From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: APRIL 13
1959: The Fleetwoods “Come Softly To Me” hits No. 1 on the charts.
1962: The Beatles begin their legendary stint at the new Star Club
in Hamburg, Germany. Performing three to four hours a night for 48 days with just one day off, the group logs a total of 172 hours of performance. When the band returns to England, they are already stars with a record contract.
1965: At tonight’s Grammy Awards ceremonies in Los Angeles, Roger Miller is the big winner, taking home five awards (a first for a country artist at the Grammys). Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto wins the
Record Of The Year Award for “The Girl From Ipanema” and Album Of The Year for Getz/Gilberto. The Beatles win the Best New Artist Award and Best Performance By A Vocal Group for “A Hard Day’s Night.”
1967: The Rolling Stones play their first-ever gig behind the “Iron Curtain” of Soviet countries with a performance in Warsaw. When the club is overrun by fans without tickets, the local police react by dispersing the crowd with tear gas.
1968: Bobby Goldsboro’s “Honey” hits No. 1 on the national chart.
1969: Diana Ross makes her first television appearance as a solo-act, performing on Dinah Shore’s NBC-TV special, Like Hep.
1974: Paul McCartney and Wings LP album “Band On The Run” hits No. 1 on the national LP chart.
1982: Still awaiting trial on a concealed weapon and illegal drug charges three weeks earlier, David Crosby, formerly of the Byrds and with Crosby, Stills and Nash, is again arrested in Dallas after local police found him preparing a “speedball” of cocaine backstage before he was to perform.
1989: Jack Jones is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Blvd. in L.A.
1999: After nine years of a very public marriage, Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley announce they are separated. They will divorce later on in the year.
2008: Cult ’60s Detroit soul man Nathaniel Mayer collapses from a brain hemorrhage that will, within the year, will take his life.
And that’s a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day…. 
