April 26 1982 Rod Stewart was famously carjacked in broad daylight on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The thief made off with his $50,000 Porsche.
1978
Ringo Starr starred in a TV special called Ringo, a musical version of The Prince and the Pauper. Despite Ringo playing both lead roles and George Harrison providing the narration, it finished 53rd out of 65 shows in the ratings that week.
1975
B.J. Thomas hit No. 1 with "Hey Won't You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song." At the time, it set the record for the longest title of a No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100.
1966
The Beatles began recording "Yellow Submarine." To get the nautical atmosphere, they didn't use digital effects; they used a metal bathtub, whistles, hooters, and a chain clinking in a glass. Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones was actually there clinking glasses for the background noise.
April 28 1973: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon hit No. 1 on the US Billboard chart. While it only stayed at the top for one week, it famously remained in the charts for a record-breaking 741 weeks (until 1988).
May 1 1967 Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. The ceremony lasted only eight minutes.
1971 The Rolling Stones released "Brown Sugar" in the US. It was the first single on their own Rolling Stones Records label and became an instant No. 1 hit.
May 1 (various years): A strange bit of recurring trivia: A man in Minnesota once successfully convinced a hospital staff he was David Gilmour of Pink Floyd to get free treatment. While the exact date fluctuates, it is often cited during this spring window as one of the most brazen acts of rock-and-roll identity theft
