1997Pat Boone releases the album In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy, where he covers various hard rock classics, including "Stairway To Heaven," "Enter Sandman" and "Crazy Train."More
1987The Second Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New York City. Inductees include The Coasters, Eddie Cochran, Bo Diddley, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Bill Haley, B.B. King, Clyde McPhatter, Rick Nelson, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Smokey Robinson, Big Joe Turner, Muddy Waters, and Jackie Wilson.
1984"Owner Of A Lonely Heart" by Yes goes to #1 in America, an uncharacteristic hit for the prog-rockers and their only Top 10.
1978The soundtrack album to Saturday Night Fever hits #1 in the US and stays there for an astonishing 24 weeks.
1966George Harrison marries Pattie Boyd in Surrey, England, with Paul McCartney as best man. The couple met on the set of The Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night. Eric Clapton would later fall in love with Pattie, inspiring the song "Layla."
1938Lupine disc jockey Wolfman Jack is born Robert Weston Smith in Brooklyn, New York. In the 1960s he blasts rock 'n roll to the masses from a high-powered border blaster signal at XERF-AM in Mexico.
2014Against Me! releases the album Transgender Dysphoria Blues, their first since lead singer Laura Jane Grace came out as transgender. The album began as a concept piece about a transexual prostitute back when Grace was still presenting as a man (Tom Gabel). The personal implications became clear when she came out and her bandmates figured out what was going on. Two of the four members of the band - drummer Jay Weinberg and bass player Andrew Seward - quit before it is completed, but the album earns strong reviews and Grace becomes a leader in the fight for transgender rights.
2010Robert "Squirrel" Lester (of The Moonglows, The Flamingos, The Chi-Lites) dies at age 67 after a long battle with liver cancer.
2002Peggy Lee dies of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at age 81.
1999Blues singer/pianist Charles Brown, known for "Driftin' Blues" and "Merry Christmas Baby," dies of congestive heart failure at age 76.
1998James Brown is released from a South Carolina hospital after undergoing treatment for an addiction to painkillers.
1997Elvis Presley's controversial manager Colonel Tom Parker dies at age 87.
1996Frankie "Cannibal" Garcia (of Cannibal and the Headhunters) dies of an AIDS-related illness at age 49.
1993French singer Noël Rota aka Helno (of Les Negresses Vertes) dies of a heroin overdose at age 29.
1989Kid 'N Play's soon-to-be-gold debut album, 2 Hype, which was released three months earlier, debuts at #96 on the Billboard 200 chart.
1984Jackie Wilson dies at 49. He has been incapacitated since suffering a heart attack on stage in 1975.
1983Lamar Williams (the bassist who replaced Berry Oakley in The Allman Brothers Band) dies of lung cancer, possibly from exposure to Agent Orange during his service in the Vietnam War, at age 34.
1982B.B. King donates his entire record collection to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The 20,000-record collection includes 7,000 discs King aired as a disc jockey at Memphis' WDIA in the '50s.
1979Lynyrd Skynyrd reunite at the Volunteer Jam in Nashville, Tennessee. This is the first time the band have played since the 1977 plane crash that killed three of their members. Lynyrd Skynyrd perform an instrumental version of "Free Bird" alongside The Charlie DanielsBand.
1979Nokio the N-Tity (of the R&B group Dru Hill) is born Tamir Mateen Raheem Hameed Ruffin in Baltimore, Maryland.
1976Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice" of Spice Girls) is born in Finchley, North London.
Hippies Gather At The Trips Festival
1966
The first Trips Festival, a three-day event, begins at the Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco. It's a landmark event in the evolution of psychedelic music.
Produced by Ken Kesey, Ramon Sender, and Stewart Brand, the event is largely recognized as the first to bring together what would be called the "hippie" movement.
Ten thousand people show up for the festival, which features the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, and a whole lot of LSD-spiked punch.
Ten thousand people show up for the festival, which features the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, and a whole lot of LSD-spiked punch.
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