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Today in Music History... a very big Day in the Life of the Beatles

Posted at 8:30 AM on June 1, 2009 by Jim McGuinn

1974 - Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette is born in Ottawa, Ontario. (35)
1960 - Simon Gallup of the Cure is born in Surrey, England. (49)
1959 - Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode is born in London. (50)
1950 - Graham Russell of Air Supply is born in Nottingham, England. (59)
1947 - Ronnie Wood of the Faces and the Rolling Stones is born in London. (62)
1934 - Singer Pat Boone (Charles Eugene Boone) is born in Jacksonville, Fla. (75)

1991 - Temptations co-founder David Ruffin dies of an apparent drug overdose in Philadelphia. He is 50.
1985 - "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth hits #12
1971 - The two-room shack in Tupelo, Miss., where Elvis Presley was born opens as a tourist attraction.
1969 - During their "bed-in" at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" with friends Tommy and Dick Smothers, Derek Taylor, Murray the K and Timothy Leary.
1967 - The Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
1967 - David Bowie releases his self-titled debut album.
1964 - The Rolling Stones arrive at New York's Kennedy Airport for their first U.S. tour.
1964 - Dolly Parton moves to Nashville, Tenn., one day after her high school graduation.

June 1, 1967 has been called the day the '60s peaked - when the Beatles releases Sgt. Pepper. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning on 6 December 1966, Sgt. Pepper was ranked the greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone in 2003. The album project had originally been titled Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but after it was discovered that Dr. Pepper was a trademarked name for an American soft drink, The Beatles changed the title to Sgt. Pepper's, and the rest is history...

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