1968: The Rolling Stones released "Jumpin' Jack Flash".
1969: The Guess Who appeared on "American Bandstand".
1969: "Get Back gave the Beatles their 17th #1 song, leaving them just one shy of Elvis Presley's record, despite Elvis being an artist for 14 years and the Beatles just 6 at that time. They would get that and more the next year.
1970: Peter Green announced that he was leaving Fleetwood Mac.
1974: Olivia Newton-John and Boz Scaggs appeared on The Midnight Special.
1975: "99 Miles From L.A." by Albert Hammond held down the #1 position on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1975: "Shining Star" was the first and only #1 for Earth, Wind & Fire. New entries in the Top Ten were "Bad Time" by Grand Funk and "Old Days" from Chicago.
1979: The members of Genesis met their fans while manning tickets to their benefit show at the Roxy in Los Angeles.
1980: Billy Joel released "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me".
1980: The Spinners made one of the biggest moves of the decade with "Cupid/I've Loved You For a Long Time", which shot up from 67-29 on this date.
1982: Topper Headon left the Clash.
1982: An 11-minute film by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr was screened at the famous Cannes Film Festival in France.
1982: Jefferson Starship, Boz Scaggs, the Grateful Dead and Country Joe McDonald raised money for the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial with a concert at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
1986: Garth Books married Sandy Mahl.
1986: Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork reunited as the Monkees without drummer Michael Nesmith. The other members kicked off their tour at the Concord Hotel in New York State.
1986: Whitney Houston continued to top the album chart in its 61st week on the chart. 5150 from Van Halen was #2 with Bog Seger's solid album Like a Rock moving up to #3. The rest of the Top Ten: Prince had #4 with Parade, the Soundtrack to "Pretty in Pink" was #5, Journey's Raised On Radio was #6, Control from Janet Jackson was #7, the Rolling Stones dropped to #8 with Dirty Work, the Pet Shop Boys had a Top Ten album with Please and Robert Palmer was at #10 with Riptide.
1991: Gene Clark of the Byrds died in Sherman Oaks, California.
1986: Whitney Houston spent a fifth week atop the Adult Contemporary chart with "Greatest Love Of All".
1997: Spice by the Spice Girls was the new #1 album.
1997: The new single from that album Spice became one of the highest debuting songs of the rock era. "Say You'll Be There" from the Girls entered the chart at #5.
1998: Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell proclaimed it "Van Halen Day" in the city.
2000: Puff Daddy finally settled the last lawsuit that had been filed as a result of the 1991 stampede at a New York charity event in which Daddy, Diddy, P. Diddy or whatever played at.
2003: Justin Timberlake sells 130,000 tickets to his U.K. tour in 2 and a half hours.
2003: More importantly, Sir Paul McCartney has tea with Russian premier Vladmir Putin by day and then plays before 20,000 at Moscow's Red Square that night.
2010: Aretha Franklin was awarded an honorary degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Born This Day:
1940: Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong ("Earache My Eye") was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1941: Bob Dylan
1944: Patti LaBelle
1946: Steve Upton, drummer of Wishbone Ash
1947: Albert Bouchard of Blue Oyster CultSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-day-in-rock-music-history-may-24.html
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1969: The Guess Who appeared on "American Bandstand".
1969: "Get Back gave the Beatles their 17th #1 song, leaving them just one shy of Elvis Presley's record, despite Elvis being an artist for 14 years and the Beatles just 6 at that time. They would get that and more the next year.
1970: Peter Green announced that he was leaving Fleetwood Mac.
1974: Olivia Newton-John and Boz Scaggs appeared on The Midnight Special.
1975: "99 Miles From L.A." by Albert Hammond held down the #1 position on the Adult Contemporary chart.
1975: "Shining Star" was the first and only #1 for Earth, Wind & Fire. New entries in the Top Ten were "Bad Time" by Grand Funk and "Old Days" from Chicago.
1979: The members of Genesis met their fans while manning tickets to their benefit show at the Roxy in Los Angeles.
1980: Billy Joel released "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me".
1980: The Spinners made one of the biggest moves of the decade with "Cupid/I've Loved You For a Long Time", which shot up from 67-29 on this date.
1982: Topper Headon left the Clash.
1982: An 11-minute film by Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr was screened at the famous Cannes Film Festival in France.
1982: Jefferson Starship, Boz Scaggs, the Grateful Dead and Country Joe McDonald raised money for the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial with a concert at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
1986: Garth Books married Sandy Mahl.
1986: Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork reunited as the Monkees without drummer Michael Nesmith. The other members kicked off their tour at the Concord Hotel in New York State.
1986: Whitney Houston continued to top the album chart in its 61st week on the chart. 5150 from Van Halen was #2 with Bog Seger's solid album Like a Rock moving up to #3. The rest of the Top Ten: Prince had #4 with Parade, the Soundtrack to "Pretty in Pink" was #5, Journey's Raised On Radio was #6, Control from Janet Jackson was #7, the Rolling Stones dropped to #8 with Dirty Work, the Pet Shop Boys had a Top Ten album with Please and Robert Palmer was at #10 with Riptide.
1991: Gene Clark of the Byrds died in Sherman Oaks, California.
1986: Whitney Houston spent a fifth week atop the Adult Contemporary chart with "Greatest Love Of All".
1997: Spice by the Spice Girls was the new #1 album.
1997: The new single from that album Spice became one of the highest debuting songs of the rock era. "Say You'll Be There" from the Girls entered the chart at #5.
1998: Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell proclaimed it "Van Halen Day" in the city.
2000: Puff Daddy finally settled the last lawsuit that had been filed as a result of the 1991 stampede at a New York charity event in which Daddy, Diddy, P. Diddy or whatever played at.
2003: Justin Timberlake sells 130,000 tickets to his U.K. tour in 2 and a half hours.
2003: More importantly, Sir Paul McCartney has tea with Russian premier Vladmir Putin by day and then plays before 20,000 at Moscow's Red Square that night.
2010: Aretha Franklin was awarded an honorary degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Born This Day:
1940: Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong ("Earache My Eye") was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1941: Bob Dylan
1944: Patti LaBelle
1946: Steve Upton, drummer of Wishbone Ash
1947: Albert Bouchard of Blue Oyster CultSource URL: http://acsblogrock.blogspot.com/2011/05/this-day-in-rock-music-history-may-24.html
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