1960, The Beatles performed at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany.
1964, The Who appeared at the Town Hall, Greenwich, South London.
1965, EMI Records launched the budget priced 'Music For Pleasure' label, selling the albums in grocery stores.
1965, Donovan made his US television debut on Shindig! along with The Hollies, The Turtles and the Dave Clark Five.
1967, During a UK tour Pink Floyd appeared at the Skyline Club in Hull north east England.
1969, Christine Hinton the girlfriend of David Crosby was killed in a car crash near San Francisco.
1974, Police were called to a Lynyrd Skynyrd and Blue Oyster Cult concert after a fight broke out between two sound engineers. The Skynyrd roadie claimed that the sound had been deliberately turned off during the bands set.
1977, Mary Ford died from cancer after being in a diabetic coma for 54 days. One-half of the husband-and-wife musical team, Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits; in 1951 alone, they sold six million records.
1978, Exile started a four week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Kiss You All Over', it made No.6 in the UK.
1978, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John had their second UK No.1 from the film 'Grease' with 'Summer Nights.' Seven weeks at No.1 it became the second best selling single of 1978, beaten by 'Saturday Night Fever'.
1984, KISS kicked off a 14-date UK tour at the Brighton Centre.
1993, Kate Pierson from The B-52's was charged with criminal mischief and trespassing during an anti-fur protest at 'Vogue's' New York City offices.
2003, An auction of the contents of Sir Elton John's London home raised more than £1.4 million. An oil painting, entitled Madison Square Park, sold for £67,200, and a 19th Century portrait of Lieutenant George Dyer, painted by James Northcote in 1817, fetched £55,200. Sir Elton sold off the items so he could redecorate his home in a more modern style.
2006, Justin Timberlake started a two week run at No.1 on the US album chart with his second solo album ‘FutureSex/LoveSounds’ which also became the biggest album ever for pre-orders on iTunes.
Happy Rock-n-Roll Birthdays to...
1933, Soul singer Cissy Houston, and mother of Whitney Houston.
1935, Johnny Mathis, US singer,
1942, Dewey Martin, The Dillards, Buffalo Springfield.
1943, Marilyn McCoo, singer
1946, Sylvia Peterson, The Chiffons
1947, Marc Bolan, guitarist, UK singer, songwriter, T Rex . Bolan was killed in a car accident on 16th September 1977.
1952, John Lombardo, 10,000 Maniacs.
1964, Robby Takac, bass, Goo Goo Dolls.
1964, Trey Anastasio, American guitarist, and singer with Phish.
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