Pick a Day

4 SEPTEMBER

In Music History

1968 The Beatles play to a live audience for the first time in two years when they record promotional films for "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" at Twickenham Studios in front of an audience of about 100. It goes so well, they decide to make a documentary, which becomes Let It Be.

1965 While The Who shop for a guard dog, their van and $10,000 worth of equipment is stolen.

1964 The Animals play America for the first time with a show at New York's Paramount Theatre.

1960 Kim Thayil (lead guitarist for Soundgarden) is born in Seattle, Washington. He would be raised near Chicago in Park Forest, Illinois.

1958 Jerry Butler & the Impressions make their national TV debut on American Bandstand.

1957 Jerry Lee Lewis files for divorce from his second wife (he marries cousin Myra three months later, before it's final.)

1952 Gladys Knight & the Pips form at a birthday party for Gladys' brother Bubba.

1952 Martin Chambers (drummer for The Pretenders) is born in Hereford, England.

1951 Frank Sinatra plays Vegas for the first time, performing at the Desert Inn hotel and casino. In 1959, with his "rat pack," he becomes a top draw in the city.

1944 Gene Parsons (multi-instrumentalist for The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers) is born in Morongo Valley in California's Mojave Desert.

1942 Glady's Knight's brother Merald "Bubba" Knight, who joins her backing group The Pips, is born in Atlanta, Georgia.

1940 Soul singer Sonny Charles (of Sonny Charles & The Checkmates, Ltd.) is born Charles Hemphill in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

1892 Composer Darius Milhaud is born in Marseilles, France. Taught jazz pianist Dave Brubeck at Mills College in Oakland, California.