Stones riot! -- 1/2-Beatles single! -- Country Icon birthday!

Loretta Lynn Performs On Stage
Loretta Lynn at the Grand Ole Opry, c 1960. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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4/14/1967 (49 years ago today) - It's The Rolling Stones first performance in an Iron Curtain country -- an audience of over 2,000 at the Warsaw Palace Of Culture is so starved for something real, something that they've never experienced before, it's inevitable: a riot breaks out, total mayhem ensues, and the police enthusiastically ravage the crowd with loads of tear gas. It's only rock 'n' roll...

4/14/1969 (47 years ago today) - On some radio stations, the reference to 'Christ' was edited in backwards: The Beatles record "The Ballad Of John And Yoko" on this date...well, half-The-Fab-Four actually -- the single features just John Lennon and Paul McCartney (Paul played bass, drums and piano, along with some backing vocals; John's on guitar and lead vocal -- that's it!). Of course, the song was deemed "blasphemous" and many broadcasters refused to air it. Uptight, outta-sight, indeed...

4/14/1932 - Happy Birthday to the legendary Loretta Lynn, 84 years old today, and the first woman to be named Country Music Artist Entertainer Of The Year. Loretta started writing and playing at age 15 and has never stopped doing her thing for 60 years now; her catalog is truly iconic: "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)", "You Ain't Woman Enough", "The Pill", "Coal Miner's Daughter". Artists don't get much more real than the fantastic Loretta who is a very special and unique and influential talent, no doubt about it.

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