April 3 – Today in Music History

1961 The Marcels at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Blue Moon’

1965 The Beatles at No.1 in Australia with ‘Rock and Roll Music / Honey Don’t’

1971 The Temptations at No.1 on the UK chart with ‘Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)’

1976 Johnnie Taylor at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Disco Lady’

1978 Bee Gees at No.1 in Australia with ‘Stayin’ Alive’

1993 The Bluebells at No.1 on the UK chart with ‘Young At Heart’

1993 Lenny Kravitz at No.1 in Australia with ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way’

1993 Depeche Mode at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Songs Of Faith And Devotion’

1994 Morrissey at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘Vauxhall & I’

2008 Mariah Carey at No.1 on the US chart with ‘Touch My Body’

2011 Adele still at No.1 on the UK album chart with ’21’

2011 Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull at No.1 on the UK chart with ‘On the Floor’

Gig News

1965 the Supremes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames and Martha Reeves & The Vandellas played 2 shows at Newcastle City Hall

1966 Peter Tork played a solo performance at The Troubadour, Hollywood

1970 Taste and Black Sabbath played The Locarno in Sunderland

1976 Sex Pistols opened for The 101’ers at The Nashville Rooms in London

1979 Kate Bush made her live debut at Empire Theatre, Liverpool, England

1999 Alanis Morissette and Garbage appeared at the Cox Arena, San Diego, California

Music News

1999 English composer Lionel Bart died