OCTOBER 9
TODAY IN 1965 THE BEATLES START A FOUR-WEEK RUN AT NO.1 ON THE U.S. SINGLES CHART WITH THE PAUL MCCARTNEY BALLAD “YESTERDAY” GIVING THE GROUP THEIR TENTH U.S. NO.1.
U2 RELEASE THE SINGLE “BEAUTIFUL DAY” TODAY IN 2000. IT IS THE LEAD TRACK FROM THEIR TENTH STUDIO ALBUM, ‘ALL THAT YOU CAN’T LEAVE BEHIND’. THE SONG WAS A COMMERCIAL SUCCESS, AND IS ONE OF U2’S BIGGEST HITS TO DATE.
OCTOBER 9 IS QUITE A POPULAR BIRTHDAY AMONG ROCKSTARS, STARTING WITH JACKSON BROWNE WHO TURNS 76 TODAY, THE LATE ‘WHO’ BASSIST JOHN ENTWISTLE BORN IN 1944, AND THE LATE BEATLES SINGER, SONGWRITER JOHN LENNON, BORN IN 1940.