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April 18th- 1936
The singing cowboy,
Gene Autry, records
" Back in the Saddle Again."  
- 1957
Army reserve Lieutenant
Buddy Knox
whose " Party Doll " was a recent #1,
is called up for six months of active duty.
Roulette Records' A&R team,
Hugo Peretti & Luigi Creatore
rush Knox to the studio to cut over 20 songs
to ensure his career
does not stall while he's in uniform.
It does anyway.  
- 1975
Alice Cooper's 1st TV special,
" Welcome To My Nightmare:
The Making Of A Record Album"
airs.  
- 1981
YES
British progressive rock band
announces its break-up. 
During its 13-yr career,
the group became one of the world's
most popular exponents of intricate,
mystical, symphonic rock,
despite the fact that they only had
one big chart hit,
" Roundabout."
It went to #13 in 1972.
Of course, they reunite on
numerous occasions over the years.
- 1985
Wham's
" Make It Big " LP is released in China,
making it the 1st Western album
to be released there.
- 1988
The Motown songwriting team
of Holland-Dozier-Holland is inducted
into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
- 1996
Former Chic bassist Bernard Edwards
dies following a bout' with pneumonia. 
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April 19th- 1942
Alan Price,
keyboardist with the Animals, is born.
- 1947
Mark Volman, or Flo,
of Flo & Eddy & the Turtles, is born.
(Note: We Have A Flo Member )...
- 1965
The film T.A.M.I.
(Teen-Age Music International)
Show featuring the Rolling Stones,
Supremes Four Tops,
Beach Boys,
James Brown
&
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
opens in London under the title
Teenage Command Performance. 
- 1967
" Somethin' Stupid "
by Frank & Nancy Sinatra is certified gold.
Though each has had hits,
this is their only collaboration
to meet with any success. 
- 1968
John Lennon,
George Harrison & their wives
leave the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram
in Rishikesh, India
two weeks before their study is complete.
Ringo Starr & Paul McCartney have already left.
Later, all four Beatles will renounce t
heir association with the Maharishi. 
- 1972
Roberta Flack
is awarded a gold record for
" First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," 
the #1 - 45 for six weeks in the spring.
The former schoolteacher from North Carolina
will continue to have a string of hits,
several of them recorded with singer
Donny Hathaway.
- 1975
Van McCoy's
" The Hustle "
enters the pop and R&B charts
where it will later top both.
The instrumental song is inspired by
the dance of the same name
&
McCoy becomes one of the first
industry people to get into
the disco music scene.
- 1978
Arista Records
releases the Patti Smith Group's single
" Because the Night."
It is co-written by Smith & Bruce Springsteen
&
will become Smith's only charting single
making it to #13 later in the year.
- 1978
Over 40 rock & roll performers petition
President Jimmy Carter
to end America's commitment to nuclear power.
Some of the artists include
Jackson Browne,
the Doobie Brothers,
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers,
Carly Simon,
Bruce Springsteen,
James Taylor & others.
They get together later on
&
do an anti-nuclear benefit concert.
- 1980
Brian Johnson
replaces the late Bon Scott
as AC/DC's lead singer.
Later in the month,
the band begins recording
Back In Black.
- 1982
Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel,
fresh from the success of their
New York Central Park
concert the year before,
reunite for a European tour.
The U.S. leg doesn't go through
due renewed tensions between
the duo.
- 1988
The late Sonny Bono
is inaugurated as the
Mayor of Palm Springs.
- 1999
The Madison Square Garden
marquee in New York reads
" Bob Dylan, Tonight at 8pm."
Problem was that Neil Young
was scheduled to appear, not Dylan.
Dylan's name was lopped off before the concert,
but after Young finished a song during the show,
he quips,
" That was Bob playing guitar with me on the last song."
- 2000
Phil Collins
wins a royalties lawsuit
against two former members of
Earth Wind & Fire
who were part of Collins's backup band
on his Serious Hits -- Live album.
