Those with Birthdays on December 2nd:
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1941 - Tom McGuinness, bassist for Manfred Mann
1943 - Dave Munden of The Tremeloes
1952 - Michael McDonald, formerly with the Doobie Brothers
1954 - Jim Tinlin, music fan
1960 - Rick Savage of Def Leppard
1968 - Nate Mendel, bassist for the Foo Fighters
1970 - Treach of Naughty By Nature
1978 - Nelly Furtado
1981 - Britney Spears

Others born in the same year (1954):
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Jan.  3 Ross the Boss, of the Dictators and also Manowar
Jan. 25 Bassist and KC & the Sunshine Band co-founder Richard Finch is born in Indianapolis.
Jan. 31 Whitesnake guitarist Adrian Vandenberg.
Feb.  1 Chuck Dukowski, bassist with the hardcore group Black Flag.
Feb. 18 John Travolta, dancer and actor
Mar. 16 Nancy Wilson of Heart
Apr.  1 The late Jeff Porcaro of Toto
Apr. 12 Pat Travers, musician
Apr. 13 Jimmy Destri, keyboardist for Blondie
May   2 The Knack's bassist Prescott Niles
May  19 Drummer Phil Rudd of AC/DC
May  20 Black Oak Arkansas' Jimmy Henderson
Jun.  2 Michael Steele, formerly of the Bangles
Jun.  3 Guitarist and vocalist Dan Hill
Jun. 13 Twisted Sister bassist Mark Mendoza
Jun. 15 Guitarist Garry Roberts of the Boomtown Rats
Jun. 29 Guitarist and vocalist Colin Hay of Men At Work
Jul. 13 Louise Mandrell
Jul. 18 Country's Ricky Skaggs
Jul. 28 Guitarist Steve Morse, who has been a part of Deep Purple, the Dixie Dregs, and Kansas
Jul. 29 Singer Patty Scialfa
Aug. 11 Joe Jackson
Aug. 12 Folk/jazz guitarist, Pat Metheny
Aug. 22 Mahogany Rush's Frank Marino
Aug. 25 Singer Elvis Costello
Sep.  6 Molly Hatchet bassist Banner Thomas
Sep.  7 Pianist & keyboard player for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Benmont Tench
Sep. 21 Drummer Phil Taylor of Motorhead
Sep. 14 Barry Cowsill of the Cowsills
Sep. 16 Guitarist/vocalist Colin Newman of Wire
Sep. 26 Former Jefferson Starship guitarist Craig Chaquico
Sep. 26 Guitarist and vocalist Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos
Sep. 28 Guitarist George Lynch, formerly of Dokken
Sep. 30 R&B artist Patrice Rushen
Oct.  3 The late blues-rock guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan
Oct.  5 Sir Bob Geldof, formerly of the Boomtown Rats
Oct.  6 Guitarist and vocalist David Hidalgo of Los Lobos
Oct. 21 Eric Faulkner of the Bay City Rollers
Oct. 24 Perry Lee Tavares, aka "Tiny," of the Tavares vocal group of brothers
Nov.  1 Chris Morris, once with Paper Lace
Nov.  3 Adam Ant, born Stuart Goddard
Nov.  4 Chris Difford of Squeeze
Nov.  8 Singer Rickie Lee Jones
Nov.  9 Dennis Stratton, who played guitar with Iron Maiden on their first album, is born in London
Nov. 10 Mario Cipollina of Huey Lewis & The News
Nov. 15 Chic's Tony Thompson
Nov. 18 John Parr
Nov. 30 June Pointer, the youngest of the Pointer Sisters, is born in East Oakland, Calif.
Nov. 30 George McArdle, bassist with the Little River Band, is born in Melbourne, Australia.
Dec. 13 Berton Averre of the Knack

December 2nd in History...
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1804: Napoleon becomes 1st French emperor placing crown on his own head
1805: Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
1816: 1st savings bank in US opens as Phila Savings Fund Society
1822: In San Salvador a congress proposes incorporation into US
1823: Pres Monroe declares his doctrine
1852: French monarchy restored; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
1859: John Brown hung
1899: US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
1927: 1st Model A Fords sold for $385
1942: 1st controlled nuclear reaction at University of Chicago
1952: 1st human birth televised to public Denver Co
1954: US Senate censures Joe McCarthy for his conduct
1957: 1st full-scale atomic electric power plant - power generated Pa
1961: 1st OT Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21 Hamilton 14)
1963: The No. 1 Pop Hit was "Dominique," by The Singing Nun. The song was written by Sister Luc-Gabrielle and eulogizes the founder of the Dominican order.
1971: Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
1971: United Arab Emirates gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1972: In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
1974: Soyuz 16 launched
1974: The No. 1 Pop Hit was "Kung Fu Fighting," by Carl Douglas. The song originally was to be released as the B-side to "I Want to Give You My Everything."
1975: Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
1981: Moscone Convention Center in SF opens
1982: 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted
1983: MTV aired Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, directed by John Landis, for the first time.
1986: Jerry Lee Lewis checked into the Betty Ford Clinic to overcome a painkiller addition.
1990: Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Aaron Copland died in Westchester, N.Y., at the age of 90.
1994: rapper and actor Tupac Shakur was found guilty of sexually abusing a woman but acquitted of more serious sex and weapons charges. Two days earlier Shakur had been shot five times during a robbery outside a New  York recording studio.
1995: Actress Roxie Roker, mother of rocker Lennie Kravitz, died in Los Angeles of an undisclosed illness at the age of 66. Roker was a star of the long-running TV comedy "The Jeffersons" as well as a stage actress.
1996: Counting Crows' Adam Duritz severed a ligament and tore cartilage in his knee after he fell during a concert at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Duritz underwent orthoscopic surgery during the band's Christmas break.
1997: Guitar virtuoso/composer Michael Hedges was found dead in Mendocino, Calif. following a car crash that apparently occurred over the weekend.
1997: Third Street Jazz and Rock Holding Corp., a Philadelphia record store, filed a class-action lawsuit against the six major U.S. record distributors. The suit claimed that EMI, Sony, WEA, Universal, Bertelsmann Music Group and PolyGram conspired "to raise, fix, and maintain at artificially high and non-competitive levels the wholesale prices" of CDs.
1998: Bob Haggart, a jazz artist and arranger who played bass with bands for nearly 70 years, died in Venice, Fla. He was 84.
1998: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and country singer Garth Brooks lit the lights on the Christmas tree in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center.
1999: Jay-Z was arrested in Manhattan in connection with the stabbing one day earlier of music executive Lance "Un" Rivera at the city's Kit Kat Klub.
2000: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw performed in a benefit concert for the USS Cole Fund. Country's super couple added the date at The Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Va., to help the families of the 17 American sailors killed in the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole on Oct. 12.
2001: with four awards, the Dave Matthews Band reigned supreme as the big winner at the second annual My VH1 Music Awards.

Other important events in 1954:
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Jan.  7 Muddy Waters recorded "I'm Your Hootchie-Coochie Man" at Chicago's Chess Records
Apr. 12 Bill Haley and the Comets recorded "Rock Around The Clock."
May  20 Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" is released as a single.
Jul.  5 Elvis Presley invents rock 'n' roll as he, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black start messing around on a song called "That's All Right" at Memphis' Sun Studios.
Jul. 12 Sun Records' Sam Phillips signs Elvis Presley to his first recording contract at Sun Records and quits his job as a truck driver.
Jul. 15 Quincy Jones leads the session as the Trenners record "Say Hay (The Willie Mays Song)." The brilliant center fielder also makes a vocal contribution to the single.
Jul. 19 After its phenomenal reception on Memphis radio, Sun Records releases Elvis Presley's debut single, "That's All Right Mama" backed with "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
Jul. 20 In Memphis, a young Elvis Presley gives his first concert using a flatbed truck as a stage. Billed with Scotty Moore and Bill Black as the Blue Moon Boys, Elvis was playing the show to commemorate the opening of a new drugstore on Lamar Avenue.
Aug. 10 Elvis makes a live appearance to plug his new record "That's All Right (Mama)" at Overton Park in Memphis.
Aug. 11 Bill Haley & the Comets crash into the top 40 with "Shake, Rattle and Roll."
Aug. 17 The Newport Jazz Festival kicks off this year with headliners Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald.
Sep.  9 Elvis Presley performed at the grand opening of a Memphis pharmacy.
Oct.  1 The Penguins' "Earth Angel" was released.

Events during my High School years:
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* 1968 *

Jan. 11 - Jimi Hendrix moves into a London townhouse formerly owned by the Messiah's composer George Frederick Handel. The guitarist tells the Daily Mirror that he will "not let the tradition down."
Jan. 12 - The Beatles changed the name of their partnership from Apple Music Limited to Apple Corps Limited. (pun intended).
Jan. 20 - Bob Dylan, the Band, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Richie Havens appeared at the Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert at New York's Carnegie Hall.
Jan. 27 - Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"  was released posthumously. It would become the first posthumous No. 1 record of the rock era.
Feb.  1 - The Doors announce that Universal has offered them a $500,000 movie contract. They also claim a book of Jim Morrison's poems and a joke book by the entire band are on the way.
Feb.  1 - John Lennon ships his Rolls Royce to the U.S.
Feb. 16 - John and Cynthia Lennon and George and Patti Harrison all flew to India to spend two months studying with transcendental meditation advocate Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Feb. 16 - Detroit declared today Aretha Franklin Day.
Feb. 18 - Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett left the band and checked into a psychiatric hospital. He was replaced by guitarist David Gilmore.
Feb. 22 - Genesis release their debut single, "The Silent Sun." 
Feb. 22 - Marc Bolin's Tyrannosaurus Rex -- later shortened to T. Rex -- launched a concert tour in Manchester, England.  David Bowie opened the show with a silent, one-man mime act.
Feb. 28 - Frankie Lymon died from a heroin overdose. He was 25. 12 years earlier, his group -- Frankie Lymon and the teenagers -- had a top-10 hit with "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?"
Mar.  1 - Johnny Cash married June Carter.
Mar.  2 - Simon & Garfunkel appeared at The Usher Hall, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Mar.  8 - Bill Graham's Fillmore East opened in New York. On the bill -- Albert King, Tim Buckley, and Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Mar. 11 - A gold record was awarded posthumously to Otis Redding for his No.1 single "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay."
Mar. 14 - Elvis Presley's 26th movie, "Stay Away Joe,"  premiered.
