1963, The Beatles recorded a television interview at Westward Television Studios in Plymouth, Devon, for a local teen program "Move Over, Dad". Due to a large crowd of excited fans outside, The Beatles had to be smuggled from their dressing-room at the ABC Cinema, where they were scheduled to appear that night, into an adjacent building, then through a tunnel, to get to Westward Studios for the interview taping.
1965, The Castiles, which featured a young singer called Bruce Springsteen appeared at The Fire House, Hazlet, New Jersey. The night was billed as a Teenage Go, Go Dance.
1966, The Beach Boys, Lulu and David and Jonathan appeared at the Birmingham Theatre, England.
1968, Rolling Stone Brian Jones bought 'Cotchford Farm' in Sussex. The author AA Milne who wrote Winnie The Pooh had owned the house.
1969, Crosby Stills Nash & Young played the first of four nights at Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California.
1971, Santana scored their second US No.1 album with 'Santana III'.
1971, The Faces appeared at The Pavilion, Bath, England, tickets cost 75p.
1973, Jerry Lee Lewis Jr was killed in a car accident near Hernando, Mississippi. Lewis had been working as the drummer in his father's band.
1976, Led Zeppelin scored their seventh UK No.1 album with the film soundtrack to 'The Song Remains The Same', it peaked at No.2 on the US chart.
1981, U2 kicked off a 23 date North American 'October' tour at JB Scott's in Albany, New York.
1982, Men At Work started a 15-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with their debut album 'Business As Usual', which went on to sell over five million copies in the US.
1992, Ronnie Bond drummer with The Troggs died. Scored the 1966 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'Wild Thing' and 1966 UK No.1 ‘With A Girl Like You.’
1996, On the last leg of their Ballbreaker World Tour, AC/DC played the first of four sold out nights at Sydney Entertainment Center in Sydney, Australia.
2000, The Beatles launched their first official website www.thebeatles.com. The site went live on the same day as the release of their retrospective 'Compilation 1' album.
2002, The three surviving member of Led Zeppelin announced they were re-forming after 22 years for a US stadium tour.
Happy Rock-n-Roll Birthdays to...
1949, Roger Steen, The Tubes
1951, Bill Gibson, Huey Lewis and the News
1953, Andrew Ranken, The Pogues
1960, Wayne Parker, Glass Tiger
1979, Nikolai Fraiture, The Strokes
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