This day in music history

1964, Louis Armstrong started a six week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Hello Dolly!'

1967, The Bee Gees appeared live on the UK TV show 'As You Like It'. The group were promoting their debut single 'New York Mining Disaster 1941.'

1969, The Rolling Stones held a photo call in Hyde Park to introduce new guitarist Mick Taylor. The 20 year-old former John Mayall's Bluesbreakers member made his live debut with The Stones the following month at a free concert at Hyde Park London.

1970, The Beatles started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Long And Winding Road', the group's 20th US No.1. The album 'Let It Be' started a four-week run at No.1 the US album chart on the same day.

1972, Clyde McPhatter, original lead vocalist with The Drifters, died of a heart attack in New York. Joined Billy Ward & the Dominoes in 1950, formed The Drifters in 1953, had several solo hits including 1962 'Lover Please,' was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

1975, John Lennon made his last ever TV appearance when he appeared on 'Salute To Sir Lew Grade', performing 'Slippin And Slidin', and 'Imagine'.

1981, Smokey Robinson was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with a song he wrote in the late 60's. 'Being With You', the American singers first solo No.1.

1988, The biggest charity Rock concert since Live Aid three years earlier took place at London's Wembley Stadium, to denounce South African apartheid. Among the performers were Sting, Stevie Wonder, Bryan Adams, George Michael, Whitney Houston and Dire Straits. Half the money raised went towards anti-apartheid activities in Britain, the rest was donated to children's charities in southern Africa.
1992, Billy Ray Cyrus started a 17-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Some Gave All'.

1992, Erasure started a five-week run at No.1 in the UK with the 'Abba-Esque EP'. The release featured four covers of Abba hits and Vince Clark & Andy Bell dressed up as the two Abba girls for the videos.

1995, Alanis Morissette released 'Jagged Little Pill'. The album went on to sell over 30 million copies world-wide making Morissette the first female Canadian to score a US No.1 album.

2003, The Arctic Monkeys made their live debut at The Grapes pub in Sheffield, England. They received £27 from ticket sales.

1934, Born on this day, Uriel Jones, session drummer for Motown Records' in-house studio band, the Funk Brothers, during the 1960s and early 1970s. Jones played on many Motown classics including ‘I Heard It Through the Grapevine’, by Marvin Gaye, ‘Cloud Nine’ by the Temptations, ‘I Second That Emotion’ by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and ‘For Once In My Life’ by Stevie Wonder. Died on 24th March 2009.

1940, Born on this day, Bobby Freeman, singer, (1958 US & UK No.5 single 'Do You Want To Dance').

1943, Born on this day, Esther Ofarim, singer, (1968 UK No.1 single 'Cinderella Rockerfella').
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1951, Born on this day, Howard Lees, Heart, (1987 US & UK No.3 single 'Alone').

1957, Born on this day, Rolf Brendel, Nena, (1984 UK No.1 & US No.2 single '99 Red Balloons').