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Post by TJ on Apr 20, 2004 10:25:12 GMT -5
April 20th- 1959
Dolly Parton's first record,
" Puppy Love,"
is released on Gold Band Records.
Billboard's capsule review notes,
" She sounds about 12 years old."
She happens to be 13 years old. ;D
- 1960
Elvis Presley's return to Hollywood to film
" G.I. Blues "
is greeted by tremendous fanfare.
Of course,
it's the top story on the nightly news
&
even makes page one
of the local newspapers.
- 1968
The band Deep Purple,
composed of Jon Lord,
Ritchie Blackmore,
Ian Paice,
Rod Evans
&
Nick Semper,
perform their concert debut in
Tastrup, Denmark.
- 1969
The L.A. Free Festival in
Venice, California ends in violence
before it really begins
with lots hurt & 117 arrested.
The trouble started when
police chased one youth
through the crowd on the beach.
When they cuffed him,
the crowd started chanting
" Pig, pig, pig! "
A riot ensued & none of the bands
scheduled to play appeared.
- 1970
The New York Times
reports Catholic & Protestant youth groups
have adopted the Yellow Submarine
as a religious symbol.
- 1976
The Rolling Stones'
" Black & Blue "
album is released
&
though the critics give it
a lukewarm response
&
feminist protest of an ad campaign
which featured a photograph
of a bound & bruised model,
it reaches Number One
&
goes platinum in two months.
- 1981
One time member of the
Mamas & the Papas,
John Phillips is put behind bars
in Los Angeles after pleading guilty
to drug possesion charges.
His five year sentence
will be suspended after thirty days
in exchange for 250 hours
worth of community service.
- 1991
Steve Marriot
of the Small Faces
dies in a house fire.
He was 44 years old.
- 1999
Billy Joel
performs what he says is his last
public pop music concert
at the Medowlands in New Jersey.
He plans on devoting his efforts to
classical music.
- 2000
Robert Plant
appears at Disney's Theatre of the Stars
in Orlando, Florida
to leave his handprints
outside the theatre.
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Post by TJ on Apr 22, 2004 10:57:56 GMT -5
April 22nd- 1950
Peter Frampton,
guitarist with Humble Pie, is born.
- 1951
Paul Carrack,
vocalist with Ace,
Squeeze & Mike & the Mechanics, is born.
- 1959
Alan Freed premieres what will be his last
rock & roll movie,
" Go Johnny Go."
Music in the flick includes performances by
the Flamingos,
Cadillacs,
Chuck Berry,
Eddie Cochran,
Harvey Fuqua,
Ritchie Valens
&
Jackie Wilson.
- 1966
" Wild Thing "
by British band the Troggs
is released in the U.S. on both
the Atco & Fontana labels.
The song will go to #1 in June
&
be covered by Jimi Hendrix
&
other artists.
- 1969
The Who
give their 1st complete live performance
of the rock opera
" Tommy "
at a show in Dolton, England.
- 1969
John Lennon
changes his name from
John Winston Lennon to John Ono Lennon
during a short ceremony on the roof of
the Apple Records building in London.
- 1976
Bob Dylan & his Rolling Thunder Revue
tape a show at the Belleview Biltmore Hotel
in Clearwater, Florida.
" Midnight Special "
was auctioned off to NBC, however,
Dylan scrapped the footage
&
went with a later show taped
in Fort Collins, Colorado called
" Hard Rain."
- 1976
Johnnie Taylor's
" Disco Lady "
becomes the 1st single ever to sell over
2 million copies.
- 1978
John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd
make their 1st ever appearance as
The Blues Brothers
on " Saturday Night Live,"
The duo opened the show with
" Hey Bartender "
with an intro by Paul Schaffer
acting as Don Kirschner.
- 1978
Bob Marley & the Wailers perform at the
One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica.
It was Marley's 1st public appearance
in Jamaica since being wounded in an
assassination attempt
a year and a half earlier.
