Good Morning! Nov 25, 2013 TODAY IN ROCK HISTORY: Jimi Hendrix Experience make their debut at Bag O Nails Club in London. The media showcase is the groups introduction to the U.K. press. 1966 Groovy man. One of the few times anything even remotely psychedelic ever tops the pop chart, the Strawberry Alarm Clock (some name) have the #1 song in the U.S. with Incense And Peppermint. 1967 Cream perform the first of two farewell shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall. 1968 The Beatles (known as The White Album), was released in the US. Notable for the eclectic nature of its songs, the album has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, and was listed at No.10 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. The album features: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Dear Prudence, Helter Skelter, Blackbird Back In The USSR and George Harrisons While My Guitar Gently Weeps. The album spent 101 weeks on the US chart peaking at No.1. 1968 John Lennon returns his MBE (Member of the British Empire). “I am returning this MBE in protest against Britains involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against “Cold Turkey” slipping down the charts.” 1969 The surviving Doors tell Rolling Stone magazine they plan to continue despite lead singer Jim Morrison’s death earlier in the year. But they are only able to produce two lackluster albums before pulling the plug. 1971 Chuck Berry was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with My Ding a-Ling, his only UK No.1. The song was originally recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952. Berrys version was from a concert recorded at the Locarno ballroom in Coventry, England, on 3 February 1972. Boston radio station WMEX disc jockey Jim Connors was credited with a gold record for discovering the song and pushing it to No.1 over the airwaves and amongst his peers in the United States. 1972 UK singer, songwriter Nick Drake died in his sleep aged 26 of an overdose of tryptasol an anti-depressant drug. Drake signed to Island Records when he was twenty years old, recorded the classic 1972 album Pink Moon. In 2000, Volkswagen featured the title track from Pink Moon in a television advertisement, and within a month Drake had sold more records than he had in the previous thirty years. 1974 “The Last Waltz,” The Band’s Thanksgiving Day farewell concert before splitting (for the first time), is at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Filmed by director Martin Scorsese, the concert also features Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Neil Young and even Ringo Starr. 1976 The Cars’ My Best Friend’s Girl is the first commercially released picture disc in the U.K. That marketing ploy and the song’s clever plot take it to #3 on the pop chart. 1978
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