Today In ROCK HISTORY!

[TJ]

March 25th

• 1942
  Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin is born.
  
  
• 1947
  Elton John is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1949
  Nick Lowe is born.
  
  
• 1956
  At the conclusion of Alan Freed's 3-day Rock 'n' Roll Show at the Stage Theater in Hartford, Connecticut, police have arrested eleven teenagers & took the theater's license to operate. This prompts Hartford Institue of Living psychiatrist Dr. Francis J. Braceland to testify at license hearings that rock & roll is " a communicable disease with music appealing to adolescent insecurity & driving teenagers to do outlandish things...It's cannibalistic & tribalistic."
  
  
• 1961
  Elvis Presley performs his last live show for eight years at Block Arena in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The show is a benefit & $62,000 is raised for the U.S.S. Arizona memorial fund.
  
  
• 1967
  The Who makes its U.S. concert debut in New York as part of a rock & roll extravaganza promoted by legendary DJ Murray the K.
  
  
• 1970
  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's first & only studio album, " Deja Vu " goes gold. The LP yielded hit singles in " Woodstock " & " Teach Your Children."
  
  
• 1976
  Jackson Browne's wife Phyllis commits suicide.
  
  
• 1977
  After a decade of being the " Beautiful Loser," Bob Seger gets his big break. His 7th album, " Night Moves " goes platinum. The 33 year old is aided by three Top Forty hits off the LP:
  " Night Moves," " Mainstreet " & " Rock & Roll Never Forgets."
  
  
• 1985
  At the Academy Awards, Prince wins an Oscar for Original Song Score for " Purple Rain."
  
  
• 1990
  Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee is arrested for allegedly exposing his buttocks during a concert in Augusta, Georgia.
  
  
• 1995
  Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder is rescued after a riptide carries him 250 feet offshore in New Zealand.
  

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[TJ]

March 26th

• 1944
  Diana Ross is born.
  
  
• 1948
  Stephen Tyler, lead vocalist for Aerosmith, is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1949
  Fran Sheehan, bassist with Boston, is born.
  
  
• 1957
  Ricky Nelson records his first songs.
  
  
• 1961
  Gene McDaniels' " One Hundred Pounds of Clay," his first & biggest hit, enters the pop chart. It peaks at #3.
  
  
• 1961
  Elvis Presley sets a British chart first: Number One with three straight releases: " It's now or never," " Are You Lonesome Tonight " & " Wooden Heart."
  
  
• 1965
  NME announces guitarist Eric Clapton's replacement in the Yardbirds is Jeff Beck. Clapton quit the group protesting the commerciality of tunes like " For Your Love" & " Heart Full of Soul."
  
  
• 1968
  Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha is born.
  
  
• 1970
  Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary whose album, " Peter, Paul & Mommy" is the latest Grammy Award winner for Best Recording for Children, pleads guilty to " taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl in Washington D.C.
  
  
• 1971
  The Rolling Stones tape a live performance at the Marquee Club for television. Although the program later aired in Europe, British television has no interest in it whatsoever.
  
  
• 1972
  Mott the Hoople decide to pack it in after four albums. However, David Bowie comes to their rescue, with a song called " All the Young Dudes." Hoople records it. Bowie produces it & it becomes a smash in the U.K. & Top Forty in the U.S.
  
  
• 1974
  David Essex enjoys his one & only succesful U.S. hit " Rock On," which turns gold on this date.
  
  
• 1975
  " Tommy," the film, premiers in London.
  
  
• 1976
  Wings guitarist Jimmy McCullough breaks a finger after slipping in his hotel bathroom after the last show of the band's European tour, in Paris. The injury pushed back by three weeks the start of Paul McCartney's first shows in the United State in a decade.
  
  
• 1977
  Stiff Records releases " Less Than Zero" b/w " Radio Sweetheart ", the first single by Elvis Costello.
  
  
• 1980
  Seven years after Pink Floyd released " The Dark Side of the Moon," it breaks the record for the longest-charting pop album, previously held by Carole King's " Tapestry."
  
  
• 1986
  Guns N' Roses was signed to Geffen Records.
  
