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Today In Music History: Christ, We're Offended

Posted at 5:56 AM on July 12, 2011 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History


Birthdays:

Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac is 68.
Guitarist Dan Murphy of Soul Asylum is 49.


Today in:

1962 - The Rolling Stones played their first gig. The historic site was London's Marquee Club.
1969 - Blind Faith made its U.S. debut at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1975 - K.C. and the Sunshine Band made their pop chart debut with "Get Down Tonight."
1979 - It was the rockers vs. the disco ducks at a "disco demolition" party between White Sox games at a double-header in Chicago's old Comiskey Park. With early shock-jock Steve Dahl blowing up disco albums in the outfield, it rapidly got out of hand; the ballpark had to be evacuated by police and the White Sox wound up forfeiting the second game.


History Highlight:

Today in 1969, "The Ballad of John and Yoko" by The Beatles was banned by many radio US stations because they found the lines "Christ, you know it ain't easy" and "They're gonna crucify me" to be offensive. Still, the song went to #8 in the US and was the final Beatles song to hit #1 in the UK.

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