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This Day in Music History

Posted: 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013

This Day in Music History: Tuesday, January 29th 

By Mike Lapitino

This Day in Music History...

1964: Two Lennon-McCartney songs, "Do You Want to Know a Secret" and "Bad to Me," make up the first US single release by Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas.

1964: The Beatles record "Can't Buy Me Love" at Pathe Marconi Studios in Paris. The session, scheduled while the band is in town for a two-week concert engagement, also produces "Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand" and "Sie Liebt Dich," the German-lyric versions, respectively, of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You." "Can't Buy Me Love" becomes the only Beatles chart-topper that was not recorded in England.

1967: The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Who share a bill at London's Saville Theater.

1972: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones join Chuck Berry for three songs during the rock pioneer's show at the Hollywood Palladium.

1978: Guitarist Steve Clark joins Def Leppard.

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