Today in 1963 The Beatles appeared before royalty at London's Prince of Wales Theatre where John told the audience, "will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. All the rest of you, rattle your jewelry."
In 1970 Jethro Tull performed a sold out benefit to aid Phoenix House, the country's largest drug rehabilitation facility - most of Tull's 80 minute set at Carnegie Hall was from the benefit LP.
The Rainbow Theatre opened in London in 1971 - it became that city's first permanent Rock and Roll Theatre.
A Pink Floyd benefit concert in 1963 raised 10,000 pounds to aid Robert Wyatt, the former Soft Machine drummer who was suffering from a broken back.
And in 1978 Greg Reeves sued Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young for $1 million alleging the group failed to pay royalties due him for work on the Deja Vu LP.
The Doobie Brothers were at the Music Hall in 1973.
In '77 Styx played the Orpheum.
That same night saw Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the paradise.
In '78 the Talking Heads were at the Berklee Performance Center and Boston, the band, played Boston, the city, for the first time in two sold out nights at the Garden the same night.
Today in 1963 The Beatles appeared before royalty at London's Prince of Wales Theatre where John told the audience, "will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. All the rest of you, rattle your jewelry."
