1954: Johnnie Ray went to #1 in the UK with "Such a Night".
1960: "Stuck On You" moved from #6 to #1 for Elvis Presley on this date, finally breaking the hold that "The Theme From 'A Summer Place'" by Percy Faith had on the top spot. Faith had dominated the charts at #1 for nine weeks in a row but slipped to #4. The Brothers Four had #2 with "Greenfields", Johnny Horton climbed to #3 with "Sink the Bismark" and "He'll Have To Go" by Jim Reeves was #5.
1961: Elvis Presley made his last stage appearance for nearly eight years at the Bloch Arena in Hawai'i.
1964: The Beatles place an incredible 14 songs on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, a feat no one has come anywhere close to since. "Can't Buy Me Love" continued to set the pace at #1, with "Twist and Shout" stuck at #2 behind it and "Do You Want To Know a Secret" at #3. The rest of the Top Ten: "Hello, Dolly!" by Louis Armstrong, which would eventually rise to #1, "Suspicion" from Terry Stafford as song #5, "Glad All Over" and "Bits and Pieces" getting positions 6 and 7, respectively for the Dave Clark Five, "Don't Let the Rain Come Down" by the Serendipity Singers, Mary Wells' big hit "My Guy" moving from 14-9, and Jan & Dean at #10 with "Dead Man's Curve".
1965: The Rolling Stones appeared at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
1967: After completing work on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles recorded the theme to the movie "Magical Mystery Tour" at Abbey Road Studios.
1967: The Beatles performed "All You Need Is Love" during a global satellite broadcast.
1970: "Dionne Warwick - Souled Out" aired on British TV with guests Creedence Clearwater Revival and Glen Campbell.
1970: The Beatles spent a third week atop the Adult Contemporary chart with "Let It Be".
1970: The Jackson 5 took over from the Beatles on the pop chart with "ABC". "Spirit in the Sky" was #3 for Norman Greenbaum while John Ono Lennon had #4 with "Instant Karma". The rest of the Top Ten: "American Woman" from the Guess Who, moving from 9-5, Edison Lighthouse at #6 with "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)", Badfinger stuck at 7 with "Come and Get It", the Friends of Distinction remaining at 8 with "Love Or Let Me Be Lonely", "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel still in the top ten at #6 and "Turn Back the Hands of Time" giving Tyrone Davis his only top ten hit.
1970: Bridge Over Troubled Water was #1 for an eighth week on the album chart for Simon and Garfunkel. The rest of the Top Ten: Deja Vu, the great album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was at #2, Hey Jude from the Beatles fell to 3, Santana was #4, Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 moved up to 5, Chicago II was #6, Morrison Hotel was #7, Led Zeppelin II fell to #8, Abbey Road by the Beatles was at #9 in its 29th week and Psychedelic Shack from the Temptations rounded out the top ten.
1974: Gregg Allman performs the last date of a solo tour and, to prove the Allman Brothers Band were not splitting up, the entire band comes out on stage for a 90-minute encore.
1977: Paul Anka starred in the television special "Music--My Way" on ABC-TV; Natalie Cole was one of his guests.
This is an actual picture of Elvis at the Civic Center
1977: As it turned out, Elvis Presley made the last recordings of his life at a concert at Michigan Civic Center in Saginaw. Three songs from that show were on the album Moody Blue released after Presley's death.
1979: The Ramones' movie "Rock & Roll High School" opened.
1979: The Police made their public debut on the "Top of the Pops" show on BBC-TV, playing "Roxanne".
1981: Juice Newton had the #1 Adult Contemporary song for the third consecutive week with "Angel of the Morning".
1981: Hall & Oates spent their third and final week at #1 on the popular music chart with "Kiss On My List". Sheena Easton closed at #2 with "Morning Train" and Smokey Robinson made a move from 8-3 with "Being With You". Bill Withers sang lead on Grover Washington, Jr's "Just the Two of Us" and Juice Newton's remake of "Angel of the Morning" was #5. The rest of the Top Ten: "Rapture" from Blondie was at #6, Steve Winwood held strong at #7 with "While You See a Chance", John Lennon's "Woman" fell to #8, Styx remained at 9 with "The Best of Times" and the Police had #10 with "Don't Stand So Close To Me".
