January 14
Even though he wasn’t one of the Monkees yet, Davy Jones already had a minor hit single in 1965. That was enough to convince another Davy Jones to change his name to David Bowie today in 1965.
An exhibition of John Lennon’s erotic lithographs opened at a London art gallery on this day in 1970. “Bag One” as it was called, was closed two days later and eight prints were removed by British police for being obscene.
And in 1985, Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” became the biggest selling U.K. single up to that time, a record it held until 1997.
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