  
• 1995
  Rapper Eazy-E dies of AIDS in Los Angeles. He was 31.
  
  
• 2000
  Phil Collins wins an Oscar at the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Original Song thanks to " You'll Be In My Heart " from the Disney animated feature " Tarzan."
  

[TJ]

March 27th

• 1950
  Tony Banks, keyboard player for Genesis, is born.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1959
  INXS keyboardist/guitarist Andrew Farris is born.
  
  
• 1964
  The British Invasion makes it around the globe as the Beatles occupy the top six spots in the Australian pop chart.
  
  
• 1965
  The Who's " I Can't Explain" is released.
  
  
• 1967
  The British Music Industry awarded John Lennon & Paul McCartney the prestigious Ivor Novello award for writing " Michelle," the most performed song in Britain in 1966.
  
  
• 1967
  A riot broke out at a Rolling Stones concert in Halsinborg, Sweden. 5 days later, 154 fans were arrested in another riot at a Stones concert in Vienna, Austria. And then 3 weeks later, another riot broke out at a Stones concert in Zurich, Switzerland.
  
  
• 1968
  Little Willie John dies of a heart attack in Walla Walla Penitentiary. He was a teenage R&B singer in the gospel-influenced mold of James Brown, Sam Cooke & Jackie Wilson before going to jail for killing a man in a street fight in 1961. He was 31 years old.
  
  
• 1971
  The New York Times reports New York radio station WNBC has banned the song " One Toke Over the Line " by Brewer & Shipley because of its alleged drug references. Other stations around the country follow suit. The composer of the tune, Tom Shipley, responds, " In this electronic age, pulling a record because of its lyrics is like the burning of books in the Thirties."
  
  
• 1972
  Elvis Presley records what will be his last major hit, " Burning Love," which makes it to #2 in October.
  
  
• 1973
  Rolling Stone magazine reported Carlos Santana changed his name to " Devadip ", which means " the lamp of the light of the Supreme." Santana had become a disciple of Sri Chinmoy.
  
  
• 1979
  Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd, the ex-wife of George Harrison, in Tucson, Arizona. ;D
  
  
• 1979
  Amid all the Sex Pistols imitators comes Dire Straits, whose captivating single " Sultans of Swing " quietly sneaks its way up the charts to #4. The bands' debut album turns platinum.
  
  
• 1979
  Bruce Springsteen's first video, " Rosalita," premiers on BBC-TV.
  
  
• 1986
  Sammy Hagar plays his first show as lead singer of Van Halen.
  
  
• 1987
  U2 films their video " Where the Streets Have No Name " on a rooftop in L.A.
  
  
• 1991
  New Kid on the Block singer Donnie Wahlberg is arrested in Louisville, Kentucky, for allegedly pouring vodka on a hotel carpet & setting it on fire.
  
  
• 1995
  Elton John along with partner Tim Rice wins the Oscar for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture for " Can You Feel The Love " from " The Lion King."

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:)that was in rock history today dex singing off,,,

[TJ]

March 28th

• 1958
  Eddie Cochran records " Summertime Blues." ;D
  
  
  
  
• 1960
  Two anti-payola bills are introduced in Congress by Representative Emanuel Celler of New York. He blames payola for " the cacophonous music called rock & roll ". Also claims that rock & roll would never have achieved popularity, " especially among teenagers," if not for the result of payola.
  
  
• 1964
  Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London announces the Beatles will be cast in wax, the first pop album stars to be honored.
  
  
• 1966
  New York City Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving describes plans for rock & roll dance concerts to be held in Central Park.
  
  
• 1969
  In London, Ringo Starr says the Beatles will make no public appearances. John Lennon counters that there will be several in 1969.
  
  
• 1970
  Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's " Woodstock " is released.
  
  
• 1974
  Bluesman Arthur " Big Boy " Crudup died of a stroke at the age of 69. Crudup wrote Elvis' hit " That's All Right (Mama)."
  
  
• 1974
  " Hooked on a Feeling " by Blue Swede turns gold. The band's novel version of the BJ Thomas' 1968 song hits Number One next month.
  
