1952: Alan Freed stages the Moondog Coronation ball, billed as "the first-ever rock & roll stage show". Acts included the Dominoes and Tiny Grimes.
1956: Carl Perkins is injured in a car crash in which both his manager and brother are killed.
1956: Elvis Presley performed at th 4,000-seat YMCA Gymnasium in Lexington, North Carolina. Tickets were $ for general admission and $1.50 for reserved.
1961: The Beatles played a night gig for the first time at The Cavern Club in Liverpool.
1963: Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould were married.
1964: Judy Collins made her live debut at New York City's Carnegie Hall.
1965: "She Loves You" hit #1, taking over from "I Want To Hold Your Hand", which had spent seven weeks at the top.
1967: The Turtles climbed to the top with "Happy Together".
1969: Tommy Roe had the #1 song with "Dizzy".
1970: Faces, featuring new lead singer Rod Stewart, released the LP First Step.
1975: Frankie Valli had a solo #1 with "My Eyes Adored You".
1979: The Bee Gees were on top with "Tragedy".
1981: After ten years of hard work, REO Speedwago finally hit #1 with "Keep On Loving You".
1982: Donny Osmond starred in the title role of the Broadway play "Little Johnny Jones".
1983: Pink Floyd released "The Final Cut", the last LP with Roger Waters on board.
1984: Strawberry Fields, a section of Central Park purchased by Yoko Ono, was opened in memory of John Lennon.
1987: U2 released the LP "The Joshua Tree".
1988: Michael Jackson was #1 with one of his top songs, "Man In The Mirror".
1989: Madonna released the album "Like A Prayer".
1989: Dick Clark announced that after 33 years, he would no longer host American Bandstand.
1991: Leo Fender, the inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars, died from Parkinson's disease. Fender began mass producing solid body electric guitars in the late 1940's.
1992: Vanessa Williams began a five-week stay at #1 with "Save The Best For Last".
1994: Bruce Springsteen won an Academy Award for "Streets of Philadelphia".
1994: Ace of Base was #1 with "The Sign".
2000: Destiny's Child had the #1 song with "Say My Name".
2003: Dru Hill are sued by their former manager, who maintained that he was owed $30 million in lost royalties and fees from the previous three albums.
2003: Kid Rock and country star Tim McGraw play a concert outside Detroit to benefit the Red Cross.
2006: Three South African daughters, whose father Solomon Linda wrote "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1939, won a six-year court battle that gave the women 25 percent of all past and future royalties from the song. Linda worked as a cleaner at a Johannesburg record company when he wrote the song. He had received virtually nothing for his work and died in 1962 with just $25 in the bank.
2009: U2 went to the top of the album charts with "No Line on the Horizon".
Born This Day:
1685: Johann Sebastian Bach
1940: Solomon Burke
1941: John Boylan, producer and songwriter, who worked with Rick Nelson and the Association. Boylan managed Linda Ronstadt and introduced her to a group of musicians that she ultimately hired to be her backing band in 1971. That group of musicians would later become the Eagles.
1945: Rosemary Stone, vocalist and pianist with Sly and The Family Stone
1946: Ray Dorset, singer, guitarist and songwriter ("In the Summertime") with Mungo Jerry
1949: Eddie Money
1950: Roger Hodgson, guitarist and vocalist with Supertramp
1951: Conrad Lozano, Los Lobos
1951: Russell Thompkins, Jr., lead singer of The Stylistics
1953: Robert Johnson, K.C. & The Sunshine Band
1958: Jonathan Norton, drummer, percussionist, vocalist who worked with Tracy Chapman, Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple and Aimee Mann.
1967: Jonas Berggren, guitar and keyboards for Ace of Base
1967: Keith Palmer, vocalist with Prodigy
1980: Deryck Whibley, vocalist Sum 41
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1956: Carl Perkins is injured in a car crash in which both his manager and brother are killed.
1956: Elvis Presley performed at th 4,000-seat YMCA Gymnasium in Lexington, North Carolina. Tickets were $ for general admission and $1.50 for reserved.
1961: The Beatles played a night gig for the first time at The Cavern Club in Liverpool.
1963: Barbra Streisand and Elliot Gould were married.
1964: Judy Collins made her live debut at New York City's Carnegie Hall.
1965: "She Loves You" hit #1, taking over from "I Want To Hold Your Hand", which had spent seven weeks at the top.
1967: The Turtles climbed to the top with "Happy Together".
1969: Tommy Roe had the #1 song with "Dizzy".
1970: Faces, featuring new lead singer Rod Stewart, released the LP First Step.
1975: Frankie Valli had a solo #1 with "My Eyes Adored You".
1979: The Bee Gees were on top with "Tragedy".
1981: After ten years of hard work, REO Speedwago finally hit #1 with "Keep On Loving You".
1982: Donny Osmond starred in the title role of the Broadway play "Little Johnny Jones".
1983: Pink Floyd released "The Final Cut", the last LP with Roger Waters on board.
1984: Strawberry Fields, a section of Central Park purchased by Yoko Ono, was opened in memory of John Lennon.
1987: U2 released the LP "The Joshua Tree".
1988: Michael Jackson was #1 with one of his top songs, "Man In The Mirror".
1989: Madonna released the album "Like A Prayer".
1989: Dick Clark announced that after 33 years, he would no longer host American Bandstand.
1991: Leo Fender, the inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars, died from Parkinson's disease. Fender began mass producing solid body electric guitars in the late 1940's.
1992: Vanessa Williams began a five-week stay at #1 with "Save The Best For Last".
1994: Bruce Springsteen won an Academy Award for "Streets of Philadelphia".
1994: Ace of Base was #1 with "The Sign".
2000: Destiny's Child had the #1 song with "Say My Name".
2003: Dru Hill are sued by their former manager, who maintained that he was owed $30 million in lost royalties and fees from the previous three albums.
2003: Kid Rock and country star Tim McGraw play a concert outside Detroit to benefit the Red Cross.
2006: Three South African daughters, whose father Solomon Linda wrote "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1939, won a six-year court battle that gave the women 25 percent of all past and future royalties from the song. Linda worked as a cleaner at a Johannesburg record company when he wrote the song. He had received virtually nothing for his work and died in 1962 with just $25 in the bank.
2009: U2 went to the top of the album charts with "No Line on the Horizon".
Born This Day:
1685: Johann Sebastian Bach
1940: Solomon Burke
1941: John Boylan, producer and songwriter, who worked with Rick Nelson and the Association. Boylan managed Linda Ronstadt and introduced her to a group of musicians that she ultimately hired to be her backing band in 1971. That group of musicians would later become the Eagles.
1945: Rosemary Stone, vocalist and pianist with Sly and The Family Stone
1946: Ray Dorset, singer, guitarist and songwriter ("In the Summertime") with Mungo Jerry
1949: Eddie Money
1950: Roger Hodgson, guitarist and vocalist with Supertramp
1951: Conrad Lozano, Los Lobos
1951: Russell Thompkins, Jr., lead singer of The Stylistics
1953: Robert Johnson, K.C. & The Sunshine Band
1958: Jonathan Norton, drummer, percussionist, vocalist who worked with Tracy Chapman, Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple and Aimee Mann.
1967: Jonas Berggren, guitar and keyboards for Ace of Base
1967: Keith Palmer, vocalist with Prodigy
1980: Deryck Whibley, vocalist Sum 41
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