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After using his guitar in court to show a jury how several hit songs have contained the same short series of notes, John Fogerty was found not guilty of plagiarizing his own record, “Run Through the Jungle” when he wrote “The Old Man Down The Road”. His former record label, Fantasy Records, had brought about the suit...

After the success of “Satisfaction”, The Rolling Stones top the Billboard Hot 100 for the second time with “Get Off of My Cloud”. Keith Richards would later say, “I never dug it as a record. The chorus was a nice idea, but we rushed it as the follow-up.”

Decca releases Them’s, slightly-ahead-of-its-day single by singer-songwriter Van Morrison on the B-side of blues standard ‘Baby Please Don’ t Go’. It makes UK#10....

Atlantic Records releases Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”. It would rise to #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and be ranked at #18 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs of All Time” list in March, 2023. Although it made the Top Ten in eight other countries, the song did not chart in the UK.