1925 Country singer Marty Robbins is born Martin David Robinson in Glendale, Arizona.
1945 Bryan Ferry (lead singer for Roxy Music) is born in Washington, Tyne and Wear, England.
1948 Olivia Newton-John is born in Cambridge, England. She is raised in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
1956 Elvis Presley returns to his hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi, to play the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show
1957 The Monotones record “Book Of Love.”
1961 Bob Dylan started as opening act for the Greenbriar Boys. He stayed two weeks.
1964 Roy Orbison started a three week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Oh Pretty Woman”.
1965 The Rolling Stones appeared at Colston Hall in Bristol. .
1965 Queen Elizabeth II bestowed honor upon The Beatles with the Order Of The British Empire.
1967 Pink Floyd played at the Fillmore in San Francisco
1968 The Sallyangie a group featuring 15 year-old future Tubular Bells star Mike Oldfield and his sister Sally appeared at The Cousins folk Club Soho London.
1968 Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) was fined $150 for possession of marijuana.
1969 The Beatles release Abbey Road in England.
1969 Fleetwood Mac, East Of Eden, Family, Edgar Broughton Band, Grisby Dyke and Glass Menagerie all appeared at an all night indoor festival at The Pavillion Gardens, Buxton, Derbyshire, England, John Peel hosted the night.
1970 Pink Floyd played at The Electric Factory in Philadelphia.
1974 John Lennon releases Walls And Bridges.
1980 U2 performed at the Cedar Ballroom, Birmingham, England on their Boy tour.
1984 The Prince song “Purple Rain” was released.
1992 Nirvana appeared at the Castaic Lake Amphitheatre, Castaic, California.
1996 Prince released The Gold Experience.
1998 MTV Russia debuts at midnight with Prodigy Live in Moscow, a concert taped in spring 1997
2000 Good Charlotte release their self-titled debut album
2003 54-year-old Robert Palmer dies of a heart attack in Paris after a quiet dinner and a movie
2009 Jay-Z started a two-week run at No.1 on the US album charts with ‘The Blueprint 3’, the rappers eleventh studio album.
2014 Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke releases his second solo album, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
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