1966 - Simon and Garfunkel started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Sounds Of Silence', a No.13 hit in the UK.
1969 - Marmalade were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of The Beatles song 'Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da'.
1970 - Rolf Harris was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Two Little Boys'. The song was written by American composer Theodore Morse and lyricist Edward Madden in 1902.
1977 - Wings were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Mull Of Kintyre.'
Spending nine weeks at No.1 in become the first single to sell over 2 million copies in the UK.
1987 - The Bangles are in the 3rd of 4 weeks at #1 with "Walk Like an Egyptian"
2000 - Santana with Rob Thomas on vocals begins its 11th straight week at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Smooth".
2002 - The Top five selling UK albums of 2001:
No.5 - Shaggy 'Hot Shot'
No.4 - Travis 'The Invisible Band'
No.3 - Eva Cassidy 'Songbird'
No.2 - David Gray 'White Ladder'
No.1 - Dido, 'No Angel'.
2007 - Queen beat The Beatles to be crowned greatest British band of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners in the UK. They pipped the Fab Four in a live contest, trouncing other finalists The Rolling Stones, Oasis and Take That. The bands were judged on song-writing, lyrics, live performances, originality and showmanship. More than 20,000 listeners voted by email, text and phone.
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