John Lennon Meets Paul McCartney & Louis Armstrong Dies: Music History Today Podcast July 6

On the July 6 edition of Music History Today, John meets Paul, disco hits number one, and Manfred Mann gets a lead singer. Also, happy birthday to 50 Cent and Bill Haley.

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In 1953, singer Dorothy Squires married actor Roger Moore.
In 1957, John Lennon met Paul McCartney and one of the greatest musical partnerships was born.

In 1963, Chubby Checker performed at a concert before the Mets baseball game in New York City.

In 1964, the film A Hard Day's Night by the Beatles premiered in London.

In 1965, Marty Balin started forming the group Jefferson Airplane.

In 1966, Elvis Presley's movie Paradise Hawaiian Style opened.

In 1966, Mike D'abo became the lead singer for Manfred Mann.

In 1967, Pink Floyd performed on British TV's Top of the Pops music show for the first time.

In 1969, Mick Jagger started filming the movie Ned Kelly.

In 1971, Bjorn Ulvaeus & Agnetha Faitskog of ABBA were married.

In 1972, David Bowie created controversy in England when he put his arms around guitarist Mick Ronson during his performance of his song Starman on the British TV show Top of the Pops.

In 1974, the Hues Corporation became the first disco group to hit number one on the Billboard singles chart with Rock the Boat.

In 1977, the event that inspired Pink Floyd's album The Wall happened when Roger Waters yelled at the crowd during Pink Floyd's concert in Montreal for setting off fireworks & being unruly.

In 1978, Tammy Wynette married record producer George Richey.

In 1984, the Jacksons started their Victory tour, which was the last time that Michael toured with his brothers.

In 1988, Neil Young's video for his song This Note's For You, about music artists selling their songs to corporations for commercials, was banned by MTV because it mentioned corporate brands like Coke & Pepsi. The video ended up winning video of the year at that year's MTV Video Music Awards.

In 1990, the animated movie Jetsons the Movie, co-starring the voice of singer Tiffany premiered.

In 1991, BB King & James Brown performed in Zagreb, Croatia.

In 1991, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, & Mary married restaurant owner Ethan Robbins.

In 1994, the movie Forest Gump opened. The movie spawned a hit soundtrack of songs from the 1950s - 1970s.

In 1999, Richie Havens published the book They Can't Hide Us Anymore, which was his autobiography.

In 2009, Ryan Ross & Jon Walker left the group Panic! at the Disco.

In 2009, Alanis Morissette started her acting role on the TV show Weeds.

In 2016, singer Ciara married football player Russell Wilson.

In 2019, Lil Nas X's song Old Town Road with Billy Ray Cyrus broke the record set by 3 other songs for longest hip hop song at #1 when it started its 13th straight week at #1 on Billboard's hot 100 singles chart. The song would eventually break the record for longest #1 reign on that chart, regardless of genre, & still holds the record at 19 consecutive weeks.

In classical music:

In 1877, Pyotr Tchaikovsky married wife Antonina Miliukova.

In 1975, Dmitri Shostakovich finished his Sonate for Alto Opus 147.

In theater:

In 1946, the Broadway show St Louis Woman closed.

In 1997, the Broadway musical Dream, the Johnny Mercer Musical closed.