- 1978
Gerry Rafferty's
" Baker Street "
is released.
- 1979
As part of his sentence
for his 1977 Canadian drug arrest,
Rolling Stone Keith Richards
performs a benefit concert in Oshawa
for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
Richards' band, making its debut,
is the New Barbarians.
It's made up of Richards,
Rolling Stone guitarist Ron Wood
plus bass player Stanley Clarke,
Ian McLagan on keyboards
&
drummer Ziggy Modeliste.
The group leaves shortly on a big tour of U.S.,
but never records.
- 1980
The J. Geils band
makes it comeback with
" Love Stinks,"
its 2nd album on its new label, EMI America.
The LP goes to #18 & turns gold.
- 1981
After being released from
St. Paul's Hospital in Minnesota on April 17,
following a month-long treatment
for bleeding ulcers,
Eric Clapton is put back in the hospital.
This time in Seattle, Washington
when Clapton suffers bruised ribs
&
a lacerated shin in a car accident.
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Post by TJ on Apr 23, 2004 1:22:25 GMT -5
April 23rd- 1936
Roy Orbison was born.
- 1956
Elvis Presley,
accompanied by Bill Black & Scotty Moore,
makes his Las Vegas debut
at the New Frontier Hotel,
where he is the opening act for
the Freddie Martin Orchestra
&
comedian Shecky Greene.
The two week run is called off after
only one week due to poor reception,
Presley won't play Las Vegas again
for almost 13 years.
- 1965
The Rolling Stones
begin their third North American tour
with a show at the Forum in Montreal.
- 1969
The Ash Grove,
a Los Angeles folk-blues club
where such performers as
Canned Heat,
the Chambers Brothers
&
Taj Mahal
got their acts going, burns down.
However a new incarnation of the club
opened on the Santa Monica Pier in 1996.
- 1970
Norman Greenbaum's
" Spirit in the Sky " goes gold.
- 1975
Peter Ham,
guitarist and songwriter for Badfinger,
hangs himself in his London garage.
He was reported to be deeply depressed
by financial problems the group was having.
He was 27 years old.
- 1978
Ex-Sex Pistol bass player
Sid Vicious
films his rendition of Paul Anka's
" My Way " for the Sex Pistols' film
" The Great Rock n' Roll Swindle."
- 1981
Johnny Cash,
Jerry Lee Lewis
&
Carl Perkins reunite in
Stuttgart, Germany
&
record what is later released next year as
" The Survivors."
- 1987
Carole King
sues record company owner Lou Adler
for breach of contract.
King claims that she was owed
over $400,000 in royalties.
She also asks for rights to
her old recordings.
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Special Thanks Goes To GrimsGirl For Helping On This One April 24th- 1945
Doug Clifford,
drummer for
Creedance Clearwater Revival,
( CCR )
is born.
- 1957
Verve Records releases
Ricky Nelson's 1st record,
" Teenager's Romance,"
with his cover of Fats Domino's
" I'm Walkin " on the flip side.
The 16 year old Nelson is well known
to millions of Americans from his
appearances on television's popular
" Adventure of Ozzie & Harriet,"
which stars his parents.
His record will sell almost 60,00 copies
within three days. ;D
- 1958
Dion & the Belmonts' first single,
" I Wonder Why " b/w
" Teen Angel " is released.
- 1959
" Your Hit Parade,"
the Saturday night pop music show
which has been on the air since
April 23, 1935,
&
just recently on television,
is given its last broadcast.
- 1961
Bob Dylan earns a $50 session fee
for playing harmonica on
Harry Belafonte's song
" Midnight Special."
- 1970
Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane
is invited to a party at the
White House by Tricia Nixon,
daughter of the President.
Slick shows up with " escort " Abbie Hoffman.
He is on trial for conspiring to riot
at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
&
is turned away at the gate.
Slick leaves as well
without having met Ms. Nixon
or introducing her to tea laced with LSD,
as Slick suggested she would.
