicly advertised nightclub appearance, and admission was only $1.00.

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1971: Led Zeppelin II was enjoying its 100th week on the UK album charts. It was the band's first album to hit No.1 in the US, knocking The Beatles' Abbey Road twice from the top spot, where it remained for seven weeks. When it was first released, the album had advance orders of 400,000 copies in the USA, (the advertising campaign was built around the slogan Led Zeppelin II Now Flying).

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1987: The three members from ZZ Top made advance bookings for seats on the first passenger flight to the Moon. They are still waiting for confirmation of this trip.

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1988: On their 12th single release, U2 scored their first UK No.1 with 'Desire.' The track which was also a US No.3 hit was taken from their album 'Rattle And Hum.'

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1988: The Dark Side of The Moon by Pink Floyd finally left Billboard's Hot 200 Album Chart after a record breaking of 741 weeks.

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