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Concerts and Festivals
1986 : The Silver Dollar City Tennessee amusement park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee is reopened as Dollywood after Dolly Parton takes an ownership stake. The park grows considerably and becomes very successful with Parton involved. |
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Awards and Honors (1)
| 1991 : Texas Governor Ann Richards officially declares today ZZ Top day in the Lone Star State. |
Band Dynamics (1)
| 1967 : The Walker Brothers announce their split. Scott Walker would go on to become a highly influential solo artist in the late Sixties. |
Births (14)
Charts (3)
| 1975 : Tony Orlando and Dawn's "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)" hits #1. |
| 1975 : Chicago's LP Chicago VIII hits #1. |
| 2010 : Nielsen SoundScan announces that "I Gotta Feelin'" by Black-Eyed Peas has reached 5,561,000 downloads. This meant it became the best-selling digital song of all time, surpassing Flo-Rida's "Low." |
Concerts and Festivals (6)
| 1968 : The Beach Boys begin a United States tour with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who gives a lecture as the opening act. The tour is a flop, and some of the dates are canceled. |
| 1971 : Led Zeppelin play their song Four Sticks for the first and only time in concert during a show in Denmark. |
| 1976 : Paul McCartney opens his first tour with his new band as the massively successful Wings Over America tour begins in Ft. Worth, TX. |
| 1977 : Paul Simon, Phoebe Snow, Jimmy Cliff and others perform a benefit for the New York Public Library. |
| 1986 : The Silver Dollar City Tennessee amusement park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee is reopened as Dollywood after Dolly Parton takes an ownership stake. The park grows considerably and becomes very successful with Parton involved. |
| 2008 : The A-Sides, a brief side project for British indie-folk rockers Noah and the Whale, play a one-off gig at London’s Push Club. They promise new wave interpretations of Noah and the Whale songs, covers and some “punk stylee” new originals. Prior to the show, the band urges fans via their MySpace page to “read the Motley Crue biography The Dirt, because that’s pretty much how it’s gonna go down.” |
Deaths (5)
| 1972 : Les Harvey (Stone The Crows) |
| 1977 : Helmut Koellen (Triumvirat) |
| 1987 : Dalida |
| 1996 : Patsy Montana |
| 2011 : Odell Brown (Marvin Gaye's organist) |
Debuts (1)
Incidents (2)
| 1958 : DJ Alan Freed is arrested for inciting a riot at his "Big Beat Spring 1958" show at the Boston Arena. When local police threatened to shut the show down because of dancing, Freed told the crowd from the stage, "The police don't want you to have fun." |
| 2002 : Doug Firley of Gravity Kills drops a keyboard on his hand, shattering the bones in his right ring finger during a show in Allentown, Pa. |
Legal Issues (2)
| 1967 : Beach Boy Carl Wilson goes to court on draft evasion charges. |
| 1969 : Canadian customs officials arrest Jimi Hendrix after finding heroin in his bag (he is acquitted in court). |
Marriages and Breakups (1)
| 1991 : Andy Williams marries his second wife, Debbie Haas, in New York City. |
Recordings (7)
| 1939 : The Andrews Sisters, "Beer Barrel Polka" |
| 1952 : Kitty Wells, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" |
| 1960 : Cathy Jean Giordano, "Please Love Me Forever" |
| 1967 : The Hollies, Carrie Anne |
| 1967 : The Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour |
| 1969 : Bob Dylan: "Take A Message To Mary," Blue Moon |
| 1978 : Bob Dylan: "Ain't No Man Righteous, No Not One," "I Believe In You," "Slow Train" |
Releases (1)
TV, Radio, Press (3)
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