Paul pulls the plug...
The tune Paul McCartney was singing on this date in 1970 started with "Uncle" but it wasn't "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey". It was "Uncle" as in "put a fork in them, they're done" or "don't buy any green bananas". It didn't matter that the number one song that day was "Let It Be", the Beatles were formally and officially toast as deemed by Paul McCartney at his press conference...
The timing of the Beatles demise was auspiciously good for Paul with his first solo, self-titled album one week away from it's British release, 10 days away from release in the U.S. The "McCartney" LP even featured a press release inside with a fake interview of Paul explaining the end of The Beatles. The band would be legally dissolved after he filed a lawsuit on December 31, 1970...
On April 10, 1970 The Beatles were officially dead. On April 10, 2006 a British press release issued this morning describes a "new Beatle album" which will be released in conjunction with a Las Vegas show that debuts this summer about the Fab Four. "It involves the creation, by the remixing and remastering of the Beatles' recorded performances, of completely new music, which will be featured in the show". That last quote comes directly from Neil Aspinall, "the head of the Beatles' record label" according to London's Daily Telegraph. Now how did Paul miss this one ???
More April 10 Memories...
1841] The New York Tribune begins publishing under Horace Greeley (who hadn't "gone west, young man" yet)...
1849] The "safety pin" is patented by Walter Hunt of New York City who would sell his rights for $100 (Hunt's body would later be found pierced by safety pins administered by Mrs. Hunt)...
1866] The ASPCA is formed...
1912] The Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on it's ill-fated maiden voyage ("women and children first")...
1925] F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is published...
1930] Synthetic rubber is produced for the 1st time...
1945] The Allies liberate the 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald...
1947] 28-year old Jackie Robinson becomes the 1st black player to be signed by a major league team as Dodger President Branch Rickey signs Jackie to a contract at the team's Montague Street offices in Brooklyn (All Robinson will do is win the "Rookie of the Year" award in his first year and help lead the Dodgers to 7 pennants in the 10 years he played for them)...
1953] Warner Brothers releases "House of Wax", the 1st 3-D movie released by a major Hollywood studio...
1956] Nat "King" Cole is attacked and beaten up while performing for an all-white audience in Birmingham, Alabama...
1957] Ricky Nelson sings for the 1st time on "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" (his 1st song ? "I'm Walking")...
1958] Bobby Darin records "Splish Splash"...
1963] 129 die as the nuclear powered submarine, USS Thresher, fails to surface off Cape Cod...
1964] Demolition begins on the Polo Grounds to clear way for a housing project...
1967] Nancy and Frank Sinatra become the only father-daughter team to go to #1, with "Somethin' Stupid"...
1969] The Mets' Tommie Agee reaches the upper deck in left field off of Expo pitcher Larry Jaster (the area is still marked and is considered the longest home run ever hit at Shea Stadium)...
1974] Yitzhak Rabin replaces Golda Meir as Prime Minister of Israel...
1977] David Soul's "Don't Give Up on Us" is #1 (Soul was detective Ken Hutchinson on "Starsky and Hutch"...
1978] On the cover of "People": Cher and then-boyfriend, Gene Simmons of KISS...
1992] Wacky comedian Sam Kinison is killed in a car crash at 38 when he gets rear ended by a pickup truck between L.A. and Las Vegas...
1998] Eddie O'Jay, one of the pioneers of R&B radio, passes away in the Bronx following complications of 2 heart attacks. Born Edward O. Jackson, the O'Jay's were named after him (at the time of his death Eddie was working for the city of New York)...
1999] George Michael, Sinead O'Connor, Chrissie Hynde and Paul McCartney perform at London's Royal Albert Hall in a charity tribute to Linda McCartney...
2001] Jane Swift becomes the 1st female Governor of Massachusetts...
2003] The House passes the national "Amber Alert" system and strengthens child pornography laws...
2003] "Little Eva", Eva Narcissus Boyd who got her start as a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin, dies at 59 in Kinston, N.C. after a lengthy illness (she had the #1 song, "The Loco-motion" which was written by Goffin-King)...
[To ensure accuracy of dates and content, multiple reference sources are used in the timeline]...
Happy Birthday To...
1915] Harry ("Dragnet", "M*A*S*H") Morgan...
1929] Max von Sydow...
1932] Omar Sharif...
1936] John Madden...
1936] Original member of The Spinners Bobbie Smith...
1938] "Dandy" Don Meredith...
1951] Steven Seagal...
1954] Peter ("Ally McBeal") MacNicol...
[Today is the 100th day of 2006 with 265 days remaining in the year and 49 days remain until Memorial Day]...