- 1971
Bill Wyman
describes the Rolling Stones' 16th LP,
" Sticky Fingers," as a move
" back with the blues that made us."
- 1972
One of John Lennon's
most controversial singles,
" Woman Is the black person of the World,"
is released.
The song goes to #57
despite virtually every radio station
in the country refusing to play it.
- 1972
As half-dozen teenage girls faint a
&
several other youths sustain cuts
in a stampede which occurs prior to a
Jethro Tull concert.
An estimated 2,500 young persons
press into the lobby of
Long Island's Nassau Coliseum to purchase tickets,
resulting in the summoning of 100 police,
as well as a box-office window being smashed.
- 1974
Grand Funk Railroad
receives a gold record
for their update of Little Eva's
" The Loco-motion,"
the biggest hit of ther career
as it makes it to Number One.
- 1974
Ray Stevens enjoys his biggest hit with
" The Streak,"
a well-timed funny look
at the current craze among teenagers.
This makes it to Number one next month.
- 1977
Joan Baez,
Santana
&
others perform a free concert
for inmates of California's Soledad Prison.
- 1982
John Cougar,
who has had little success as performer,
but has seen his composition
" I Need a Lover "
become a smash for Pat Benatar,
kicks off a rise to his career with
" Hurts So Good."
It enters the pop charts at #83
7
will make it to #2.
The song " Jack & Diane "
&
the album from which the tunes came from,
" American Fool,"
both go to Number One.
- 1990
The road crew for Roger Waters
discovers an unexploded
World War II era bomb
while constructing the set for
" The Wall " concert in
Potsdamer Platz, Germany.
- 1992
David Bowie
&
fashion model Iman
are married in a secret ceremony
in Switzerland.
The wedding was not announced
until more than a week later.
- 1993
About 40,000 people showed up for
Farm Aid 6.
Willie Nelson,
John Cougar Mellencamp
&
Neil Young
were among 40 artists
who played at the concert in
Ames, Iowa.
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April 25th- 1945
Stu Cook, bassist with
Creedance Clearwater Revival,
is born.
- 1964
Dionne Warwick's
" Walk on By "
enters the Hot 100.
Her fifth & thus far,
biggest hit will eventually get to #6
on the chart for 13 weeks.
- 1964
Peter & Gordon reach #1 on the
U.K. pop chart with
" World without Love,"
a song composed by
Paul McCartney of the Beatles.
- 1968
The Beatles
refuse to perform for the
Queen of England
at a British Olympic Appeal Fund show.
Ringo Starr explains,
" Our decision would be the same
no matter what the cause.
We don't do benefits."
- 1970
After playing a concert in
Raleigh, North Carolina,
where men in the crowd
taunted the interracial band with
Racial Insults.
Pacific Gas & Electric
is shot at as its van leaves the club.
Four bullets hit the vehicle
but no one is hurt.
- 1974
According to Rolling Stone,
thanks to Ray Stevens' hit,
" The Streak,"
streakers have hit concerts by
Yes,
Gregg Allman
&
the Beach Boys,
who were victimized by
two of their very own
-- Mike Love & Dennis Wilson.
- 1974
Gregg Allman
plays the last date of his solo tour.
" I want to squealch a few rumor right now,"
he tells the Cincinnati audience
before bringing on the rest of the
Allman Brothers Band
for an 90 minute encore.
- 1974
Pam Morrison,
Jim Morrison's widow,
dies in her Hollywood apartment.
Police think she's been using heroin
for about a year
&
speculate she died of an overdose.
She was 27 years old.
- 1977
At a concert at the Saginaw,
Michigan Civic Center,
Elvis Presley makes what will be
the last recordings of his life.
Three songs from the show will appear,
in heavily overdubbed mixes,
on the posthumously released Presly album,
" Moody Blue."
- 1979
The film
" Rock & Roll High School "
starring the Ramones premiers. ;D
- 1981
With the departure of signer/guitarist
Denny Laine,
(former member of the Moody Blues)
Paul McCartney's backing band,
Wings, breaks up.
