2015: The original manuscript of Don McLean's "American Pie" sold for $1.2m at Christie's in New York.

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1971: The Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar", the first single on their own label, Rolling Stones Records, which introduces the infamous licking-tongue-and-lips logo designed by John Pasche.

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1969: "These Eyes" by The Guess Who enters the Billboard chart on its way to #6 a month later. Guitarist Randy Bachman wrote the basic piano chords with an original title of "These Arms". Vocalist Burton Cummings changed the title to "These Eyes" and added the middle eight bars.

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1968: Bobby Goldsboro received a Gold record for the single, "Honey", which had spent 13 weeks on the Billboard chart, including five weeks at number one. It remains heavily played on the radio to this day and has been covered many times, although Todd Leopold of CNN named it the "Worst Song of All Time" in April 2006.

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1971: The Temptations hit the top of the Billboard Pop chart for the third and final time with "Just My Imagination", a #8 hit in the UK. They would place 11 more songs in the US Top 40 during the next 20 years.

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