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This Day in Rock History - August 9th
1965: On this day, a British quartet records a cover version of a song from the Beatles’ “Help!” soundtrack. The Silkie’s version of “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” becomes the first cover of a Beatles song to reach the Top 10 in America.
What you might not know is that John Lennon was the producer for the session, Paul McCartney played guitar and George Harrison played the tambourine!
This Day in Rock History - July 6th
1957: A day that not only changed music history, but cultural history as well.
It was on this day that a young Paul McCartney met John Lennon when Paul showed up at a church in Liverpool where John’s band the Quarrymen was playing.
In between sets, Paul demonstrates his proficiency on guitar to John, singing Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock.” John decides to include him in the band.
This Day in Rock History - Oct. 14th
1969: A bored writer for a college newspaper unintentionally starts one of the biggest rock hoaxes of all time.
Fred LaBour is asked to write a review of the new Beatles album Abbey Road for the University of Michigan student newspaper. Instead he turns in a piece he clearly thinks no will take seriously, headlined “McCartney Dead: New Evidence Brought to Light.”
The “Paul Is Dead” furor grows so great, Life magazine actually runs a cover story a few weeks later featuring photos of Paul McCartney, very much alive at his farm in the UK.
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