MAGGIE MAY – Rod Stewart
#1 – October 2nd, 1971
NEWS
• Apollo 14 Lands On Moon (Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the lunar surface with a make-shift club he had brought from Earth.)
• Mariner 9 orbits Mars becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet — only narrowly beating Soviet Mars 2 and Mars 3, which both arrived within a month.
• We wouldn’t see anymore cigarette commercials on T.V.
• The 26th Amendment gave the right to vote to 18 year olds.
• Charlie Manson & his “family” sentenced to death.
• D. B. Cooper jumps out of a passenger jet with $200,000!
FADS and ENTERTAINMENT
• MOVIES: “Shaft” “Dirty Harry” & “The Last Picture Show” played at the movies
• T.V. “McCloud” “McMillan & Wife” and “Columbo”
• Disney World opens in Orlando.
• The “Hard Rock Café” opens in London.
• The London Bridge debuted in Lake Havasu.
• The Concert for Bangladesh is held in NYC.
• Ford offers the power Boss 351 Mustang.
DEAD
• Jim Morrison: December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971 He was ranked number 47 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of All Time.”
• Duane Allman: November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971, in 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Allman at #2 in their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, second only to Jimi Hendrix.
#1@1
• He came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces.
• He has sold over 130 million records worldwide, and is one of the best selling British singers of all time.
• “Maggie May” was initially released in the U.K. as the B-side of "Reason to Believe," but DJs became fonder of the B-side and, after two weeks on the charts, the song was reclassified, with "Maggie May" becoming the A-side. However, the single continued to be pressed with "Maggie May" as the B-side.
• A song about losing his virginity, here’s Rod Stewart and “Maggie May” Your #1 @ 1 from October 1971.
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