- 1957: Winners at the Annual NME readers poll included Pat Boone, who was voted the world’s No. 1 singer, with Elvis Presley voted 2nd. The top 2 UK groups were The King Brothers and The Stargazers.
- 1978: Country singer Tammy Wynette was abducted, beaten and held in her car for two hours by a kidnapper wearing a ski mask. He held a gun on her and forced her to drive 90 miles from Nashville, Tennessee. She was later released and the kidnapper escaped.
- 1999: It was reported that the sister of Jimi Hendrix was planning to exhume her brother’s body and move it to a pay-to-view mausoleum. Other plans for the new site included a chance for fans to buy one of the burial plots around the guitarists new resting place.
- 2007: The Rolling Stones set a new record for highest grossing tour of all time with their “A Bigger Bang” tour. The tour, which ran from late 2005 to August 2007, earned the band the equivalent of $437 million, with The Stones playing for over 3.5 million people at 113 shows. The previous high was set by U2’s “Vertigo” tour, which took place in 2005 and 2006, earning $389 million.
- 2019: The Beatle’s ‘Abbey Road’ returned to No. 1 in the UK, 50 years after it first topped the album release charts after the release of an expanded anniversary edition. The feat also saw the album set a record – the gap of 49 years and 252 days since its initial chart-topping run ended in early 1970 is the longest gap ever before returning to No. 1.
