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1962
May 26
The Isley Brothers' "Twist and Shout" is released on Wand Records. It will rise to #17 on the US Pop chart and will be covered two years later by The Beatles, whose version rose to #2.
May 26
Mr. Aker Bilk became the first British artist to have a number one record in America when his clarinet laden instrumental "Stranger On The Shore" topped the Hot 100. It made #2 in the UK.
1963
May 26
Elvis Presley records "(You're The) Devil In Disguise", which will peak at #3 on the Billboard chart and #1 in the UK by next August and be certified Gold by the RIAA for sales in excess of 500,000 units in the US.
1965
May 26
The Rolling Stones appear on TV's Rock 'n' Roll show, Shindig! along with Jackie De Shannon, Sonny and Cher and Jimmie Rodgers.
1967
May 26
The Beatles masterpiece, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released. The album took over 700 hours to record under the direction of George Martin and cost $75,000 to produce. A then state-of-the-art four track recorder was used to build each song layer by layer.
1969
May 26
John Lennon recorded "Give Peace a Chance" in a room at Hotel La Reine Elizabeth in Montreal, Canada. The voices of Tommy Smothers and Petula Clark can be heard on the chorus. The song was credited to Lennon / McCartney, even though Paul had nothing to do with the record. Lennon may have been showing his appreciation for McCartney's help on "The Ballad of John and Yoko" single, which the two of them recorded without George and Ringo.
1970
May 26
George Harrison begins recording his landmark album "AllThingsMustPass" at EMI's Abby Road studios. The results will produce his biggest hit single, "My Sweet Lord".
1971
May 26
Don McLean records "American Pie". Although he has never actually said so, most music lovers assume he is singing about February 3rd, 1959, when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash, as 'the day the music died.'
1973
May 26
Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water" is released. The song is based on the true story of how someone had fired a flare gun into the ceiling of the Casino in Montreux, Switzerland, during a concert by Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention. The resulting fire destroyed the building where Deep Purple was set to record a live album the next day. The single will reach #5 in the US and #21 in the UK.
May 26
The Edgar Winter Group held down Billboard's top spot with an instrumental track that had been over-dubbed and patched so many times in the studio, the band ended up calling it "Frankenstein". It reached #18 in the UK.
1974
May 26
14-year old Bernadette Whelan is crushed by the crowd at a London concert of teen idol David Cassidy. She would die four days later. Cassidy is so shaken by the incident, he wouldn't tour again for 11 years.
1976
May 2
Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant launch into a drunken verbal assault of first class passengers on a transatlantic British Airways flight. Among those on board were actors Telly Savalas and Dudley Moore.
1977
May 26
William Powell, an original member of The O'Jays, died in Canton, Ohio after a long bout with cancer. Powell sang with the group until he was forced to quit in 1976 because of his health. He was just 35 years old.
1989
May 26
To demonstrate the power of radio, over 8,000 stations in the US go silent for 30 seconds at 7:42am.
1994
May 26
Music fans around the world were stunned to learn that 37-year-old Michael Jackson married 27-year-old Lisa Marie Presley in the Dominican Republic. It was his first marriage, her second. Both the bride and groom wore black. Lisa Marie would file for divorce in January of 1996, citing irreconcilable differences.
1997
May 26
Bob Dylan was admitted to a MalibuHospital with chest pains, causing all of his Summer tour to be cancelled.
2006
May 26
Desmond Dekker, a Jamaican reggae pioneer famed for his worldwide hit "The Israelites", died of a heart attack at his home in England. He was 64.
2008
May 26
65 year old Paul McCartney was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from YaleUniversity. University President Richard Levin told McCartney "Here, there and everywhere, you have pushed the boundaries of the familiar to create new classics. We admire your musical genius and your generous support of worthy causes."
2009
May 26
A US judge ended a bitter two-year battle over the late soul singer James Brown's estate. Judge Jack Early ruled half of his assets will go to a charitable trust, a quarter to his wife and young son, and the rest to his six adult children. Brown's family and wife Tomi Rae Hynie Brown had fought over his fortune since he died of heart failure in 2006
2010
May 26
The Season 9 final of TV's American Idol featured guest appearances by Alice Cooper, Barry And Robin Gibb, Hall And Oates, Joe Cocker, Janet Jackson and The Doobie Brothers' Michael McDonald.
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