Awards and Honors (2)
| 1965 : Art Garfunkel graduates from Columbia University in New York. |
| 1974 : The UK music magazine NME publishes its list of 100 Great Albums: at No.3 The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, No.2, Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde and The Beatles' Sgt Pepper is voted in at No.1. |
Band Dynamics (1)
Births (19)
| 1915 : Johnny Bond |
| 1921 : Nelson Riddle |
| 1934 : Pat Boone |
| 1945 : Linda Scott |
1947 : Ron Wood (The Rolling Stones), (Ronald David Wood) in Hillingdon, London, England.
Guitarist
(The Faces, The Rolling Stones) |
| 1950 : Charlene |
| 1950 : Tom Robinson (Cafe Society) |
| 1950 : Graham Russell (Air Supply) |
| 1952 : John Ellis (The Vibrators) |
1953 : Ronnie Dunn, born Ronald Gene Dunn in Coleman, Texas.
(Brooks & Dunn) |
| 1958 : Barry Adamson (Magazine) |
| 1959 : Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode) |
| 1960 : Simon Gallup (The Cure) |
| 1963 : Mike Joyce (The Smiths) |
| 1967 : Roger Sanchez |
| 1968 : Jason Donovan |
| 1974 : Alanis Morissette |
| 1992 : Model Rachel Hunter gives birth to Rod Stewart's daughter, Renee. |
| 1996 : Damon Minchella (Ocean Colour Scene) |
Charts (12)
| 1959 : Johnny Horton's Battle of New Orleans hits #1 on both the Country and Pop charts in the US, where it will stay for two months. |
| 1961 : Elvis Presley's Surrender hits #1 on the UK singles chart. |
| 1963 : "It's My Party" (Lesley Gore), #1 at the charts. |
| 1963 : Lesley Gore's It's My Party starts a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart. |
| 1968 : "Mrs. Robinson" Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs. Robinson hits #1 on the US singles chart. |
| 1982 : Madness' House Of Fun hits #1 on the UK singles chart. |
| 1985 : Prince & The Revolution's Around The World In A Day starts a three-week run at No.1 on the US album chart. |
| 1991 : Seal's self-titled debut LP starts a three-week run at No.1 on the UK album charts. |
| 1996 : Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds' Three Lions, the official song of the England Football team, hits #1 on the UK singles chart. |
| 2003 : Staind's 14 Shades Of Gray hits #1 on the US album chart. |
| 2005 : Crazy Frog's Axel F hits #1 on the UK singles chart. |
| 2006 : The UK Albums chart turns 50 years old, and in a survey by the book of British Hit Singles and Albums and NME, Definitely Maybe by Oasis is voted the greatest album of all time. The Beatles come in second and third place with Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Revolver, OK Computer by Radiohead is fourth and (What's the Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis comes in fifth. |
Concerts and Festivals (10)
| 1964 : The Rolling Stones make their first trip to the United States, arriving on British Airways Flight 505 for their first American tour. |
| 1967 : Fairport Convention make their live debut when they played St Michael's Hall, Golders Green. |
| 1974 : Steely Dan supported by Highway appear at the Kursall Ballroom, Southend, England. |
| 1975 : Ronnie Wood perform his first gig as Rolling Stones guitarist, on his 28th birthday. |
| 1977 : Billy Joel ends a U.S. tour with a concert at Carnegie Hall. |
| 1977 : Bob Marley and The Wailers play the first of four nights at the Rainbow Theatre in London. There are six nights booked at the Rainbow, but the last two shows are called off because of a serious toe injury Marley sustained in a friendly soccer game with French journalists just before the tour's start in Paris. Subsequently the tour's second leg in the United States would be postponed and then canceled. |
| 1979 : The Police, supported by The Cramps appeared at the Odeon Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 1980 : Devo kicks off a 7-date UK tour at the Apollo, Glasgow. |
| 1985 : Bruce Springsteen kicks off the European leg of his Born in the USA world tour at Slane Castle in Dublin, Ireland. |
| 2000 : Dixie Chicks play the first night of their 85-date 'Fly' North American tour at Winnipeg Arena, Winnipeg, Manitoba. |
Deaths (6)
