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.

Some of the classic rock songs recorded on this day:

1958: “Problems” (Everly Brothers)

1965: “Drive My Car” (The Beatles)

1965: “My Generation” (The Who)

1957: After surviving a scary plane ride to Sydney, Australia, where one of the engines caught fire, Little Richard vows he is giving up rock ‘n’ roll, telling the audience at his concert that night, “If you want to live for the Lord, you can't take rock 'n' roll, too.”

1962: On this same day five years later, Little Richard, rocking and rolling again, meets the Beatles who are one of his opening acts. He dislikes John and George, finding them “rude.” But he’s quite smitten with young Paul, allegedly to the point of trying to seduce him.

1975: NBC’s Saturday Night debuts. (It won’t add the word “Live” to its title until after Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell over on ABC is cancelled.)

The first musical guests: Billy Preston (“Nothing from Nothing”) and Janis Ian (“At Seventeen”).

1978: When a fan tosses a cherry bomb on stage during their concert, Aerosmith responds by performing their live shows behind a chain link fence for a time.

When we were young, “joint” probably had a different meaning than it does for many of us today. If you are one of the 52.5 million adult Americans who have some form of arthritis, joint is where the pain can be, and the National Arthritis Foundation has multiple ways you can ease your pain by “being good to your joints.”

Keep reading to discover some of them:

Compute comfortably. Your monitor should be about 20 to 26 inches from your body, with the top of the monitor on an even line with the top of your head.

Sit and stand. That’s not a contradiction. It simply means that you should alternate between sitting and standing as you go through the day. If your job requires you to sit at a desk, take a break and stand up every 30 minutes or so

Build strong bones. Boost your calcium intake, because a diet rich in this important mineral helps to keep your bones sturdy and can lower your risk of osteoporosis (the brittle bone disease). There are plenty of sources besides milk, including yogurt, broccoli, kale, figs, and salmon. You can also check the pharmacy for additional calcium supplements.

Lotsa Rock ‘n’ Roll Birthdays today: John Lennon (1940), John Entwistle (1944), Jackson Browne (1948) and Peter Tosh (1944)

Recording studios on both sides of the Atlantic were burning up on this day as two classic records were being recorded:

1957: “Great Balls of Fire” (Jerry Lee Lewis)

1964: “She’s a Woman” (The Beatles)

1975: After a lengthy battle with immigration, John Lennon is finally allowed to remain the United States as the U.S. Court of Appeals strikes down his deportation order.