01/09/2026 @ All Day – A 1976 Rolling Stones album bought for £2 at a car boot sale sold for £4,000 at an auction. The ‘Black and Blue’ LP was signed by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney and George Harrison as well as members of the Rolling Stones. The seller obtained the album after haggling the cost […]
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1966 (Feb 18) – Brian Wilson Finishes ‘Good Vibrations’
01/09/2026 @ All Day – Beach Boy Brian Wilson finished recording the future classic song ‘Good Vibrations’, which went on to become the band’s third US number-one hit. As a child, his mother told him that dogs could pick up “vibrations” from people, so that the dog would bark at “bad vibrations” Wilson turned this into the general idea for […]
2014 (Jan 9) – Rolling Stone Readers Poll: White Album Greatest Double Album
01/09/2026 @ 12:00 am – Rolling Stone magazine published their Readers Poll: The 10 Greatest Double Albums of All Time. The top 5 were: 5. Led Zeppelin, 4. Bruce Springsteen – The River, 3. The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street, 2. Pink Floyd – The Wall, and winning the poll was The Beatles – The White Album.
1965 (Jan 9) – John Lennon Makes 2nd Appearance on ‘Not Only But Also’
01/09/2026 @ 12:00 am – John Lennon appeared on the UK TV Peter Cook and Dudley Moore show, ‘Not Only But Also.’ This was his second appearance on the show.
1970 (Jan 9) – John and Eric Clapton Attend Led Zeppelin at The Royal Albert Hall
01/09/2026 @ 12:00 am – This was the night of Jimmy Page’s 26th birthday. (John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck were all in the audience). The two and a quarter hour set was recorded and filmed but shelved for several decades, eventually seeing a release on a 2003 official DVD.
1965 (Jan 9) – ‘Beatles 65’ Goes to #1 in the US
01/09/2026 @ 12:00 am – The Beatles started a nine week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Beatles 65’, the group’s fourth No.1. Beatles ’65 includes eight of the fourteen songs from Beatles for Sale and also includes ‘I’ll Be Back’ from A Hard Day’s Night and the single ‘I Feel Fine’/’She’s a Woman’.
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
01/10/2026 @ All Day – A 1976 Rolling Stones album bought for £2 at a car boot sale sold for £4,000 at an auction. The ‘Black and Blue’ LP was signed by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Paul and Linda McCartney and George Harrison as well as members of the Rolling Stones. The seller obtained the album after haggling the cost […]
2002 (Jan 10) – Lost Beatles Tapes Recovered
01/10/2026 @ 12:00 am – 500 Beatles tapes known as the ‘Get Back sessions’, stolen in the 1970s were found after UK police cracked a major bootleg operation in London and Amsterdam. Five men were arrested.
1966 (Feb 18) – Brian Wilson Finishes ‘Good Vibrations’
01/10/2026 @ All Day – Beach Boy Brian Wilson finished recording the future classic song ‘Good Vibrations’, which went on to become the band’s third US number-one hit. As a child, his mother told him that dogs could pick up “vibrations” from people, so that the dog would bark at “bad vibrations” Wilson turned this into the general idea for […]
1981 (Jan 10) – ‘Just Like Starting Over’ #1 in the US; ‘Imagine’ #1 in the UK
01/10/2026 @ 12:00 am – Just weeks after his death, John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart, 10 years after it was recorded. Lennon had two other songs in the Top 5 this week, ‘Happy Christmas, (War Is Over’) and ‘(Just Like) Starting Over.’ ‘Imagine’ was voted by the viewers of BBC TV […]