Today in Music History - On This Day August26 Calendar- 1846 Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah" premieres at the Birmingham Festival in England
- 1967 The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, and Donovan meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at a retreat in Bangor, Wales
- 1968 "Hey Jude" single released by the Beatles in US (Billboard Song of the Year 1968, Billboard 10th biggest song of all time 2013)
- 1977 Ian Dury releases the single "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"
- 1980 Pete Comita replaces Tom Peterson as bassist of American rock band Cheap Trick
- 1992 "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Square Theater, NYC; runs for 46 performances
- 2005 US Postal Service christens a Los Angeles facility as "The Ray Charles Station"
- 2006 David Gilmour performs with his band and the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra before a crowd of 50,000 at Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland
- More Events in Music
- 1683 Christoph Schultze, German composer, dies at 76
- 1712 Sebastian Anton Scherer, German composer, dies at 80
- 1813 Daniel Gottlob Turk, German composer, dies at 63
- 1849 Jacques- Féréol Mazas, French composer, conductor and violinist, dies at 66
- 1860 Philipp Friedrich Silcher, German composer, dies at 71
- 2006 British 2004 X-Factor winner Steve Brookstein (37) weds Scottish jazz musician Eileen Hunter at King's College Chapel in Aberdeen, Scotland
- 2012 "The Campaign" actress Kate Lang Johnson (28) weds musician Justin Miner at La Venta Inn in Palos Verdes, California
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