1963 – The Beatles have their single “She Loves You” released on the tiny American label Swan Records.
1964 – The pop music show “Shindig” premieres on ABC-TV. “Gone Gone Gone” was the song that The Everly Brothers sang on that first show.
1966 – A slow day at Britain’s Houses of Parliament is enlivened when MP Tom Drilberg asks the House to “deplore” a magistrate who condemned the Rolling Stones as “complete morons … who wear filthy clothes.”
1970 – Led Zeppelin finally knock the Beatles out of their position as the U.K.’s most popular group in a Melody Maker poll.
1972 – John Lennon & Yoko Ono release Some Time in New York City.
1977 – Marc Bolan of T. Rex dies in an auto accident in London.
1985 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Money for Nothing,” Dire Straits Featuring Sting as guest singer and co-songwriter.
1993 – The Mill Valley, Calif., home of rock singer Grace Slick is destroyed by fire when sparks from welders’ torches accidentally ignite dry grass.
1998 – Members of ’70s British rock outfit Mott The Hoople play together for the first time in some 24 years at a one-off performance at a Virgin Megastore.
2003 – The Elvis Presley’s Memphis restaurant/nightclub on Beale Street closes after six years of business.
2004 – Green Day unveil their new rock opera, American Idiot, on the first date of their national tour in Hollywood, Calif.
2006 – R.E.M. is inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Atlanta this day in rock history!
2008 – Motown producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield, who helped craft some of the Detroit label’s biggest hits, died at the age of 65.
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