1955: Elvis Presley was in concert at the new Boston High School Football Field in Texas.
1956: Elvis made his Las Vegas debut at the Frontier Hotel.
1957: Elvis had his custom-built "Music Gates" installed at Graceland.
1959: The movie "Go Johnny Go" premiered.
1962: The three-year-old son of Jerry Lee Lewis drowned.
1964: The Beatles scored their seventh #1 of the year on the UK chart with "Ticket To Ride".
1966: "Wild Thing" was released by the Troggs.
1966: Two dozen local groups competed in a Battle of the Bands at Matawan Keybort Rollerdrome in New Jersey. Bruce Springsteen's group the Castiles finished third.
1967: "Somethin' Stupid" by Frank & Nancy Sinatra spent a fourth out of nine weeks at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Julie Andrews and Cast had the #8 album
1967: The album More of the Monkees topped the chart, with The Mamas & the Papas Deliver coming in second. The rest of the Top Ten: The Soundtrack to 'Doctor Zhivago' was #3, Ed Ames had the #4 album with My Cup Runneth Over, the Monkees' debut album slipped to #5, Between the Buttons by the Rolling Stones was #6, The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful was #7, the great Soundtrack to 'The Sound of Music' was #8, S.R.O. by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass came in at #9 and The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland moved into the top ten.
1968: Herb Alpert debuted "This Guy's In Love With You" on his CBS-TV show.
1969: John Lennon changed his middle name from Winston to Ono.
1969: The Carpenters signed with A&M Records.
1969: Fleetwood Mac and BB King appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
1969: The Who gave their first complete performance of "Tommy" in Dolton, England.
1972: Deep Purple hit #1 on the UK album chart with Machine Head.
1972: Roberta Flack had the #1 song, where she would stay for six weeks with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". Michael Jackson's "Rockin' Robin" was at #2 with "I Gotcha'" by Joe Tex remaining at #3. The Rest of the Top Ten: The former #1 "A Horse With No Name" from America was at #4, the Dramatics had #5 with "In the Rain", the Stylistics were at 6 with "Betcha' By Golly, Wow", Aretha Franklin had song #7 with "Day Dreaming", Neil Young's former #1 "Heart Of Gold" was #8, "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done" from Sonny & Cher edged up to #9 and Jackson Browne scored his first top ten song with "Doctor My Eyes".
1972: Roberta Flack also controlled the Adult Contemporary chart for the fourth week with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face".
1972: The debut album from America ruled the charts for a fifth week, followed by Neil Young's Harvest and First Take by Roberta Flack. The rest of the Top Ten: Fragile by Yes, Eat a Peach by the Allman Brothers Band was #5, Nilsson Schmilsson by Nilsson was at 6 after peaking at #3, Paul Simon's first solo album was at #7, Let's Stay Together by Al Green moved up to #8, Baby I'm-A Want You by Bread was #9 and Tapestry, an album that would go on to spend 302 weeks on the album chart, re-entered the top ten at #10 in its 55th week.
1974: Tina Turner started filming her role of The Acid Queen in the movie"Tommy".
1977: The Jam, a band that would go on to have 17 Top 40 hits in the UK, released "In the City".
1978: John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd appeared as the Blues Brothers for the first time on "Saturday Night Live".
1978: Gerry Rafferty released his classic "Baker Street".
1978: "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees ruled the charts for a sixth out of eight weeks at #1 on this date. Yvonne Elliman was at #2 with "If I Can't Have You", while Barry Manilow moved up with "Can't Smile Without You" and "Lay Down Sally" by Eric Clapton was at 4. The Remainder of the Top Ten: "The Closer I Get To You" from Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway, Kansas remained at #6 with "Dust in the Wind", Wings had #7 "With a Little Luck", Raydio remained at #8 with "Jack and Jill", England Dan & John Ford Coley had the #9 song "We'll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again" and Natalie Cole was at #10 with "Our Love".
1978: The Soundtrack to 'Saturday Night Fever' was #1 for a 14th week on the album chart. Eric Clapton was #2 with Slowhand but he was nowhere close to the top. Billy Joel's great album The Stranger was #3. The remainder of the Top Ten: Even Now by Barry Manilow was #4, hopping over Steely Dan's Aja, George Benson had another top ten album with the live Weekend in L.A., Jackson Browne dropped to #7 with Running On Empty, Kansas was at #8 with Point Of Know Return, Queen's News Of the World was at #9 and Styx had #10 with The Grand Illusion.