Mar. 17 - The Bee Gees made its U.S. television debut -- performing "To Love Somebody" and "Words" on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Mar. 25 - The 58th and final episode of "The Monkees" TV show was aired. The group disbanded in 1969 and re-formed in 1986 without Michael Nesmith.
Mar. 30 - The No. 1 song on the U.K. singles chart was the Beatles with "Lady Madonna."
Apr.  4 - Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King and Buddy Guy played an all- night blues show in New York in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., who had been assassinated that day in Memphis.
Apr.  6 - Pink Floyd announced that founding member Syd Barrett had left the group.
Apr.  7 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "Honey," by Bobby Goldsboro.
Apr. 22 - A CBS-TV special broadcast on this date -- celebrating the release of the 10th album by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass -- featured Alpert singing "This Guy's in Love With You." The single was released two days later after a flood of calls to CBS asking about getting a recording of the song.
Apr. 27 - Simon & Garfunkel released "Mrs. Robinson" from The Graduate soundtrack.
Apr. 28 - The Beatles refused to play a benefit show for the British Olympic Fund, even though Queen Elizabeth was to attend. Said Ringo Starr, "We don't do benefits."
May   3 - The Beach Boys launched a U.S. tour, on which their co-headliner was the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
May   4 - Steppenwolf make their first appearance on American Bandstand.
May   5 - Buffalo Springfield played its last show in Long Beach, Calif. But two major new acts rose from the ashes -- Steve Stills and Neil Young joined David Crosby and Graham Nash, while Jim Messina joined Kenny Loggins.
May   8 - George Dewey Hay, the radio announcer who created the Grand Ole Opry, dies in Virginia Beach, Va., at age 72.
May  10 - Jim Morrison incites a riot at a Doors gig in Chicago.
May  11 - The Monkees enter the albums chart with The Birds, the Bees and the Monkees." Although the long-player debuts at a disappointing No. 80, next week it would leap to No. 3.
May  11 - Richard Harris releases the immortal "MacArthur Park."
May  12 - Jimi Hendrix is busted for hashish and heroin at the Canadian border. He says the drugs were planted, and the charges are later dropped.
May  17 - Wonderwall, a psychedelic film with soundtrack by George Harrison, premieres at the Cannes Film Festival.
May  18 - The Doors, the Animals, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother & the Holding Company, Country Joe & the Fish, and Taj Mahal all play the Northern California Folk Rock Festival.
May  20 - Pete Townshend marries Karen Astley.
May  24 - Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull are arrested on charges of marijuana possession.
May  26 - Pink Floyd play a benefit for the underground magazine Oz at London's Middle Earth club.
May  26 - Legendary R&B vocalist Little Willie John dies of a heart attack in Washington State Penitentiary, in Walla Walla, at age 30.
Jun.  1 - Guitarist Dave Mason rejoins Traffic after quitting the band six months earlier.
Jun.  6 - The Rolling Stones add new lyrics to their forth- coming single "Sympathy for the Devil" referring to the recent assassination of Robert Kennedy.
Jun. 16 - Janis Joplin, Steve Miller, and Santana played a benefit at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. Proceeds from the gig went toward keeping the Matrix Club, another San Francisco venue, open.
Jun. 17 - Ohio Express received a gold record for "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy.
Jun. 22 - Actor Richard Harris goes to No. 2 with his seven- minute reading of "MacArthur Park."
Jun. 22 - The Jeff Beck Group, with Rod Stewart as lead singer, make their debut U.S. performance at New York's Fillmore East. Stewart gets such a bad case of stage fright he spends the entirety of the first song cowering behind a large speaker cabinet.
Jun. 22 - Over in England, the Rolling Stones go to No. 1 with their back-to-basics single "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
Jun. 27 - Elvis Presley begins filming his acclaimed come- back TV special Elvis at the NBC studios in Burbank, Calif.
Jun. 28 - Aretha Franklin appears on the cover of Time magazine.
Jun. 29 - Pink Floyd release A Saucerful of Secrets. The Floyd celebrate by performing a free show in London's Hyde Park with Jethro Tull, Roy Harper, and T. Rex.
Jul.  1 - John Lennon opens an exhibition of his drawings titled "You Are Here."
Jul.  5 - John Lennon sells his psychedelic Rolls Royce.
Jul.  5 - Bill Graham opens the Fillmore West in San Francisco.
Jul.  6 - The No. 1 single in the U.S. today is the Rolling Stones with "Jumping Jack Flash."
Jul.  7 - The Yardbirds finally call it quits, leading guitarist Jimmy Page to form the New Yardbirds in order to fulfill some tour commitments. The group, featuring Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, becomes 
Led Zeppelin.
Jul. 12 - Monkee Mickey Dolenz marries Samantha Juste.
Jul. 13 - Steppenwolf release "Born to Be Wild" to the delight of bikers everywhere. The lyrics are responsible for the term "heavy metal."
Jul. 13 - On the album charts, Simon & Garfunkel's Book- ends is No. 1 for the third week.
Jul. 14 - Promoter Bill Graham leaves the Fillmore Auditorium to take over San Francisco's Carousel Ballroom. Electric Flag and Blue Cheer play the final Fillmore concerts.
Jul. 15 - Creedence Clearwater Revival release their self- titled debut album.
Jul. 18 - The Grateful Dead release Anthem of the Sun. Their second album fails to chart.
Jul. 20 - Paul McCartney's girlfriend Jane Asher announces on British TV that her engagement to the Walrus has been broken off. McCartney met future spouse Linda Eastman on a business trip earlier in June.
Jul 20 - Kool G Rap, whose "It's a Demo" 12-inch became an underground classic, is born in Elmhurst, N.Y.
Jul. 26 - Decca pulls the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet from its release schedule, citing problems with the sleeve.  The design features a graffiti-covered toilet.
Jul. 26 - Howlin' Wolf plays the first of three nights at San Francisco's Avalon Ballroom, supported by Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Jul. 29 - The Byrds head off to South Africa to tour. However, one Byrd who isn't going is Gram Parsons, who is protesting South African apartheid.
Aug.  3 - The Newport Pop Festival starts today, featuring performers like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Steppenwolf.
Aug.  3 - "Hello, I Love You" becomes the Doors' second and last No. 1 single.
Aug. 10 - The Who released their single "Magic Bus," which later went to No. 25.
Aug. 11 - The Beatles released "Hey Jude," their first single to bear the Apple imprint. The single, backed with "Revolution," went to No. 1. In England, today marked the start of National Apple Week, named in honor of the Beatles' record label.
Aug. 17 - publisher McGraw-Hill moves up the publication date of Hunter Davies' authorized Beatles biography to prevent its sales being affected by the spoiler tome The Beatles: The Real Story by Julian Fast. Fast later admits that he's never had contact with any of the Beatles.
Aug. 20 - Bobby Darin sold his music publishing company for $1 million.
Aug. 22 - A day before their sixth anniversary, John Lennon's wife, Cynthia, sues the Beatle for divorce after discovering Yoko Ono living in their London home.
Aug. 23 - Flushing Meadows in Queens hosts the New York Rock Festival, featuring the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Big Brother & the Holding Company, and the Soft Machine.
Aug. 23 - Ringo Starr temporarily walks out on the Beatles during sessions for The Beatles, but later returns.  The incident goes unreported.
Aug. 24 - Billboard reported a rumor that Diana Ross was ready to leave the Supremes and go solo.
Aug. 24 - To celebrate his 21st birthday (which was actually yesterday), Keith Moon drove a Lincoln convertible into the pool of a Flint, Mich., Holiday Inn.
Aug. 30 - The Beatles released "Hey Jude."
Aug. 31 - Danny Kirwin, 18, joined Fleetwood Mac as their third guitarist. He is later fired after recording 1972's Bare Trees.
Sep.  6 - Eric Clapton contributes a solo to the Beatles track "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."
Sep.  7 - The Doors' third album, Waiting for the Sun, topped the album chart on the back of the No. 1 single "Hello, I Love You."
Sep.  9 - in the studio, the Beatles laid down 17 takes of "Helter Skelter," with one session seeing Paul McCartney playing bass on his back.
Sep. 14 - What's next for the Who's Pete Townshend? He told Rolling Stone today that he's working on a rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy. The pinball bit must have come later.
Sep. 14 - The Archies premiered on CBS. Producer Don Kirshner later succeeded on sending the Archies' single "Sugar Sugar" to No. 1. Not bad for a group that was a cartoon.
Sep. 14 - 40 foreign officials of the U.S. Information Agency attend a Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in Washington, D.C.
Sep. 15 - The television musical series "Soul" premiered on NBC with guests Lou Rawls and Martha & the Vandellas.
Sep. 19 - In the studio, recording starts on the Beatles song "Piggies," a track that would inspire Charles Manson.
Sep. 21 - Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum gave its Beatles statues their fifth hair and clothes makeover in four years, in keeping with the lads' taste for hippie fashions.  On the American charts, the boys currently sat at No. 12 with "Revolution."
Sep. 24 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "Hey Jude," by The Beatles. The song was the biggest for the best-selling rock group of all time. It stayed at No. 1 for nine weeks.
Sep. 26 - The Beatles record sound effects for use on "Glass Onion," but never end up using them.
Sep. 26 - Rolling Stone Brian Jones is found guilty of marijuana possession. A judge fines him $150.
Sep. 28 - Janis Joplin announced via her manager, Albert Grossman, that she was leaving Big Brother & the Holding Company next month. Why? She and the band "weren't growing together anymore."
Sep. 28 - Rock DJ Dewey Phillips died in Millington, Tenn. The King of Memphis radio was widely considered to be the first DJ to mix records by blacks and whites on the same show. He also introduced Elvis Presley to the world with the first spin of "That's All Right Mama."
Sep. 30 - Hunter Davies published The Beatles, the band's first authorized biography.
Oct.  4 - Cream began their farewell tour at California's Oakland Coliseum.
Oct.  4 - At Trident Studios, Paul McCartney records "Martha My Dear" for the Beatles' White double album.
Oct.  5 - The Who, Small Faces, Joe Cocker, and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown began their tour of the British Isles in London.
Oct.  8 - The Beatles worked on recording "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill," and Yoko Ono cut the first female "lead vocal" on a Beatles song.
Oct. 12 - John Sebastian quit the Lovin' Spoonful to launch his solo career. His sole top 40 hit was 1976's "Welcome Back," the theme tune to ABC's Welcome Back, Kotter.