- 1990
The Fender Stratocaster that
Jimi Hendrix
used to perform the
" Star Spangled Banner "
at Woodstock is auctioned off
in London for a then-record
$295,000.
- 1994
Adam Horovitz
of the Beastie Boys i
s sentenced to 200 hours of community service
for attacking a TV cameraman
during memorial services for
actor River Phoenix
the previous November 4.
- 1997
U2
kicks off its
" PopMart " tour in Las Vegas.
- 2000
Eric Clapton
reunites with former
Derek & the Dominos
keyboard player Bobby Whitlock
for their first performance together
in 29 years on the BBC2 TV series
" Later With Jools Holland."
The two play three songs,
including
" Bell Bottom Blues."
The show airs on April 29.
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April 26th- 1943
Gary Wright is born.
- 1960
Drummer Roger Taylor
of Duran Duran is born.
- 1966
The New York Times
reports R&B immortal
Ray Charles
will undergo tests in a Boston hospital
to see whether or not he has
abstained from narcotic drugs.
- 1967
CBS-TV broadcasts
" Inside Pop -- The Rock Revolution."
Among the guests that host
Leonard Bernstein
has on is 16 year old Janis Ian,
who sings " Society Child."
A year before the song was banned
by some radio stations because
of its subject (an interracial love affair).
Following her television appearance,
the song races into the Top Twenty.
- 1977
New York's legendary disco
Studio 54
opens its doors. ;D
- 1978
Ringo Starr's TV special,
" Ringo "
a musical version of
" The Prince and the Pauper "
airs on American television.
Ringo played both characters.
George Harrison
provides the narration
but it still get low number finishing
53 out of 65 shows.
- 1982
Rod Stewart
is mugged in Los Angeles
in broad daylight
&
is robbed of his $50,000 Porsche.
He was not hurt.
- 1982
On his way to the Clash's West London
rehearsal studio,
lead singer Joe Strummer
gets on a train for the English coast
&
then takes a ferry across the channel
to France.
His disapearances forces the band
to cancel their tour of the U.K.
&
puts their June tour of the U.S. in trouble.
He shows up in London on May 18
&
says exhaustion & doubts about his career
drove him to Paris.
Two days after he's back,
the Clash surprises the audience
at an outdoor festival in Holland
with an unscheduled concert.
- 1986
5150,
the first Van Halen album
to feature Sammy Hagar,
tops the charts for the first of four weeks.
The album is named after
the New York police code for the
criminally insane
&
Eddie Van Halen's recording studio.
- 1994
The historic Fillmore club
reopens in San Francisco.
- 1994
Grace Slick
pleads guilty to pointing a shotgun
at police in her Tiburon, California
home on March 5, 1994.
She claims she was under stress
because her Mill Valley home
had burned down the previous fall,
&
she lost most of her possessions.
On June 7,
she is sentenced to 200 hours
of community service
&
four Alcoholics Anonymous meetings
a week for three months.
- 1995
Courtney Love of Hole
reportedly turns down
Playboy magazine's $1 million offer
for her to pose nude.
- 1997
ABC's telecast of
" U2: A Year in POP "
becomes the lowest-rated
prime-time program in the history of
major network television.
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April 27th- 1932
Casey Kasem,
famous countdown disc jockey, is born.
- 1947
Peter Ham of Badfinger is born.
- 1951
Ace Frehley,
guitarist with Kiss, is born.
- 1959
Singer Sheena Easton is born.
- 1964
John Lennon's
" In His Own Write,"
a collection of funny poems & drawings,
is published in the U.S.
- 1968
Simon & Garfunkel's
" Mrs. Robinson " is released.
- 1969
Joe Cocker
makes his American debut on the
" Ed Sullivan Show "
before embarking on a tour.
- 1974
A four-hour long battle with police
goes on after the Cherry Blossom Music Festival
in Richmond, Virginia.
