1965 - The Beatles' "Yesterday" is the No. 1 single in the U.S. McCartney said the melody came to him in a dream. He started adding lyrics, with a working title of "Scrambled Eggs." "Yesterday" is the most covered pop song of all time, with over 3,000 versions recorded.
1969 - Led Zeppelin II was released. It was recorded over six months between four European and three American tours. Since the group could only enter the studio for brief amounts of time, most of the songs that compose II are reworked blues and rock & roll standards that the band was performing on-stage at the time. Not only did the short amount of time result in a lack of original material, it made the sound more direct. Jimmy Page still provided layers of guitar overdubs, but the overall sound of the album is heavy and hard, brutal and direct. While Led Zeppelin II doesn't have the eclecticism of the group's debut, it's arguably more influential. It provided the blueprint for all the heavy metal bands that followed it. (Photo by Danny Martindale/Getty Images)
1976 - Bob Seger released his ninth studio album, Night Moves. It was his first with the Silver Bullet Band, a group of Detroit-area musicians that help launched Seger to national acclaim. The title track was inspired by the movie American Graffiti.
1990 - Pearl Jam played their first-ever concert, held at the Off Ramp Café in Seattle. At the time, the band operated under the name Mookie Blaylock, named for an NBA player; they signed to Epic Records and changed their name to Pearl Jam shortly thereafter.
2017 - Australian musician, songwriter and record producer George Young died aged 70. Young, the brother of AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young, was a member of the Easybeats and co-wrote the band's 1966 hit 'Friday On My Mind'.
Birthdays:
Leslie West, Mountain ('Mississippi Queen') was born on this date in 1945. My first concert was Mountain, in 197...I forget. What was your first concert?
Eddie Brigati, The Rascals, is 76.
Stiv Bators, Dead Boys and Lords Of The New Church, was born on this date in 1965.
Bassist Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets is 61.
Shaggy (Orville Richard Burrell) is 53.
Shelby Lynne is 53. Her song 'Thought It Would Be Easier' was on KBCO Studio C Vol. 12. She's the older sister of Allison Moorer.
Jamie N Commons is 33.
On This Day in Music History is sourced from This Day in Music, Song Facts and Wikipedia.