Oct. 13 - John Lennon recorded "Julia," the last song for The Beatles. It's the only solo recording Lennon made for the group.
Oct. 14 - Ringo Starr flies to Sardinia with his family for a two-week vacation. The rest of the Beatles wrapped up recording the self-titled double album that's more commonly known as the "white album."
Oct. 15 - Led Zeppelin made their performance debut at Surrey University in England.
Oct. 15 - Howlin' Wolf suffered a severe heart attack. He recovered and would live another six years.
Oct. 17 - Jose Feliciano releases "The Star-Spangled Banner."  Fans booed Feliciano when he performed his meandering interpretation earlier during the 1968 World Series.
Oct. 18 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono were arrested at Ringo Starr's London apartment on drug charges. Lennon pleaded guilty so the police wouldn't press charges against Ono, although he swore the hash had been planted. The arrest became the backbone of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Department's case to keep Lennon from becoming a U.S. citizen.
Oct. 18 - Led Zeppelin performed for the first time in Britain at London's Marquee Club.
Oct. 18 - Eighteen-year-old guitarist Peter Frampton plays with the Small Faces during a London concert. He later joins lead singer Steve Marriott in Humble Pie.
Oct. 19 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono appeared at Marylebone Magistrate's Court to answer charges of marijuana possession.  They were remanded on bail until November 28. The same day, they took the cover photograph for their album Life With the Lions - Unfinished Music No. 2. Later, Yoko was admitted to Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital.
Oct. 20 - At the Country Music Association Awards, Jeannie C.  Riley's "Harper Valley PTA" wins Best Song, while Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison wins Best Album.
Oct. 25 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono announce that their first child should be born sometime in January. Unfortunately, Yoko miscarries.
Oct. 26 - DJ Murray the K starts work at WMCA in New York.  The so-called "fifth Beatle" first began his broadcasting career there in the '50s.
Oct. 28 - Cynthia Lennon sued her Beatle husband John for divorce on the grounds of adultery. John Lennon, who was living with a pregnant Yoko Ono at the time, didn't fight the action.
Oct. 31 - Linda Eastman arrives in England to take up living with Paul McCartney.
Nov.  1 - George Harrison's "Wonderwall" album was released.  The movie soundtrack was the first release on the Apple Records label and the first Beatle solo recording.
Nov.  2 - Cream perform at Madison Square Garden during their farewell tour. The band is given a platinum disc commemorating American sales of the double album Wheels of Fire.
Nov.  8 - John and Cynthia Lennon's divorce was finalized.
Nov. 11 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Unfinished Music Number 1:  Two Virgins" album -- the one featuring full frontal nudity on its cover -- was released.
Nov. 16 - While their career is taking off in America, Led Zeppelin play Manchester College of Science & Technology in England for a mere 225 pounds.
Nov. 19 - Diana Ross and the Supremes appeared before Queen Elizabeth at the annual Royal Variety Performance in London.  Between songs, Ross urged racial tolerance in an unrehearsed speech.
Nov. 22 - The Beatles' "white album," which was actually titled "The Beatles," was released.
Nov. 22 - Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" was released.
Nov. 23 - It's reported that San Francisco's Family Dog collective has lost its license to hold its famed marathon Grateful Dead concerts at the Avalon Ballroom.
Nov. 23 - Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant finalizes a deal to sign the band to Atlantic Records after Dusty Springfield recommends Jimmy Page to label boss Ahmet Ertegun.
Nov. 24 - No. 1 Pop Hit was "Love Child," by Diana Ross & the Supremes. The group introduced the song on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Nov. 26 - Cream -- Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce -- played its farewell concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Dec.  1 - Janis Joplin made her final appearance with Big Brother & the Holding Company.
Dec.  6 - President-elect Nixon reportedly sent a letter to Elvis Presley, asking for "The King's" support in his first term in the White House.
Dec.  8 - Graham Nash left The Hollies, and started work with David Crosby and Stephen Stills.
Dec. 10 - The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb married Molly Hullis.
Dec. 21 - Janis Joplin and her Kozmic Blues Band perform at the Stax/Volt Yuletide Thing at Memphis' Mid South Coliseum.
Dec. 27 - The MC5 debuted at the Filmore East in New York.
Dec. 28 - The Miami Festival kicks off, drawing 100,000 people over its three days for a line-up that includes Jose Feliciano, Procol Harum, and Fleetwood Mac. It's the first major rock festival held on the east coast.
Dec. 28 - Over in the UK, the Rolling Stones enter the charts at No. 3 with Beggars Banquet.
Dec. 28 - Led Zeppelin play their first ever gig in Canada at Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum supporting Vanilla Fudge and the MC5.

* 1969 *

Jan. 11 - Jethro Tull release their debut album This Was.
Jan. 11 - The Rolling Stones go to No. 5 in the American album charts with their new release Beggars Banquet.
Jan. 12 - The psychedelic film 'Wonderwall' premiered in London, with a soundtrack by George Harrison. Halliwell's Film Guide said the movie was "vapid and witless." In 1995, the group Oasis wrote a song about it.
Jan. 13 - Elvis Presley returned to a recording studio in Memphis for the first time since he signed with RCA Records in 1955. He recorded "Suspicious Minds."
Jan. 18 - Creedence Clearwater Revival release their second album, Bayou Country. It goes on to peak at No. 7 on the Billboard chart.
Jan. 18 - Blood, Sweat & Tears release their second album, accurately titled Blood, Sweat & Tears. It tops the charts, helped by the singles "Spinning Wheel" and "And When I Die."
Jan. 18 - The Beatles release the soundtrack to their animated film Yellow Submarine.
Jan. 18 - "Fifth" Beatle Pete Best wins a defamation suit against the band. Although rumors had been flying that the Beatles would perform a surprise concert at London's Roundhouse today, it doesn't happen.
Jan. 24 - British rock group Jethro Tull played its first U.S. show, opening for Led Zeppelin in New York City.
Jan. 26 - Led Zeppelin played a four-hour set at the Boston Tea Party. John Paul Jones remembered, "We played four and a quarter hours I think, which, with an hour and a half act, is some going, I can tell you. ..."
Feb.  1 - Led Zeppelin supports Iron Butterfly at the Fillmore East concert hall in New York. As Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy plays his lengthy solo on "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida," John Bonham launches a stage invasion, upsetting several Atlantic Records executives in the audience.
Feb.  2 - Yoko Ono obtained a divorce from her first husband, Tony Cox, and gained custody of her daughter, Kyoko.
Feb.  3 - Beatles John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr appointed Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein as their new Mr.  Fix-It. Paul McCartney refused to sign with Klein, preferring his father-in-law, Lee Eastman.
Feb.  4 - The Beatles appointed Eastman and Eastman -- the law firm of Paul McCartney's father-in-law -- as general counsel to Apple. This was McCartney's response to the hiring of Allen Klein the day before.
Feb.  8 - George Harrison has his tonsils removed at London's University College Hospital.
Feb.  8 - Janis Joplin's manager, Albert Grossman, sends the singer and her Kozmic Blues Band to Rindge, N.H. beginning an intensive rehearsal schedule.
Feb.  8 - Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Stevie Winwood announce they are forming a new group. But first they have to find a bass player. With Family's Rich Grech, the quartet become Blind Faith.
Feb. 10 - Janis Joplin was interviewed by Mike Wallace for CBS's "60 Minutes" while in New York for a series of shows at the Fillmore East. Later, Joplin would say she didn't remember ever speaking with Wallace.
Feb. 15 - The No. 1 single on the American pop chart today is Sly & the Family Stone's "Everyday People."
Feb. 15 - A Florida audience enjoys what they think is a club performance by Aretha Franklin. But it isn't. It's actually a woman named Vickie Jones impersonating the soul diva.  She's arrested for the fraud, but nobody in the club demands a refund.
Feb. 17 - Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash collaborated on a recording project at the CBS Studios in Nashville. Although a number of songs were recorded, only one -- "Girl From The North Country" -- appeared on Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" album, for which Cash wrote the sleeve notes. Another tune -- "One Too Many Mornings" -- appeared in the documentary film 
"Johnny Cash, The Man And His Music."
Feb. 18 - Bee Gee Maurice Gibb married pop star Lulu (real name: Marie Laurie) in England. His brother Robin served as best man.
Feb. 22 - The Beatles begin their sessions for Abbey Road with a take of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)."
Feb. 22 - Oz magazine reviews Led Zeppelin's first album.  Writer Felix Dennis says the debut "defies immediate classification or description, simply because it's so obviously a turning point in rock music that only time proves capable of shifting it into eventual perspective."
Feb. 23 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "Everyday People," by Sly & the Family Stone.
Mar.  1 - Jim Morrison of the Doors allegedly exposed himself on stage in Miami -- and would later be charged with indecent exposure and public drunkenness. He was convicted in September 1970 and was still appealing the eight-month prison sentence when he died in July 1971.
Mar.  4 - A daughter was born to Sonny and Cher. They named her Chastity.
Mar.  8 - The Beatles held the top two places on the Billboard Top-200 album chart with "The Beatles," a.k.a. the "white album," and the soundtrack album to the animated feature film "Yellow Submarine."
Mar.  9 - CBS canceled The Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour, a variety show notable for its satiric humor and musical appearances by the Beatles, the Doors, and the Who. The program came under fire when guest Joan Baez used her appearance to publicize the predicament of her husband, who had been arrested for objecting to the draft.
Mar. 21 - One day after their wedding, John Lennon and Yoko Ono began the first of their two "Bed-Ins for Peace" at the Amsterdam Hilton.
Mar. 28 - Ringo Starr announced in London that there'd be no further public appearances by the Beatles. John Lennon disputed that, but it turned out Starr was right.
Mar. 30 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard hit was "Dizzy," by Tommy Roe. The song was Roe's biggest hit. It remained at No. 1 for four weeks and sold 6 million records.
Apr.  1 - The Beach Boys filed a $2 million lawsuit against Capitol Records to recover royalties and producers' fees for Brian Wilson.
Apr.  4 - The most popular show on TV, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, was cancelled by CBS because the brothers failed to submit an episode to network executives before its broadcast. The show was well known for its irreverent political satire and the brothers had already engaged in several censorship skirmishes with the network.
Apr.  6 - Bassist Pete Quaife announced that he's quitting the Kinks.
Apr. 15 - Archie Bell of the Drells was released from military service after a tour of Vietnam.
