This Day In Rock History: May 1st
1966: The Beatles played a fifteen-minute live set on stage for the last time in the UK when they appeared at the New Musical Express Poll Winners concert at Wembley Empire Pool in London, where they played to an audience of 10,000. Also on the bill were The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Spencer Davis Group, The Fortunes, Herman’s Hermits, Roy Orbison, Cliff Richard, The Seekers, The Small Faces, Dusty Springfield, and the Walker Brothers. The show was videotaped for later broadcast but The Beatles’ and The Stones’ segments were omitted because of union conflicts. The Beatles’ true final live performance was the unscheduled performance on top of the roof of the Apple Records building at the end of January in 1969.
1972: The self-titled fourth and final album by the Jeff Beck Group was released. It was the group’s second album with the line up of Jeff Beck, Bobby Tench, Clive Chaman, Max Middleton and Cozy Powell, and was produced by Steve Cropper.
1979: Elton John became the first pop star to perform in Israel, playing at the Philharmonic Hall in Jerusalem. In three weeks time he also became the first Western solo pop performer to tour Russia. John insisted the reason he was the first to perform behind the Iron Curtain was because he simply asked. He had wanted seek out places that he had never played before, locations other than those on the standard rock and roll circuits.
source: wwcfradio
