Musician Birthdays: Edgar Winter (keyboardist, singer of the Edgar Winter Group, famous for the instrumental hit, “Frankenstein”, born in 1946), John Legend (jazz, R&B singer/songwriter, born in 1978)

– In 1968: The Beatles went to No.1 on the US album chart with the ‘White Album’, the group’s 12th US No.1 album.

– In 1971: George Harrison was at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘My Sweet Lord’, making him the first Beatle to score a No.1 US hit. The song was originally intended for Billy Preston.

– In 1974: Helen Reddy went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Angie Baby’, the singers third US No.1. The song was turned down by Cher.

– In 1978: Rolling Stone magazine voted ‘Some Girls’ by The Rolling Stones ‘Album of the Year.’

– In 1983: Having made two successful dives below a friend’s yacht to find items he’d drunkenly thrown off his own boat three years before, Beach Boy Dennis Wilson took one last dive into the Pacific and never returned from the boat moored in Marina Del Rey, California. With the help of President Reagan he was given a burial at sea, normally reserved for Navel personnel. Dennis was the only genuine surfer in The Beach Boys.

– In 1998: UK radio station BBC Radio 1 aired the 100 National Anthems, songs voted by listeners. At No.5 Radiohead, ‘Creep’, No.4 Underworld ‘Born Slippy’, No.3 The Verve ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, No.2 Nirvana ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, No.1 Massive Attack ‘Unfinished Sympathy’.

– In 2005: Pink Floyd were voted the greatest rock stars ever in a survey of 58,000 listeners from UK radio station Planet Rock. Led Zeppelin were voted into second place, 3rd was The Rolling Stones, 4th The Who, 5th, AC/DC, 6th, U2, 7th, Guns N’ Roses, 8th, Nirvana, 9th, Bon Jovi and in 10th place Jimi Hendrix. Listeners also named the 1970s as the golden age of rock, followed by the 1960’s.