The concert, held outdoors in
Richmond's City Stadium
&
billed as
" a day or two of fun and music,"
features Boz Scaggs,
Stories,
the Steve Miller Band & others.
However,
rioting starts when police start busting people
for possession.
76 people are arrested
&
lots more are rushed to the
first aid tents.
- 1975
As of this last show
in a five-night engagement at
the Los Angeles Sports Arena
by Pink Floyd,
511 fans have been arrested
for various offenses,
mostly marijuana possession.
During the third night of the event,
L.A. Police Chief Ed Davis
is quoted during a Rotary Club speech
as saying,
" Tonight at the Sports Arena,
they have a dope festival.
It's called a rock concert or something."
- 1976
David Bowie
was delayed for several hours
on the border between
Russia & Poland
while customs officials confiscate
Nazi memorabilia.
The material was for research
on a film about Nazi official
Joseph Goebbels.
- 1979
Stevie Wonder
makes a surprise appearance
at a Duke Ellington tribute concert
at UCLA's Royce Hall.
He performs
" Sir Duke & Ellington's - C-Jam Blues."
- 1980
Three years & a day
after opening its doors,
New York's legendary disco,
Studio 54
shuts down due to numerous
questionable activities.
- 1981
Ringo Starr
marries actress Barbara Bach,
his costar in the movie
" Caveman."
Both Paul McCartney
&
George Harrison are present.
Though the New York Post reports the trio
" sounded as if they'd never been apart,"
the 3 ex-Beatles did not play together.
- 1990
David Bowie
began the American leg of his
" Sound & Vision " world tour.
He said the tour would mark
the last time he would perform his old hits like
" Golden Years " & " Fame."
- 1990
Singer Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses
married Erin Everly,
Don Everly's daughter.
The marriage lasted 27 days.
- 1992
Former Go-Go Belinda Carlisle
&
husband Morgan Mason have a son,
James Duke.
The child is named after his grandfather,
actor James Mason.
- 1994
John Mellencamp's wife,
Elaine,
gives birth to a son.
It is the couple's first child
&
Mellencamp's first son.
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April 28th- 1963
Andrew Loog Oldham,
a 19 year old music-business publicist
&
former associate of Brian Epstein,
catches a gig by the Rolling Stones
at the Crawdaddy Club in London.
The next day Oldham
will sign the Stones to their
first management contract.
The band held their first recording session
2 weeks later.
- 1967
" This Diamond Ring "
by Gary Lewis & the Playboys
is certified gold.
Though he has more Top Twenty hits,
this is Lewis' only gold record.
- 1968
After six months at the off-Broadway
New York Shakespeare Festival Theater,
Hair opens at the Biltmore Theater in New York.
It's the first rock-musical
to play on the Great White Way.
It goes to give 1,729 performances
on Broadway
&
is made into a movie in 1979.
- 1971
Barbara Streisand
gets a gold album for
" Stoney End,"
one of her rare forays into rock music.
At 28 years old,
Streisand is intent on changing her image
&
takes to lighting joints onstage
in Las Vegas.
- 1973
Pink Floyd's
Dark Side of the Moon
tops the chart for one week.
The album has the longest chart life o
n the Billboard album charts.
- 1976
The Rolling Stones
begin a two-month tour of Europe
at the Festhalled in Frankfurt, Germany.
The show makes their first appearance
on the continent in three years.
- 1980
Marshall Tucker Band
bass player Tommy Caldwell dies
of injures he got in a car accident i
n his hometown of
Spartanburg, South Carolina.
- 1987
On a plane carrying
returning spring breakers to
Boston from Miami,
Ozzy Osbourne buys three rounds of drinks
&
sings " Crazy Train " over the PA system.
- 1989
New Jersey rocker Jon Bon Jovi
marries his high school sweetheart
Dorothea Hurley
at the Graceland Wedding Chapel
in Las Vegas.
- 1991
Bonnie Raitt marries actor
Michael " Noonan " O'Keefe
in New York.
