Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for December 28th

Today we've found another Sixties Festival we wish we could have been at; plus -- which Beatle got the first solo No. 1 single; and R.I.P. Dennis Wilson...

12/28/1968 (47 years ago today) - The three day Miami Pop Festival gets underway, arguably the very first major rock festival held on the U.S. East Coast; classic late '60's line-up, too, how could you go wrong: Chuck Berry, Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, Marvin Gaye, The Turtles, Richie Havens, Steppenwolf, Procol Harum, Jr. Walker & the All-Stars, Canned Heat, Jose Feliciano, Iron Butterfly, Three Dog Night, The McCoys (with Rick Derringer), The Box Tops, Buffy Saint-Marie, Pacific Gas & Electric and The Grateful Dead. It's a cliché, but "Wow, man!!!"

12/28/1971 (44 years ago today) - The song was originally intended for Billy Preston: "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison goes to No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard singles chart, making him the first Beatle to have a chart-topping single as a solo artist!

12/28/1983 (32 years ago today) - Having already successfully completed two dives below a friend's yacht (to find items he had drunkenly thrown off his own boat three years earlier), Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys decides to go back down one more time into the Pacific. He never returns to the boat moored in Marina Del Rey, California. Dennis was the only genuine surfer in the band; fittingly, with the help of then-President Ronald Reagan, Dennis was given a burial at sea, an honor that is normally reserved for Naval personnel. Times, indeed, have changed; it's just about impossible to imagine a political figure getting away with that today.

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