On This Day:
In 1964 The Kinks released their song “You Really Got Me.”
In 1967 Pink Floyd released their debut album, “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn.” The majority of songs were written by Syd Barrett.
In 1970 Jim Morrison was arrested and charged with public drunkenness in Los Angeles. He’d fallen asleep on a woman’s porch. This was his final arrest before his death on July 3rd, 1971.
Dennis Wilson of Beach Boys married Barbara Charren in Los Angeles.
In 1975 Robert Plant and other members of his family suffered severe injuries in a car accident in Greece, which resulted in Led Zeppelin canceling their fall U.S. tour.
In 1979 Members of Little Feat, joined by Jackson Browne, Doobie Brother Michael McDonald, and others, played a benefit concert to help out the family of the late Lowell George. The effort earned more than 230-thousand-dollars. The Little Feat singer had died of a heart attack five weeks earlier.
In 1984 Prince’s album “Purple Rain” went number one and stayed at number one for 24 weeks.
In 1996 Police clashed with ticketless Phish fans who had been turned away from the band’s concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver. Ten people went to jail and the band was unofficially banned from the concert venue for a decade.
In 2002 Bruce Springsteen’s album “The Rising” debuted at number one on the UK album chart.
In 2004 Cincinnati, Ohio’s city council lifted a nearly 25-year ban on festival seating at concerts. The ban was implemented in 1979, after eleven people were crushed to death at a general admission show by The Who.
In 2005 Velvet Revolver announced that drummer Matt Sorum had fractured his hand in a boating accident, and the group would be working with a substitute drummer for the start of the band’s tour a week later.
Blues great “Little” Milton Campbell died in a hospital in Memphis. He’d been in a coma for the previous nine days after suffering a stroke. Campbell was 71.
Melissa Etheridge told the TV show “Extra” that she was cancer free and that she and partner Tammy Lynn Michaels were discussing having a child together. Fifteen months later Tammy gave birth to twins. However, the couple separated in the spring of 2010.
In 2006 Modest Mouse confirmed that former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr had joined the group.
In 2008 The Stooges’ truck containing all their instruments and stage set-up was stolen from outside the Embassy Suites in Montreal. However, the group continued their tour, using rented and donated equipment for the next show in Toronto two days later.
In 2009 New releases included the Queen video game “SingStar: Queen” and the DVD “Elvis Presley: The Ed Sullivan Shows: The Performances.”
In 2010 An out-of-court settlement was reached in Don Henley’s lawsuit against Chuck DeVore, who used unauthorized parodies of two of Henley’s songs in his California U.S. Senate campaign. In the Republican candidate’s race against incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, DeVore changed “All She Wants To Do is Dance” to “All She Wants To Do Is Tax” and changed “The Boys of Summer” to “Hope of November.” DeVore lost the election.
In 2011 Paul McCartney said he thought he might be one of the victims in the UK’s media phone hacking scandal. The former Beatle came forward a day after his ex-wife Heather Mills revealed that her phone had been hacked.
In 2012 Marshall Tucker Band guitarist Stuart Swanlund died in his sleep at his home in Chicago. He was 54.
In 2013 Founding Pere Ubu bassist Tim Wright died of cancer at the age of 63.
In 2015 Supertramp had canceled their upcoming European tour. Lead singer Rick Davies underwent treatment for myeloma.
In 2021 Bassist for The Fireballs, Stan Lark died from cancer at the age of 81.
In 2023 John Gosling, former keyboardist, for The Kinks died at the age of 75.
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