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1962 Cliff Richard: The Young Ones UK LP
1962 Chubby Checker: The Twist US 45
1973 Carly Simon: No Secrets US LP
1973 Slade: Slayed UK LP
1990 New Kids on the Block: Hanging Tough UK 45
1997 Tori Amos : Professional Widow : UK single
Births
1948 John Lees (Barclay James Harvest)
1954 Trevor Rabin (Yes)
1955 Fred White (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1961 Suggs (Graham McPherson - Madness)
Deaths
1979 Donny Hathaway
Various
2004 – A Canadian furniture store apologizes to the widow of Frank Zappa for using his song “Watermelon in Easter Hay” without consent in a TV commercial.
2003 – Who guitarist Pete Townshend was arrested on suspicion of child porn offences. Police officers impounded seven computers from his £15 million ($25.5 million) home in Richmond, Surrey.
2003 – Tommy Mottola, onetime husband of Mariah Carey, resigns as chairman of Sony Music.
2003 – Police in England and the Netherlands recover nearly 500 lost tapes made by the Beatles in raids on bootleggers.
1993 – Tonight on TV’s A Country Music Celebration, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan perform their “Heartland” songwriting collaboration.
1991 – The crowd at Dayton, Ohio’s Ervin J. Nutter Center get introduced to Guns N’ Roses time, as the band take the stage at 12:25 AM to play
1986 – Sex Pistol members John Lydon, Steve Jones and Paul Cook, as well as the mother of Sid Vicious, sued former manager Malcom McClaren for £1 million ($1.7 million).
1984 – BBC Radio 1 announced a ban on ‘Relax’ by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, after DJ Mike Read called it ‘obscene’, a BBC TV ban also followed.
1981 – appearing at The Venue, London, Bow Wow Wow. Tickets cost £3 ($5.10).
1980 – appearing live at the Birmingham Odeon, England, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, tickets £2.
1980 – Bob Dylan kicks off the second leg of his Gospel Tour in Seattle meeting with great success.
1980 – A benefit for the people of Kampuchea is held at the Oakland Coliseum in California. Headliners are the Grateful Dead, Beach Boys and Jefferson Starship.
1979 – Soul singer Donny Hathaway committed suicide falling from a 15th floor New York hotel window.
1979 – The YMCA sues the Village People over their song of the same name.
1978 – The Police started recording their first album at Surrey Sound Studios, Surrey, England with producer Nigel Gray.
1973 – Slade scored their first UK No.1 album with ‘Slayed’.
1973 – Carly Simon started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘No Secrets’.
1973 – Eric Clapton performs at the Rainbow Theatre in a concert organized by his friend Pete Townshend in order to help Clapton shake his alcoholism.
1969 – Elvis Presley begins recording in Memphis for the first time since his Sun sessions and makes some of his most powerful adult music, including “Suspicious Minds.”
1967 – Jimi Hendrix performs at London’s Bag O’Nails club before an audience that includes Beatles manager Brian Epstein.
1967 – The Rolling Stones appear on TV’s “Ed Sullivan Show” and are forced to change the lyrics of “Let’s Spend the Night Together” to “Let’s Spend Some Time Together”
1966 – George Harrison and his girlfriend Patti Boyd met up with Mick Jagger and Chrissie Shrimpton at Dolly’s nightclub on Jermyn Street in London’s west End.
1966 – Ringo Starr and John Lennon leave England for a vacation in Trinidad.
1965 - Bob Dylan releases The Times They Are A-Changing as a single. His first hit in the UK, it never makes the American chart.
1964 – The Beatles release their breakthrough single “I Want to Hold Your Hand” in the United States.
1964 – Bob Dylan releases Another Side of Bob Dylan. Share and Enjoy
1963 – Bob Dylan plays a folk singer in the BBC radio play The Madhouse of Castle Street. He fills out his performance by singing “Blowin’ in the Wind”
1963 – In Birmingham, the Beatles make a recording for Thank Your Lucky Stars, their first British national TV appearance.
1962 – Cliff Richard scored his second UK No.1 album with ‘The Young Ones’, which spent six weeks at the top of the charts.
1962 – Bob Dylan performs at the San Remo Coffee House in Schenectady, N.Y.
1962 – Chubby Checker tops the singles charts with “The Twist.”
1961 – Suggs, lead singer with the excellent English ska-pop group Madness (“Our House”), is born in Hastings as Graham MacPherson.
1958 -Little Richard releases Good Golly Miss Molly in US
1957 – Elvis Presley records “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin” at a Hollywood studio.
1957 - Elvis Presley records All Shook Up
1955 – Earth Wind & Fire drummer Fred White is born.
1954 – Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin is born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
1952 – Doobie Brothers sax player Cornelius Bumpus is born today.
1948 – John Lees, vocalist/guitarist with prog rockers Barclay James Harvest, is born in England.
1947 – Chris Thomas, who has produced classic albums like For Your Pleasure, Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols, The Pretenders and Kick, is born in Middlesex, England.
Rock On Music Lovers!!
-Stereo
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