>>Today In Rock History On This Day: In 1965 The Rolling Stones met future manager Allen Klein. In 1967 A 17-year-old Bruce Springsteen joined the trio Earth. In 1968 In celebration of his birthday, Who drummer Keith Moon drove a Lincoln Continental into a swimming pool at a Holiday Inn in Flint, Michigan. In 1974 Cat Stevens Another Saturday Night broke into the Top 40. In 1978 Bruce Springsteen was on the cover of Rolling Stone. In 1982 R.E.M. released the album Murmur. In 1984 Neil Young made an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. In 1989 The Who performed Tommy at the Universal Amphitheater in Universal City, California. Elton John, Billy Idol, and Patti LaBelle joined The Who for the show. In 1990 Sinead OConnor banned The Star Spangled Banner from her show in New Jersey. In 1994 Bob Dylan sued Apple Computers, saying the company had released software that used his name without permission. In 2002 Joe Walshs Big Brown Truck ad for UPS made its TV debut. In 2005 A postal facility near the late Ray Charles recording studio in Los Angeles was renamed the Ray Charles Post Office Building in the legendary R&B stars honor. A memorial service for synthesizer inventor Robert Moog was held in Asheville, North Carolina. In 2006 Reps for Aerosmith announced that bassist Tom Hamilton had just completed seven weeks of intensive treatment for throat cancer, and wouldnt be joining the group for its fall tour. My Chemical Romance was named the Best Band On The Planet at the UKs Kerrang! Awards. Fall Out Boy, Lostprophets, Muse, and Slayer were other honorees at the event. ABC execs revealed that The Kinks had recently reunited to record a new version of You Really Got Me, which was used in a promo for the TV series Desperate Housewives. In 2007 Bo Diddley suffered a heart attack while at the North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville for a checkup. He went from an exam room to the emergency room, and later to the operating room where doctors installed a stent. At the time Diddley was still recovering from a stroke he suffered three months earlier. Aerosmiths Joe Perry joined country star Toby Keith in concert in Buffalo, New York to tape a performance of the song Mystery Train for the TV special Elvis: Viva Las Vegas. The Cure cancelled a fall tour so the group could continue working on a new album. In 2008 Jimmy Page was among the performers at the Closing Ceremony for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The Led Zeppelin guitarist was featured in a segment devoted to Britain, since the next summer Olympics were to be held in London in 2012. Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crow, Randy Newman, and Allen Toussaint performed events in Denver on the eve of the launch of the Democratic National Convention. The Barenaked Ladies frontman Ed Robertson was piloting a Cesna 206 float plane when it crashed north of Bancroft, Ontario. A gust of wind is said to have caused the plane to stall, leaving the singer to try and put the plane down in a wooded area near a Baptiste Lake resort. While the plane was totaled, Robertson and his three passengers escaped injury. In 2010 Iron Maidens The Final Frontier hit number one on the UK albums chart. It was the groups fourth number one album in 28 years, following 1982s The Number of the Beast, 1988s Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, and 1992s Fear Of The Dark. In 2011 Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin began team-teaching a course on evolution at Cornell University. The rocker earned a PhD in zoology from the school in 2003. Rod Stewart launched the two-year run of his show The Hits at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. In 2012 Metallica filmed the first of three shows in Vancouver, British Columbia for their 3-D concert film, Metallica Through The Never. In 2013 Aretha Franklin was honored with the Beacon of Change Award at Major League Baseballs Beacon Awards Luncheon in Chicago. However, health issues prevented the legendary Queen of Soul from attending the event to accept her award. The exhibit Bob Dylan: Face Value, a special display of some of the folk-rock legends portraits, opened at Londons National Portrait Gallery.
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