Beatles Plane Crash

Pan Am Flight 101, on its way to New York City from Great Britain crashes into the ocean. No survivors were found. Among the victims was a rock and roll group known as the Beatles. The four members of the group, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Richard Starkey (stage name Ringo Starr) leave behind various relatives who have been notified. The bodies of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starkey are recovered and are sent back to Liverpool. Funerals are held for the four singers. Thousands of Liverpudlians turn out to grieve. The Dave Clark Five appear on the Ed Sullivan Show, replacing the relatively unknown (at least in the U.S.) Beatles who had been scheduled to appear a month earlier. The DC5 perform their hits "Do You Love Me?" and "Glad All Over" to an audience that the New York Times described as "... apparently consisting exclusively of frantically screaming teenage girls." Keith Richards, lead guitarist for the British rock group "The Rolling Stones", attends an small London gallery opening for the Japanese conceptual artist Yoko Ono. Richards makes the artist's aquaintence, and soon the two are spotted around town together, fueling rumors of a relationship. Richards and his bandmates have been under the increasing glare of the music world in recent months, especially after one BBC interview in which Keith and lead vocalist Mick Jagger proclaimed that The Stones were bigger than Jesus.