This Week In Classic Hits History (5/2-6)

This week, Bruce auditions, Paul is passive aggressive, and there are four dead in Ohio.

May 2, 1972:

Bruce Springsteen auditioned for CBS Records. Springsteen played a short set for John Hammond in his office. Hammond was so impressed that he arranged a real audition that night at the Gaslight Club in New York for other Columbia executives. I'm pretty sure Bruce passed the audition.

May 3, 1976:

Paul McCartney made his first concert appearance in America in almost ten years when on tour with his band 'Wings'. The lp 'Wings Over America' would be recorded at various stops on this tour. I spent a month listening to all three records every afternoon after school.

May 4, 1970:

Four students at Kent University were killed and eleven wounded by National Guard troops at a campus demonstration protesting the escalation of the Vietnam War. The incident inspired Neil Young to compose 'Ohio' which became a hit for Crosby Stills Nash & Young.

May 5, 1969:

The Beatles single 'Get Back' was released in the US. John Lennon claimed that Paul McCartney looked at Yoko Ono in the studio every time he sang "Get back to where you once belonged."

May 6, 1965:

In a Florida hotel room, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards worked out the opening guitar riff of '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' following Richard's purchase of a fuzz-box. Certainly one of the greatest riffs of all-time.