On This Day:
In 1966 The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who were among the artists who performed at the “New Musical Express” Pollwinners’s Concert in London. It was the Beatles’ last live performance in Britain in which there was a paying audience.
In 1969 Neil Young released the album “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.”
In 1971 The Rolling Stones released the single “Brown Sugar.”
In 1972 Alice Cooper released the album “School’s Out.”
In 1975 The Rolling Stones announced their upcoming “Tour of the Americas ’75.” The event was capped off with the band performing “Brown Sugar” while riding down Fifth Avenue on a flatbed truck.
In 1976 Led Zeppelin’s album “Presence” hit number one on the chart.
In 1977 Heart released the album “Little Queen.”
In 1979 Kiss released the album “Dynasty.”
In 1982 New singles included Joan Jett and the Blackhearts’ “Crimson & Clover” and .38 Special’s “Caught Up In You.”
In 1984 Fleetwood Mac’s Mick Fleetwood filed for bankruptcy.
In 1985 U2 released the album “Wide Awake In America.”
In 1993 Model Naomi Campbell announced that she was engaged to U2 bassist Adam Clayton. The couple never married.
In 1999 An exhibition of paintings by Paul McCartney opened in Siegen, Germany.
In 2000 Neil Young was sued by an author who was working on a biography of the rock star. In the one-point-eight-million-dollar suit, the former “Village Voice” writer said Young broke an agreement to create the book when the guitarist blocked its publication.
In 2003 Metallica performed at San Quentin State Prison in California.
In 2004 Ted Nugent’s reality TV series “Surviving Nugent: The Ted Commandments” made its debut on VH1.
In 2006 Word surfaced that Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger was working with ABC to develop a sitcom with the working title “Let’s Rob Mick Jagger.” The short-lived series made its debut on the network in January 2007 as “The Knights of Prosperity.”
Nikki Sixx’s wife, Donna D’Errico, had filed for divorce, ending more than nine years of marriage.
In 2008 Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger was ordered to pay a 600-dollar fine and he lost his driving privileges for a year. The sentenced followed the singer’s conviction on a drunk driving charge in British Columbia a month earlier. His case stemmed from an arrest in June 2006, in which he reportedly had almost twice the legal limit of alcohol in his system when he was stopped for speeding.
In 2010 Stevie Wonder played a special concert at Oberlin College’s Finney Chapel to cap off the two-day dedication ceremony for school’s new building for jazz studies, music history, and music theory.
The documentary “Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage” won the Heinken Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, which included a 25-thousand-dollar prize for filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFayden.
In 2012 More than seven-thousand people turned out at the Main Market Square in Wroclaw, Poland to play the Jimi Hendrix classic “Hey Joe.” Hendrix’s brother, Leon Hendrix, led the group, which set the new world record for the “Largest Guitar Ensemble.”
New releases included Gregg Allman’s autobiography “My Cross To Bear” and the Martin Scorsese documentary “George Harrison: Living In The Material World.”
In 2013 Former Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm’s autobiography “Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock ‘n’ Roll” arrived in stores.
In 2015 Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars gave The Gap Band a writing credit on their huge hit ‘Uptown Funk’, due to its similarities with their 1979 track ‘Oops Up Side Your Head’.
In 2022 English rock drummer, Ric Parnell died at the age of 70.
In 2023 Folk singer and guitarist Gordon Lightfoot died at the age of 84.
In 2024 Longtime keyboard player of Electric Light Orchestra, Richard Tandy, died at the age of 76.
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