1955, Buddy & Bob (Buddy Holly) opened for Elvis Presley at the ‘Big D Jamboree’, held at Lubbock’s Cotton Club, Texas. Nashville talent scout Eddie Crandall was in audience and arranged for Holly to audition and record demos for the Decca US label. Read More: The Day The Music Died 1960, The Beatles (minus Pete Best) and two members of Rory Storms Hurricanes (Ringo Starr and Lou Walters) recorded a version of George Gershwins ‘Summertime’ in a Hamburg recording studio. The track which was cut onto a 78-rpm disc marked the first session that included John, Paul, George, and Ringo together. 1965, Jimi Hendrix signed his first recording contract in the UK, where he would received $1 and a 1% Royalty on all of his recordings. 1966, Pink Floyd (who were paid £15 for the gig), The Move, Denny Laine, Soft Machine, Yoko Ono and a West Indian steel band all appeared at the launch for the International Times (which became the first and longest running British hippy paper), at Londons Roundhouse. Beatle Paul McCartney attended the event in Arabian dress. The flyers for the evening stated: Bring your own poison, bring flowers & gass (sic), filled balloons. Admission was 10 shillings (50p) on the door. 1966, The Four Tops started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Reach Out And Ill Be There. The groups second US No.1 and their first No.1 in the UK. 1967, The first Sacramento Pop Festival took place which featured Spirit, Jefferson Airplane, Nutty Gritty Dirt Band, Strawberry Alarm Clock and Sunshine Company. 1972, Lieutenant Pigeon were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Mouldy Old Dough. Keyboard player Rob Woodward had his mum play piano on the single, making them the only mother and son act to score a UK No.1. The song was recorded in the front room of their semi-detached house. 1973, Keith Richards was found guilty of trafficking cannabis by a Court in Nice, France. The Rolling Stone was given a one-year suspended sentence and a 5,000 franc fine. He was also banned from entering France for two years. 1977, Debby Boone started a 10 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with You Light Up My Life, the longest stay at the top since Guy Mitchells Singing The Blues. A No.48 hit in the UK. 1979, Abba played their first concert in North America when they appeared in Vancouver, Canada. 1988, Bon Jovi started a four-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with their fourth release, New Jersey. The album produced five Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 singles, the most top ten hits to date for a hard rock album. 1988, UB40 went to No.1 on the US singles chart with their version of the Neil Diamond song Red Red Wine, also a No.1 hit in the UK. 1995, Paul and Linda McCartney were the guest voices on Fox-TVs The Simpsons in an episode called Lisa the Vegetarian. Maccas stipulation for appearing was that Lisas decision to become a vegetarian would be a permanent character change, to which producer David Mirkin agreed. 1996, Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee was charged with assault for attacking a cameraman who was trying to take pictures of Lee and his wife Pamela Anderson Lee outside an L.A. club. After pleading no contest, Lee was sentenced to four months in prison. 1997, Michael Jackson played the last date on the HIStory Tour at Kings Park Rugby Stadium, Durban, South Africa. During the tour, Jackson performed 82 concerts in 58 cities to over 4.5 million fans, visiting 5 continents and 35 countries. 2000, Dave Edmunds had a triple heart bypass operation. The 56 year-old Welsh rocker had the operation at LAs Cedars Sinai Hospital. 2000, Radiohead went to No.1 on the US album chart with Kid A, the groups fourth album became the first Radiohead release to debut at No.1 in the US. 2000, U2 went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with Beautiful Day, the groups fourth UK No.1 single and taken from their album All That You Cant Leave Behind. 2003, Mike Smith, the former lead singer of The Dave Clark Five suffered a fall at his home in Spain that left him paralyzed from the waist down. Smith died of pneumonia on February 28th, 2008, less than two weeks before the band was to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2006, The Sugababes were the most successful UK all-female act of the 21st century, according to new figures. Since their chart debut in 2000, they had scored 16 hits, beating the likes of Madonna and Britney Spears. The trio first made UK chart history in 2002 when, with ‘Freak Like Me’, made them the youngest female group to top the chart. 2007, Britney Spears visited a Los Angeles police station to be photographed and fingerprinted ahead of her hit-and-run court case. The 25-year-old singer spent about 30 minutes at the station after a judge ordered her to submit to the procedures. Ms Spears was charged last month for allegedly crashing into a parked car while driving without a valid licence. 2008, Jon Bon Jovi became the latest musician to disapprove of the use of his songs in John McCains US presidential campaign. The Bon Jovi song, ‘Who Says You Cant Go Home’, was used during rallies held by Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Foo Fighters, Heart and Jackson Browne had all asked Mr McCain to stop using their tracks in his presidential bid. Bon Jovi, a Democrat supporter, threw a $30,000 (£17,000) per person, fund-raising dinner for Democratic candidate Barack Obama at his New Jersey home in September
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