First Beatles single
October 5, 1962
A small Liverpool band released its first single, Love Me Do, on the Parlophone label. It crept up to number seventeen on the British charts. Within eighteen months they would be the biggest act in pop music history, and within three years they would be changing what pop music could do. Rock had found its transformative band.
In context
Also in 1962 (5 other events on record)
- Cuban Missile Crisis · North America · Politics
- Algeria wins independence · Africa · Politics
- Silent Spring published · North America · Science
- Vatican II opens · Europe · Religion
- Andy Warhol shows Campbell's Soup Cans · North America · Culture
Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Culture
- Before: 1961: Catch-22 published
- After: 1964: Beatles hit America
Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.