Cегодняшний день в истории рок-музыки

14 ЯНВАРЯ(продолжение)

События:

1963, Charlie Watts made his live debut with The Rolling Stones at The Flamingo Jazz Club, Soho, London.

1964, The Beatles (minus Ringo Starr, who was fog-bound in Liverpool) departed from Liverpool for Paris, France for an 18-day run at the Olympia Theatre. Arriving in Paris, John, Paul, and George were met by 60 fans. Ringo, accompanied by roadie Neil Aspinall, arrived the next day.

1967, Cliff Richard told the music paper the NME that he was retiring from show business to teach religious education in schools.

1967, Over 25,000 people attend The Human Be-In-A Gathering Of The Tribes at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The event was a forerunner of major, outdoor rock concerts and featured The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Big Brother And The Holding Company.

1970, Diana Ross made her last appearance with The Supremes at The Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas.

1972, Yes played the first of two nights at the Rainbow Theatre, London.

1972, Stevie Wonder kicked off a 15-date UK tour at London's Hammersmith Odeon.

1973: Elvis Presley draws the largest single television event audience ever for his "Aloha From Hawaii" concert, broadcast live via satellite to over one billion people in forty countries throughout the world. Originating from Honolulu's International Center Arena, the show is a major success, and is released as a hit double-album set later that year. However, the United States doesn't get to see the show until NBC airs it on April 4th.

1978: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album logs a record 31st week at the top of Billboard's album chart.

1989: The soundtrack to the film Dirty Dancing, which consists mainly of classic oldies, reaches sales of ten million copies (now known as Diamond certification).

1989, Compilation albums were excluded from the UK chart and were listed in the new Top 20 Compilation Albums.

1992, Jerry Nolan drummer with The New York Dolls died from a fatal stroke. The influential American band formed in 1972 and made just two albums, the 1973 'New York Dolls' and 1974 'Too Much Too Soon'.

1993, US alternative group The Pixies announced that they had split. (They re-formed in 2004).

1997: The Beach Boys guest star on an epsiode of the ABC sitcom Home Improvement

2005, A $100,000 (£58,823) statue honouring the late punk guitarist Johnny Ramone was unveiled by his widow Linda at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Johnny died from prostate cancer in September 2004 at the age of 55

2010, The BBC admitted coverage of the launch of U2’s album No Line On The Horizon in 2009 went too far - giving "undue prominence" to the band. RadioCentre, the trade body for commercial radio companies, had made a formal complaint over the coverage saying the BBC had given U2 "the sort of publicity money can't buy".