On This Day:
In 1964 The Who played for 22 consecutive nights at the The Cavern in Liverpool.
In 1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their second studio album Axis: Bold as Love.
Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Move, Nice, Outer Limits and Amen Corner played at the Central Hall, Chatham. The Chatham Standard later reported: ‘Hendrix opened his act with the Beatles’ Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
In 1968 Janis Joplin left Big Brother for a solo career.
In 1976 The Sex Pistols appeared on ITV’s live on “Today’s Show.” Bill Grundy who asked the band to say something outrageous, guitarist Steve Jones says: “You dirty bastard…..”
In 1983 Neil Young was sued by his label, Geffen Records, because the company said his more recent albums were, quote, “not commercial in nature and musically uncharacteristic” of his previous work.
In 1987 The U.S. Supreme court rules against the appeal of a Kentucky teacher who showed her students Pink Floyd’s The Wall Movie. The film is deemed unfit for minors thus justifying her being fired.
In 1989 Sly Stone was sentenced to 55 days after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of cocaine. Two weeks later, he was arrested with possession of cocaine and was sentenced to months in rehab.
In 1993 American rock singer-songwriter Ray Gillen died at age 34 from AIDS in New York.
In 2003 The Strokes had to cut short a concert in Glasgow, Scotland, because fans were threatening to overrun the barricades.
In 2009 Black Label Society’s Zakk Wylde performed for inmates in Singapore’s Changi Prison.
In 2010 Sir Elton John was the guest editor for the “World AIDS Day” issue of the UK’s “The Independent.”
In 2013 Air Supply was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association’s ARIA Hall of Fame.
In 2010 AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd pled guilty to pot possession in a New Zealand court. Rudd’s case stemmed from an incident several weeks earlier, in which police reportedly found the rocker with 25 grams of marijuana on his private boat at New Zealand’s Tauranga Bridge Marina. Rudd was ordered to pay a fine of just over 185-dollars and roughly 100-dollars in court costs.
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