MAGGIE MAY - ROD STEWART - 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. “All In The Family” “Marcus Welby,M.D” and “Sanford And Son”

• Disney World opens in Orlando.

• The “Hard Rock Café” opens in London.

• Ray Tomlinson invented internet based email.

• The Concert for Bangladesh is held in NYC.

• The first Starbucks opened in Seattle, Washington.

• The hot toys were Weebles,  Etch-A-Sketch in New HOT PINK or COOL BLUE frames, and Uno.

 

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

• This song was Stewart's first substantial hit as a solo performer and launched his solo career. .

• “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.

• Rolling Stone ranked the song #130 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

• "Maggie May was more or less a true story, about the first woman Stewart had sex with, at the Beaulieu Jazz Festival."

• On his album Every Picture Tells a Story.

• Here’s Rod Stewart with “Maggie May” Your #1 @ 1 from October 1971.