March 27th, 1965

60 YEARS AGO TODAY:

3/27/65 – Jeff Beck plays his first gig with The Yardbirds as Eric Clapton’s replacement

Also on 3/27, The Supremes score their 4^th straight #1 Single with “Stop! In The Name Of Love”

That evening, they perform the song live on “The Hollywood Palace”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBbwm4KEFPc&list=PLbdRCFzD6vcbcWfZISgDcc1-0V_zZA9Jl

March 26th, 1965

60 YEARS AGO TODAY:

3/26/65 – Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Bill Wyman all received electric shocks from a faulty microphone on stage during a Rolling Stones concert in Denmark. (Wyman was knocked unconscious for several minutes!)

March 25th, 1965

60 YEARS AGO TODAY:

3/25/65 – Eric Clapton abruptly quits The Yardbirds.   

Feeling that the band was becoming too commercialized (they had just released what would be their first hit single, “For Your Love”), he will join John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers to get back to his roots and true love of playing the blues.  

Before leaving, however, he will recommend Jeff Beck as his replacement … and The Yardbirds will enter Phase Two of their career featuring incredible lead guitarists.  (Beck will eventually be replaced by Jimmy Page, who will turn “The New Yardbirds” into Led Zeppelin in the late ‘60’s.)

Also on 3/25, now 25,000 strong, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s march arrives at Montgomery, Alabama’s state capitol.

Also on 3/25, Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is born