DJ Fred’s Rock N Roll Factoids For October 9th [VIDEOS]

What would a day in rock history be without a Beatles memory?  It would be like a can of Schlitz without a raw pickled egg.

In 1965, the Paul McCartney penned song Yesterday began a four week run at #1 on the music chart.  My God it's like it only happened yesterday.  Well, not really.

On this date in 1973, Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorced.  The couple had been married for six years and the King ended up paying her $4200 a month in child support.  Rumor has it that Elvis pleaded with his former wife to take him back just weeks before his death in 1977, but apparently Priscilla had enough of those sideburns and white jump suits.

Proving once again that the seventies were a very confusing decade, Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band went to #1 with A Fifth Of Beethoven.  Beethoven rolled over in his grave, and then shook his groove thing.

It was this night in 1981, and the Rolling Stones were getting ready to play the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.  Opening for the band was Prince, who went out onto the stage wearing nothing but a set of bikini briefs. After fifteen minutes of Stones fans booing loudly and throwing beer cans at him, Prince left the stage.  Mick Jagger told him to dress warmer next time.

John Lennon was born on this day in 1940, the Beatle would have been 75 today. It is also his son's birthday, Sean Lennon is now 40.  In 1985 on this date Yoko Ono formally opened the three and a half acre garden at the Strawberry Fields site in New York's Central Park. Just last week she organized the forming of a giant human peace sign within the park. John Lennon is the I-95 Artist of the Day!