1947 Col. Bruce Hampton, leader of the Hampton Grease Band and the Aquarium Rescue Unit, is born Gustav Valentine Berglund III in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1945 Singer-songwriter Mimi Farina is born Margarita Mimi Baez in Palo Alto, California, to a family that includes older sister Joan Baez. She marries fellow activist and folk singer Richard Farina at age 18.
1944 Folk rock singer Richard Shoff (of The Sandpipers) is born in Seattle, Washington.
1943 Pop singer Bobby Vee is born Robert Thomas Velline in Fargo, North Dakota.
1941 Rock and roller Johnny Farina (of Santo & Johnny) is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1931 Folk singer-songwriter Peter La Farge is born in New York City.
1930 Blind Willie Johnson, best known for "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground," records for the very last time.
1925 The musical On With The Dance opens at the London Pavilion.
1925 Country/rockabilly singer Johnny Horton is born in Los Angeles, California.
1923 Jazz bassist Percy Heath is born in Wilmington, North Carolina.
The 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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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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