Things just kept happening.Īnd while all of this stuff was happening, the #1 song in America was a massively goofy folk-rock sci-fi novelty song about the dangers of technology. (The fact that he had any kind of political career after that is almost as wild as the accident itself.) Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight champion of the world, was convicted of evading the draft and stripped of his title after refusing to join the military. Ted Kennedy, the man who many thought would become the next president, pleaded guilty after leaving the scene of a fatal accident and basically killing a girl.
The future was opening up into strange new shapes, but it was doing it while society was disintegrating. It must’ve been an absolute headfuck to live through the summer of 1969. Between August 15 and 18, hundreds of thousands of people converged on a farm in upstate New York for the Woodstock Festival, getting massively fucked up and dancing in the rain and giving an entire generation its defining I-was-there moment. Between August 9 and 10 of the same year, the Manson Family horribly murdered eight people, including a movie star and a little kid. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon.
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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