Apr. 21 - Janis Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band played at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Apr. 22 - The Who performed the complete "Tommy" for the first time in public in Dolton, England, two weeks before the rock opera's official premiere in London.
Apr. 22 - John Lennon changed his middle name from Winston to Ono in a ceremony on the roof of the Apple Records zeadquarters in London.
Apr. 22 - A&M signed a brother/sister act called the Carpenters.
Apr. 27 - Joe Cocker made his debut appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Apr. 27 - A court found John Lennon's erotic lithographs "unlikely to deprave or corrupt," and his exhibition in London was reopened.
Apr. 29 - Duke Ellington was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his 70th birthday. The musical legend was the son of a White House butler.
May   3 - Jimi Hendrix was arrested on heroin possession charges at Toronto International Airport. He was freed on $10,000 bail.
May   4 - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Ringo Starr all show up at the London wrap party for The Magic Christian.
May  10 - First daughter Tricia Nixon has quite a Masque Ball.  The Turtles and the Temptations both perform at the White House, but turn up a little worse for wear. Turtle Mark Volman falls off stage five times.
May  16 - Pete Townshend spends a night in a New York jail for allegedly assaulting a stage invader at the Fillmore East.
May  16 - In New Orleans, Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Cassady is arrested on charges of marijuana possession.
May  17 - Chicago release their double debut album, Chicago Transit Authority. The real C.T.A. sued.
May  19 - Jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins dies in New York at age 64.
May  25 - In Columbia, Md., Led Zeppelin and the Who appear together at a concert at the Merriweather Post Pavilion.
May  25 - Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends goes to No. 1 on the American albums chart, knocking their own Graduate soundtrack out of the top spot.
May  25 - the Hollies record "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother," with a young Elton John providing piano.
May  26 - John Lennon and Yoko hold another bed-in, making a mess of Room 1742 in Montreal's Hotel La Reine.
May  31 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded "Give Peace A Chance" in a hotel suite in Montreal, Canada.
Jun.  3 - Diana Ross discovers that her two pet dogs have eaten rat poison and died in her dressing room.
Jun.  6 - Rod Stewart signs as a solo artist to Mercury Records.
Jun.  7 - Bob Dylan plays with Johnny Cash on the debut of ABC's Johnny Cash Show.
Jun.  8 - Brian Jones leaves the Rolling Stones, to be replaced by Mick Taylor. Jones explains his departure by saying, "I no longer see eye to eye with the discs we are cutting."
Jun.  9 - The Rolling Stones announce that guitarist Brian Jones will be replaced by the John Mayall Band's Mick Taylor.
Jun.  9 - Moby Grape disband after bassist Bob Mosley joins the Marine Corps.
Jun. 10 - At California's Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, the Byrds, the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Smokey Robinson, and Dionne Warwick all perform.
Jun. 13 - Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Sam & Dave, and the Staple Singers perform at the Soul Bowl '69, held at the Astrodome.
Jun. 13 - The Rolling Stones officially announce Brian Jones' replacement as being Mick Taylor.
Jun. 14 - In London's Hyde Park, Mick Jagger has his first photo shoot with the Rolling Stones. He replaced Brian Jones.
Jun. 14 - The Beatles top the British charts with their first stereo single, "The Ballad of John and Yoko."
Jun. 22 - Supergroup Blind Faith release their self-titled album.
Jun. 28 - Neil Diamond releases his future No. 4 "Sweet Caroline."
Jun. 28 - Crosby, Stills & Nash release their self- titled debut album.
Jun. 29 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience play their last concert together at the Denver Pop Festival in Mile High Stadium.
Jun. 29 - Motown singer/songwriter Shorty Long ("Here Comes the Judge") drowns off the coast of Ontario when his sailboat capsizes.
Jul.  1 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono are involved in a car crash in Scotland. John needs 17 stitches on his face.
Jul.  1 - the Doors release their album The Soft Parade.
Jul.  1 - Sam Phillips, the man who first recorded Elvis, sells his label Sun Records.
Jul.  5 - Kenny Rogers enters the chart with "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town."
Jul.  5 - American Bandstand hosts a reunion of Jerry Butler and the Impressions ("For Your Precious Love").
Jul.  5 - The Rolling Stones turn their free Hyde Park concert into a memorial service for Brian Jones, who died in his swimming pool on July 3.
Jul.  6 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono are released from the hospital following a car crash in Scotland.
Jul.  6 - Mick Jagger flies to Australia to begin filming Ned Kelly with his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull. Two days later Jagger will tell her it's over.
Jul.  8 - While on the Australian set of Ned Kelly, Marianne Faithfull overdoses on barbiturates. Faithfull is dropped from the production and enters a hospital for heroin addiction two days later.
Jul. 11 - David Bowie releases his album Space Oddity.
Jul. 13 - New York's Flushing Meadows Singer Bowl plays host to a festival that sees sets from the Jeff Beck Group, Vanilla Fudge, Jethro Tull, Ten Years After, and Led Zeppelin.
Jul. 14 - At the Mississippi River Rock Festival, the Band find themselves upstaged when their boss, Bob Dylan, joins them on stage for three songs. He's introduced as "Elmer Johnson."
Jul. 15 - Singer Judy Collins appears in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt.
Jul. 18 - Janis Joplin and her Kozmic Blues Band make their first appearance on The Dick Cavett Show.
Jul. 19 - Having just turned 28, Spencer Davis decides to break up the Spencer Davis Group.
Jul. 20 - Pop vocalist Roy Hamilton, the former boxer who first had a hit with "Unchained Melody," dies in New Rochelle, N.Y., after suffering a stroke.
Jul. 21 - To celebrate Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon on July 20, Duke Ellington performs his specially commissioned composition "Moon Maiden" on ABC.
Jul. 22 - In Detroit, Aretha Franklin is busted for allegedly "causing a disturbance" in a parking lot. After paying a $50 fine, the rattled Lady Soul accidentally drives into a road sign.
Jul. 25 - Led Zeppelin play Milwaukee at the Midwest Rock Festival. Former Yardbird Eric Clapton, who is playing with Blind Faith the next day, catches the set by fellow former Yardbird Jimmy Page's new band.
Jul. 27 - Led Zeppelin and the Doors play the Seattle Pop Festival.
Aug.  1 - The first Atlantic City Pop Festival kicks off in New Jersey, featuring performers like Iron Butterfly, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jefferson Airplane, Little Richard, Janis Joplin, Santana, Procol Harum, and Joe Cocker.
Aug.  2 - At Abbey Road, Paul McCartney produces Badfinger as they record their No. 7 hit "Come and Get It."
Aug.  2 - Bob Dylan attends his high school reunion in Hibbing, Minn. He and his wife, Sara, leave after a drunk tries to pick a fight. The same day his track "Lay Lady Lay"  enters the top 40.
Aug.  3 - The Beach Boys' Carl Wilson is busted. He had agreed to serve civilian duty instead of being drafted into the Army, but when he arrived at Los Angeles County Hospital to do his bit, taught music classes instead of acting as an institutional helper.
Aug.  3 - Janis Joplin sings with Little Richard at the Atlantic City Pop Festival.
Aug.  9 - Actress Sharon Tate and four others were killed by followers of Charles Manson in first of two nights of bizarre slayings in the Los Angeles area. Manson -- who was later convicted of murder -- claimed the Beatles spoke to him through secret messages in the lyrics of five songs on the "white album."
Aug. 10 - Keith Richards' girlfriend Anita Pallenberg, whom he stole from the late Brian Jones, gives birth to a son, Marlon.
Aug. 11 - Diana Ross invited 350 of her closest friends to see the newest Motown act, the Jackson 5, perform at a Beverly Hills, Calif., club.
Aug. 12 - the supergroup Blind Faith made their U.S. live debut at Madison Square Garden.
Aug. 16 - The Who and Janis Joplin performed at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y. During the Who's set, Abbie Hoffman jumped onstage to protest something or other, but Pete Townshend was having none of it. He clobbered the activist with his electric guitar. Townshend later explained he had no idea who Abbie Hoffman was.
Aug. 17 - The Woodstock festival carried on into its third day, although if you were expecting to see Jimi Hendrix perform, you would have to wait until Monday morning.
Aug. 17 - If you were stuck at home, you could watch Steppenwolf rock The Ed Sullivan Show.
Aug. 18 - Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during the filming of 'Ned Kelly' in Australia.
Aug. 19 - Miles Davis -- backed by John McLaughlin, Chick Corea and Wayne Shorter -- recorded the classic "Bitches Brew" album.
Aug. 20 - Frank Zappa disbanded the Mothers of Invention, reportedly because he was tired of "people who clap for all the wrong reasons."
Aug. 20 - The Beatles convened in the studio together for the last time as they wrapped up recording "I Want You (She's So Heavy)."
Aug. 22 - The Beatles film a promotional clip for the song "The Long and Winding Road."
Aug. 22 - The three-day Wild West Festival starts at San Francisco's Kezar Stadium, featuring performances by Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, Santana, and the Youngbloods.
Aug. 23 - In American chart action, the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" goes to No. 1, while Blind Faith's self-titled debut is a new entry on the albums chart.
Aug. 24 - the film based on Arlo Guthrie's song "Alice's Restaurant" opens today.
Aug. 30 - The Texas International Pop Festival opened its three-day run at a racetrack near Dallas. It featured Janis Joplin, Santana, Chicago, Grand Funk Railroad, Sly and the Family Stone and B.B. King.
Aug. 31 - Bob Dylan made his first live appearance since his motorcycle accident at the Isle of Wight Festival.  Dylan makes a cool 38,000 English pounds for his performance.
Sep.  6 - James Brown announces his retirement after tonight's gig at the Memphis Mid-Southern Coliseum. His last concert, he says, will be on July 4, 1970.
Sep.  6 - Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" reaches its peak position of No. 7 on the singles chart.
Sep. 13 - The Plastic Ono Band -- with John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman and Alan White -- performed for the first time in public at the Toronto Peace Festival. The concert yielded the album "Live Peace In Toronto." Also on the bill -- The Doors, Chicago, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Alice Cooper.
Sep. 13 - Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds" was released.  It turned out to be his final No.1 single.
Sep. 13 - Santana's self-titled debut album entered the U.S.  album charts.
Sep. 14 - Genesis played their first paying gig at an English cottage owned by Peter Gabriel's former Sunday school teacher.
Sep. 15 - the No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit was "Sugar, Sugar," by The Archies.
