Tommy’s Coffee Break Calendar for March 6th

Stones punctuation drama... -- A creepy California nut case... -- Great women rockers at the top...

3/6/1966 (53 years ago today) - RCA Studios, Hollywood: The Rolling Stones start recording sessions for their tenth single release, "Paint It Black", and without a comma in the song title! Keith Richards has stated the bands record label, Decca, added the comma when the song was released -- "Paint It, Black" became the Stones third number one in the U.S., their sixth in the U.K., and to this day nobody knows why the comma was added on...

3/6/1970 (49 years ago today) - Charles Manson released an album titled "Lie" to raise money for his defense in the Sharon Tate/Leno and Rosemary LaBianca murder trial; the LP's jacket was made to look like the cover of Life magazine with the "f" removed. Weirdly, of all the acts you could name that would do this, it was The Beach Boys that actually recorded one of Manson's songs(!) at the behest of drummer Dennis Wilson who had briefly befriended Manson before getting scared sh#tless at how unbalanced and bizarre Chuck really was --The song, "Cease To Exist", was released as "Never Learn Not To Love", the B-side to "Bluebirds Over The Mountain"; it peaked at No. 61 in early 1969. Super strangeness across the board...

3/6/1982 (37 years ago today) - The Go-Go's start a six week run at No. 1 with their debut album "Beauty And The Beat" -- Thanks to the super-fun-sounding/catchy-dance singles "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got The Beat", the LP goes on to sell over two million copies, officially making it one of the most successful debut releases of all time! For a decade that produced an awful lot of slickly-produced synthesizer-shticky stuff, The Go-Go's were a pretty straightforward breath of fresh air -- This was definitely one of the better (and most likeable) albums of the 1980's...

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