Week of October 30th

Take a look back at this week in Rock & Roll History

Episode Transcript

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What happened this week in rock androll history? Let's find out? It's
the rock Omanac on iHeartRadio. What'sgoing on? Rock and rollovers? It's
Andy West. Let's get it started. We kick it off. This week
in nineteen sixty six, the Monkeyswere at the top of the Billboard Singles
chart with Last Train to Clarksville,the group's first number one. Bobby Hart,

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who co wrote the song, gotthe idea for the lyrics when he
turned on the radio and heard theend of the Beatles paperback Writer. He
thought Paul McCartney was singing take theLast Train, and he decided to use
the line when he found out McCartneywas actually singing paperback Writer. This Week
in nineteen seventy one, after ElvisPresley set at the Met Center in Bloomington,

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Minnesota, announcer Al Dvorren tells thecrowd Elvis has left the building.
The phrase soon enters the cultural lexiconused to signal that an event is truly
over. This Week in nineteen eightyeight, the Beach Boys, who hadn't
had a number one since Good Vibrationsin nineteen sixty six, top the charts
with the Brian Wilson list Kokomo usedin the movie Cocktail. It's the longest

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gap between number one hits for anyartist. This week in nineteen ninety EMF
releases Unbelievable in the UK. It'sa big success, peaking at number three,
but it does even better when it'sreleased in the US, where it
hits number one. You're Unbelievable.And this week in twenty eighteen, the
Queen biopicked Bohemian Rhapsody, starring RommyMallick as Freddie Mercury, opens in theaters.

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It wins four Oscars, including BestActor for Malik. And That's What
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