| 1969 : Martin Lamble (Fairport Convention) |
| 1984 : Nathaniel Nelson (The Flamingos) |
| 1991 : David Ruffin (The Temptations) |
| 2006 : Rocio Jurado |
| 2007 : Tony Thompson (Hi-Five) |
| 2010 : Tam White |
Incidents (2)
| 1973 : Former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt breaks his spine after attempting to leave a party by climbing down a drainpipe and falling three stories. It leaves Wyatt permanently crippled and confined to a wheelchair. |
| 1997 : Spice Girl, Baby Spice arrives back in the UK in a wheelchair after breaking her ankle during a Turkish TV show. |
Legal Issues (3)
| 1998 : Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots is arrested for heroin possession in New York the day he is supposed to do a solo show. |
| 2001 : Rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow is sentenced in a Manhattan court to 10 years in prison for his part in a 1999 nightclub shooting. |
| 2003 : Slipknot bass player Paul Gray is arrested after colliding with another car in his hometown of Des Moines, Iowa. Gray, who died from an overdose on May 24, 2010, was arrested for possession of marijuana, cocaine and drug paraphernalia, as well drunk-driving. |
Marriages and Breakups (2)
| 1997 : At age 58, Kenny Rogers gets married for the fifth time, this time to his production assistant Wanda Miller. The couple would have two children. |
| 2005 : White Stripes singer Jack White married his girlfriend, British model Karen Elson in a canoe on the Amazon in Brazil. |
Miscellaneous (4)
| 1956 : Doris Day signs a 5-year recording contract with Columbia Records worth $1 million. |
| 1958 : Private Elvis Presley completes basic Army training at Ft. Hood, Texas, earning a two-week furlough. |
| 1964 : Dolly Parton moves to Nashville, TN, one day after her high school graduation. |
| 1971 : The two-room shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born, is opened to the public as a tourist attraction. |
Movies (1)
| 2000 : The film Honest, starring three of All Saints is pulled by cinemas after a disastrous showing at the box office. |
Recordings (6)
| 1957 : Sam Cooke, You Send Me |
| 1969 : John and Yoko record "Give Peace A Chance," and end their bed-in in Montreal. |
| 1969 : John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Give Peace A Chance |
| 1972 : Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon (first ever recording session) |
| 1974 : John Cale, Brian Eno, Kevin Ayers and Nico: June 1, 1974 |
| 2007 : Contemporary musicians record their own versions of songs from The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's album to mark 40 years since it was released. Acts including Oasis, Travis, The Fray, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, Bryan Adams and The Magic Numbers all work with Geoff Emerick - the engineer in charge of the original 1967 sessions, using the original analogue 4-track equipment to demonstrates the techniques employed for the recording at Abbey Road studios in 1967. |
Releases (6)
| 1957 : Elvis Presley's two-sided hit single, "Teddy Bear" and "Loving You" |
| 1967 : The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in England (it's released in the U.S. the next day) |
| 1967 : The Rolling Stones, Flowers |
| 1967 : David Bowie releases his self-titled debut album, David Bowie. This album bares little resemblance to Bowie's future work. |
| 1978 : Bruce Springsteen, Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It's his first album in almost 3 years due to a legal dispute with his ex-manager Mike Appel. |
| 1981 : The Rolling Stones, Still Life |
TV, Radio, Press (3)
| 1959 : The music-critique show Juke Box Jury debuts on the BBC. Each week, 4 guest judges vote recent songs either a "hit" or "miss." The show lasts until 1967. |
| 1981 : The first issue of the Heavy Metal magazine Kerrang is published as a special pull-out by UK weekly music paper Sounds, with AC/DC on the front cover. |
| 1991 : Sting appears on the first airing of a new Soviet TV rock show, called Rock Steady. |
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