1981: Hi Infidelity remained at #1 on the album chart for REO Speedwagon, with Styx's Paradise Theater and Steve Winwood's Arc of a Diver trailing. The rest of the Top Ten: Moving Pictures from Rush at #4, Winelight by Grover Washington, Jr., Face Dances from the Who at #6, Zenyatta Mondatta coming in at 7 for the Police, Eric Clapton's Another Ticket moving up to 8, Double Fantasy by John Lennon & Yoko Ono at #9 and the Soundtrack to 'The Jazz Singer' by Neil Diamond completing the list.
1981: Wings break up after Denny Laine quits the band.
1982: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder had the #1 UK song with "Ebony and Ivory".
1985: Queen played the first of four nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia.
1985: Roger Miller's Broadway musical "Big River" opens and would go on to win a Tony for Best Musical.
1987: Madonna led the way on the UK singles chart with "La Isla
1987: "The Finer Things" by Steve Winwood moved into the top spot on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1990: Jimi Hendrix's Fender Stratocaster that the guitarist famously used to play "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock was auctioned off for $295,000.
1992: Right Said Fred had the #1 album in the UK with Up.
1992: Eric Clapton had the #1 Adult Contemporary song for the second week in a row with "Tears In Heaven".
1992: Adrenalize by Def Leppard remained at #1 on the album chart. Bruce Springsteen's album Human Touch was #2, followed by Totally Krossed Out from Kris Kross, Lucky Town by Springsteen and Wyonna's self-titled album at #5.
1994: Not only did Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys attack a TV cameraman, but he had the poor taste of doing it at memorial services for actor River Phoenix in the previous November. Horovitz was sentenced to 200 hours for the incident on this date in history.
1994: The Eagles played the first of two shows at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California in which they would record their Hell Freezes Over album. Back together for the first time in 14 years, the group named the album after an earlier quote from Frey, who responded to the question "When would the Eagles get back together?".
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1998: Next spent the first of four weeks at #1 with "Too Close".
1999: Westlife had the #1 song in the UK with "Swear It Again".
1999: Nas had the #1 album in the U.S. with I Am.
1999: Paul Simon sang "Mrs. Robinson" on Joe DiMaggio day at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
2000: Eric Clapton performed with ex-Derek & the Dominoes keyboard player Bobby Whitlock for the first time in 29 years on a British television show.
2002: Lisa Lopes of TLC was killed in an automobile accident in La Ceiba, Honduras at the age of 30.
2003: Kelly Clarkson and Styx both cancel concerts in Toronto following warnings about the respiratory disease SARS.
2003: The parents of Jim Morrison sue Doors' members Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger, claiming they "maliciously misappropriated" the group's name and logo of the original Doors lineup on their U.S. tour that year.
2004: Billy Joel drove his car into a house in Long Island. Luckily, no one was injured in the crash but it was Joel's third accident in two years.
2005: Bruce Springsteen opened his Devils & Dust Tour at the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan.
2007: Bobby "Boris Pickett ("The Monster Mash") died of leukemia at the age of 69.
2008: Phil Collins announced he would have to give up drumming for medical reasons.
2009: Rascal Flatts had the #1 album with Unstoppable.
2010: Engelbert Humperdinck was inducted into the Walk of Fame in Leicester, England.
Born This Day:
1933: Songwriter and producer Jerry Leiber, who worked for Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Monkees and Cliff Richard; wrote "Hound Dog" for Elvis and "Charlie Brown" for the Coasters
1945: Bjorn Ulvaeus, vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for ABBA was born in Gothenburg, Sweden
1945: Stu Cook of Creedence Clearwater Revival was born in Oakland, California
1945: Michael Kogel of Los Bravos ("Black Is Black") was born in Berlin, Germany
1946: Ronnie Gilbert of the Blues Magoos ("We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet")
1949: Michael Brown of the Left Bank ("Walk Away Renee")
1950: Steve Ferrone, drummer with Average White Band ("Pick Up the Pieces") and Eric Clapton, was born in Brighton, England
1964: Andy Bell of Erasure ("Chains of Love" and "A Little Respect") was born in Petersborough, England
1965: Eric Avery of Jane's Addition was born in Los Angeles, California
1980: Jacob Underwood of O-TownSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-day-in-rock-music-history-april-25.html
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1960: "Stuck On You" moved from #6 to #1 for Elvis Presley on this date, finally breaking the hold that "The Theme From 'A Summer Place'" by Percy Faith had on the top spot. Faith had dominated the charts at #1 for nine weeks in a row but slipped to #4. The Brothers Four had #2 with "Greenfields", Johnny Horton climbed to #3 with "Sink the Bismark" and "He'll Have To Go" by Jim Reeves was #5.
