To me, this is a landmark day in rock history... I consider this the day the music was born. Prior to 1/13/64 we'd had plenty of rock and roll... Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and many more great acts. But then something happened and we got tunes from Frankie Avalon, Bobby Vee, Fabian and (ugh) Bobby Vinton. But very quietly and with no fanfare at all, an unknown (at the time) band from Liverpool, England released a record that would very shortly change everything. Today is the day the Beatle released "I Want to Hold Your Hand". And we were shortly going to get our rock and roll back!