Sep. 15 - Ed Sullivan took a chance at his own musical stardom with his recording "The Sulli-Gulli."  Credited to the Ed Sullivan Singers & Orchestra, it failed to chart.
Sep. 15 - Jon Lord's ego is indulged as Deep Purple record Concerto for Rock Band and Orchestra with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Sep. 20 - The Beatles' publishing company, Northern Songs, was bought by Associated TV for 1 million pounds, while their new business affairs manager, Allen Klein, negotiated an increased royalty rate for the band with EMI/Capitol.
Sep. 20 - No. 1 on both the American and British albums charts today is Blind Faith, the only album by the supergroup that features Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Ginger Baker.
Sep. 23 - Beatle fans in the United States were shaken by the widely broadcast rumor that Paul McCartney had died in a car accident three years earlier.
Sep. 26 - Promoter Bill Graham opens the Fillmore West in San Francisco. It quickly becomes the epicenter of the city's psychedelic-band boom.
Sep. 30 - Tragedy strikes David Crosby, as the CSN member's girlfriend Christine Gail Hinton dies in a car crash north of San Francisco. The same day, Crosby, Stills & Nash goes gold.
Oct.  1 - The Beatles' "Abbey Road" was released in the US.
Oct.  3 - John Lennon records "Don't Worry Kyoko" with the Plastic Ono Band at Lansdowne Recording Studios in Britain.  The song later appears on Lennon and Ono's Wedding Album.
Oct.  3 - Mississippi acoustic blues player Skip James, whose influence extended from Robert Johnson to Eric Clapton, dies at age 67 in Philadelphia.
Oct.  4 - Crosby Stills and Nash's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" was released.
Oct.  4 - No. 1 on the American albums chart today are Creedence Clearwater Revival with Green River. In Britain it's the Beatles' Abbey Road.
Oct.  5 - Tonight on The Ed Sullivan Show, the Who do their best to behave themselves.
Oct.  6 - Record buyers were shocked to discover that the latest Beatles single wasn't written by Lennon and McCartney.  Instead, George Harrison's "Something" was the A-side that landed in record shops today. As well as going to No. 3, it turned out to be one of the best songs ever written.
Oct. 11 - Blues monolith Muddy Waters was injured in an automobile accident that took the life of three people outside Chicago.
Oct. 12 - On the Detroit radio station WKNR tonight, DJ Russ Gibb was told by a phone caller to play the Beatles' "Revolution 9" backward for his listeners. When he did, he thought he heard a voice saying, "Turn me on, dead man,"  and concluded it refered to Paul McCartney.
Oct. 13 - Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and their respective spouses went to London's Savoy Theatre to see Mary Hopkin perform. McCartney produced her hit "Those Were the Days."
Oct. 17 - The Kinks play their first concert in the U.S. in four years, supporting Spirit at New York's Fillmore East.  The American Federation of Musicians banned the group from playing there after a disastrous 1965 tour during which the band spent as much time fighting onstage as playing music.
Oct. 17 - Hot Chocolate release their cover of "Give Peace a Chance." The band was best known for 1975's "You Sexy Thing."
Oct. 18 - Rod Stewart joined Faces, replacing Steve Marriott, who'd left to form Humble Pie with Peter Frampton.
Oct. 18 - Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" was released.
Oct. 18 - The Jackson 5's first performance as a Motown act was at the Hollywood Palace.
Oct. 18 - Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner is arrested for marijuana possession in Hawaii.
Oct. 19 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "I Can't Get Next to You," by The Temptations.
Oct. 20 - The Who played the first of six nights at New York's Fillmore East, playing the entirety of their Tommy rock opera.
Oct. 20 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono release The Wedding Album in the U.S. Highlights include "John and Yoko," in which the couple yell each other's name for 25 minutes.
Oct. 22 - Paul McCartney officially denied the persistent rumor that he was dead.
Oct. 22 - Tommy Edwards, who originally recorded the smash "It's All in the Game," died in Henrico County, Va.
Oct. 25 - Pink Floyd release their quadruple-sided monstrosity Ummagumma. Song titles include "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party," "Sisyphus, Part IV," and "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict."
Oct. 25 - Led Zeppelin play to their largest indoor crowd to date. At the Boston Garden, they perform before a crowd of 17,000 and rake in $45,000. Support comes from the MC5 and Johnny Winter.
Oct. 27 - Ringo Starr begins recording his album Sentimental Journey. Following the completion of Abbey Road, he becomes the first Beatle to formally embark on a solo album.
Nov.  3 - the No. 1 Pop Hit was "Wedding Bell Blues," by The 5th Dimension.
Nov. 15 - Janis Joplin was arrested for using "vulgar and indecent" language on stage in Tampa, Fla., and also for allegedly threatening to kick a police officer in the face.
Nov. 22 - Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" was released.
Nov. 22 - Joe Cocker appeared for the first time on U.S.  music charts with the song "With A Little Help From My Friends."  The "friends" on the recording included Jimmy Page, Steve Winwood and Albert Lee.
Nov. 30 - The struggling magazine Rave gets a helping hand from David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, and the Graham Bond Organisation, who all perform at the Save Rave '69 benefit in England.
Nov. 30 - Simon & Garfunkel appear in their first TV special.  They screen footage of Bobby Kennedy's funeral and the Vietnam War, which causes original sponsor AT&T to dissociate itself from the program.
Dec.  6 - An 18-year-old boy was beaten to death by members of the Hell's Angels bikers group, which was providing security at a free Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, Calif., near San Francisco.
Dec.  6 - Asia's concert in Tokyo was beamed live to the United States, where it was viewed by an estimated 20-million people. The show, titled "Asia In Asia," marked the debut of bass player Greg Lake.
Dec. 14 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono continue to protest the innocence of James Hanratty, one of the last people executed in Britain for murder, with their wacky antics. The couple turns up at London's Hyde Park covered with a giant white bag to hear Hanratty's father address a crowd. Hanratty and the Lennons later present a petition at No. 10 Downing Street, where 
the Prime Minister lives. We're not sure how they got out of the bag.
Dec. 15 - John Lennon gave his last live performance in England, a UNICEF benefit in London.
Dec. 23 - Elton John began collaborating with lyricist Bernie Taupin.
Dec. 27 - The Rolling Stones album "Let It Bleed" entered the U.S. charts.

* 1970 *

Jan.  3 - the Beatles recorded what would become their last song together as a group, "I Me Mine." This doesn't count the two "new" Beatle songs on "The Beatles Anthology, Volume 1."
Jan.  3 - Davy Jones announced he was leaving the Monkees.
Jan.  4 - George Harrison records the second guitar solo for "Let It Be." It's the last Beatles recording session to feature Harrison, Paul McCartney and George Martin, as well as the last recording session of the Beatles as a band.
Jan.  5 - the No. 1 US Pop Hit was "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," by B.J. Thomas. The song appeared in the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" which starred Paul Newman.
Jan. 14 - Diana Ross performed one last gig with the Supremes in Las Vegas.
Jan. 24 - inventor Dr. Robert Moog unveiled a miniaturized synthesizer that'd become known as the mini-moog.
Jan. 28 - Jimi Hendrix headlined the Vietnam Moratorium Committee's Winter Festival for Peace at New York's Madison Square Garden.  Also on the bill: the Rascals, Judy Collins, Dave Brubeck, Harry Belafonte, and Peter Paul and Mary.
Jan. 31 - Bob Weir and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead were arrested in New Orleans. The incident was immortalized in their song "Truckin'" with the claim they were "set up like a bowlin' pin."
Feb. 15 - The Daughters of the American Revolution announce that there will be no more rock concerts at their Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Seems the organization was miffed that Sly & the Family Stone sparked a riot after turning up five hours late for a gig there.
Feb. 17 - Joni Mitchell announced she would make no more public appearances. Before the year was out, she was on stage at the Isle of Wight Festival.
Feb. 28 - Led Zeppelin performed in Copenhagen as "The Nobs."  That's because Eva von Zeppelin -- a descendant of the turn- of-the-century German count who designed the first rigid airship -- had threatened to sue if the band appeared using the family moniker in Denmark.
Mar 8 - Former Supreme Diana Ross opened her first solo engagement -- an 11-night run at a nightclub in Framingham, Mass.
Mar. 11 - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young won a Grammy for Best New Artists and the 5th Dimension won for "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In," for Record of the Year.
Mar. 18 - Country Joe MacDonald was convicted of public obscenity for leading the audience at a Worcester, Mass., concert in his "fish" cheer, which spells out the so-called "f" word.
Mar. 21 - The Guess Who single "American Woman" was released.
Mar. 22 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard hit was "Bridge Over Troubled Water," by Simon & Garfunkel. The album and single won six Grammys including Record, Album and Song of the Year. It was the duo's biggest hit, selling more than 1 million copies and topping the pop chart for six weeks.
Mar. 30 - Miles Davis released Bitches Brew. Over time, it has become the cornerstone of a jazz-rock movement known as "fusion."
Mar. 30 - Led Zeppelin walked off stage during a Pittsburgh gig and said they wouldn't play until the police stopped intimidating the audience. Ten minutes later they resumed the show.
Apr.  7 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "Let It Be,"  by The Beatles.
Apr.  8 - "Woodstock," the movie, had its British premiere in London.
Apr. 11 - One day after Paul McCartney formally announced the breakup of the Beatles, the group's "Let It Be" hit No. 1 on the pop charts.
Apr. 11 - Peter Green -- a founding member of Fleetwood Mac -- found religion and announced he was leaving the group.
Apr. 14 - Steven Stills broke his wrist in a car accident in Los Angeles.
Apr. 19 - the U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "ABC," by the Jackson 5. The song was the group's second consecutive No. 1 single.
Apr. 21 - Chicago slide guitarist Earl Hooker died from tuberculosis at age 41.
Apr. 28 - Members of Pacific Gas and Electric Company -- an inter-racial rock band -- were pelted with beer cans and forced to flee from a racist crowd in Raleigh, N.C.
Apr. 28 - Otis Spann -- Chicago blues session player and a regular in Muddy Waters' band -- died of cancer at age 40.
May   4 - The National Guard kills four students and wounds 11 more during an anti-Vietnam protest at Ohio's Kent State University. Neil Young quickly goes into the studio with Crosby, Stills & Nash to record his song "Ohio," written about the tragedy.
May  11 - The Who release Live at Leeds. The Beatles release their single "The Long and Winding Road." Both compete in the shops with the Woodstock soundtrack.