1961: Elvis Presley made his last stage appearance for nearly eight years at the Bloch Arena in Hawai'i.
1964: The Beatles place an incredible 14 songs on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, a feat no one has come anywhere close to since. "Can't Buy Me Love" continued to set the pace at #1, with "Twist and Shout" stuck at #2 behind it and "Do You Want To Know a Secret" at #3. The rest of the Top Ten: "Hello, Dolly!" by Louis Armstrong, which would eventually rise to #1, "Suspicion" from Terry Stafford as song #5, "Glad All Over" and "Bits and Pieces" getting positions 6 and 7, respectively for the Dave Clark Five, "Don't Let the Rain Come Down" by the Serendipity Singers, Mary Wells' big hit "My Guy" moving from 14-9, and Jan & Dean at #10 with "Dead Man's Curve".
1965: The Rolling Stones appeared at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
1967: After completing work on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles recorded the theme to the movie "Magical Mystery Tour" at Abbey Road Studios.
1967: The Beatles performed "All You Need Is Love" during a global satellite broadcast.
1970: "Dionne Warwick - Souled Out" aired on British TV with guests Creedence Clearwater Revival and Glen Campbell.
1970: The Beatles spent a third week atop the Adult Contemporary chart with "Let It Be".
1970: The Jackson 5 took over from the Beatles on the pop chart with "ABC". "Spirit in the Sky" was #3 for Norman Greenbaum while John Ono Lennon had #4 with "Instant Karma". The rest of the Top Ten: "American Woman" from the Guess Who, moving from 9-5, Edison Lighthouse at #6 with "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)", Badfinger stuck at 7 with "Come and Get It", the Friends of Distinction remaining at 8 with "Love Or Let Me Be Lonely", "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel still in the top ten at #6 and "Turn Back the Hands of Time" giving Tyrone Davis his only top ten hit.
1970: Bridge Over Troubled Water was #1 for an eighth week on the album chart for Simon and Garfunkel. The rest of the Top Ten: Deja Vu, the great album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was at #2, Hey Jude from the Beatles fell to 3, Santana was #4, Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 moved up to 5, Chicago II was #6, Morrison Hotel was #7, Led Zeppelin II fell to #8, Abbey Road by the Beatles was at #9 in its 29th week and Psychedelic Shack from the Temptations rounded out the top ten.
1974: Gregg Allman performs the last date of a solo tour and, to prove the Allman Brothers Band were not splitting up, the entire band comes out on stage for a 90-minute encore.
1977: Paul Anka starred in the television special "Music--My Way" on ABC-TV; Natalie Cole was one of his guests.
This is an actual picture of Elvis at the Civic Center
1977: As it turned out, Elvis Presley made the last recordings of his life at a concert at Michigan Civic Center in Saginaw. Three songs from that show were on the album Moody Blue released after Presley's death.
1979: The Ramones' movie "Rock & Roll High School" opened.
1979: The Police made their public debut on the "Top of the Pops" show on BBC-TV, playing "Roxanne".
1981: Juice Newton had the #1 Adult Contemporary song for the third consecutive week with "Angel of the Morning".
1981: Hall & Oates spent their third and final week at #1 on the popular music chart with "Kiss On My List". Sheena Easton closed at #2 with "Morning Train" and Smokey Robinson made a move from 8-3 with "Being With You". Bill Withers sang lead on Grover Washington, Jr's "Just the Two of Us" and Juice Newton's remake of "Angel of the Morning" was #5. The rest of the Top Ten: "Rapture" from Blondie was at #6, Steve Winwood held strong at #7 with "While You See a Chance", John Lennon's "Woman" fell to #8, Styx remained at 9 with "The Best of Times" and the Police had #10 with "Don't Stand So Close To Me".