  
• 1976
  Genesis begins its first North American tour since Peter Gabriel left the previous year, in Buffalo, New York. Drummer Phil Collins has taken over as lead singer.
  
  
• 1982
  David Crosby is arrested for possession of Quaaludes & drug paraphernalia, driving under the influence of cocaine & carrying a concealed .45-caliber pistol, in Los Angeles.
  
  
• 1991
  Funeral services were held in England for Eric Clapton's son Conor, who fell to his death from a New York City high rise apartment window. Phil Collins & George Harrison were among the many who attended.
  (TJ Reminds He Wrote The Song " Tears In Heaven " Due To This)
  
  
• 1995
  Lyle Lovett & actress Julia Roberts announced they were separating after 21 months of marriage.
  
  
• 1996
  Phil Collins announces he was leaving Genesis to concentrate on his solo career.
  
  
• 2000
  Jimmy Page receives an undisclosed figure in damages after he sues Ministry magazine in High Court for claiming he contributed to the death of Zeppelin bandmate John Bonham by wearing Satanic robe and chanting spells while the dying drummer was choking on his vomit. The magazine apologizes & also offers to pay Page's legal bills. Page donates all of the money to Action for Brazil's Children Trust.

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[TJ]

Another Monday Is Upon Us & Our Rock Past Is Revealed Once Again

March 29th

• 1962
  Gene Chandler reveives a gold record for the
  biggest hit of his career, " Duke of Earl."
  
  
  
• 1969
  Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction & Porno For Pyros, is born.
  
  
  
• 1973
  Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show get their wish as their smiling faces appear on the cover of The Rolling Stone magazine, just as the group had hoped for in its Top Ten hit
  " The Cover of The Rolling Stone,"
  which goes gold six days later.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1975
  Labelle's " Lady Marmalade," already holding the Number One spot on the R&B chart, reaches Number One on the pop chart, where it stays for one week.
  
  
  
• 1975
  Led Zeppelin registers all six of its albums on the charts simultaneously, a feat never before made in pop history. For the record, coming after its chart-topping current release,
  " Physical Graffiti," are:
  " Led Zeppelin IV " at #83,
  " Houses of the Holy " at #92,
  " Led Zeppelin II " at #104,
  " Led Zeppelin " at #116
  &
  " Led Zeppelin III " at #124.
  
  
  
• 1976
  " December, 1963 (Oh What a Night),"
  the Four Seasons' first Number One hit since
  " Rag Doll " in 1964, is certified gold.
  
  
  
• 1977
  Sweden's Abba,
  receive a gold record for their only U.S. Number One,
  " Dancing Queen,"
  a song perfectly timed for the disco era.
  
  
  
• 1978
  David Bowie's first tour in two years starts in
  San Diego, California.
  
  
  
• 1980
  Ronald Selle, a Chicago antique dealer & part-time musician & songwriter files suit in Chicago against the Bee Gees, Paramount Pictures & Polygram Records. Selle alleges the Bee Gees' " How Deep is Your Love " plagiarized two sections of a song he wrote & sent to 14 record companies, " Let it End." He wins his case even though the Bee Gees claim they never heard Selle's song & the whole thing was a coincidence. The group successfully appeals the decision in 1983.
  
  
  
• 1993
  The Supreme Court announced it would use a case involving 2 Live Crew to decide whether copyright holders can ban song parodies. The Miami rappers later win their dispute with Acuff-Rose music over their takeoff of Roy Orbison's
  " Oh, Pretty Woman."
  
  
  
• 1999
  The David Bowie Radio Network makes it debut on the Internet for Rolling Stone Radio. The format is essentially all of Bowie's favortie songs.
  He introduces each track.

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:)sounds like a legality day threw out time.to me

[TJ]

March 30th

• 1942
  Graeme Edge,
  drummer with the Moody Blues, is born.
  
  
• 1945
  Eric Clapton,
  guitarist & vocalist with Cream,
  Derek & the Dominoes,
  Bluesbreakers,
  Blind Faith & the Yarbirds, is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1960
  Representative Thomas O'Neill (of Massachusettes)
  wants the Federal Communications Commission
  to investigate all radio station employees
  involved in payola & report them to Congress.
  