May  12 - The Grateful Dead release Workingman's Dead.
May  13 - The Beatles documentary Let It Be premieres in New York.
May  16 - Police burst into the Bloomington, Minn hotel room of Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin after neighbors complain about noise. They find Balin and friends with marijuana and teenaged girls. The singer is sentenced to a year's hard labor and a fine, but on appeal only has to pay the fine.
May  16 - Randy Bachman leaves the Guess Who.
May  23 - The Grateful Dead perform outside the U.S. for the first time. Their gig at England's Hollywood Rock Festival goes on for four hours.
May  23 - The Beatles' Let It Be reportedly sets a record for advance sales as 3.7 million advance orders are made for the farewell album.
Jun.  3 - In the recording studio, Ray Davies of the Kinks changes the word "Coca-Cola" in the song "Lola" to "cherry cola" to qualify for airplay on the noncommercial BBC radio.
Jun.  6 - Syd Barrett plays his first solo concert since leaving Pink Floyd, although he's helped out at London's Extravaganza event by guitarist Dave Gilmour and drummer Jerry Shirley.
Jun.  7 - The Who play Tommy at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
Jun.  8 - Bob Dylan releases his Self Portrait album.
Jun.  9 - Princeton University gives Bob Dylan an honorary doctorate in music.
Jun. 13 - In America, "The Long and Winding Road" becomes the Beatles' last No. 1 record.
Jun. 13 - Christine Perfect says she will retire from music following the release of her self-titled solo album.  However, she later follows her husband, John McVie, into the ranks of Fleetwood Mac, penning plenty of future hits.
Jun. 14 - Grand Funk Railroad spend $100,000 on a block- long billboard in New York to advertise their latest single, "Closer to Home." It went to No. 22.
Jun. 14 - Blood, Sweat & Tears become the first Western rock band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
Jun. 15 - Jimi Hendrix spent his first day recording at Electric Ladyland in New York. Named after his 1968 album, the studio was designed according to his exact specifications.
Jun. 23 - Chubby Checker is busted in Niagara Falls, N.Y., after cops discover drugs in the renowned Twister's car.
Jun. 27 - The English band Smile decide to change their name to Queen.
Jun. 27 - Pink Floyd perform "Atom Heart Mother" live for the first time at the Bath Festival.
Jul.  1 - Jimi Hendrix records for the first time in his New York studio Electric Ladyland.
Jul.  1 - Casey Kasem's syndicated American Top 40 radio show debuts in several markets around the U.S.
Jul.  8 - Tonight on ABC is the premiere of the Everly Brothers' new variety show. It's canceled in September.
Jul. 12 - A solo Janis Joplin plays her first gig backed by the Full Tilt Boogie Band in Louisville, Ky.
Jul. 15 - Creedence Clearwater Revival release their very popular fifth album, Cosmo's Factory.
Jul. 18 - Pink Floyd and Deep Purple play a free concert at London's Hyde Park that attracts an audience of 20,000.
Jul. 25 - Chicago release their single "25 or 6 to 4."
Jul. 28 - Ned Kelly, starring Mick Jagger as the behelmeted highwayman, opens in Australia.
Jul. 29 - The Rolling Stones' contract with Decca ends. The band informs manager Allen Klein that "neither he nor ABKCO Industries have any authority to negotiate recording contracts on their behalf" and begins to consider starting its own label.
Aug.  1 - In London, Performance starring Mick Jagger finally premieres. The completed film had been on the shelf for two years, allegedly due to director David Cammell's refusal to re-edit the controversial portrait of rock decadence.
Aug.  4 - Medicine Ball Caravan touring festival, featuring headliners the Grateful Dead, plays its first date - in San Francisco.
Aug.  4 - After falling asleep on a woman's porch in Los Angeles, Jim Morrison is arrested for public drunkenness.
Aug.  8 - Janis Joplin buys a headstone for her heroine Bessie Smith's unmarked grave in Philadelphia.
Aug. 10 - Elvis Presley began a 58-show stand at the Las Vegas Hilton International Hotel.
Aug. 12 - Bob Dylan Joan Baez and Arlo Guthrie -- among others -- performed at the Woody Guthrie Memorial Show at the Hollywood Bowl.
Aug. 17 - Christine McVie joined husbands' band Fleetwood Mac on keyboards.  
Aug. 18 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "Make It with You," by Bread.
Aug. 22 - Elton John signs to MCA Records.
Aug. 22 - Elvis' comeback is well and truly under way, as the King announces his first nationwide tour since 1958.
Aug. 22 - Eric Clapton enters the studio to begin recording the Derek & the Dominos album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.
Aug. 22 - America experiences Creedence Clearwater Revival mania as the album Cosmo's Factory hits No. 1 for the first of a nine-week run.
Aug. 23 - Lou Reed left the Velvet Underground, the band he'd formed in 1964 with John Cale, following a gig at Max's Kansas City. The group's manager carries on, making Doug Yule the frontman. He tours with a variety of lineups. The band's final 1973 album, Squeeze, featured no original members.
Aug. 25 - Elton John made his U.S. debut at the Troubador in Los Angeles, where he is booked for an entire week. The singer would break in America before he became a star in his British homeland.
Aug. 25 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer gave their debut performance in Plymouth Guild Hall, England.
Aug. 26 - Jimi Hendrix played what would be his last show -- at the Isle of Wight Pop Festival. The bill also included Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.  Thousands turn up expecting the concert to turn into a free festival, only to discover organizers have surrounded the place with a large metal fence. The freeloaders spend most of their time banging on 
the fence demanding entry. Meanwhile, the promoters don't have enough money to pay their acts.
Aug. 26 - Hendrix opened the Electric Lady recording studio.
Aug. 26 - Guitarist Duane Allman joined Eric Clapton's Derek & the Dominos sessions in Florida.
Aug. 29 - The Kinks' sensitive ode to a transvestite, "Lola," is released. American audiences take it to their bosoms, so   
Aug. 30 - The Isle of Wight Pop Festival was held in England, and featured Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, the Who, Joni Mitchell, Jethro Tull, Free, the Moody Blues, and others.
Sep.  2 - Genesis ran an advertisement for a drummer in the English magazine Melody Maker. Former child actor-turned-skins beater Phil Collins answered and convinced the band to hire him by revealing that he played bongos on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass.
Sep.  3 - Alan Wilson of Canned Heat died from a drug overdose that apparently was a suicide. He was 27.
Sep.  3 - pop singer Arthur Brown was arrested and jailed for four days after he set fire to his helmet and stripped naked during his performance at the Palermo Pop Festival in Italy. Upon his release, he was told to get out of Italy and stay out.
Sep.  3 - the Dave Clark Five are now just Dave Clark.  The band broke up today, according to Rolling Stone, having scored eight top 10 hits, including "Bits and Pieces."
Sep.  9 - Elvis Presley launched a short U.S. concert tour in Oakland, Calif.
Sep. 12 - In New Orleans, thieves steal $40,000 worth of Pink Floyd's touring equipment.
Sep. 12 - Josie and the Pussycats premieres on CBS. The animated series, about an all-girl band in tiger costumes who kick alien arse and solve crimes, ends in 1972.
Sep. 12 - At the Hollywood Bowl, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and others pay tribute to the late Woody Guthrie with a memorial concert.
Sep. 14 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," by Diana Ross. The song was the first solo effort by the singer to reach No. 1.
Sep. 16 - Readers of the British publication Melody Makers voted Led Zeppelin the best group -- marking the first time in years that any other act had threatened the dominance of the Beatles.
Sep. 19 - The Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya Ya's Out, the live album commemorating their riotous 1969 North American tour, goes to No. 1 in the U.K.
Sep. 19 - Neil Young's After the Gold Rush album enters the charts.
Sep. 20 - A judge in Miami found Jim Morrison guilty of indecent exposure for an onstage incident at a Miami concert a year-and-a-half earlier.
Sep. 26 - According to Tamla-Motown, label act the Jackson 5 have sold 10 million singles in the space of nine months.  The feat becomes a world record.
Sep. 26 - John Lennon begins recording sessions for what will become his therapeutic John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album.
Oct.  1 - Jimi Hendrix's funeral was held in Seattle, WA.  Among the mourners -- Miles Davis, Eric Burdon of the Animals, and all four members of Eric Clapton's group Derek and the Dominos.
Oct.  1 - Curtis Mayfield left the Impressions. His biggest hit as a solo artist was 1972's "Freddie's Dead."
Oct.  1 - In Milan, 2,000 fans rioted when they're denied entry to a Rolling Stones concert.
Oct.  3 - Cream's Jack Bruce teams up with John McLaughlin, Larry Young, and Tony Williams to form the fusion group Lifetime.
Oct.  3 - Janis Joplin listens to a playback of the instrumental "Buried Alive in the Blues," for which she intends to cut a vocal for her album Pearl. She dies the next day.
Oct.  4 - Janis Joplin was found dead in a room at the Landmark Motel in Hollywood from an accidental heroin overdose. She was 27.
Oct.  5 - Prince Rupert Lowenstein was made the Rolling Stones' financial adviser.
Oct.  5 - Violinist Papa John Creach joined Jefferson Airplane.
Oct.  6 - The No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit was "Cracklin' Rosie,"  by Neil Diamond.
Oct.  7 - Ned Kelly, the second film starring Mick Jagger, is released in Britain.
Oct. 10 - Pink Floyd release their album Atom Heart Mother.  On L.A.'s Sunset Strip, the Harvest label promotes the album with 30-foot-high billboards of the album's cover star, a cow named Lullubelle III.
Oct. 12 - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Jesus Christ Superstar" debuted on Broadway.
Oct. 12 - Promoter Bill Graham held an auction of rock memorabilia at the Fillmore East in New York. Proceeds went to peace campaigns. Among the lots was a guitar smashed by Pete Townshend.
Oct. 13 - Janis Joplin's ashes were scattered off the coast of California.
Oct. 15 - Derek and the Dominoes opened what would become an extended U.S. tour.
Oct. 20 - Bob Dylan releases New Morning. 
Oct. 25 - Pink Floyd's "Atomic Heart Mother" became the group's first No.1 album in Britain.
Oct. 26 - The mother of Meredith Hunter, the man slain at the ill-fated Altamont festival, sues the Rolling Stones.
Oct. 31 - One of the great rock 'n' roll marriages begins today as Michelle Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas marries Dennis Hopper. By November 7, the two have divorced.
