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This Day In History:This Day in Rock! APRIL 3…

HISTORY

1882 – American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert
Ford.

ROCK
The Doors‘
Jim Morrison turns himself in to the FBI in Los Angeles. He is charged
with inter-state flight to avoid prosecution on six charges of lewd
behavior and public exposure at a concert in Miami on March 2nd, [...]

1877 – ClassicBand.com

April 1
Thomas Edison devises a telephone design that becomes the basis for his later claim to the invention of the microphone.

March 22
The Beatles first album is released. Although it reached the top spot in the UK, it failed to chart at all in the US.

Please Please Me

Recorded: September 11, 1962; November 26, 1962; February 11, 1963 (Studio 2, Abbey Road Studios, London, England)
Mixed: February 25, 1963

PLAN AHEAD:
THIS DATE IN ROCK!!!!

13/03/1965 – Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week,” single goes #1 and
stays #1 for 2 weeks…

March 10, 1973, the Pink Floyd album ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ was released in America, it spent over 740 weeks on the chart over a 14-year period.

March 5
Patsy Cline was killed when her private plane crashed near Camden, Tennessee. Most often remembered for her hits, “Crazy”, “Walkin’ After Midnight”, “I Fall To Pieces” and “She’s Got You”, Cline’s Greatest Hits L.P. has sold over eight million copies, making it the largest selling female Country album of all [...]

Plan Ahead…February 25, 1964, The Beatles finished recording their next single ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, at Abbey Road studios, London