Music
Throwback Thursday: Madonna’s ‘Vogue’ Is A No.1 Hit
1960
Inspired by the hysteria surrounding Elvis Presley and his Army stint, the musical Bye Bye Birdie, starring Dick Van Dyke, Dick Gautier, and Paul Lynde opens on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York City. It will run for 607 performances.
1963
The Beatles visit the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, Surrey, England, to see an unsigned band called The Rolling Stones. The name of the club derived from Bo Diddley’s 1960 song “Doing the Craw-Daddy”, which The Rolling Stones regularly performed as part of their set. In turn the club would inspire the name of the American music magazine Crawdaddy!
1967
The Bee Gees released “New York Mining Disaster 1941”. It was the first single release of the group’s international career and their first song to hit the charts in the US or UK.
1969
In a first for the Academy Awards, the Oscar for Best Actress is a tie: Katherine Hepburn for The Lion In Winter and Barbra Streisand for Funny Girl.
1973
Led Zeppelin started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Houses Of The Holy, also a No.1 in the US. The young girl featured on the cover of the album climbing naked up Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland is Samantha Gates who was 6 years old at the time of the photo shoot.
1976
Motown Records and Stevie Wonder held a news conference to announce he had signed a $13 million-plus contract with the label – the largest contract to that time.
1989
Tom Petty released his first solo album “Full Moon Fever.”
1990
Madonna scored her seventh UK No.1 single with “Vogue”, also a US No.1 hit. Taken from her soundtrack album I’m Breathless (Music from and Inspired by the film Dick Tracy).
2002
Ashanti started a ten-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with “Foolish” and on the same day started a three-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with her self-titled album.
2015
American R&B and soul singer Percy Sledge passed away of liver cancer at his home in Baton Rouge, at the age of 73. The inspiration behind his 1966 US No.1 hit “When a Man Loves a Woman”, came when Sledge’s girlfriend left him for a modeling career after he was laid off from a construction job in late 1965.