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Awards and Honors
1987 : Ben and Jerry's introduces a new flavor: Cherry Garcia, named after the Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia. |
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Awards and Honors (3)
| 1987 : Michigan governor James Blanchard declares today "Four Tops Day" in honor of the Motown legends. |
| 1987 : Ben and Jerry's introduces a new flavor: Cherry Garcia, named after the Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia. |
| 2011 : Chuck Berry throws out the first pitch at the St. Louis Cardinals baseball game on the same day his statue is unveiled on Delmar Boulevard in the city. |
Band Dynamics (2)
| 1968 : Refusing to play in front of the country's segregated audiences, Gram Parsons leaves The Byrds on the eve of a South African tour. |
| 1970 : The Rolling Stones' contract with Decca expires, and the group takes the opportunity to split with notorious manager Allen Klein. Delivering one more song to the label to fulfill its obligation, the famously unreleasable "C********* Blues" (aka Schoolboy Blues,) they also begin the process of forming their own label, Rolling Stones Records (which will feature the debut of the band's "tongue and lip" logo). |
Births (11)
Charts (4)
| 1967 : The Doors' Light My Fire hits #1 |
| 1972 : Gilbert O'Sullivan's Alone Again (Naturally) hits #1 |
| 1973 : The Grease soundtrack LP hits #1 |
| 1978 : The Village People's "Macho Man" enters the charts |
Deaths (7)
Debuts (2)
| 1961 : Dick Clark presents his very first Caravan of Stars revue at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, NJ, featuring The Jive Five, The Shirelles, and Clarence "Frogman" Henry. |
| 1966 : Cream make their stage debut, playing at Manchester, England's Twisted Wheel club. |
Health Issues (1)
| 1990 : Elton John checks into a hospital in Chicago, IL, for bulimia and substance abuse. |
Incidents (4)
| 1966 : Bob Dylan gets in a famous motorcycle accident, and pretty much disappears for 9 months, leaving a void filled with rumors speculating on his condition. Dylan cleared things up in his 2004 autobiography, where he wrote: "I had been in a motorcycle accident and I'd been hurt, but I recovered. Truth was that I wanted to get out of the rat race." |
| 1966 : A U.S. magazine targeted to teenagers called Datebook causes an uproar when they reprint some of John Lennon's interview 4 months earlier in the London Evening Standard, where Lennon said, "We're more popular than Jesus now." The American media jumps on the quote and turns it into a major story. |
| 1973 : Led Zeppelin has about $180,000 stolen from their safe at the Drake Hotel after a show at Madison Square Garden, and event chronicled in their concert documentary The Song Remains The Same. |
| 1986 : Seventies soft-rocker Paul Davis is gutshot during an attempted robbery at a Nashville hotel. He eventually recovers. |
Miscellaneous (2)
| 1963 : Capitol Records sends disc jockeys around the US a list of hot rod terms to assist DJs when talking about the latest music trend. |
| 2005 : An anonymous bidder plays one million dollars for the original handwritten lyrics to The Beatles' All You Need Is Love at the Hippodrome nightclub in London. |
Movies (2)
| 1965 : The Beatles' second movie, Help!, premieres in London at the Pavilion Theatre, with none other than the Queen attending. (Though reviews are mixed, the movie is a financial success.) Later, manager Brian Epstein and the group attend a post-premiere reception at the Dorchester Hotel. |
| 1998 : Miramax studios announces their purchase of the rights to The Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night, intending to remaster it in time for the film's 35th anniversary. |
Recordings (3)
Releases (3)
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