01/20/2026 @ 12:00 am – American guitarist and singer-songwriter, Rusty Anderson is born. Best known as the accompanying lead guitarist for Paul McCartney’s tours since 2001.
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1964 (Jan 20) – ‘Meet The Beatles’ Released in America
01/20/2026 @ 12:00 am – Meet The Beatles’ is released by Capitol in the US.
2002 (Jan 20) – ‘My Sweet Lord’ #1 in Britain Posthumously
01/20/2026 @ 12:00 am – George Harrison had the posthumous UK No.1 single with the re-release of the 1971 former No.1 ‘My Sweet Lord’. Harrison’s single replaced Aaliyah’s ‘More Than A Woman’, the only time in chart history that one deceased artist had taken over from another at No.1.
1965 (Jan 20) – ‘Father of Rock and Roll’ DJ Alan Freed Dies
01/20/2026 @ 12:00 am – American disc-jockey Alan Freed died from uraemia and cirrhosis brought on by alcoholism at the age of 42. Freed called himself the “father of rock and roll”, appeared in the movies such as Rock Around the Clock and Don’t Knock the Rock. His career was destroyed by the payola scandal that hit the broadcasting industry […]
1966 (Jan 21) – George Marries Patti
01/21/2026 @ 12:00 am – George Harrison married Patti Boyd at Leatherhead Register Office in Surrey. Paul McCartney was Best man. George had first met Patti on the set of The Beatles movie ‘A Hard Day’s Night’. She later left Harrison in the mid-’70s and started an affair with Harrison’s friend Eric Clapton, who wrote the song “Layla” about her. […]
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
01/21/2026 @ 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 […]
1963 (Jan 21) – Beatles on Radio Luxembourg
01/21/2026 @ 12:00 am – The Beatles made their third appearance on the Radio Luxembourg program ‘The Friday Spectacular’. The Beatles played two tracks, ‘Please Please Me’ and ‘Ask Me Why.
1966 (Feb 18) – Brian Wilson Finishes ‘Good Vibrations’
01/21/2026 @ 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 […]
1941 (Jan 21) – Richie Havens Born
01/21/2026 @ 12:00 am – Richie Havens had the 1971 US No.16 single with his version of George Harrison’s ‘Here Comes The Sun’. He appeared at Woodstock, Newport, and Isle Of Wight festivals. Havens died of a heart attack at home in Jersey City, New Jersey aged 72, on April 22, 2013.
2008 (Feb 20) – Beatles’ Autographed Rolling Stones Album Auctioned
01/22/2026 @ 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 […]