PAINT IT BLACK - ROLLING STONES - 1966

PAINT IT, BLACK – Rolling Stones

#1 June 11th, 1966

NEWS

• The Cultural Revolution began in China
• Anti-war protests began to rage.
• Daylight Savings Time was introduced.
• The first SR-71 Blackbird spy plane goes into service at Beale AFB. 
• Fidel Castro declares martial law in Cuba because of a possible U.S. attack. 
• Miranda v. Arizona: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”  “Grand Prix” “The Sand Pebbles”.
• The first Star Trek episode was shown in September 1966.
• Kwanza is celebrated for the first time.
• The National Hockey League expands to twelve teams.
• John Lennon comments, "We're more popular than Jesus now," sparking a controversy in the U.S.
• Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is released.

DEAD

• Walt Disney went to the big amusement park in the sky.
• Lenny Bruce would take his own life.

#1@1

• By 1966 the Rolling Stones were doing pretty well for themselves. They had done much the same as the Beatles, honing their chops in the bars & bistros of London although with a blues-ier, harder edge than the Beatles.
• The 6^th album the Rolling Stones would released in the U.S. established Jagger and Richards as being every bit as formidable songwriters as Lennon-McCartney.
• “Aftermath” went to #2 on the charts but the lead single would go all the way…
• The Rolling Stones and Paint It, Black…Your #1 @ 1 from June 1966