1981: Eric Clapton was hospitalized with bruised ribs and a lacerated chin resulting from a car crash in Seattle, Washington.
1985: Prince released the album Around the World In a Day".
1989: Guns 'N Roses released "Patience".
1989: Like a Prayer from Madonna became the #1 album in its third week on the chart, taking the place of Tone Loc's Loc-ed After Dark. Electric Youth from Debbie Gibson was at #3 with Don't Be Cruel from Bobby Brown trailing. The rest of the Top Ten: The Raw & the Cooked by Fine Young Cannibals, G N' R Lies rose from 12-6 for Guns N' Roses, Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl fell to #7, Hangin' Tough by New Kids On the Block was #8, Forever Your Girl, the great debut album by Paula Abdul, was #9 and the incredible album Volume One by the Traveling Wilburys was #10.
1989: The title song from Like a Prayer moved to #1, replacing "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals. The rest of the top five: "The Look" from Roxette was at #3, "Funky Cold Medina" by Tone Loc moved from 7-4 and Bon Jovi had the #5 song with "I'll Be There For You".
1989: "After All" from Cher and Peter Cetera was #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1990: An Earth Day concert featuring Hall & Oates, B.B. King, the B-52's and Edie Brickell drew 750,000 at Central Park in New York.
1991: The Dave Matthews Band performed for the first time at the Earth Day Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia.
1993: The rock opera "Tommy" opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre.
1994: The Division Bell debuted at #1 on the album chart, followed by the Soundtrack to 'Above the Rim' and The Sign from Ace of Base. The Rest of the Top Ten: Bonnie Raitt fell from #1 to #4 with Longing In Their Hearts, the Counting Crows had #5 with August and Everything After, R. Kelly slipped to #6 with 12 Play, Tim McGraw had #7 with Not a Moment Too Soon, Yanni moved to #8 with Live at the Acropolis, Mariah Carey dropped to 9 with Music Box and The Coulour Of My Love from Celine Dion was at #10.
2001: Destiny's Child rose to #1 on the UK chart with "Survivor".
2003: The group S Club 7 announced that they would split.
2003: Famous songwriter Felice Bryant died from cancer. Felice and her husband Boudleaux were a writing machine in the 50's and 60's, writing hits such as "Bye Bye Love", "All I Have To Do Is Dream" "Bird Dog", "Devoted To You", "Wake Up Little Susie" and several others for the Everly Brothers as well as songs for Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys and scores of other artists.
2004: Solo star Robbie Williams denies the claim made my other members of Take That that he will join them for a one-night reunion.
2004: AC/DC assists in the war effort as troops blast the song "Shoot To Thrill" to drive Iraqi insurgents from their homes.
2007: Avril Lavigne hit #1 on the UK album chart with The Best Damn Thing.
2007: Beyonce & Shakira had the #1 song in the UK with "Beautiful Liar".
2010: Brett Michaels of Poison was rushed to the hospital after suffering a bran hemorrhage.
Born This Day:
1936: Glen Campbell was born in Delight, Arkansas
1937: Jack Nitzsche, songwriter and producer for the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and the Walker Brothers was born in Chicago; died of a heart attack on August 25, 2000
1939: Simon Napier-Bell, manager of Wham! and T. Rex
1944: Drummer Howard Wyeth, who worked with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and Don McLean; died of a heart attack on March 27, 1996
1950: Peter Frampton, vocalist and guitarist for the Herd and Humble Pie, session musician for George Harrison, David Bowie and Harry Nilsson, and popular solo star
1951: Paul Carrack, one of rock's great vocalists with Ace ("How Long"), Squeeze ("Tempted") and Mike & the Mechanics ("The Living Years") as well as a solo performer
1955: Arthur Baker, producer of New Order, was born in Boston
1956: Kenny Lyons of the Lemonheads ("Into Your Arms")
1977: Aaron Fink, guitarist of Breaking Benjamin
1974: Shavo Odadjian, bassist for System of a Down
1979: Daniel Johns of Silverchair ("Freak")
1984: Amelle Berrabah of the SugababesSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-day-in-rock-music-history-april-22.html
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1956: Elvis made his Las Vegas debut at the Frontier Hotel.
