Today In Music History: Come And Get It
Posted at 6:06 AM on July 24, 2009
by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History
Gary Cherone (vocals, Extreme) is 48.
Jennifer Lopez is 40.
1965 - The Byrds were at No.1 on the British singles chart with their version of the Bob Dylan song "Mr Tambourine Man". It was the first Bob Dylan song to reach No.1.
1967 - The Beatles meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi for the first time, whose lecture on Transcendental Meditation (TM) they had gone to hear at the Hilton Hotel in London. That same day ...
1967 - All four Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein signed a petition printed in The Times of London newspaper calling for the legalization of marijuana.
1978 - The movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released, featuring The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton.
1982 - Survivor started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with "Eye Of The Tiger", taken from the film Rocky III. Survivor went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance for the song.
1990 - A wrongful death trial involving Judas Priest opened in Reno, Nevada. Parents had charged in a lawsuit that the band's Stained Class album contained subliminal messages that drove two teenagers to attempt suicide.
Today in 1969, Paul McCartney recorded a demo of his new song "Come and Get It" at Abbey Road studios in London. McCartney gave the song to The Iveys, soon to become known as Badfinger. It would be one of Badfinger's biggest singles.
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