This Day in Music - Jan 1st
2007, Queen beat The Beatles to be crowned greatest British band of alltime by BBC Radio 2 listeners in the UK. They pipped the Fab Four in a livecontest, trouncing other finalists The Rolling Stones, Oasis and Take That. Thebands were judged on song-writing, lyrics, live performances, originality andshowmanship. More than 20,000 listeners voted by email, text and phone.
2005, in most of Europe, copyright expired on a number of classic popand rock-and-roll songs recorded in 1954 and earlier, including Bill Haley's‘Rock Around the Clock’ and ‘Only You’ by The Platters.
1990, new American radio station WKRL in Florida played the Led Zeppelintrack 'Stairway To Heaven' for 24 hours, as a prelude to an all Zeppelinformat.
1989, Nirvana signed a one-year recording contract with Sub Pop records.
1964, the first edition of the BBC TV show Top Of The Pops wastransmitted from an old church hall in Manchester, England. Introduced by DJJimmy Saville, acts miming to their latest releases included The RollingStones, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies and The Swinging Blue Jeans. The firstsong played was Dusty Springfield's 'I Only Want To Be With You'. Also featuredon disc and film, The Beatles, Freddie & the Dreamers, Cliff Richard andthe Shadows and Gene Pitney.
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