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November 16, 1974 - John Lennon went to No.1 on the Hot 100 with âWhatever Gets You Thru The Nightâ.
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âȘ@TheBeatlesâŹâ âNow and Thenâ Makes History As First AI-Assisted Song to Earn Grammy Nomination.
The song, which was released last November and completed with the use of AI, has been nominated in the Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance categories.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN! Looking forward to great music in Strawberry Fields today! đ
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At the Brooklyn Museum, see Paul McCartneyâs photos of the early days of Beatlemania
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đžđ„ March 15, 2004 - Prince and George Harrison were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Prince was presented the award by Alicia Keys along with Big Boi and André 3000 of OutKast. Prince performed a trio of his own hits during the ceremony.
Prince also participated in a tribute to fellow inductee George Harrison in a rendering of Harrisonâs âWhile My Guitar Gently Weepsâ, playing an almost three-minute guitar solo that ended the song.
This performance is EVERYTHING!
In my opinion, to this day, this is the best Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony performance ever! â2004. The first time this was broadcast, you didnât know what was going to be performed or who was going to play the group jam. Then they take the stage and start the song. Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison (Georgeâs son) and Prince performing âWhile My Guitar Gently Weepsâ from The Beatlesâ âWhite Albumâ. You all know me. Ainât no way in the world I was NOT going to be feeling this! And then I took in the whole performance.
Donât get me wrong, everybody played and sang very well... but whoa, this dude PRINCE!
Prince didnât sing a single note, he wasnât even standing center stage... and he stole the whole damn show! I always felt that Prince never got his rightful props for his guitar skills. Since the 80s I would see music magazines publish their lists of greatest guitarists and I was forever like, âWhere is Prince??â or... âWhy is Prince so low on the list??â Check out the look on their faces when Prince gets some on that guitar solo.
I was like a proud parent watching his kid at a piano recital! All in my feelings. Prince tore that guitar solo up for so long that it was hard picking which 60 seconds to use.
Like I said, Prince doesnât sing a note so he couldnât drop his mic at the end of the performance. He just slipped his guitar off his shoulders, threw it off the front of the stage, and pimp walked off. Exit, stage left.
Damn, Kid. Thatâs how you do that shit.
#prince #thisdayinmusic #2004 #2000s #musichistory #memorylane #whilemyguitargentlyweeps #guitarsolo #guitar #legendary #prince4ever
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February 7, 1964 - THE BEATLES ARRIVE IN AMERICA!
In the UK, the Beatles had experienced popularity since the start of 1963. But in the US, Capitol Records, owned by the band's record company EMI, had declined to release any of the singles. Beatlemania in the UK was regarded with amusement by the US press, once it made any comment. When newspaper and magazine articles did begin to appear towards the end of 1963, they cited the English stereotype of eccentricity, reporting that the UK had developed an interest in something that had come and gone a long time ago in the US: rock and roll. Headlines included "The New Madness" and "Beatle Bug Bites Britain", and writers employed word-play linking "beetle" with the infestation afflicting the UK. In late 1963, Capitol Records agreed to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" with a large accompanying promotional campaign due to Ed Sullivan's agreement to headline the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show.
#TheBeatles' American television debut was on 18 November 1963 on The Huntley-Brinkley Report, with a four-minute long piece by Edwin Newman. On 22 November 1963, the CBS Morning News ran a five-minute feature on Beatlemania in the UK. The evening's scheduled repeat was cancelled due to the assassination of John F. Kennedy the same day. The nation was in mourning, in fear and in disbelief.
On 10 December, Walter Cronkite decided to air the piece again on the CBS Evening News, and the resulting interest led to the rush-release of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" andâonly weeks before the Beatles' arrivalâa US commercial breakthrough.
Early in the morning on 7 February 1964, an estimated four thousand Beatles' fans were present as Pan Am Flight 101 left London Heathrow Airport. When the group arrived at New York's newly renamed John F. Kennedy Airport, they were greeted by a second large crowd, with Beatles fans again estimated at four thousand, and journalists at two hundred. The band had just scored its first No. 1 U.S. hit six days before with "I Want to Hold Your Hand." Shortly after walking down the steps off the plane, the Beatles held their first U.S. press conference.
#BEATLEMANIA AND THE BRITISH INVASION HAD BEGUN! đŹđ§
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#thisdayinmusic #1960s #1964 #britishinvasion #newyorkcity #nyc #musichistory #memorylane #beatles
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đŹđ§ THE BRITISH ARE COMING! đŹđ§
January 18, 1964 - âȘ@TheBeatles⏠made their US chart debut when 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' entered the chart at No.45 just ten days after its release, making it the fastest-breaking and the fastest selling single in Capitol Records history and started the British Invasion of the American music industry. It went on to spend seven weeks at the No.1 position.
The song was greeted by raving fans on both sides of the Atlantic but was dismissed by some critics as nothing more than another fad song that would not hold up to the test of time. Cynthia Lowery of the Associated Press expressed her exasperation with Beatlemania by saying of the Beatles: Heaven knows we've heard them enough. It has been impossible to get a radio weather bulletin or time signal without running into I Want to Hold Your Hand.
Bob Dylan was impressed by the Beatles' innovation, saying, "They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid." For a time Dylan thought the Beatles were singing "I get high" instead of "I can't hide". He was surprised when he met them and found out that none of them had actually smoked marijuana.
The song was nominated for the Grammy for Record of the Year, but the award went to Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz for "The Girl from Ipanema". In 1998, the song won the Grammy Hall of Fame Award. It has also made the list in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The RIAA, the National Endowment for the Arts and Scholastic Press have named "I Want to Hold Your Hand" as one of the Songs of the Century. In 2004, it was ranked number 16 on Rolling Stoneâ'âs list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". It was ranked number two in Mojo's list on the "100 Records That Changed the World", after Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti". The song was ranked number thirty-nine on Billboard's All Time Top 100. Time included the song on its list of the All-TIME 100 Songs.
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December 8, 2023 - Friends & fans gather for John Lennonâs 43rd Memorial in Strawberry Fields, Central Park. People from near and far brought their instruments, their sheet music and their hearts to the park and created a magical day of music. I got SOOOOO many videos this year and have already started posting them. Stay tuned, so much more to come!
Enjoy!
#johnlennon #thebeatles #strawberryfields #centralpark #imagine #imagine #beatles #nyc
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Featuring NYC street musicians, some concert videos, and the sing-along celebrations for The Beatles in Strawberry Fields, Central Park.