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Fun Fact: Saturday Night Fever Hits No 1 on Travolta’s Birthday
Written by Jimmy
Okay, so I think the title is true. Find a cool site that I’ll only share every once in a while on Today in Music History. Points out that today is Travolta’s Birthday and Saturday Night Fever hits number 1 (or might still be number 1, but let me keep with my fun fact please!
Here’s Today’s sampler:
1933
Yoko Ono is born in Tokyo.
1953
Bachman-Turner Overdrive drummer Robbie Bachman is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Little River Band drummer Derek Pellicci is born.
1954
John Travolta is born in Englewood, N.J.
1956
No. 1 on the American pop singles chart today are the Platters with “The Great Pretender.”
1961
The Damned guitarist Brian James is born.
1964
While in Miami for a concert, the Beatles meet up with Cassius Clay, who is training in the city for an upcoming bout with Sonny Liston.
1965
Dr. Dre is born today as Andre Young.
1968
Guitarist Dave Gilmour joins Pink Floyd
1969
Bee Gee Maurice Gibb marries singer Lulu at St. James’ Church in Gerrard’s Cross, England.
1970
John Lennon holds a birthday party for Yoko Ono at the Apple Records offices in London. Yoko is 37.
1971
Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band make their first trip to New York City, performing at Unganos.
1972
Led Zeppelin’s disastrous tour of Australia continues. After Last night’s police search of their hotel rooms they now have to postpone a gig in Adelaide because of rain that makes the stage sag beneath their 11,800 pounds of equipment.
1974
Yes perform the first of two sold out gigs at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Kiss release their self-titled debut album.
Bad Company formed by former members of Mott the Hoople and Free.
1978
British Punk fanzine “Sniffin’ Glue” ceases publication.
The No. 1 album in the U.S. today is the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever.
1980
Bill Wyman announces that he’s leaving the Rolling Stones. After an intervention by the rest of the band, the bassist is convinced to stay. He quits in 1992.
2001
James Taylor marries longtime girlfriend Caroline “Kim” Smedvig at a Boston church.