They announce divorce plans in 1999.
- 1998
Enchanted,
the Stevie Nicks three CD box set,
is released.
- 1999
Tommy Petty & the Heartbreakers
receive a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Post by TJ on Apr 29, 2004 10:24:34 GMT -5
April 29th- 1947
Tommy James
of Tommy James & the Shondells is born.
- 1962
Just five days after his son Steve Allen
drowns in his home swimming pool,
Jerry Lee Lewis returns to England
nearly four years after he'd left the country
in disgrace following the publicity
about his marriage to Myra.
His first performance,
at Newcastle,
is greeted with enthusiasm by the fans.
- 1965
Gerry & the Pacemakers
perform at the Brooklyn Fox theater
in New York,
kicking off a month-long tour of the U.S.
- 1967
The New York Times reports
a Munich court has ruled that
" beat band music "
is subject to taxation as entertainment a
&
it's not comparable to convert music
presented to " passive listeners."
Tax authorites submitted test results
from a recent " pop beat show "
registering the band's sound level at
117 decibels
&
the audience's sound level at
105 decibels.
- 1967
Aretha Franklin's
" Respect "
is released.
- 1970
George Harrison
says the Beatles will reunite eventually
&
announces plans for his first
post-Beatles solo LP.
- 1972
John & Yoko
receive support from
New York City mayor John Lindsay
in their fight to remain in the United States.
- 1973
More than 15,000 persons
attending a rock concert by
Elvin Bishop,
Canned Heat,
Buddy Miles
&
Fleetwood Mac
are routed from a baseball stadium
in Stockton, California,
by police firing tear-gas canisters.
More than 80 people,
including 28 police officers are hurt
&
fifty arrests are made.
- 1974
Carole King & husband Charles Larkey
have their first son & fourth child, Levi.
King had just completed recording
her new LP just five days earlier.
- 1975
RSO Records releases the Bee Gees'
" Main Course,"
the album will change the
Gibb brothers' course.
The record contains to Top Ten hits,
" Jive Talkin "
&
" Nights on Broadway."
- 1976
After playing in Memphis
during a southern tour,
Bruce Springsteen jumps the fence
at Graceland
in an attempt to see his idol
Elvis Presley.
Security stops
&
Springsteen vainly tries to gain entrance
by mentioning
his simultaneous appearances
on the covers of Time & Newsweek.
They aren't impressed
&
he is escorted off the grounds.
- 1979
Van Halen's
" Dance The Night Away "
single is released.
- 1980
Bob Seger's
" Against the Wind " turns gold.
The albums spawns
four Top Forty singles.
- 1993
An animated Barry White
appears on
" The Simpsons."
- 1995
Rapper Tupac Shakur
marries Keisha Morris inside the
Clinton Correctional Facility,
where he's serving a
4 1/2 year jail term for sex abuse.
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Post by TJ on Apr 30, 2004 20:33:39 GMT -5
April 30th- 1965
The Kinks
begin their first headlining U.K. tour
with the Yardbirds
&
Goldie
&
Gingerbreads providing support.
- 1965
Bob Dylan's
" Don't Look Back "
tour begins in the U.K.
- 1968
Los Angeles' first so-called total
environmental mixed-media rock ballroom,
the Kaleidoscope opens on the Sunset Strip,
with the Jefferson Airplane,
Canned Heat
&
Fever Tree playing.
- 1968
Blood, Sweat & Tears founder Al Kooper,
along with saxophonist Randy Brecker,
leaves the band after recording
the band's first album,
" Child Is Father To The Man."
It's released in June of that year.
- 1969
The Fifth Dimension
are awarded a gold single for
" Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In,"
a medly from the hit rock musical
" Hair."
- 1971
The New York Times
reports Bill Graham
plans to close the Fillmore East,
New York City's rock music mecca since 1968.
The former movie theater
is set to close in late May.
- 1977
Steve Miller's
" Jet Airliner " is released.
