This Day in Rock Music History: August 30

    1959:  Carole King married songwriting partner Gerry Goffin.
    1961:  The Paris Sisters released the single "I Love How You Love Me".
    1962:  The Beatles played at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England in the afternoon and then joined Gerry and the Pacemakers at the Riverpark Ballroom in Chester.
    1965:  The Beatles performed at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California.
    1969:  Chicago and Led Zeppelin headlined the three-day Texas International Pop Festival, which began on this date at the Dallas International Motor Speedway.  Let me get this straight--Led Zeppelin didn't want to do Woodstock because "they would be just another band on the bill", but they did the Texas Pop Festival?
    1969:  A crowd of over 150,000 enjoyed the Isle of Wight Festival.  The Moody Blues, the Who, Bob Dylan, the Band, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, the Nice, Blodwyn Pig, Aynsley Dunbar, Pretty Things and Gypsy were among the performers.
    1969:  Zager & Evans reached #1 in the U.K. with "In the Year 2525".






         The Archies with the #1 bubblegum rock song of all-time

    1969:  The Rolling Stones enjoyed a second week at #1 with "Honky Tonk Women".  Johnny Cash was still at 2 with "A Boy Named Sue" while the Archies moved from 14-3 with "Sugar, Sugar".  Jackie DeShannon was up to #4 with "Put a Little Love in Your Heart".  The rest of an excellent Top 10:  Neil Diamond with "Sweet Caroline", teh Youngbloods had song #6 with "Get Together", CCR remained at seven with "Green River", Zager & Evans' former #1 "In the Year 2525" was #8, Bob Dylan achieved his fourth Top 10 record "Lay Lady Lay" (It would be his last.) and Tommy James and the Shondell's big hit "Crystal Blue Persuasion" was at #10.
    1970:  The Rolling Stones began a European tour in Malmo, Sweden.
    1972:  John Lennon and Yoko Ono performed in their "One To One" concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City.  Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack and Sha Na Na joined them.  Lennon purchased $60,00 worth of tickets to the charity event to give to fund-raisers.





    1970:  Jimi Hendrix appeared at the Isle of Wight Pop Festival in England.
    1971:  The Carpenters released the single "Superstar".
    1973:  The Doors officially broke up.





    1974:  The Eagles appeared at the Performing Arts Center in Sarasota Springs, New York.
    1975:  Her father had 60 career hits, but on this date Natalie Cole debuted with her first--"This Will Be".
    1975:  Rod Stewart earned his fifth #1 album in the U.K. with Atlantic Crossing.
    1975:  Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds registered a #1 hit on the Easy Listening chart.
    1975:  John Denver moved from 49 to 20 with "I'm Sorry".



    1975:  K.C. & the Sunshine Band reached #1 with their first release "Get Down Tonight".  Hamilton, Joe 
    Frank & Renolds fell dropped with "Fallin' in Love" while "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell was #3.  
    1975:  Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy became the first album to debut at #1 and remained there for six weeks.  After falling from that perch, the album again rose to #1 for Elton John on this date.  
    1976:  Abba released the single "Fernando".

    1980:  Cher made a surprise appearance with Black Rose at a concert in New York City's Central Park.



    1980:  Christopher Cross rode the wind to #1 with "Sailing".  Diana Ross was up to #2 with "Upside Down" while the previous #1 from Olivia Newton-John--"Magic" was third.  
    1981:  The Rolling Stones released the album Tattoo You.
    1984:  A London auction of Beatles memorabilia netted over $271 thousand.



    1986:  Another great song first hit #1 on this date--"Higher Love" from Steve Winwood.  

    1988:  Brenda Lee sued MCA Records for $20 million in unpaid royalties.
    1988:  Papa Dee Allen of War died after suffering a massive heart attack on stage in Solano County, California.
    1989:  Izzy Stradlin of Guns 'N Roses was arrested for creating a disturbance on an airline flight.
    1989:  Billy Joel fired his manager Frank Weber, who was his former brother-in-law also.  An audit revealed serious discrepancies in Weber's work and Joel sued him for $90 million.
    1990:  Paul Anka was naturalized as a U.S. citizen.
    1991:  Jan Berry of Jan & Dean married Gertie Filip onstage during a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada.
    1993:  Billy Joel was the first musical guest on "The Late Show with David Letterman" on CBS-TV.
    1994:  Usher released his self-titled debut album.
    1995:  James Taylor and Carly Simon (who divorced in 1983) reunited for their first concert together in 16 years at the scenie Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
    1999:  R.E.M. was in concert at the Chastain Park Amphitheatre in Atlanta, Georgia.







    2003:  Michael Jackson was in concert at the Orpheum in Los Angeles.
    2003:  Michael Stipe of R.E.M. joined Radiohead onstage to perform "Karma Police" in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
    2003:  Blu Cantrell and Sean Paul had the top U.K. song with "Breathe".
    2004:  OutKast captured MTV Video Music Awards for Video of the Year, Best Hip-Hop Video, Special Effects and Art Direction for their video "Hey Ya".
    2007:  The Meat Loaf documentary In Search of Paradise premiered at the Montreal Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

    Born This Day:



    1935:  Papa John Phillips was born in Parris Island, South Carolina; died of heart failure at the age of 65 on March 18, 2001.
    1941:  John McNally, guitarist for the Searchers, was born in Kirkdale, England.
    1944:  Charles Colbert of the American Breed
    1950:  Micky Moody, guitarist of Whitesnake, was born in Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England.
    1953:  Horace Panter of General Public was born in Crowdon, Surrey, England.
    1954:  Ronald Beitle, drummer of Wild Cherry
    1958:  Martin Jackson drummer of Swing Out Sister, was born in Manchester, England.
    1963:  Paul Oakenfold was born in London.
    1986:  George Ryan Ross III, lead guitarist for Panic at the Disco, was born in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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