Today made history: I heard The Clash "Somebody got Murdered" on the piped-in music at Taco John's. I demanded of the employee, "who's responsible for the music I'm hearing right now?" and she shrunk back and whimpered, "TJ corporate? maybe?" and I said "not some disgruntled staffer playing subversive leftist propaganda?" and she said " " and so I said because it's indescribably cool and unexpected. So she finally laughed and made a hasty retreat, and I told Charlie so that she could hear, "It's the Clash, Somebody Got Murdered" and she really got it then and so here you go.
Today made history: I heard The Clash "Somebody got Murdered" on the piped-in music at Taco John's. I demanded of the employee, "who's responsible for the music I'm hearing right now??" and she shrunk back and whimpered, "TJ corporate? maybe?" and I said "not some disgruntled staffer playing subversive leftist propaganda?" and she said " " and so I said because it's indescribably cool and unexpected. So she finally laughed and made a hasty retreat, and I told Charlie so that she could hear, "It's the Clash, Somebody Got Murdered" and she really got it then and so here you go.
1970 â Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
1965 â The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
The Beatles play 12 songs, including their latest hit, "Help!" performing for about 30 minutes. The Shea sound system can't compete with the crowd, which the New York Daily News estimates is 75% teenage girls, all screaming like crazy. The crowd can barely hear The Beatles, and The Beatles can't hear themselves, but this is much more about spectacle than sound quality.
So how does the first rock show in a stadium pan out? Acoustically, it's a disaster, but logistically it goes quite well, with no major incidents. It's also a financial winner, taking in $304,000, about $160,000 of which goes to The Beatles. The verdict: stadium rock is a winner.
1945 â World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200â28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
1969 – At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
Often duplicated.... way too often.... but ICONIC nonetheless.
1969 â At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
Often duplicated.... way too often.... but ICONIC nonetheless.
1969 â At a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.
1930 â The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
