Today in Rock n' Roll History

1919 Nathaniel Adams (Nat King) Cole is born in Montgomery, Alabama.

1957 Elvis Presley bought the Graceland mansion from Mrs Ruth Brown-Moore for $102,500. (£60,295). The 23 room, 10,000 square foot home, on 13.8 acres of land, would be expanded to 17,552 square feet of living space before the king moved in a few weeks later. The original building had at one time been a place of worship, used by the Graceland Christian Church and was named after the builder's daughter, Grace Toof.

1968 The Bee Gees made their US television debut when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.

1970 'Deja Vu,' by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, is released. With the addition of Neil Young giving the band a more electric edge, the album goes to #1 and sells more than 7 million copies.

1973 Dr Hook's single 'On The Cover Of Rolling Stone peaked at No.6 on the US chart. The single was banned in the UK by the BBC due to the reference of the magazine.

1939 Frank Sinatra made his first recording, a song called ‘Our Love’, with the Frank Mane band.

1965 The Rolling Stones were each fined £5 ($8.50) for urinating in a public place. The incident took place at a petrol station after a gig in Romford, Essex, England.

1965 John Lennon gave his friend and ex-Quarry Man Pete Shotton £20,000 to open Hayling Supermarkets. Lennon, George Harrison and Shotton became joint directors of Hayling Supermarkets Ltd.

1967 The Beatles scored their 13th US No.1 single with 'Penny Lane.'

1972 Neil Young started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Heart Of Gold'. His only Top 20 hit as a solo artist reached No.10 on the UK chart.

1972 Paul Simon scored his first solo No.1 album when his self-titled debut went to the top on the UK charts. Featuring the singles 'Mother And Child Reunion' and 'Me And Julio Down By The School Yard.'

1978 The Bee Gees had the Top 3 on the US singles charts, 'Night Fever' at No.1, '(Love is) Thicker Than Water', by brother Andy at No.2, co-written by Barry Gibb and 'Emotion' by Samantha Song written and produced by The Bee Gees at No.3.

1995 'Greatest Hits', an 18-track anthology that includes newly recorded tracks by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, enters the album chart at #1. A video documentary of the studio reunion is released in 1998 as 'Blood Brothers'.

2002 The Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Eddie Vedder, lead singer of Pearl Jam and close friend of the Ramones. The ceremony took place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.

2002 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the seventeenth annual induction dinner. Jakob Dylan is their presenter
　
　
　

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Originally Posted by Koala

1965 The Rolling Stones were each fined £5 ($8.50) for urinating in a public place. The incident took place at a petrol station after a gig in Romford, Essex, England.

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There have been times when I've felt that $8.50 was a cheap price to pay! Couldn't have been a protest over gas prices...they were GIVING gas away back then....$.17 a gallon. SERIOUSLY! However, it was always more expensive outside the USA so I don't know what it cost back then in the UK.

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Originally Posted by MikeA

...$.17 a gallon. SERIOUSLY! However, it was always more expensive outside the USA so I don't know what it cost back then in the UK.

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Mike, i've just been talking to my brother who got his license in '65 and he clearly remembers petrol being 3 Shillings a gallon - which taking into account we've gone decimal since then equates to 15p = $0.242347

1958 Big Records released 'Our Song' by a teenage duo from Queens, New York, Tom and Jerry. The duo will become famous in the '60s under their real names, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

1978 Billy Joel made his UK live debut at London's Dury Lane Theatre.

1989 The Living Years (Mike & the Mechanics) was a hit. :yay:

2001 Michael Jackson is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. N'Sync are his presenters.

2001 Queen is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters are their presenters.

2001 Paul Simon is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Marc Anthony is his presenter.

2001 Steely Dan is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Moby is their presenter.

2001Ritchie Valens is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Ricky Martin is his presenter.

2001James Burton is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Keith Richard is his presenter.

2001 Johnnie Johnson is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the sixteenth annual induction dinner. Keith Richard is his presenter.

1961 Elvis Presley started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Surrender', his fifth No.1 of the 60's. It also made No.1 in the UK. The song was based on the 1911 Italian song, 'Return To Sorrento.'

