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Incidents
2008 : At the Coachella festival, Roger Waters's giant inflatable pig escapes, roams the countryside and ultimately deflates. |
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Band Dynamics (1)
| 1941 : Jazz giant Charlie Parker makes his first appearance on wax, blowing on Jay McShann's song "Swingmatism." |
Births (14)
Certifications and Milestones (1)
Charts (7)
| 1955 : Perez Prado's Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White hits #1. |
| 1966 : The Young Rascals' Good Lovin' hits #1. |
| 1977 : Glen Campbell's Southern Noghts hits #1. |
| 1979 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Peaches & Herb's Reunited |
| 1983 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Michael Jackson's Beat It |
| 1988 : For the first time since its release 11 years earlier, Pink Floyd's landmark LP Dark Side Of The Moon leaves the Billboard charts, only to return a few months later. |
| 1993 : Elton John’s “Simple Life” enters Billboard’s Top 40. |
Concerts and Festivals (5)
| 1965 : Bob Dylan begins the tour immortalized in the documentary Don't Look Back, performing at the City Hall in Sheffield, England. |
| 1965 : Herman's Hermits make their US stage debut, with The Zombies as opening act. |
| 1965 : The Kinks begin their first U.K. tour. |
| 1983 : To celebrate the 25th anniversary of London's legendary Marquee Club, Manfred Mann reforms in their original Sixties incarnation to play the venue they (and so many others) started in. |
| 2006 : Madonna plays a festival for the first time when she appears at Coachella. |
Deaths (6)
| 1966 : Richard Farina |
| 1982 : Lester Bangs |
| 1983 : Muddy Waters |
| 1999 : Darrell Sweet (Nazareth) |
| 2003 : Sixties soul icon Earl King is buried in his hometown of New Orleans with an authentic jazz funeral. Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton send their condolences. |
| 2007 : Zola Taylor (The Platters) |
Incidents (1)
| 2008 : At the Coachella festival, Roger Waters's giant inflatable pig escapes, roams the countryside and ultimately deflates. |
Legal Issues (2)
| 1970 : Allman Brothers tour manager Twiggs Lyndon is arrested for stabbing a club manager to death over a contract dispute. Incredibly, Lyndon gets off by pleading temporary insanity caused by being the tour manager for The Allman Brothers Band. |
| 2004 : Michael Jackson is arraigned on his child molestation charges, pleading not guilty to ten different criminal counts, also including extortion and false imprisonment. |
Marriages and Breakups (1)
| 2008 : Mariah Carey marries rapper-actor Nick Cannon in a secret ceremony at Carey’s house in Eleuthera, Bahamas. |
Miscellaneous (3)
| 1976 : Human rock stereotype Keith Moon of The Who adds to his legend when he pays 9 New York cab drivers $100 each to block both ends of a street so he can throw furniture out his hotel window. |
| 1977 : Led Zeppelin plays to 76,229 fans at the Pontiac Silverdome, which set a new record for largest attendance for a single act concert. |
| 2004 : Ray Charles appears at his Los Angeles recording studio to attend a ceremony marking it as a national historic landmark. It will be the last public appearance he ever makes. |
Movies (1)
| 1980 : Roger Daltrey of The Who premieres his first major acting vehicle, the crime drama film McVicar. |
Recordings (6)
Releases (1)
TV, Radio, Press (2)
| 1968 : The Cilla Black Show, featuring the theme song "Step Inside Love" written by Paul McCartney, debuts on the BBC, making Cilla the first Englishwoman with her own TV show. |
| 2002 : Roger Daltrey of The Who stars as a music teacher on the "That '70s Musical" episode of That 70's Show. |
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