Nov.  1 - The Festfolk Quartet, which would later become Abba, perform their first concert at a restaurant in Gothenburg, Sweden. According to the Expressen newspaper, the group "are as well matched on stage as they are off it."
Nov.  4 - Jethro Tull played a Carnegie Hall benefit for the Phoenix House drug rehabilitation center.
Nov.  8 - Jim Morrison recorded poetry that, after his death, would be set to music by the surviving members of the Doors as "An American Prayer."
Nov.  9 - Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant marries his wife, Maureen.  The couple have their reception at Led Zeppelin's gig in London's Roundhouse, where they appear on the bill with the Deviants, Tyres, and John Lee Hooker.
Nov. 11 - Bob Dylan's novel "Tarantula" was published.
Nov. 12 - The Doors played its last concert as a four-some in New Orleans.
Dec. 17 - The Beach Boys performed for Princess Margaret at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Dec. 21 - "Hey Old Man," the first single by the Festfolk Quartet - later known as ABBA - reaches No. 5 in Sweden.
Dec. 23 - John Lennon premiered his new song "Imagine" on national television.

* 1971 *

Jan.  4 - At London's Abbey Road studios, Pink Floyd begin sessions for Meddle, the follow-up to their 1970 album Atom Heart Mother. The same month director Stanley Kubrick asks the band if he can use Atom Heart Mother as the soundtrack for his revelatory A Clockwork Orange. The band say no.
Jan. 19 - the court heard the Beatles' recording of "Helter Skelter" at the trial of Charles Manson. Manson claimed to have heard secret messages in the music that led him to order the murders of actress Sharon Tate and others.
Jan. 25 - Beatles-inspired nutcase Charles Manson is sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of seven counts of murder in the first degree and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. Three other members of his family are also given life sentences.
Jan. 25 - Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick and Paul Kantner have a daughter, whom they name China. Rejected monikers included "God."
Feb.  4 - the Osmonds received their first "gold" record, for "One Bad Apple."
Feb.  8 - The Bob Dylan documentary Eat the Document premieres at New York's Academy of Music. Proceeds from the screening go toward ending strip mining in Pike County, Ky.  However, the film is only given two other commercial showings.
Feb. 10 - British authorities banned a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention after deeming obscene the album "200 Motels," a fictionalized account of the band's experiences on the road.
Feb. 16 - the Rolling Stones were sued by the Hell's Angel accused of stabbing Meredith Hunter at Altamont in 1969.  Alan David Pasaro alleged that the Stones had invaded his privacy by including footage of the fatal attack in their documentary Gimme Shelter.
Feb. 18 - Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band made its New York debut at Unganos.
Mar.  8 - radio Hanoi broadcasted Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner." The tape was sent by Abbie Hoffman.
Mar. 10 - In the aftermath of the break-up of the Beatles, a London court appointed an independent receiver to handle the group's complex finances. It also barred manager Allen Klein from further participation in Beatle affairs.
Apr.  6 - Composer Igor Stravinsky, who shook the world with his compositions The Rite of Spring and The Firebird, died at age 88.
Apr. 29 - Bill Graham announced plans to close the two Fillmores -- East in New York and West in San Francisco.
May   6 - Ike & Tina Turner are awarded a gold disc - the only one they never received - for their recording of "Proud Mary."
May  12 - In St. Tropez, Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macia. In attendance are Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, and the other Rolling Stones.
May  13 - James Brown cuts "Hot Pants."
May  13 - Jefferson Airplane call a halt to recording their latest album after Grace Slick crashes her Mercedes in San Francisco.
May  18 - The Band begin their first European tour in Rotter-dam.
May  20 - at a Chicago Cubs game, a number of fans object to Peter Cetera's long hair and knock four teeth out of his head.
May  23 - It's the end of an era as Iron Butterfly split up.
May  24 - Bob Dylan's 30th birthday is commemorated with a Peanuts cartoon commenting on the event.
May  26 - Don McLean records his future No. 1, "American Pie."
Jun.  1 - Joni Mitchell releases her album Blue.
Jun.  1 - Harry Nilsson begins recording his album Nilsson Schmilsson in London.
Jun.  1 - The shack in which Elvis was born in Tupelo, Miss., is opened as a tourist attraction.
Jun.  6 - Frank Zappa and his Mothers of Invention are joined onstage at New York's Fillmore East by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Jun.  6 - The last broadcast of The Ed Sullivan Show. Ed's final musical guests are Gladys Knight & the Pips.
Jun. 10 - A crowd gets so excited during a performance by Jethro Tull in Denver that police fire tear gas on them.
Jun. 14 - Frank Sinatra announces that he is retiring from show business.
Jun. 27 - The Beach Boys and the Allman Brothers Band perform the final concert at New York's Fillmore East before the venue closes.
Jul.  5 - A Led Zeppelin gig in Milan turns violent when police fire tear gas at the crowd. The band escapes unharmed, but numerous arrests are made and a roadie is hit in the head with a bottle.
Jul.  7 - In Sweden, Bjorn Ulvaeus marries Agnetha Faltskog in Verum, Sweden. The duo would achieve success as half of Abba.
Jul. 13 - David Cassidy is in the hospital to have his gall bladder removed.
Jul. 15 - Yoko Ono appears at the London department store Selfridges, where she signs copies of her book Grapefruit.
Jul. 20 - on NBC's Make Your Own Kind of Music, you can see the Carpenters perform.
Jul. 21 - Jesus Christ Superstar mania seizes Pittsburgh. An audience of 13,000 packs the Civic Arena to see a special performance of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Jul. 25 - The Beach Boys enjoy a commercial comeback of sorts with the release of Surf's Up. The No. 29 position is their highest chart placement since 1966's Pet Sounds.
Aug.  1 - Yes keyboardist Tony Kaye leaves the band to form Badger.
Aug.  1 - George Harrison holds his first Concert for Bangladesh at New York's Madison Square Garden. The concert, featuring Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, raised money to combat famine in the Southeast Asian nation.
Aug.  1 - Black Sabbath release their album Master of Reality, which goes to No. 8 on the charts.
Aug.  3 - Paul McCartney announces he's forming Wings.
Aug. 10 - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band began recording their country music landmark "Will the Circle Be Unbroken."
Aug. 17 - Gladys Knight tries to pick up a pip she can cuddle on The Dating Game.
Aug. 23 - Pink Floyd begin their final sessions for this year's Meddle album.
Aug. 31 - A security guard is stabbed to death during a Who concert in Forest Hills, N.Y.
Aug. 31 - The Rolling Stones and Brian Jones' father file a writ against their first manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, citing him for "royalty deprivation."
Sep.  2 - Former Grateful Dead manager Lenny Hart was arrested and charged with embezzling $70,000 from the band. The same day, the band released their second live album, titled Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead changed the title after the record company refused to release something called Starf*ck.
Sep.  2 - The Rolling Stones were reported to be suing their former managers Andrew Loog Oldham and Eric Easton. The band accused the pair of withholding royalties from it during its time on the Decca record label.
Sep.  8 - Two generations of entertainment came together as Elvis Presley picked up the Bing Crosby Award. The award was given to recording artists who "during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic or scientific significance to the field of phonograph records." Elvis joined an elite group of honorees. Only five had previously received the award: Bing (of course), Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Irving Berlin.
Sep.  9 - John Lennon releases his second solo record, Imagine. It becomes his first No. 1 solo album.
Sep. 13 - Paul and Linda McCartney are the proud parents of future fashion designer Stella McCartney.
Sep. 20 - Peter Frampton quit Humble Pie to start his solo career. His debut album, Wind of Change, followeds the next year.
Sep. 21 - Pink Floyd gave their album Meddle a quadraphonic mix at London's Command Studios.
Sep. 24 - John Lennon appeared as a guest on The Dick Cavett Show.
Sep. 30 - U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "Maggie May," by Rod Stewart.
Sep. 30 - Yes began a British tour with Rick Wakeman behind the keyboards for the first time.
Oct.  1 - Gene Vincent cut a session for British radio in London. It would be the last time Gene was in a studio.
Oct. 12 - Early rock'n'roller Gene Vincent of "Be Bop A Lula"  fame died at age 36 from a ruptured stomach ulcer.
Oct. 13 - John Fogerty is sued by the owners of Specialty Records. Their suit accuses Fogerty of plagiarizing the song "Good Golly, Miss Molly" in his song "Travelin' Band," but it's later dropped.
Oct. 20 - Mick and Bianca Jagger become the proud parents of Jade Jagger. Their daughter is born at the Belvedere Nursing Home in Paris.
Oct. 29 - Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident near Macon, Ga. He was 24.
Nov.  2 - Columbia releases Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 2.
Nov.  8 - The album "Led Zeppelin 4," which included "Stairway to Heaven," was released.
Nov. 19 - B.B. King began a European tour on the anniversary of his 25th year in show business.
Dec.  3 - Montreux Casino in Switzerland burnt down during a Frank Zappa gig. Ian Gillan, vocalist of Deep Purple, who was recording in close proximity, was inspired to write the classic "Smoke On The Water" about the incident.
Dec. 10 - Frank Zappa suffered a fractured skull and broken leg when he was attacked onstage in London by a young man who was jealous because his girlfriend said she loved the rocker. It took Zappa almost a year to recover from his injuries.
Dec. 14 - The MC5's manager John Sinclair is released from prison after Michigan relaxes its drug penalties. Sinclair had been sentenced to ten years in prison for possession of two marijuana joints.
Dec. 16 - Don McLean's "American Pie" was released.
Dec. 17 - David Bowie's "Hunky Dory," his first U.S. album, was released.
Dec. 21 - Vocalist Charlie Fuqua, one of the legendary Ink Spots, dies in New Haven, Conn.
Dec. 28 - Sha Na Na performs tonight at Carnegie Hall. The MC for the event is the Who's Keith Moon, one of their biggest fans.
Dec. 28 - Soundtrack composer Max Steiner, who won Oscars for his scores to Since You Went Away and Now, Voyager, dies aged 83 in Los Angeles.

* 1972 *

Jan. 27 - Mahalia Jackson died at age 60.
Jan. 31 - Aretha Franklin sang at Mahalia Jackson's funeral.
Feb.  8 - London's Royal Albert Hall cancels a performance of Frank Zappa's classical opus "200 Motels." They claim the lyrics are obscene.
Feb. 14 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono hosted "The Mike Douglas Show" while its host took a weeklong vacation. Among their guests -- Chuck Berry and Black Panther leader Bobby Seale.
