Today, Jan. 29th in 1942, BBC radio aired a new program Desert Island Discs presented by Roy Plomley, which went on to become the longest running UK radio show. 1961, Bob Dylan achieved his dream of meeting his idol Woody Guthrie when Guthrie was on weekend release from hospital where he was being treated for Huntingtons Chorea. Dylan told him; ‘I was a Woody Guthrie jukebox’. Guthrie gave Dylan a card which said: ‘I aint dead yet’. 1964, The Beatles spent the day at Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris, France, The Beatles only studio recording session for EMI held outside the UK. They recorded new vocals for ‘She Loves You’, ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ and ‘Cant Buy Me Love’, after EMIs West German branch persuaded Brian Epstein that they would be unable to sell large quantities of records in Germany unless they were recorded in the German language. A translator coached John, Paul, and George, although their familiarity with the German language from their Hamburg days made things much easier. 1967, Jimi Hendrix and The Who appeared at The Saville Theatre, London, England. 20 year-old future Queen guitarist Brian May was in the audience. 1968, The Doors appeared at The Pussy Cat A Go Go, Las Vegas. After the show singer Jim Morrison taunts a security guard in the parking lot by pretending to smoke a joint, resulting in a fight. The police arrive who arrest Morrison and charge him with vagrancy, public drunkenness, and failure to possess sufficient identification. 1969, Fleetwood Mac had their only UK No.1 single with the instrumental Albatross which was composed by guitarist Peter Green. Albatross is the only Fleetwood Mac composition with the distinction of having inspired a Beatles song, Sun King from 1969s Abbey Road. 1972, The triple album The Concert For Bangladesh went to No.1 on the UK album chart. Organised by George Harrison to raise funds for the people caught up in the war and famine from the area. The set featured; Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Billy Preston, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shankar and members from Badfinger. 1977, Gwen Dickey former backing band for The Temptations, went to No.1 on the US singles chart as Rose Royce with Car Wash, a No.9 hit in the UK. 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Spencer killed two people and wounded nine others when she fired from her house across the street onto the entrance of San Diegos Grover Cleveland Elementary School. Spencer fired the shots from a .22-caliber rifle her father had given her for Christmas. When asked why she did it, she answered I dont like Mondays. The Boomtown Rats went on to write and recorded a song based on the event. 1982, Shakin Stevens was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Oh Julie, the Welsh singers third UK No.1. Barry Manilow covered the song in the US. 1982, Flying Back from Cannes, France, Gary Numan made a forced landing after running low on fuel at an RAF base outside Southampton, the press ran stories that he had in fact crash landed on the A3057. 1983, Australian group Men At Work went to No.1 on the British and American singles and album charts simultaneously with Down Under and Business As Usual. The last artist to achieve this was Rod Stewart in 1971. 1989, Marc Almond started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Somethings Gotten Hold Of My Heart with guest vocals from Gene Pitney, (who also had a hit with the song in 1967). 1992, American blues singer and guitarist Willie Dixon died of heart failure. He wrote the classic songs You Shook Me, I Cant Quit You Baby, Hoochie Coochie Man, I Just Want to Make Love to You and Little Red Rooster. Dixon was a major influence on The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. 1994, The Supremes Mary Wilson was injured when her jeep crashed on a freeway and turned over just outside of Los Angeles, California. Wilsons 14-year old son was killed in the accident. 1996, George Michael had the UK No.1 single with Jesus To A Child, the singers sixth UK No.1 as a solo artist and the first single from his come-back album Older, (after lengthy litigation with his record company). 2001, A New York based data company issued a chart listing sales of posthumous albums. The idea came about after radio stations wanted to distinguish between proper recordings when the artists were alive and CDs released after they died. Mike Shalett founder of SoundScan said there was only one problem. What to call the chart. The Top 5 chart had The Doors at No.5, Eva Cassidy at 4, Jimi Hendrix at 3, Bob Marley at 2 and 2Pac at No.1. 2005, Ciara feat Petey Pablo Goodies went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with her debut single. The eighteen year old R&B singer from Atlanta, Georgia, was just the eighteen years old. 2006, Arctic Monkeys went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their debut album Whatever People Say I Am Thats What Im Not. The Sheffield-based bands album became the fastest-selling debut in chart history after shifting more than 360,000 copies in its first week of release. The albums title was taken from a line from the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning written by Alan Sillitoe. 2009, Singer-songwriter John Martyn died in hospital in Ireland at the age of 60. The folk, blues and funk artist was widely regarded as one of the most soulful and innovative singer-songwriters of his generation and had been cited as an influence by artists as varied as U2, Portishead and Eric Clapton. 2009, Former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson made the largest ever leap to number one in US chart history, rising 96 places. Her single, My Life Would Suck Without You, rose from 97 to the top of the Billboard chart after selling 280,000 downloads in its first week of release. A clip from the video for the single was premiered in the commercial break of that weeks episode of American Idol. 2010, Sly Stone filed a $50m (£30.9m) legal claim against his former manager, alleging fraud and 20 years of stolen royalties. The 66-year-old funk musician of the 1970s group Sly and the Family Stone, claimed in the Los Angeles Superior Court that Jerry Goldstein diverted millions in royalties to fund a lavish lifestyle. 2013, The Official UK Album Chart saw its lowest sales in nearly 17 years as Ed Sheeran returned to the top spot. The singers debut record, +, went back to No.1 for the first time since September with sales of just 20,607. This was the lowest total since September 1995 when the Levellers Zeitgeist was top with 13,885 sales.
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