On This Day in Music History:

June 11th: On this day

1949, Hank Williams made his debut at the 'Grand Ole Opry' in

Nashville and received an unprecedented total of six encores.

1960, Drummer Tommy Moore made the fateful decision to quit

The Beatles and return to his job of driving a forklift at Garston

bottle works. He was briefly replaced by Norman Chapman, who

was called into National Service after just three gigs. After going

drummerless and mostly jobless for a few weeks, the band hired

Pete Best on August 12th, only one day before they were to go

to Hamburg to play a string of club dates.