1957: On this day Elvis Presley’s third film (and some say, his best film) Jailhouse Rock has its world premiere at the Loews State Theatre in Memphis. It’s the exact same movie theater where Elvis worked as an usher just five years earlier.
1960: While in Hamburg, Wally Eymond, a guitarist in the Liverpool band Rory Storm and the Hurricanes, decides to record a version of the Gershwin brothers’ song “Summertime.”
For some reason, he wants the Beatles to be his back-up band at the recording session. The lads are fine with that, but drummer Pete Best can’t make it. So Eymond brings along the Hurricanes drummer, Ringo Starr. Today marks the first day the Beatles would play with Ringo on drums.
The boys would not ask him to formally join the group until 1962.