This
Month In Music History: May
May 1, 1967: Elvis Presley
marries
Priscilla Beaulieu at the Alladin Hotel in Las Vegas.
May 1, 1970: "Elton John, " Elton John's
first album is released. The album contains the classic "Your Song" and is the
first album to feature the songwriting partnership of Elton John and Bernie
Taupin.
May 4, 1963: The Beach Boys' "Surfin'
USA" debuts on the US album charts.
May 5, 1967: Scott McKenzie's "San Francisco
(Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" debuts on the US singles charts, inspiring a
migration of thousands of young people--later to be known as "flower children"--to
the Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco, CA.
May 8, 1970: The Beatles final album, "Let it Be," is
released on Apple records.
May 9, 1962: The Beatles sign with EMI
Parlophone, and George Martin is hired as their producer.
May 10, 1963: The Rolling Stones hit the studio for the first
time, at Olympic Studios in London. "Come On," the Rolling
Stones' first single, is the only song used.
May 17, 1975: Elton John's "Captain
Fantastic and the Dirt Brown Cowboy" becomes the first album in the history of the
recording industry to be certified Platinum (1 million copies) on the day
of its release.
May 19, 1960: DJ Alan Freed, along with
eight others, is charged with Payola by a Federal Grand Jury.
May 20, 1980: Peter Criss, drummer for KISS,
leaves the band.
May 21, 1963: 13 year-old "Little" Stevie
Wonder records his first hit record, "Fingertips."
May 21, 1979: Elton John is the first Western rock
star to be invited to play the Soviet Union. This concert at Leningrad Concert
Hall begins an eight show run of Elton John shows in the Soviet Union.
May 27, 1962: Bob Dylan's "The Freewheelin'
Bob Dylan" is released on Columbia Records. This album, his second, contains the
classics "Blowin' in the Wind," "Don't Think Twice, It's Allright,"
and "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."
May 27, 1977: The Sex Pistols release their
first single, "God Save the Queen."
Happy Birthday:
May 1: D'arcy Wretzky (Smashing Pumpkins b. 1968)
May 3: James Brown (b. Macon, GA 1928).
May 4: Mike Dirnt (Green Day b. 1972)
May 6: Bob Seger (b. 1945)
May 9: Billy Joel (b. 1949)
May 13: Stevie Wonder (b. Steveland Morris
Hardaway, Detroit, MI 1950).
May 19: Pete Townshend (b. 1945 London, England).
May 20: Cher (b. Cherilyn Sakasian La Pierre, El Centro, CA
1946).
May 22: Bernie Taupin (b. 1950).
May 22: Morrissey (b. 1959)
May 24: Bob Dylan (b. Robert Allen Zimmerman, Duluth,
Minnesota, 1941).
May 26: Stevie Nicks (b. Stephanie Nicks 1948).
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