1957: Elvis had his custom-built "Music Gates" installed at Graceland.
1959: The movie "Go Johnny Go" premiered.
1962: The three-year-old son of Jerry Lee Lewis drowned.
1964: The Beatles scored their seventh #1 of the year on the UK chart with "Ticket To Ride".
1966: "Wild Thing" was released by the Troggs.
1966: Two dozen local groups competed in a Battle of the Bands at Matawan Keybort Rollerdrome in New Jersey. Bruce Springsteen's group the Castiles finished third.
1967: "Somethin' Stupid" by Frank & Nancy Sinatra spent a fourth out of nine weeks at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
Julie Andrews and Cast had the #8 album
1967: The album More of the Monkees topped the chart, with The Mamas & the Papas Deliver coming in second. The rest of the Top Ten: The Soundtrack to 'Doctor Zhivago' was #3, Ed Ames had the #4 album with My Cup Runneth Over, the Monkees' debut album slipped to #5, Between the Buttons by the Rolling Stones was #6, The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful was #7, the great Soundtrack to 'The Sound of Music' was #8, S.R.O. by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass came in at #9 and The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland moved into the top ten.
1968: Herb Alpert debuted "This Guy's In Love With You" on his CBS-TV show.
1969: John Lennon changed his middle name from Winston to Ono.
1969: The Carpenters signed with A&M Records.
1969: Fleetwood Mac and BB King appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
1969: The Who gave their first complete performance of "Tommy" in Dolton, England.
1972: Deep Purple hit #1 on the UK album chart with Machine Head.
1972: Roberta Flack had the #1 song, where she would stay for six weeks with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face". Michael Jackson's "Rockin' Robin" was at #2 with "I Gotcha'" by Joe Tex remaining at #3. The Rest of the Top Ten: The former #1 "A Horse With No Name" from America was at #4, the Dramatics had #5 with "In the Rain", the Stylistics were at 6 with "Betcha' By Golly, Wow", Aretha Franklin had song #7 with "Day Dreaming", Neil Young's former #1 "Heart Of Gold" was #8, "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done" from Sonny & Cher edged up to #9 and Jackson Browne scored his first top ten song with "Doctor My Eyes".
1972: Roberta Flack also controlled the Adult Contemporary chart for the fourth week with "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face".
1972: The debut album from America ruled the charts for a fifth week, followed by Neil Young's Harvest and First Take by Roberta Flack. The rest of the Top Ten: Fragile by Yes, Eat a Peach by the Allman Brothers Band was #5, Nilsson Schmilsson by Nilsson was at 6 after peaking at #3, Paul Simon's first solo album was at #7, Let's Stay Together by Al Green moved up to #8, Baby I'm-A Want You by Bread was #9 and Tapestry, an album that would go on to spend 302 weeks on the album chart, re-entered the top ten at #10 in its 55th week.
1974: Tina Turner started filming her role of The Acid Queen in the movie"Tommy".
1977: The Jam, a band that would go on to have 17 Top 40 hits in the UK, released "In the City".
1978: John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd appeared as the Blues Brothers for the first time on "Saturday Night Live".
1978: Gerry Rafferty released his classic "Baker Street".
1978: "Night Fever" by the Bee Gees ruled the charts for a sixth out of eight weeks at #1 on this date. Yvonne Elliman was at #2 with "If I Can't Have You", while Barry Manilow moved up with "Can't Smile Without You" and "Lay Down Sally" by Eric Clapton was at 4. The Remainder of the Top Ten: "The Closer I Get To You" from Roberta Flack with Donny Hathaway, Kansas remained at #6 with "Dust in the Wind", Wings had #7 "With a Little Luck", Raydio remained at #8 with "Jack and Jill", England Dan & John Ford Coley had the #9 song "We'll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again" and Natalie Cole was at #10 with "Our Love".
1978: The Soundtrack to 'Saturday Night Fever' was #1 for a 14th week on the album chart. Eric Clapton was #2 with Slowhand but he was nowhere close to the top. Billy Joel's great album The Stranger was #3. The remainder of the Top Ten: Even Now by Barry Manilow was #4, hopping over Steely Dan's Aja, George Benson had another top ten album with the live Weekend in L.A., Jackson Browne dropped to #7 with Running On Empty, Kansas was at #8 with Point Of Know Return, Queen's News Of the World was at #9 and Styx had #10 with The Grand Illusion.
