This Day in Music History: The Beatles’ first single is released, Led Zeppelin release III

1962 – Parlophone releases the first Beatles single, “Love Me Do.” The song gets its first radio spin that same day on Radio Luxembourg.

1966 – Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, and Noel Redding play together for the first time, and just like that, The Jimi Hendrix Experience forms in London.

1970 – Led Zeppelin III is released in the US.

1975 – Original Wailers members Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer play together for the last time at the Wonder Dream Concert, which is a benefit organized by Stevie Wonder in Kingston, Jamaica.

1999 – After breaking up in 1983, The Who reform when Roger Daltrey announces that they will play a concert in Las Vegas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhMO8luFdi8

1999 – Paul McCartney releases Run Devil Run in the US.

2007 – A federal jury finds a Minnesota woman guilty of online music file sharing through the public service KaZaa and fines her $220,000.

2011 – The Martin Scorsese documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World premieres on HBO.

2012 – Adele releases her theme to Skyfall, the 23rd film in the James Bond series. The song, written by Adele and her songwriting partner Paul Epworth, features a 77-piece backing orchestra.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXvl1_IgGmI

Information for this post was gathered from This Day in Music, The Music History Calendar, On This Day, and Wikipedia.