  
• 1964
  Singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman is born.
  
  
• 1966
  At the Rolling Stones' concert
  at the Olympia in Paris,
  85 audience members
  are arrested after the crowd's heated reaction
  to the Stones gets out of hand.
  
  
• 1968
  The Yardbirds
  perform & record what will become
  " Live Yardbirds " at the Anderson Theater.
  
  
• 1976
  The British punk group the Sex Pistols
  play their first show at London's 100 club,
  attracting only a reported 50 people to the venue
  where they would begin a weekly residency in June.
  
  
• 1977
  The Eagles'
  "Hotel California"
  sits atop the Billboard LP Chart.
  
  
• 1978
  Paul Simonon
  &
  Topper Headon of the Clash
  were arrested in London
  for shooting pigeons
  from the roof of a rehearsal hall.
  
  
• 1980
  Genesis'
  "England By The Pound" is released.
  
  
• 1989
  Gladys Knight
  performs solo for the first time since grammar school
  without The Pips during a gig at Bally's in Las Vegas.

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:)haa this was the news

[TJ]

March 31st

• 1934
  Country singer/songwriter
  John D. Loudermilk is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1948
  Mick Ralphs,
  guitar player with Mott the Hoople
  &
  Bad Company, is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1957
  Johnny Cash,
  Jerry Lee Lewis,
  Carl Perkins,
  Obie Wheeler
  &
  Glen Douglas
  open a tour of the South
  in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  
  
  
  
• 1958
  Chuck Berry's
  " Johnny B. Goode " is released.
  
  
  
  
• 1959
  AC/DC
  guitarist Angus Young is born.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1961
  Instant records releases
  Chris Kenners
  " I Like It Like That " backed with
  " I Like it like That, Part Two."
  It will be his only hit
  outside his hometown of New Orleans.
  However, Wilson Pickett
  does very well with Kenner's
  " Land of 1000 Dances " in 1966.
  
  
  
  
• 1967
  Jimi Hendrix
  sets his guitar on fire
  in front of an audience
  for the first time
  during a concert in London.
  
  
  
  
• 1972
  America's debut LP,
  entitled simply
  " America,"
  sits atop the Billboard chart.
  
  
  
  
• 1982
  The Doobie Brothers
  announce their break-up.
  The band started in the '70s
  with the #11 hit
  " Listen to the Music."
  
  
  
  
• 1986
  O' Kelly Isley
  of the Isley Brothers dies
  of a cerebral hemorrhage.
  He was 48 years old.
  
  
  
  
• 1987
  Prince's
  " Sign O' The Times " LP is released.
  
  
  
  
• 1992
  Two Bruce Springsteen albums
  - " Human Touch " & " Lucky Town "
  go on sale at midnight.
  
  
  
  
• 1995
  Latino superstar Selena
  is shot & killed
  by her former personal assistant
  &
  former president of her fan club,
  who was fired for embezzlement.
  
  
  
  
• 1998
  An all-star tibute to Fleetwood Mac's
  classic album " Rumours " is released.
  The LP, " Legacy " is produced
  by Mick Fleetwood
  &
  features a different artist
  performing each of the 11 tracks.
  Included on the album is
  Elton John's version of " Don't Stop,"
  Shawn Colvin's version of " The Chain "
  &
  Jewel doing " You Make Lovin' Fun."
  
  
  
  
• 2000
  Santana
  earns his second #1 single with
  " Maria, Maria "
  from his Supernatural album.

[TJ]

APRIL 1st
(April Fool's Day )

• 1939
  Rudolph Isley
  Singer of The Isley Brothers is born.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1946
  Ronnie Lane,
  bass player with Small Faces, is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1954
  Jeff Porcaro,
  The late Toto drummer is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1955
  Elvis Presley's fourth single,
  a cover of Arthur Gunter's
  " Baby, Let's Play House."
  backed with
  " I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone,"
  is released. Later in the month Presley
  with Bill Black & Scotty Moore
  head off to New York to audition for
  " Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts,"
  as has Pat Boone.
  Presley is rejected
  &
  Boone will win first place.
  