1981: Eric Clapton was hospitalized with bruised ribs and a lacerated chin resulting from a car crash in Seattle, Washington.
1985: Prince released the album Around the World In a Day".
1989: Guns 'N Roses released "Patience".
1989: Like a Prayer from Madonna became the #1 album in its third week on the chart, taking the place of Tone Loc's Loc-ed After Dark. Electric Youth from Debbie Gibson was at #3 with Don't Be Cruel from Bobby Brown trailing. The rest of the Top Ten: The Raw & the Cooked by Fine Young Cannibals, G N' R Lies rose from 12-6 for Guns N' Roses, Roy Orbison's Mystery Girl fell to #7, Hangin' Tough by New Kids On the Block was #8, Forever Your Girl, the great debut album by Paula Abdul, was #9 and the incredible album Volume One by the Traveling Wilburys was #10.
1989: The title song from Like a Prayer moved to #1, replacing "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals. The rest of the top five: "The Look" from Roxette was at #3, "Funky Cold Medina" by Tone Loc moved from 7-4 and Bon Jovi had the #5 song with "I'll Be There For You".
1989: "After All" from Cher and Peter Cetera was #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1990: An Earth Day concert featuring Hall & Oates, B.B. King, the B-52's and Edie Brickell drew 750,000 at Central Park in New York.
1991: The Dave Matthews Band performed for the first time at the Earth Day Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia.
1993: The rock opera "Tommy" opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre.
1994: The Division Bell debuted at #1 on the album chart, followed by the Soundtrack to 'Above the Rim' and The Sign from Ace of Base. The Rest of the Top Ten: Bonnie Raitt fell from #1 to #4 with Longing In Their Hearts, the Counting Crows had #5 with August and Everything After, R. Kelly slipped to #6 with 12 Play, Tim McGraw had #7 with Not a Moment Too Soon, Yanni moved to #8 with Live at the Acropolis, Mariah Carey dropped to 9 with Music Box and The Coulour Of My Love from Celine Dion was at #10.
2001: Destiny's Child rose to #1 on the UK chart with "Survivor".
2003: The group S Club 7 announced that they would split.
2003: Famous songwriter Felice Bryant died from cancer. Felice and her husband Boudleaux were a writing machine in the 50's and 60's, writing hits such as "Bye Bye Love", "All I Have To Do Is Dream" "Bird Dog", "Devoted To You", "Wake Up Little Susie" and several others for the Everly Brothers as well as songs for Bob Dylan, the Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys and scores of other artists.
2004: Solo star Robbie Williams denies the claim made my other members of Take That that he will join them for a one-night reunion.
2004: AC/DC assists in the war effort as troops blast the song "Shoot To Thrill" to drive Iraqi insurgents from their homes.
2007: Avril Lavigne hit #1 on the UK album chart with The Best Damn Thing.
2007: Beyonce & Shakira had the #1 song in the UK with "Beautiful Liar".
2010: Brett Michaels of Poison was rushed to the hospital after suffering a bran hemorrhage.
Born This Day:
1936: Glen Campbell was born in Delight, Arkansas
1937: Jack Nitzsche, songwriter and producer for the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and the Walker Brothers was born in Chicago; died of a heart attack on August 25, 2000
1939: Simon Napier-Bell, manager of Wham! and T. Rex
1944: Drummer Howard Wyeth, who worked with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and Don McLean; died of a heart attack on March 27, 1996
1950: Peter Frampton, vocalist and guitarist for the Herd and Humble Pie, session musician for George Harrison, David Bowie and Harry Nilsson, and popular solo star
1951: Paul Carrack, one of rock's great vocalists with Ace ("How Long"), Squeeze ("Tempted") and Mike & the Mechanics ("The Living Years") as well as a solo performer
1955: Arthur Baker, producer of New Order, was born in Boston
1956: Kenny Lyons of the Lemonheads ("Into Your Arms")
1977: Aaron Fink, guitarist of Breaking Benjamin
1974: Shavo Odadjian, bassist for System of a Down
1979: Daniel Johns of Silverchair ("Freak")
1984: Amelle Berrabah of the SugababesSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-day-in-rock-music-history-april-22.html
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