Presty the DJ for Aug. 3

Today in 1963, two years and one day after the Beatles started as the house band for the Cavern Club in Liverpool, the Beatles performed there for the last time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoF-7VMMihA

Three years later, the South African government banned Beatles records.

Five years later and one year removed from the Beatles, Paul McCartney formed Wings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBX2dySWGew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvSNtDQOk7U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Bnr6sJLdU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUG1boE8SH8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hu95n1kXgc

Today in 1974, guitarist Jeff “Skunk” Baxter left Steely Dan for the Doobie Brothers, later to be followed by Michael McDonald.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgYuLsudaJQ

In my first post-college job, when he went on vacation, the newspaper owner instructed us that whatever happened while he was gone — computer dying on production day, presses struck by lightning, building destroyed by a meteor, whatever — we were to get out a newspaper as scheduled, even if it was one typewritten page. So by that standard, today in 1990 Radio Kuwait failed its listeners, because it left the air due to Kuwait’s invasion by Iraq.