This Day in Rock & Roll History for January 3

Stephen Stills, guitarist and vocalist for Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, is born. (1945)

John Paul Jones, bassist for Led Zeppelin, is born. (1946)

"The Jack Paar Show" features a clip of the Beatles, taken from a concert in Bournemouth, England. (1964)

The Beatles appear on "Hullabaloo," performing "Day Tripper" and "We Can Work It Out" on videotape. (1966)

Police at New Jersey's Newark Airport confiscate 30,000 copies of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Two Virgins" album, saying the cover photo of the nude John and Yoko is "pornographic." In Chicago, vice squad officers close down a record shop for displaying the cover. (1968)

The Beatles record what will be their last song together, "I Me mine." A decade later it becomes the title of George Harrison's auto-biography. (1970)

A year after Peter Tork's departure from the group, lead singer Davy Jones announces he too is leaving the Monkees. (1970)

Bob Dylan and the Band commences their six-week tour at Chicago Stadium. The Band was once Dylan's backup group. (1974)

Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle" goes gold, the second of three posthumous hits for the late singer/songwriter. (1974)

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