Birthdays:
John Hammond Jr., son of the famous Columbia A&R man and a creditable white bluesman, was born in New York in 1942.
Guitarist Roger Steen of performance art-rockers the Tubes ("She's a Beauty") was born in 1949.
Birthday wishes to Nikolai Fraiture of the The Strokes.
History:
The Jackson 5, ranging in age from six to thirteen, first performed publicly at Mr. Lucky's, a nightclub in their hometown of Gary, Indiana in 1964.
In 1965, The Byrds reached #1 with "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and "Tambourine Man".
Atlantic Records announced in 1968 its signing of a "hot new English group" named Led Zeppelin.
Bonnie Raitt released her debut self-titled album in 1971.
Slow news day apparently- In 1963, Paul McCartney catches the flu. Hour-by-hour progress reports on his condition appeared in the British press.
Having bought the island of Dorinch off Ireland in 1969, John Lennon declared any hippie who wished was free to live there.
Bill Doggett ("Honky Tonk") died of lung cancer in 1996.
Paul McCartney wakes up the space shuttle astronauts in 2005 by singing "Good Day Sunshine" to them live from his concert in Anaheim, California.
Led Zeppelin's fifth tour of the U.K. in 1972 sold out in four hours. Jimmy Page says, "When I heard the news about the tickets, I felt very humble." The tickets cost a princely $1.50 each.
The Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was released in 1961.
As a follow-up to their number one hit "Hang On Sloopy", The McCoys' released "Fever", which will climb to number 7 on the US charts in 1965.
The Beatles' animated movie "Yellow Submarine" premiered in the U.S. in 1968.
Madonna's "The Immaculate Collection" was released in 1990.
In 1992, Elton John performed in Mexico for the first time before 90,000 people in Mexico City.
In 1965, James Brown's "I Got You" entered both the Billboard Pop and R&B charts, where it will reach #3 and #1 respectively. The record would become one of the Godfather of Soul's most enduring and readily identifiable songs. It reached #29 in the UK.
Three Dog Night's "Old Fashioned Love Song" was released in the US in 1971, where it will climb to #4 on the Billboard Pop chart. It was a tune that songwriter Paul Williams would later say that he wrote in 20 minutes.
Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night" was the top tune on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976, despite being banned from the play lists of many radio stations because of its sexually suggestive lyrics. It made #5 in the UK.
After 42 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" finally falls off of the chart in 1982, passing the old longevity record held by Paul Davis' "I Go Crazy" by three weeks.
In 1987, Sonny and Cher reunited for a rare performance on TV show Late Night with David Letterman.
In 2007, Led Zeppelin continued their march to have more repackages than The Beatles with the release of "Mothership," a 2 CD compilation with 24 remastered tracks. In addition, a 165-song Zeppelin "digital box set" is available at iTunes. Also, individual songs in the band's catalog go on sale via the online music retailer. And finally, "The Complete Led Zeppelin" contains 13 studio albums plus "Mothership." It comes in for under $100.
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