Musician's Born On April 22
1922 Charlie Mingus (jazz musician)
1936 Glen Campbell
1937 Jack Nitzsche (Lonely Surfer)
1950 Peter Frampton (Show Me The Way)
1955 Arthur Baker (producer)
1969 Craig Logan (Bros)
Number 1 In The Charts On April 22
1965 Beatles: Ticket to Ride UK 45
1972 Deep Purple: Machine Head UK LP
1983 David Bowie: Let's Dance UK LP
1990 Sinead O' Connor : I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got : US LP
1995 Wet Wet Wet : Picture This : UK LP
Various Music Events On April 22
1959 Alan Freed premieres his last rock-and-roll move, Go Johnny Go, starring Chuck Berry, Ritchie Valens, Jackie Wilson, Eddie Cochran and Flamingos
1961 First annual Country Music Festival held in US, at the 13,000-seater Coliseum in Jacksonville, with Faron Young and Earl Scrubbs
1963 Gene Vincent's recording contract with Capitol expires. His last recording is a tame remake of Be-Bop-A-Lula
1965 Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde LP released in the US
1969 John Lennon officially changes his middle name from Winston to Ono in a ceremony on the rooftop of the Beatles' Apple Building
1977 Jam release first single, In the City
1978 30,000 attend as Bob Marley headlines the One Love peace concert in Kingston for unemployed ghetto kids
1979 Rolling Stones perform two benefit concerts for the blind in Toronto to fulfil terms of Keith Richard's sentence for heroin trafficking
1989 1927's That's When I Think of You hits UK chart
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