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This is a music mix like nothing you’ve even heard (unless you’ve been here before). It’s created by radio professionals who went beyond the “oldies” mentality to provide a blend of the best music from the dawn of rock & roll right though today. You’ll hear greatest hits as well as some gems you might never have heard before from the biggest rock stars of all time.

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This Day in Rock History - Mar. 24th

1966: In a photo session, the Beatles pose in butcher’s smocks with dismembered doll parts and pieces of meat. The lads decide to use that photo as the cover for an American album called “Yesterday… And Today.”

For the boys, it’s a cheeky commentary on what their American label, Capitol Records, did to their British albums, cutting them up, omitting some songs, adding other tracks never intended for a particular album and changing the playing order of other songs.

American parents are horrified when the album hits the stores. Capitol pulls the album. It replaces the photo with a more sedate shot of the group sitting in and around a steamer trunk.

However, many of the original “butcher covers” were simply pasted over with the new photo, creating a collector’s item that is still highly sought after today.

This Day in Rock History - Feb. 9th

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1964: On this night at 8 PM (Eastern), every Baby Boomer worthy of the name remembers where they were and what they were doing. We were tuned in to CBS to watch the Beatles make their American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. Performing 3 songs at the start of the show and 3 songs at the end, the Fab Four help Sullivan pull in 73 million viewers, a record at the time and still one of the highest rated shows of all time.

New York police report that not a single hubcap was stolen during the hour (also apparently a record).

Unnoticed at the time, a young Davy Jones (later to become part of the Monkees) appears on the same show as part of the Broadway cast of Oliver! where he leads the cast in singing “I’d Do Anything.”