  
  
  
• 1957
  Cadence Records releases the Everly Brothers'
  " Bye Bye Love,"
  a song rejected by 30 labels
  before Cadence picked it up.
  It will will go to #2 on the pop chart
  &
  #1 on the Country & Western chart.
  
  
  
  
• 1960
  In Miami's Fountainbleu Hotel,
  Frank Sinatra,
  Sammy Davis Jr.,
  Elvis Presley,
  Dean Martin
  &
  Mitch Miller
  tape Sinatra's Timex Special
  for ABC-TV.
  
  
  
  
• 1966
  Britain's Pye Records
  releases David Bowie's first solo single:
  " Do Anything You Say "
  backed with
  " Good Morning Girl."
  Bowie has previously recorded
  as David Jones & the Lower Third.
  
  
  
  
• 1968
  Dick Clark,
  appears at an outdoor San Francisco
  concert by the Siegel Schwall Band
  to promote his new hippie film,
  " Psyche-Out."
  The movie stars Jack Nicholson
  &
  Dean Stockwell.
  
  
  
  
• 1969
  The Beach Boys,
  announce they are sueing their record label,
  Capitol,
  for $2,041,446.64 in royalties
  &
  producer's fees for Brian Wilson.
  The band also announces
  it's starting its own label,
  Brothers Records,
  which will be distributed by
  Warner/Reprise.
  
  
  
  
• 1969
  The three-day
  Atlantic City Pop Festival opens in,
  where else,
  Atlantic City, New Jersey.
  Among the performers:
  Jefferson Airplane,
  CCR,
  Little Richard
  &
  Joe Cocker.
  
  
  
  
• 1971
  Six months after his death,
  Jimi Hendrix's
  " The Cry of Love " goes gold.
  It is the last LP
  on which the guitarist
  was a willing participant
  &
  some say it might have gone higher
  than #3 had it not been for an LP
  by another deceased rock star,
  " Pearl,"
  by Janis Joplin.
  
  
  
  
• 1972
  The three-day
  Mar y Sol (sea & sun) festival opens in Vega,
  Baja attracting 30,000 people.
  Such acts set to perform include,
  Black Sabbath,
  Emerson Lake & Palmer,
  the J. Geils Band
  &
  the Allman Brothers.
  The festival goes on
  despite efforts by Puerto Rico's
  Secretary of Health to prevent it.
  The secretary fears
  there will be a plague
  of drug abuse.
  
  
  
  
• 1976
  Paul McCartney & Wings'
  " Silly Love Songs "
  is released from the
  " Wings at the Speed of Sound" album.
  The album comes out just prior
  to the group's first U.S. tour --
  " Wings Over America."
  
  
  
  
• 1976
  Jimmy Buffett's
  "Margaritaville " is released.
  
  
  
  
• 1978
  Paul Simon & Peter Frampton
  go to Philadelphia
  to see the Philadelphia Fury
  -- the North American Soccer League team
  of which they & 'Yes' keyboardist
  Rick Wakeman own parts
  -- open its season against
  the Washington Diplomats.
  
  
  
  
• 1978
  Blondie's " Denis " a remake of
  Randy & the Rainbows' 1963 hits
  " Denise,"
  tops the New
  Musical Express British pop chart.
  
  
  
  
• 1979
  The Who's
  " The Kids Are Alright " LP is released.
  
  
  
  
• 1980
  John Lennon's
  " Woman,"
  from
  " Double Fantasy," turns gold.
  The 45 is the third Top Ten hit
  from the LP.
  
  
  
  
• 1984
  Marvin Gaye
  is killed by a gunshot wound
  in Los Angeles, California
  in an argument with his father.
  He was 44 years old.
  Gaye's father received probation
  after pleading guilty
  to voluntary manslaughter.
  
  
  
  
• 1985
  David Lee Roth,
  leaves Van Halen
  to pursue a solo career.
  
  
  
  
• 1992
  Billy Idol,
  pleaded no contest
  to punching a woman in the face.
  He was fined
  &
  told to make public service
  announcements against
  alcohol & drug use.
  
