MUSIC HISTORY

On February 9, 1964, The Beatles—identified in a press release as a wildly popular quartet of English recording stars—performed on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' in New York City and changed the course of music history.

On February 3, 1959, musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson (along with pilot Roger Peterson) were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. The date became known as "The Day the Music Died."

The original footage was deleted long ago, but a fan happened to record it.

“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.”

Christmas is a time for joy, thankfulness, love … and, when it comes to Christmas carols, the occasional bout of cringe.

The singer would have celebrated his 103rd birthday today.

In 1956, Chrysler introduced a record player that could be mounted under dashboards and promised that it would never skip. Common sense argued otherwise.

Respect.

It sat in storage for almost a decade.

Spice up your life with a trip to London.

The lost single was rejected by a record company.

Before the 20th century, concert musicians might tune their instruments to wildly different pitches, depending on where they were playing.