- 1978
The Clash,
the Tom Robinson Band
&
X-Ray Specs play at a
Rock Against Racism rally in London.
- 1980
The Roger Daltrey film,
" McVicar," opens in London.
Daltrey's has a hit from the soundtrack called
" Free Me."
- 1983
Muddy Waters
dies of a heart attack.
He was 68 years old.
- 1992
Amidst the rioting & looting in Los Angeles
following the Rodney King verdict,
Madonna's bustier
is stolen from Fredrick's Of Hollywood.
A $1,000 reward is offered for its return.
- 1993
Guitarist Mick Ronson
dies of liver cancer. He was 46.
- 1999
Nazareth drummer Darrell Sweet
dies after suffering a fatal heart attack
before a show in New Albany, Indiana.
- 1999
All five members of Aerosmith
visit shooting victim Lance Kirklin
in a Colorado hospital
before their show in Denver that evening.
The band dedicates
" Living On The Edge " to the student,
who was one of 28 wounded
&
13 killed by two deranged classmates
at Columbine High School in
Littleton, Colorado on April 20.
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Post by TJ on Apr 30, 2004 23:36:56 GMT -5
May 1st- 1965
The Supremes'
" Back In My Arms Again "
is released.
- 1965
Herman's Hermits
reach Number One
on the U.S. pop chart with
" Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter."
- 1966
The Beatles,
Rolling Stones
&
the Who perform at the
New Musical Express' poll winners' show
in London.
This will be the last live U.K. performance
by the Beatles.
- 1967
Elvis Presley
marries Priscilla Beaulieu,
daughter of a U.S. army colonel,
in Las Vegas.
- 1971
The Rolling Stones'
" Brown Sugar "
is released.
- 1973
Bachman-Turner Overdrive,
(B.T.O.)
featuring former Guess Who
guitarist Randy Bachman,
releases its first LP.
The album takes six months to chart
&
it's a year before the first single
" Let it Ride,"
becomes a Top 25 hit.
- 1975
With their first big hit single,
" Lady,"
still on the chart,
Styx earns it first gold record
for the 1973 album
" Styx II."
- 1975
The Rolling Stones
announce their Tour of
the Americas '75 in New York City.
It's first done by way of an
incomprehensible monologue by
comedian Professor Irwin Corey
&
then by playing
" Brown Sugar "
on the back of a flatbed truck moving
down Fifth avenue.
- 1977
The Clash
start their first tour of the U.K.
with a May Day celebration
at the Roxy in London.
The 40 day White Riot Tour
brings a show to London's Rainbow Theater.
The audience gets wild,
ripping out seats bolted to the floor
to make room for dancing.
The news media sees it as
a fulfillment of the tour's billing
&
describe the incident as a
" riot."
- 1979
Elton John
becomes the first pop music star
to perform in Israel.
In three weeks,
he will become the first
Western solo pop performer
to tour Russia.
- 1984
Mick Fleetwood
files for bankruptcy in the U.S.
- 1986
Hugo Peretti
of Hugo & Luigi
dies of natural causes.
He was 68 years old.
- 1988
Billy Joel
escapes punishment
for defamation charges brought against him
by Jack Powers,
whom he called a " creep "
during an interview with
" Playboy " magazine.
The judge cited the 1st Amendment
&
dropped all charges.
- 1989
Police in California
are called to a jewelry store
after employees reported
a suspicious person who turned out to be
pop star Michael Jackson
shopping in disguise.
- 1999
" The Paintings of Paul McCartney "
exhibit opens at the
Lyz Art Forum in Siegen, Germany.
The exhibit features some 70 paintings
by the former Beatle,
including a piece called
" Bowie Spewing,"
McCartney's representation of a
young David Bowie.
- 2000
A $1.8 million civil fraud suit
is filed against Neil Young
in Los Angeles Superior Court
by a former Village Voice writer
who claims Young reneged on an agreement
to have a biography written about him
when Young blocked the book's publication.
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