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In Music History
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.
1967 Rapper Turbo B (frontman for Snap!) is born Durron Maurice Butler in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
1967 Dishwalla leader J.R. Richards is born in Santa Barbara, California.
1966 The Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'," a song originally recorded by The Olympics a year earlier, goes to #1 in America.
1966 Folk singer and novelist Richard Farina dies in a motorcycle accident in Carmel, California, at age 29.
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.
1962 The Orlons record "Wah Watusi."
1960 Fats Domino records "Walking To New Orleans."
1959 Buddy Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" (written by Paul Anka) goes to #1 in the UK nearly three months after his death. It's his only UK #1.
1957 Elvis Presley records "Jailhouse Rock" and "Young And Beautiful."
1955 Perez Prado's "Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White" hits #1 in America, where it stays for 10 weeks.
1953 Merrill Osmond (of The Osmonds) is born in Ogden, Utah.
1948 MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer is born in Detroit, Michigan.
1947 Col. Bruce Hampton, leader of the Hampton Grease Band and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, is born Gustav Valentine Berglund III in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Rock Takes A Stand Against Racism
1978The Clash are among the acts at a "Rock Against Racism" concert, playing to over 50,000 in London's Victoria Park to combat the National Front, a neo-Nazi group in the UK whose slogan is "Keep Britain White."
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2018 The #MuteRKelly campaign picks up steam when Ava DuVernay tweets her support. The campaign is designed to marginalize R. Kelly, who has been accused of sexual misconduct.More
2008 At the Coachella festival, Roger Waters' giant inflatable pig escapes, roams the countryside and ultimately deflates.
2005 Cher wraps up her Living Proof: The Farewell Tour with a show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Running nearly three years, the tour brings in over $200 million, making it the highest earning tour in history for a female artist, a record that stands until Madonna's 2008-2009 Sticky & Sweet Tour. Retirement doesn't suit Cher: She tours again in 2014 and in 2018.
2004 Ray Charles appears at his Los Angeles recording studio to attend a ceremony marking it as a national historic landmark. It is his last public appearance; he dies on June 10.
1988 After hanging on at #198 the week before, Pink Floyd's album Dark Side Of The Moon drops out of the Billboard Albums chart for the first time in 11 years. The band is still on the chart though, with A Momentary Lapse Of Reason at #62.
1983 Michael Jackson's fight is funky and strong, as "Beat It" hits #1 in America for the first of three weeks.More
1977 Led Zeppelin play to 76,229 fans at the Pontiac Silverdome, breaking their own record (56,800 at a 1973 show in Tampa) for largest attendance for a single-act concert.
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