By Keefer
Apr 1, 2021
1961 - The Beatles began a three-month residency at The Top Ten Club, Hamburg, playing 92 straight nights. It was during this visit that Astrid Kirchherr, a German photographer, cut Stuart Sutcliffe's hair into the style destined to become known as the "Beatle haircut" which The Beatles later adopted themselves.
1966 - Pye Records released David Bowie's first solo single, "Do Anything You Say." Bowie had previously recorded as David Jones and The Lower Third.
1966 - The Troggs recorded "Wild Thing" at Regent Sound Studio in London. The song went on to be a No. 1 hit in the U.S. A New York group called Jordan Christopher & The Wild Ones were the first to record this, but their version flopped. The Troggs were introduced to the song by their manager and considered it "so weird and unusual that we just had to record it". This was written by a songwriter named Chip Taylor. "'Wild Thing' came out in a matter of minutes. The pauses and the hesitations are a result of not knowing what I was going to do next." Taylor is the brother of actor Jon Voight and the uncle of Angelina Jolie.