  
  
  
• 1993
  Thousands of people
  stood in the rain
  at a pro-environment rally
  in Portland, Oregon.
  Neil Young,
  David Crosby,
  Kenny Loggins
  &
  the Wilson sisters
  were among the performers.

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[TJ]

April 2nd

• 1939
  Singer Marvin Gaye is born.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1941
  Leon Russell is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1958
  Veteran disc jockeys
  Gene Norman
  &
  Dick Haynes quit KLAC,
  Los Angeles in protest over the format.
  Norman comments,
  " It would be inconceivable for me to desert
  my fifteen year standards
  by resorting to a Top Forty format." ;D
  
  
  
  
• 1960
  The National Association
  of Record Merchants presents its
  first annual awards in Las Vegas.
  Elvis Presley
  is named best-selling male artist
  &
  Connie Francis
  is the best-selling female artist.
  
  
  
  
• 1961
  Paul Revere & the Raiders,
  make their national pop chart debut with
  " Like Long Hair,"
  a curious song for a group that will later,
  in the mid 60's,
  become known for their
  Revolutionary War-era ponytails. ;D
  
  
  
  
• 1970
  The London Magistrate's Court
  hears arguments on John Lennon's
  indecency summons for his exhibition of erotic lithographs in January.
  
  
  
  
• 1970
  Donovan's
  " A Gift from a Flower to a Garden"
  &
  Bobby Sherman's
  " Easy Come, Easy Go " both go gold.
  
  
  
  
• 1971
  Ringo Starr,
  releases his solo hit,
  " It Don't Come Easy."
  It would become his first top-10 hit. ;D
  
  
  
  
• 1972
  John Lennon & Yoko Ono
  hold a news conference in New York
  to discuss their appeal of the
  Immigration Department's
  decision to deport John.
  
  
  
  
• 1987
  Famed drummer Buddy Rich,
  dies to complications caused by a brain tumor.
  He was 69 years old.
  
  
  
  
• 1977
  Stevie Wonder's,
  tribute song to Duke Ellington,
  " Sir Duke " is released.
  The song was from the hugely successful LP,
  " Songs In The Key Of Life "
  &
  would eventually top the chart for 3 weeks. ;D
  
  
  
  
• 1997
  Singer Joni Mitchell,
  is reunited with Kilauren Gibb,
  the daughter she gave up for
  adoption 32 years earlier.
  
  
  
  
• 1999
  The Black Crowes,
  play a concert in Knoxville, Tennesee.
  Joshua Harmon,
  a teenager sitting in the second row,
  files suit against the band,
  their promoter,
  the theatre
  &
  the sound company a year later
  for $385,000
  claiming significant hearing loss. ;D

[TJ]

April 3rd

• 1941
  Jan Berry,
  of Jan & Dean fame, is born.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1946
  Dee Murray,
  guitarist for Elton John, is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1956
  Elvis Presley
  makes the first of two appearances on
  " The Milton Berle Show,"
  Presley sings
  " Heartbreak Hotel,"
  " Money, Honey "
  &
  " Blue Suede Shoes "
  &
  earns $5,000.
  It's estimated one out of every four
  Americans sees his performance.
  
  
  
  
• 1959
  The BBC bans the Coasters song
  " Charlie Brown "
  because of the word " spitball."
  Two weeks later
  the uptight Brits
  change their decision & plays the single. ;D
  
  
  
  
• 1960
  The Everly Brothers,
  later named by the Beatles
  &
  Rolling Stone Keith Richards
  as prime influences,
  make their British concert debut,
  kicking off their first U.K. tour.
  
  
  
  
• 1964
  Bob Dylan,
  makes his first entry into
  the U.K. pop chart with
  " The Times They Are A-Changin'."
  
  
  
  
• 1965
  " Shes About a Mover "
  by the Sir Douglas Quintet
  enters the Hot 100
  where it stays for 12 weeks,
  making it up to #13.
  
  
  
  
• 1965
  One of the great all-time party classics,
  Sam the Sham & the Pharaoh's,
  " Wooly Bully " is released.
  
