1956 Elvis Presley first appears on the cover of TV Guide.
1964 The Who played at the Railway Hotel, Harrow and Wealdston, England.
1967 The Doors played at the Lagoon Park Patio Gardens, Farmington, Salt Lake City, Utah.
1968 Led Zeppelin appeared at Raventlow Parken, Nykobing Lolland, Denmark supported by The Beatnicks and The Ladybirds
1974 Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and the Beach Boys all appeared at the New York ‘Summersault ’74’ at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury.
1978 – David Bowie releases his second live album, Stage.
1979 The furst Futurama Festival was held in Leeds featuing PIL, Joy Divison, OMD, Hawkwind, The Fall, The Teardrop Explodes and Echo and the Bunnymen
1980 Kiss played Wembley Arena, London.
1982 – Peter Gabriel released his fourth studio album, titled Security in the U.S. and Canada
1988 – Elton John auctioned off a number of his costumes and memorabilia for a tidy $6.2 million
1989 The DJ/producer Avicii is born Tim Bergling in Stockholm
1990 – Jon Bon Jovi went to No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Blaze Of Glory.”
1994 Chris Cornell and Kim Thayil accept the Best Metal/Hard Rock Video Award at the MTV Video Music Awards for Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun”
1995 R.E.M. played at the Miami Arena, Miami Florida, with Radiohead as support.
2001 Jennifer Lopez’s “I’m Real” remix tops the Hot 100 for the first of five non-consecutive weeks
2003 David Bowie performed the first interactive concert when his performance was beamed live into 21 cinemas from Warsaw to Edinburgh. Members of the audience talked to Bowie via microphones linked to ISDN lines and took requests for songs
2007 Lynyrd Skynyrd are inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in Atlanta
2020 McDonald’s introduces the Travis Scott Meal: a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Sprite, and fries with BBQ sauce
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