On This Day:
In 1967 The Who, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Buffalo Springfield were among the performers at the Monterey Pop Festival.
In 1977 Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols were stabbed and beaten when they were attacked in a car park outside a London pub. They objected to the Pistols’ anti-monarchist song ‘God Save the Queen’. The next day, members of the Pistols were beaten by a gang armed with iron pipes.
In 1977 Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” hit number one on the pop singles chart. The band placed 18 songs on the charts in the ’70s and ’80s. Nine were top ten tunes, but “Dreams” was the only one to reach the top of the charts.
In 1984 Fans at a Judas Priest concert at Madison Square Garden went wild, tearing up hundreds of seats.
In 1996 Primitive Radio Gods released the album “Rocket.”
In 1997 Jon Bon Jovi made his New York solo club debut in support of his new CD, “Destination Anywhere.”
In 2004 A funeral service was held for Ray Charles in Los Angeles. Stevie Wonder and B.B. King Performed.
Iron Maiden received the Special Achievement Award at the British Silver Clef Awards in London.
In 2005 The Foo Fighters performed a private party at the former Walker Air Force Base in Roswell, New Mexico. The facility is famed for allegedly having stored pieces of what some believe to have been an alien space craft that crashed near the desert community in 1947. The event was in conjunction with the launch of the Rhapsody music service.
In 2009 Crosby, Stills, and Nash; Bon Jovi’s Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora; The Young Rascals’ Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati; and the men behind “Hair,” Galt MacDermot, James Rado, and the late Gerome Ragni; were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
In 2010 John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to The Beatles’ “A Day In The Life” fetched one-point-two-million dollars at an auction in New York City.
Whitesnake announced that bassist Uriah Duffy and drummer Chris Frazier were no longer in the band. They also named former Billy Idol drummer Brian Tichy as Frazier’s replacement. The band introduced their new bassist two months later.
In 2011 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band sax player Clarence Clemons died in West Palm Beach, Florida, six days after suffering a stroke. The “Big Man” was 69.
In 2015 The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia was inducted posthumously into the Song Writers Hall Of Fame.
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