  
  
  
• 1966
  Folk singer Peter Tork,
  opens a solo stint at the most
  presitigous folk club in Hollywood,
  the Troubadour.
  Tork has all ready auditioned for NBC-TV's
  " The Monkees,"
  which will premiere in September
  with Tork as one of its four stars. ;D
  
  
  
  
• 1972
  The Mary Sol festival ends.
  The final tally:
  four persons dead,
  a general lack of sufficient food supply,
  hot Puerto Rico sun,
  &
  after the event a big problem
  in which hundreds of Americans
  are stranded at the San Juan airport.
  The promoter calls it a success
  but Richard Kimball
  of radio station KMET, Los Angeles sums it up,
  " It was a fu**ing drag." ;D
  
  
  
  
• 1973
  To combat the multitude of Beatle bootlegs,
  the group's label, Capitol, issues
  " The Beatles /1962-1966 "
  &
  " The Beatles 1967-1970,"
  both two record greatest hits package.
  The packages make #3
  &
  #1 on the album chart.
  
  
  
  
• 1975
  Steve Miller,
  is charged with setting fire
  to the clothes & personal effects of a friend,
  Benita DiOrio.
  When police arrive at Miller's place,
  DiOrio is putting out the flames.
  In the late night confusion,
  Miller tussles with some of the policemen
  &
  is also charged with resisting arrest.
  The incident is quickly forgotten
  as the next day when DiOrio asks
  to drop the charges & Miller jokes
  with reporters that the publicity might
  " rekindle " his career.
  
  
  
  
• 1978
  Blues guitar giant B.B. King,
  joins famed defense lawyer F. Lee Bailey
  for a rap session & concert for inmates
  at Norfolk Prison in Boston
  as part of their ongoing duties
  as co-chairmen of FAIRR
  (Foundation for the Advancement of Inmate Rehabilittion and Recreation).
  
  
  
  
• 1979
  Van Halen's,
  " Van Halen II "
  goes gold just five days before
  the band takes off on a
  triumphant 10mos tour.
  The long trip is the opposite of the way
  Van Halen records.
  For their 2nd LP,
  they took a mere 6 days in the studio,
  one-third the time required for their first album. ;D
  
  
  
  
• 1990
  Singer Sarah Vaughn,
  dies of lung cancer in Los Angeles.
  She was 66 years old.
  
  
  
  
• 1996
  Rapper Hammer,
  (formerly known as M.C. Hammer)
  files for bankruptcy.

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[TJ]

April 4th

• 1948
  Barry Oakley,
  bassist for the Allman Brothers, is born.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1952
  Peter Haycock,
  guitar player in the Climax Blues Band,
  &
  Humble Pie drummer
  Jerry Shirley are born.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1960
  Billboard reports RCA Victor Records
  will release all pop singles at the same time
  in mono & stereo,
  the first record company to do so.
  Elvis Presley's first post-army single,
  " Stuck on You,"
  is RCA's first mono-stereo release.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1964
  Motown singer Mary Wells' biggest hit,
  " My Guy, " enters the Hot 100.
  The song was written & produced
  for Wells by Smokey Robinson
  &
  will stay on the chart for 15 wks
  &
  makes it to #1 for 2wks.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1964
  The Beatles hold the top five positions
  on Billboards's Hot 100 with,
  in order from #1 - #5,
  " Can't Buy Me Love,"
  "Twist & Shout,"
  " She Loves You,"
  " I Want to Hold Your Hand "
  &
  " Please Please Me." ;D
  
  
  
  
  
• 1964
  Billboard reports,
  " just about everyone is tired of Beatles.
  Disc jockeys are tired of playing the hit group,
  the writers of trade & consumer publications
  are tired of writing about them
  &
  the manufacturers of products
  other than Beatles records
  are tired of hearing about them.
  Everyone's tired of the Beatles
  -- except the listening & buying public."
  