Feb. 14 - The original stage production of "Grease"  opened in New York City.
Feb. 16 - John Lennon performed with Chuck Berry on The Mike Douglas Show. Lennon and Yoko Ono were hosts of the afternoon talk show for the week.
Feb. 17 - A year before releasing the album, Pink Floyd premiered "The Dark Side of the Moon" before an audience at London's Rainbow Theatre.
Feb. 23 - Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla were legally separated.
Mar.  1 - Then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan pardoned Merle Haggard. The country singer had served time in San Quentin Prison in the late 1950s for attempted burglary.
Mar.  4 - The Rolling Stones played the first date of the band's "farewell" tour of Britain before going into tax exile in France.
Mar.  9 - James Taylor, Carole King and Barbara Streisand performed a benefit concert for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern.
Mar. 11 - Crystal Gayle first entered the country music charts.
Mar. 15 - A Los Angeles radio station played the Donny Osmond song "Puppy Love" for 90 minutes non-stop. Police were called to the station by listeners thinking something was wrong. Nope.
Mar. 18 - U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "Heart of Gold," by Neil Young. The song was Neil Young's only solo single to reach the top 30.
Apr. 12 - "Starman" -- the first single from David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" album -- was released.
Apr. 29 - New York Mayor John Lindsay asked immigration authorities not to deport John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
May   3 - In one of the most bizarre incidents in rock history, Stone the Crows guitarist Les Harvey was electrocuted by a poorly grounded microphone on stage during a show in Swansea, Wales. He was 25. His death was witnessed by -- among others -- his girlfriend, the group's vocalist Maggie Bell.
May  11 - In a TV interview with Dick Cavett, John Lennon says he thinks the FBI is tapping his phone as part of a plan to have him deported from the U.S.
May 18 - The Beatles agreed to split the fortune they accrued in their partnership. Paul McCartney says they've come to this arrangement to free up the $17 million that was frozen as they sued one another.
Jun.  2 - Dion reunites with the Belmonts for an oldies show at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Jun.  3 - No. 1 on the charts: the Staple Singers with "I'll Take You There."
Jun.  3 - The Eagles release "Take It Easy."
Jun.  3 - Pink Floyd release the soundtrack to director Barbet Schroeder's Obscured by Clouds.
Jun.  6 - David Bowie releases his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
Jun.  7 - Grease opens on Broadway. Among the stars who would fill the shoes of Danny Zuko was an unknown Richard Gere.  John Travolta actually made his debut in the musical at age 17 playing Doody.
Jun.  9 - Elvis Presley plays the first of four concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Jun.  9 - record executive John Hammond makes Bruce Springsteen his latest signing to CBS.
Jun. 13 - Drifters founder Clyde McPhatter dies of a heart attack at age 39. As a solo artist, he went to No. 6 in 1958 with "A Lover's Question."
Jun. 14 - Cops break out the tear gas in Tucson, Ariz., after a Rolling Stones concert gets out of hand.
Jun. 14 - Simon & Garfunkel and Peter, Paul & Mary are cajoled by Warren Beatty into playing a benefit for presidential candidate George McGovern tonight at Madison Square Garden.
Jun. 17 - Paul McCartney released "Mary Had a Little Lamb."  The musical version of the nursery rhyme reached No. 28 on Billboard's Hot 100 and No. 9 in Great Britain.
Jun. 17 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard pop hit was "The Candy Man," by Sammy Davis Jr. The biggest pop hit of Davis' career, the song was featured in the film "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
Jun. 17 - Organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan played with the Grateful Dead for the last time at the Hollywood Bowl.
Jun. 21 - Gary Glitter made his Top Of The Pops debut, performing 'Rock & Roll Part 2'.
Jun. 23 - Smokey Robinson performs his last show with the Miracles.
Jun. 24 - In Fort Worth, Texas, the Rolling Stones film the concert that will be released as Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones.
Jun. 28 - Pink Floyd release their soundtrack Obscured by Clouds.
Jun. 30 - The Rolling Stones open yet another North American tour - actually their seventh - in Vancouver.
Jul. 18 - After Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are thrown in jail for rumbling with a photographer in Providence, R.I., the mayor of Boston intervenes so they can play a concert tonight at the Boston Garden.
Jul. 25 - Punk poetess Patti Smith goes to see the Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder at Madison Square Garden and remembers it as: "My brain cracked like an egg. The gold liquid spurted all over the stage. Mick bathed in it. Keith got his feet wet."
Aug.  1 - A year after Tony Kaye jumped ship, drummer Bill Bruford leaves Yes to join King Crimson.
Aug.  2 - the Association bassist Brian Cole dies of a heroin overdose in Los Angeles. The group's biggest hit was 1967's No. 1 "Windy."
Aug.  5 - Clive Davis signs a young band called Aerosmith to CBS Records after seeing them play Max's Kansas City in New York. They receive $125,000 for their services.
Aug. 10 - following a Wings concert in Gothenburg, Sweden, Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested and later fined for drug possession.
Aug. 11 - The mayor of San Antonio declared today Cheech & Chong Day.
Aug. 12 - Tonight on American Bandstand, it's a mellow show which featured Jim Croce.
Aug. 12 - charity rock begins today with the Festival of Hope, starring the Jefferson Airplane and James Brown. While this is the first concert event in which all the money goes to a specified charity, the festival actually ends up losing $100,000.
Aug. 23 - The U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)," by Looking Glass.
Aug. 30 - John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack and Sha Na Na performed a benefit concert at New York's Madison Square Garden that raised $2 million for retarded children.  Following two concerts at Madison Square Garden earlier this month, John Lennon plays what many consider to be his first true solo show there today.
Sep.  1 - David Bowie releases "John, I'm Only Dancing" in the U.K.
Sep.  2 - Gilbert O'Sullivan is still at No. 1 with "Alone Again (Naturally)," but at No. 2 are the Hollies with "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)."
Sep.  6 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono make a guest appearance on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
Sep.  8 - Howlin' Wolf headlined at the Ann Arbor Jazz & Blues Festival in Michigan. Other performers included Muddy Waters and Dr. John.
Sep.  8 - Neil Young's girlfriend Carrie Snodgrass gives birth to the singer's son, Zeke, in San Francisco.
Sep. 16 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono released Some Time in New York City. The album came free with a second disc that featured a live performance in which the Mothers of Invention backed the couple.
Sep. 20 - Paul McCartney was arrested for possession of marijuana at his farm in Scotland. It was the first of several pot busts.
Sep. 21 - the U.S. No. 1 Billboard Pop hit was "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me," by Mac Davis.
Sep. 23 - Mott the Hoople released their single "All the Young Dudes." The song was written for them by David Bowie to encourage the band to stay together. The tune became their biggest hit, peaking at No. 37, while Mott inspired a generation of punks including the Clash.
Sep. 27 - Rory Storme, of Rory Storme and the Hurricanes, died of an overdose of sleeping pills. His real name was Alan Caldwell. Ringo Starr had played drums with the group before joining the Beatles in 1962.
Sep. 28 - Who is David Bowie? New York wants an answer, and his first concert at Carnegie Hall is a sellout. His publicist receives 400 requests for 100 press passes.
Sep. 29 - Los Angeles welcomed a new superstar, as Cat Stevens played to a sold-out Shrine Auditorium. Supporting his No. 1 album Catch Bull at Four, Stevens toured with an orchestra.
Oct.  3 - Led Zeppelin play their second night at Tokyo's
Oct. 14 - The Temptations' "Papa Was a Rolling Stone"  was released.
Oct. 14 - Joe Cocker was arrested on drug possession charges in Australia.
Oct. 17 - Billy Williams dies in Chicago, at age 61. For 20 years he was the lead singer of the Charioteers, and scored a solo No. 3 in 1957 with "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter."
Oct. 20 - Chuck Berry scores his only No. 1 single today with the innuendo-laden "My Ding-a-Ling."
Oct. 21 - "My Ding-a-Ling" became Chuck Berry's first No. 1 pop single.
Oct. 28 - The U.S. Council for World Affairs adopted "Join Together" by The Who as its anthem.
Oct. 28 - Led Zeppelin play a second night at the casino in Montreux, Switzerland. Melody Maker writes about the gigs, "They will reshape your values about what is genuine and what isn't. They just have to be the best heavy band this country has produced."
Nov.  2 - Columbia releases Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 2.
Nov.  3 - Carly Simon and James Taylor exchanged wedding vows in her Manhattan apartment. They ended up separating in 1982 and later divorced.
Nov. 11 - Allman Brothers bassist Barry Oakley was killed in a motorcycle accident. He was 24. The crash occured in Macon, Ga., only three blocks from the spot where Duane Allman had died in a similar accident one year earlier.
Nov. 18 - Guitarist Danny Whitten of Neil Young's band Crazy Horse died of a heroin overdose. He was 29.
Nov. 23 - Bob Dylan and wife Sara arrive in Durango, Colo., where he's due to begin filming Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
Nov. 23 - Women's Wear Daily announces that Mick Jagger has joined its Cat Pack list, which also features Henry Kissinger and Truman Capote. We have no idea what qualified him to join such company.
Nov. 30 - Wings release their single "Hi, Hi, Hi." However, the BBC bans the record because it declares the lyrics "unsuitable" for broadcast.
Dec.  1 - Martha & the Vandellas gave their farewell performance in Detroit, MI.
Dec.  9 - Helen Reddy became the first Australian female artist to top the U.S. singles charts with the song "I Am Woman."
Dec.  9 - Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" was released.
Dec. 14 - Alice Cooper may have sauntered through Saks, but he buys at Alexander's. The New York department store stays open late tonight so that the shock rocker can get in some Christmas shopping.
Dec. 14 - In London, Born to Boogie, starring Marc Bolan, premieres. The Ringo Starr-directed film also features an appearance by Elton John.
Dec. 16 - On an anti-war mission, folk singer Joan Baez arrived in Hanoi simultaneously with American B-52s, which bombed the North Vietnamese capital city.
Dec. 21 - Ray Jackson dies after suffering burns in a fire at his home. He was 31. The Memphis guitarist wrote the hits "Who's Makin' Love" and "I Don't Want to Be Right."
Dec. 28 - Mick and Bianca Jagger arrive in Managua, Nicaragua to search for Bianca's mother in the wake of an earthquake that has devastated the city. They bring with them medical supplies. Bianca's mother is eventually found safe and well.