Source: Good News Network
53 years ago today, The Beatles’ reached No.1 on the US album chart with their groundbreaking Rubber Soul album. Their 7th chart–topping LP, it stayed on the Billboard list for 56 weeks, with album sales that were unprecedented. At the same time, their single ‘We Can Work It Out’ became the group’s 11th U.
S. No.1 hit… Elvis Costello remembers the influence it had on those of his generation… (1966)Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello was an 11-year-old fan at the time, and he recalls his initial reaction to the album: “‘I don’t like this, I think they’ve lost their minds’… I didn’t understand a word, I didn’t think it was any good—and then six weeks later you couldn’t live without the record… That’s when you trust the people who make music to take you somewhere you haven’t been before.”
Original US Track List for Rubber Soul:
Side one
1. “I’ve Just Seen a Face” McCartney 2:04
2. “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” Lennon with McCartney 2:05
3. “You Won’t See Me” McCartney 3:19
4. “Think for Yourself” (Harrison) Harrison 2:19
5. “The Word” Lennon 2:42
6. “Michelle” McCartney 2:42
Side two
1. “It’s Only Love” Lennon 1:53
2. “Girl” Lennon 2:33
3. “I’m Looking Through You” McCartney 2:24
4. “In My Life” Lennon 2:24
5. “Wait” Lennon and McCartney 2:15
6. “Run for Your Life”
MORE Good News on this Date:
- Monaco gained its independence (1297); French people voted to grant Algeria its independence after 7 years of a guerrilla war (1961)
- African American men were granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C., despite President Andrew Johnson’s veto (1867)
- The African National Congress was founded (1912)
- David Bowie, the rock star who reinvented popular music with singles such as “Space Oddity” and “Starman” was born (1947)
- Bobby Fischer won the US Chess Championship at age 14 (1958)
- Ella Grasso became Governor of Connecticut, the first woman Governor in the US who did not succeed her husband (1975)
- Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov leaves for Mir, where he would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995…
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