Dolly Parton recorded ‘I Will Always Love You’ in RCA’s Studio “B” in Nashville. Written for her one-time partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, when the two were splitting professionally at the time, the song was later a world-wide hit for Whitney Houston.

Pink Floyd released their second single ‘See Emily Play’. It was written by original frontman Syd Barrett. The slide guitar work on the song was done by Barrett using a plastic ruler.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with. Duke Ellington

Kyu Sakamoto started his three weeks run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Sukiyaki’, the first-ever Japanese song to do so. It made No.6 on the UK chart in 1963 and was also a No.10 UK single for Kenny Ball in the same year.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with. Neil Peart

Ringo Starr‘s birthplace in Liverpool was saved from the threat of demolition. The house, a run-down three-bedroom Victorian terrace, was one of 400 buildings marked for demolition in the Dingle area of Liverpool, but Beatles fans and city residents had successfully lobbied to save the house, along with 15 others in the area. The Liverpool…

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated? Robert Plant