Today in Rock & Roll: Births 1911: Martin Denny 1921: Sheb Wooley 1932: Nate Nelson (The Flamingos) 1936: Bobbie Smith (The Spinners) 1947: Karl Russell (The Hues Corporation) 1947: Bunny Wailer (The Wailers) 1950: Eddie Hazel (Funkadelic) Events 1953: Eddie Fisher is discharged from the US Army, having sold seven million records during his stint in the service. 1956: Leo Fender patents the successor to his popular Telecaster model of electric guitar, this time called the Stratocaster. 1956: While performing at the Municipal Auditorium in Birmingham, AL, Nat King Cole is assaulted by five segregationists and tackled on stage, although local police quickly arrest the perpetrators, who had originally planned to kidnap the singer. Cole bravely performs a second show later that night. 1957: Ricky Nelson, then all of sixteen, performs his recently-recorded version of Fats Dominos Im Walkin -- done to impress a date -- on his familys TV sitcom, ABCs The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet. The record sells half a million copies in the next week alone. 1961: Del Shannon is the guest on ABC-TVs American Bandstand, singing his recent breakthrough hit, Runaway. 1965: A public school in Wrexham, North Wales, asks parents to make sure children attend in school uniforms after Rolling Stones fans at the school begin showing up in corduroy trousers like their heroes. 1968: Bill Kreutzmann invites Mickey Hart to join the Grateful Dead as its second drummer. 1970: Paul McCartney makes the Beatles secret breakup public by issuing a press release to announce that he has left the group, done in the form of a fake interview: Q: Is your break with the Beatles temporary or permanent, due to personal differences or musical ones? PAUL: Personal differences, business differences, musical differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family. Temporary or permanent? I dont really know. John Lennon is furious, especially since the breakup, already agreed upon by the group, was announced just one week prior to the British release of McCartneys first solo album. When a reporter tracks down Lennon for his thoughts, he replies, Paul hasnt left. I sacked him. 1970: Keith Emerson of the Nice, Greg Lake of King Crimson, and Carl Palmer of Atomic Rooster join forces to form Emerson, Lake and Palmer. 1970: At one of the bands last concerts, in Boston, Doors frontman Jim Morrison asks the audience if theyd like to see something of his that rhymes with sock, and then, more bluntly, screaming Would you like to see my genitals? The power in the stadium is switched off, and keyboardist Ray Manzarek pulls the singer, already facing similar charges from a Miami gig, off the stage. 1976: Stevie Wonder is featured in an ad in todays edition of Down Beat Magazine, edorsing the Mu-Tron III effects pedal, which uses synthesizer envelopes to create a wah effect for guitar. Wonder had used the pedal on his 1973 smash Higher Ground. 1978: Aretha Franklin marries her second husband, actor Glynn Turman, in New York City. The Four Tops sing Stevie Wonders Isnt She Lovely at the ceremony. 1991: Peter Noone guest stars as a rock star on tonights Glitter Rock - April 12, 1974 episode of NBC-TVs Quantum Leap. 1999: The all-star tribute concert Here There and Everywhere: A Concert For Linda is held at Londons Royal Albert Hall, where Paul McCartney, George Michael, Chrissie Hynde, Elvis Costello and Sinead OConnor raise money for animal charities while remembering Pauls wife Linda, who has recently succumbed to breast cancer. 2002: South Carolina Governor James Hodges makes it official by declaring James Brown the states Godfather Of Soul. 2007: Johnny Cashs last residence, a 14,000-square-foot house in Hendersonville, TN, burns to the ground. It had been purchased after Cashs death by Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, and planned for renovation. Releases none Recording 1958: Bobby Darin: Splish Splash, Queen Of The Hop Charts 1954: Perry Comos Wanted hits #1 1965: Freddie and the Dreamers Im Telling You Now hits #1 1971: John Denvers (Take Me Home) Country Roads enters the charts 1976: Peter Framptons LP Frampton Comes Alive! hits #1
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