SANDY KOZEL

Members of the environmental group Greenpeace display banner.

Debut album released on this day in 1963

Andrew Lloyd Webber (Baron Lloyd-Webber) is 69 today.

Webber was knighted in 1992 and honored with a peerage
by Queen Elizabeth II as recognition for his contributions to
Music.

ROSS SIMPSON

1942

Album released on this day in 1970.

The Supremes album "Meet the Supremes" was their debut album. The studio
LP includes the group’s earliest singles: "I Want a Guy", "Buttered Popcorn",
"Your Heart Belongs to Me" and "Let Me Go the Right Way".

Beggars Banquet is the seventh British and ninth American studio album by The
Rolling Stones. It was released by Decca Records in the United Kingdom and
London Records in the U.S. The album was a return to roots rock for the band
following the psychedelic pop of their 1967 album. It was the last Rolling Stones
album to be released during Brian Jones‘ lifetime.

Beggars Banquet received a highly favorable response from music critics, who considered it a return to form for the Stones. It was also a commercial success,
reaching number 3 in the UK and number 5 in the US (on the way to eventual
platinum status).

TIM MAGUIRE