By Keefer
Mar 4, 2021
1966 - John Lennon made his infamous remarks that led to an uproar and even led to the banning and burning of Beatles records for a brief period in some communities. In an interview with The Evening Standard, Lennon commented, Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. We re more popular than Jesus now; I don t know which will go first, rock n roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. Lennon later apologized.
1967 - The Rolling Stones went to No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with Ruby Tuesday. According to a 1971 Rolling Stone interview, Keith Richards said he wrote the song in a Los Angeles hotel room in early 1966 about a groupie he knew. Marianne Faithfull, however, recalls it differently; according to her, Brian Jones presented an early version of this melody to the rest of the Rolling Stones, and many believe that Jones actually wrote the song.