1981: Hi Infidelity remained at #1 on the album chart for REO Speedwagon, with Styx's Paradise Theater and Steve Winwood's Arc of a Diver trailing. The rest of the Top Ten: Moving Pictures from Rush at #4, Winelight by Grover Washington, Jr., Face Dances from the Who at #6, Zenyatta Mondatta coming in at 7 for the Police, Eric Clapton's Another Ticket moving up to 8, Double Fantasy by John Lennon & Yoko Ono at #9 and the Soundtrack to 'The Jazz Singer' by Neil Diamond completing the list.
1981: Wings break up after Denny Laine quits the band.
1982: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder had the #1 UK song with "Ebony and Ivory".
1985: Queen played the first of four nights at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in Australia.
1985: Roger Miller's Broadway musical "Big River" opens and would go on to win a Tony for Best Musical.
1987: Madonna led the way on the UK singles chart with "La Isla
1987: "The Finer Things" by Steve Winwood moved into the top spot on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1990: Jimi Hendrix's Fender Stratocaster that the guitarist famously used to play "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock was auctioned off for $295,000.
1992: Right Said Fred had the #1 album in the UK with Up.
1992: Eric Clapton had the #1 Adult Contemporary song for the second week in a row with "Tears In Heaven".
1992: Adrenalize by Def Leppard remained at #1 on the album chart. Bruce Springsteen's album Human Touch was #2, followed by Totally Krossed Out from Kris Kross, Lucky Town by Springsteen and Wyonna's self-titled album at #5.
1994: Not only did Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys attack a TV cameraman, but he had the poor taste of doing it at memorial services for actor River Phoenix in the previous November. Horovitz was sentenced to 200 hours for the incident on this date in history.
1994: The Eagles played the first of two shows at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California in which they would record their Hell Freezes Over album. Back together for the first time in 14 years, the group named the album after an earlier quote from Frey, who responded to the question "When would the Eagles get back together?".
Las Vegas.
1998: Next spent the first of four weeks at #1 with "Too Close".
1999: Westlife had the #1 song in the UK with "Swear It Again".
1999: Nas had the #1 album in the U.S. with I Am.
1999: Paul Simon sang "Mrs. Robinson" on Joe DiMaggio day at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
2000: Eric Clapton performed with ex-Derek & the Dominoes keyboard player Bobby Whitlock for the first time in 29 years on a British television show.
2002: Lisa Lopes of TLC was killed in an automobile accident in La Ceiba, Honduras at the age of 30.
2003: Kelly Clarkson and Styx both cancel concerts in Toronto following warnings about the respiratory disease SARS.
2003: The parents of Jim Morrison sue Doors' members Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger, claiming they "maliciously misappropriated" the group's name and logo of the original Doors lineup on their U.S. tour that year.
2004: Billy Joel drove his car into a house in Long Island. Luckily, no one was injured in the crash but it was Joel's third accident in two years.
2005: Bruce Springsteen opened his Devils & Dust Tour at the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan.
2007: Bobby "Boris Pickett ("The Monster Mash") died of leukemia at the age of 69.
2008: Phil Collins announced he would have to give up drumming for medical reasons.
2009: Rascal Flatts had the #1 album with Unstoppable.
2010: Engelbert Humperdinck was inducted into the Walk of Fame in Leicester, England.
Born This Day:
1933: Songwriter and producer Jerry Leiber, who worked for Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Monkees and Cliff Richard; wrote "Hound Dog" for Elvis and "Charlie Brown" for the Coasters
1945: Bjorn Ulvaeus, vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for ABBA was born in Gothenburg, Sweden
1945: Stu Cook of Creedence Clearwater Revival was born in Oakland, California
1945: Michael Kogel of Los Bravos ("Black Is Black") was born in Berlin, Germany
1946: Ronnie Gilbert of the Blues Magoos ("We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet")
1949: Michael Brown of the Left Bank ("Walk Away Renee")
1950: Steve Ferrone, drummer with Average White Band ("Pick Up the Pieces") and Eric Clapton, was born in Brighton, England
1964: Andy Bell of Erasure ("Chains of Love" and "A Little Respect") was born in Petersborough, England
1965: Eric Avery of Jane's Addition was born in Los Angeles, California
1980: Jacob Underwood of O-TownSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-day-in-rock-music-history-april-25.html
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