MAGGIE MAY - ROD STEWART - 1971

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.