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    • Oct 8, 1962
    Five years after renouncing it, Little Richard blasts back to rock & roll, performing the future country hit "Lucille" during a show at the Gaumont Theater in Dorcaster, England. The bill also features Sam Cooke and emcee Gene Vincent
    Oct 10, 1962
    The BBC bans Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "The Monster Mash," including a background vocal appearance by future Nashville songwriter Johnny MacRae. Among MacRae's credits: "I'd Love To Lay You Down" and "I'd Be Better Off (In A Pine Box)"
    Oct 13, 1962
    Don Everly collapses on stage at the outset of an English tour. He is hospitalized at Charing Cross Hospital in London for a drug overdose, though the hospital calls it food poisoning. He tries a second overdose the same day in his hotel room
    Oct 20, 1962
    Roy Acuff begins a seven-week USO tour that features performances before American military personnel in more than 10 nations, including Ethiopia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Greece, Lebanon and Libya
    Oct 27, 1962
    The Rolling Stones hold their first recording session, at London's Curly Clayton Sound Studios. They eventually cut "Honky Tonk Women," deemed among country's all-time greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Nov 3, 1962
    Johnny Cash and June Carter arrive at Kimpo Air Force Base in South Korea at the outset of a USO tour to play for American soldiers
    Nov 11, 1962
    Johnny Cash and June Carter conclude a USO tour of South Korea with a performance at Camp Casey
    Dec 7, 1962
    Bass player Bill Wyman auditions for The Rolling Stones at London's World's End Pub. He gets the gig and plays seven years later on "Honky Tonk Women," judged one of country's 500 greatest singles in a Country Music Foundation book
    Dec 9, 1962
    Record producer George Martin visits the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where he first sees The Beatles, the clients who bring him to fame. Martin goes on to produce 1980s country hits for Kenny Rogers
    Dec 12, 1962
    Roy Acuff concludes a seven-week USO tour in which he performed for American troops in more than 10 nations, including Ethiopia, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Greece, Lebanon and Libya



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