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By Keefer
Apr 15, 2021
1894 - Empress Of The Blues Bessie Smith was born on this day. She was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 30s and is widely regarded as one of the greatest singers of her age.
1964 - After a long day of filming their first movie, Ringo Starr tells the other Beatles it s been a hard day s night. John Lennon turns the phrase into a song, and the movie title is changed from Beatlemania! to A Hard Day s Night.
1966 - The Rolling Stones release Aftermath. They finally delivered a set of all-original material with this LP, which also did much to define the group as the bad boys of rock & roll with their sneering attitude toward the world in general and the female sex in particular. But on the other hand the group began incorporating the influences of psychedelia and Dylan into their material with classics like Paint It Black, an eerily insistent number one hit graced by some of the best use of sitar (played by Brian Jones) on a rock rec