  
  
  
  
• 1964
  Beechwood Music,
  a subsidiary of Capitol records,
  wins copyright & royalties on the song
  " Surfin' Bird "
  by the Trashmen on Garrett Records.
  The copyright court had earlier found that
  " Surfin' Bird "
  was copied from the Beechwood sings
  " Papa Oom Mow Mow "
  &
  " The Bird is the Word " by the Rivingtons.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1968
  Martin Luther King Jr.
  is shot & killed
  on the balcony of a Memphis hotel.
  Riots break out in 30 American cities,
  leaving 39 dead.
  James Brown goes on national television
  to urge restraint & constructive
  channelling of anger.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1977
  British CBS releases
  The Clash's self-titled first album,
  a 14 song which contains such
  punk battlecrys as " White Riot,"
  " Police & Thieves",
  &
  " London's Burning."
  CBS in the U.S. refuses to release it until 1979
  &
  even then will get rid of the more virulent songs.
  Meantime,
  Americans will buy 100,000 imported copies of
  " The Clash,"
  making it one of the biggest-selling
  import records of all time.
  
  
  
  
  
• 1983
  Danny Rapp,
  of Danny & the Juniors dies of a gunshot.
  He was 41 years old.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1990
  Singer Gloria Estefan,
  returned to Miami after undergoing
  back surgery 2wks before.
  She had been severly injured when her tour bus
  had an accident.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1996
  Grateful Dead,
  guitarist Bob Weir & Jerry Garcia's widow,
  Deborah,
  scatter part of Garcia's ashes
  in the Ganges River in India.

[TJ]

April 5th

• 1928
  Tony Williams,
  lead singer of The Platters, is born.
  
  
  
  
• 1958
  Irvin Feld's Greatest Show of Stars
  opens its 80-day
  North American tour in Norfolk, Virginia.
  Headlining are Sam Cooke,
  the Silhouettes,
  Royal Teens,
  Everly Brothers,
  Jimmy Reed & Clyde McPhatter.
  The bill is expanded with the addition of
  Paul Anka,
  Roy Hamilton,
  LaVern Baker,
  Frankie Avalon & others.
  The tour is expected to gross over
  one million dollars.
  
  
  
  
• 1963
  Martha & the Vandellas,
  make their chart debut with
  " Come and Get These Memories."
  
  
  
  
• 1964
  The Searchers appear on
  " The Ed Sullivan Show,"
  becoming the first British Invasion group
  to appear on the show after the Beatles.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• 1970
  A New York Times article
  defends rock music as
  " the most popular of creative arts today."
  
  
  
  
• 1971
  As reported by the Los Angeles Times,
  the New School for Social Research
  in New York City is one of the first institutions
  to offer a course on rock & roll music.
  
  
  
  
• 1976
  At a three-day rally
  billed as Japan Celebrates
  the Whale & Dolphin in Tokyo,
  Jackson Browne,
  Richie Havens,
  John Sebastian
  &
  other performers
  help to raise $150,000 for the effort to
  save whales & dolphins from the nets
  of the international fishing industry.
  
  
  
  
• 1980
  EMI Records announce a
  28-million pound loss
  for the second half of 1979.
  The company had seen an
  18-million pound profit
  for the same time period a year earlier.
  The stats show the hard times
  the record industry is currently experiencing.
  
  
  
  
• 1981
  Canned Heat,
  vocalist Bob " the Bear " Hite
  dies of a heart attack in Venice, California.
  He was 36 years old.
  
  
  
  
• 1984
  The 2nd annual
  MTV Video Music Awards are broadcast.
  Winners include Michael Jackson for
  " Beat It,"
  The Police for
  " Every Breath You Take "
  &
  Cyndi Lauper for
  " Girls Just Wanna Have Fun."
  
  
  
  
• 1998
  Legendary rock drummer
  Cozy (Collin) Powell
  is killed in a high-speed car crash
  near Bristol, England.
  Powell was one of Britain's best players,
  playing with Rainbow,
  Black Sabbath,
  Jeff Beck,
  Brian May & Whitesnake.
  He was 50.
  
  
  
• 2000
  The Doors',
  Ray Manzarek & Robbie Krieger,
  play at the Whisky in Los Angeles.
  Manzarek reminisced about
  The Doors' days at the club.

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