1968 Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Richie Furay and Jim Mesina, were arrested in Los Angeles for 'being at a place where it was suspected marijuana was being used.' Clapton was later found innocent, the others paid small fines.

1969 John Lennon married Yoko Ono at the British Consulate Office in Gibraltar. They spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam campaigning for an international "Bed-In" for peace. They planned another "Bed-in" in the United States, but were denied entry. The couple then went to Montréal, and during a "Bed-in" at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel recorded ‘Give Peace a Chance’. Lennon also detailed this period in The Beatles' ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’, recorded by Lennon and McCartney on April 14, 1969.

1971 Janis Joplin started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with the Kris Kristofferson's 'Me And Bobby McGee'. Joplin died the year before on 4th October aged 27.

1980 28 year- old Joseph Riviera held up the Asylum Records office in New York and demanded to see either Jackson Browne or The Eagles. Riviera wanted to talk to them to see if they would finance his trucking operation. He gave him-self up when told that neither act was in the office at the time.

1991,Eric Clapton's four year old son, Conor, fell to his death from the 53rd story of a New York City apartment after a housekeeper who was cleaning the room left a window open. The boy was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress, Lori Del Santo and the pair were visiting a friend's apartment. Clapton was staying in a nearby hotel after taking his son to the circus the previous evening. The tragedy inspired his song ‘Tears in Heaven’.
　

1968, Clapton, Furay and Young arrested because they were somewhere where the Narks thought weed might be burning!

Oh my, that arrest and others like it, inspired a lot of paranoia at the end of the 60's! Smoke a little dope, eat some potato chips and chill out with that Peaceful Easy Feeling....until it starts wearing off and then it's either burn some more or get a crik in your neck looking over your shoulder!

In Dallas, Tx back then, there were two distinct youth cultures at war. One was the dope smoking pill chewing long-haired hippy freaks who were "against" just about everything the "Establishment" represented....war, material things, 8 to 5 jobs....whatever! They did like fast cars though when they ran out of smoke <LOL> The music of the day was "Surrealistic Pillow", "Strawberry Fields" and anything Mystic whether it be Sitars or Yoga and Tarot. Discussions were mostly about the deep meanings of songs...songs that really had no obvious meaning but the words usually rhymed. And no one got upset when the interpretations that were arrived at were utter nonsense. That was "Heavy Man!"

On the other end of the spectrum, there were the goat ropers! Dallas had (and probably still has) their fair share of them. But if they didn't, Fort Worth certainly DID! They were about all the macho things, beer guzzlin' and the Lester Flatts and Earl Scruggs music. The idea of fun was to go to s#!t-kicking bar, get drunk and have a good fight in the parking lot (If you could still walk or crawl outside). Oh yeah, you had to have a floppy cowboy hat too and a big red pick-up truck! Few wore their hair long.

Them was good-ole days! <LOL> NOT REALLY!

I like the sound of "the dope smoking pill chewing long-haired hippy freaks" best!! :thumbsup:

1965 After 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' had held the No.1 position on the US singles chart for seven weeks, The Beatles started a two-week run at No.1 with 'She Loves You'.

1973 The BBC banned all teenybopper acts appearing on UK TV show, 'Top Of The Pops' after a riot following a David Cassidy performance.

1884 An MTV viewer spends an entire weekend with Van Halen as the winner of "The Lost Weekend With Van Halen" Cohntest.

1987 U2 scored their third UK No.1 album with 'The Joshua Tree', featuring the singles 'Where The Streets Have No Name', & 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'. The album became the fastest selling in UK history and the first album to sell over a million CDs, spending a total of 156 weeks on the UK chart. Also a US No.1.

1991 Leo Fender, the inventor of The Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars died from Parkinson's disease. He started mass producing solid body electric guitars in the late 40s and when he sold his guitar company in 1965, sales were in excess of $40 million a year.

1994 Neil Youn‘s Grammy-nominated "Philadelphia," from the AIDS-themed movie of the same name, loses to Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia' (also on the soundtrack), for Best Song from a Motion Pictur.