Dueling ex-Beatles today: In 1978, one year after the play “Beatlemania” opened on Broadway …

… Ringo Starr released his “Bad Boy” album …

… while Paul McCartney and Wings released “I’ve Had Enough”:

The number six song one year later (with no known connection to Mr. Spock):

Stop! for the number eight single today in 1990 …

… which bears an interesting resemblance to an earlier song:

Put the two together, and you get …

Birthdays today start with Billy “Crash” Craddock, who asks you to …

Eddie Levert of the O’Jays:

James Smith of the Stylistics:

Gino Vannelli:

Today is also the anniversary of the death of guitarist John Honeyman-Scott of the Pretenders:

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