ANNIVERSARIES
2005-Initial venues and artists for Live 8 are announced during a press conference in Philadelphia.
1982-The Rolling Stones play an unannounced show at London’s 100 Club, which six years earlier had featured The Sex Pistols in one of Britain’s first punk shows.
1977-The B-B-C announces that it won’t play The B-B-C announces that it won’t play The Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen,” which it calls “in gross bad taste.”‘
1976-Paul McCartney, in the midst of the hugely successful Wings Over America tour and Capitol’s release of The Beatles’ Rock and Roll Music compilation, is on the cover of Time magazine.
1976-The Who headline Charlton Athletic Grounds in England and get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest rock band ever, at 120 decibels.
1975-Eagles’ “One of These Nights” breaks onto the Billboard singles chart.
1974-Bruce Springsteen opens for Black Oak Arkansas at the Agora Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio.
1973-Elton John, disappointed with sessions in Jamaica, scraps the tracks and heads to France to cut his next album. Tentatively titled Silent Movies and Talking Pictures, it’ll become Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
1969-On drummer John Bonham’s 21st birthday, Led Zeppelin closes out its second U-S tour with a show at New York’s Fillmore East.
1968-The Rolling Stones release “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” in America.
1964-The day before they fly to America for the first time, The Rolling Stones perform atThe Pop Hit Parade, a concert at London’s Wembley Pool. Also on the bill are Adam Faith, Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders, The Merseybeats,The Hollies, The Undertakers, The McKinleys and Julie Grant.
BIRTHDAYS
Scotti Hill (Scott Mulvehill) –50 years old
Skid Row guitarist. Born in 1964.
John Bonham – Died in 1980
The hard-hitting Led Zeppelin drummer nicknamed Bonzo died in his sleep of asphyxiation resulting from heavy drinking on September 25th 1980. He was 32. Born in 1948.
Peter Yarrow – 76 years old
Peter, Paul and Mary were the best-selling folk trio of the ’60s and helped introduce Bob Dylan’s songs to the mainstream. “If I Had a Hammer” was their first hit. “Leaving on a Jet Plane” (written by John Denver) was their only number-one. He also co-wrote and produced Mary McGregor’s 1977 smash “Torn Between Two Lovers.” Born in 1938.
