April 7th: On this Day 1956, The CBS Radio Network premiered the first regularly scheduled national broadcast rock & roll show, Alan Freeds Rock n Roll Dance Party. 1958, The Alan Freeds Big Beat Show played two shows at the Memorial Hall in Canton, Ohio, featuring, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Billy Ford, Danny & The Juniors, The Chantels, Larry Williams, Screaming Jay Hawkins, The Pastels and Buddy Holly and the Crickets. 1962, Shelley Fabares started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Johnny Angel. It only reached No.41 on the UK chart. 1962, While at Ealing Jazz Club, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met Brian Jones for the first time. Jones was calling himself Elmo Lewis and was playing guitar with Paul Jones. 1962, The Beatles played at the Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool without George Harrison who was ill. This was the groups last performance before leaving for their third extended engagement in Hamburg, West Germany. 1966, Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded overdubs on the new John Lennon song Tomorrow Never Knows and the new Paul McCartney song Got to Get You Into My Life for the forthcoming Revolver album. 1968, At the end of a North American tour, The Who played at the CNE Coliseum, Toronto, Ontario. 1970, On this weeks US Top 5 singles chart; No.5, Bridge Over Trouble Water by Simon and Garfunkel, No.4, Spirit In The Sky, Norman Greenbaum, No.3, Instant Karma by John Lennon, No.2, ABC The Jackson Five and at No.1, Let It Be, The Beatles. 1973, Diana Ross started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Lady Sings The Blues. 1973, Vicki Lawrence started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia. 1975, Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore quit Deep Purple to form his own band Rainbow. Tommy Bolin replaced Blackmore. 1979, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, The Boomtown Rats and Ted Nugent all appeared at the California Music Festival. 1979, Siouxsie And The Banshees played a charity gig for MENCAP, but after crowd trouble were latter faced with a £2,000 bill for seat damage. 1979, The Doobie Brothers went to No.1 on the US album chart with Minute By Minute, the groups only US chart topper.
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