Bad Boy Vincent
Gene Vincent. (Photo: Frederick R. Bunt/Getty Images)
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2/11/1963 (53 years ago today) - In less than ten hours, The Beatles record ten songs for their first full-length LP, plus an additional four tracks that would be released as their next two singles. John's incredible vocal on their version of The Isley Brothers' "Twist And Shout" was recorded in one take, at the very end of the day -- you can hear practically hear John's throat being ripped apart. One incredible session, no doubt. Any artists out there today that could pull this off? We didn't think so either.

2/11/1969 (47 years ago today) - A new chart action record was set when The Monkees second album, "More Of The Monkees", jumped from position No. 122 to the top spot on the U.S. album chart! An incredible feat, really; it then stayed at the No. 1 spot for the next eighteen weeks in a row. If you were wondering what the fuss was about regarding these guys, those facts should give you pause to absorb just how huge they were were. Really.

2/11/1935 - Born on this date, Eugene Craddock, better known as the legendary Gene Vincent, who was one of the earliest artists to fuse the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly -- his 1956 Top Ten classic with The Blue Caps, "Be-Bop-A-Lula", remains the best example. Toured with Little Richard and Eddie Cochran; infamously tried to shoot Gary Glitter in a German hotel in 1968; later worked with The Byrds' Skip Battin and Linda Ronstadt, but he never really made a true comeback even though John Lennon was on record as saying that Vincent's late-1950's singles were some of his all time favorites. Gene died October 12, 1971 from a ruptured stomach ulcer; he was 40 years old.

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