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2007, This is the third year that Lenny Kravitz is being sued for damages caused by an overflowed toilet in his Manhattan home, this time it is for the tune of 457,339.11, the amount and insurer shall I time I had to pay to his downstairs neighbor.

1954, Bill Haley & His Comets first recording session for Decca produces the track "(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" … the single, which melds hillbilly and R&B ingredients, will own the top spot on the Billboard chart for eight weeks and be considered by many to mark the beginning of rock ’n’ roll …

1956, following Elvis’ show at the Memorial Coliseum in Corpus Christi, Texas, the venue’s manager vows it’ll be the last rock ’n’ roll show to sully his stage … he is reacting to complaints from fans and parents who condemn the performance as "vulgar" …

1960, rockabilly pioneer Eddie Cochran breathes his last after a brutal car crash in Bath, England, when the chauffeur-driven Ford Consul he is riding in blows a tire and slams into a lamp post … Cochran is thrown out of the car and smashes his head on the pavement … fellow-rocker Gene Vincent and Cochran’s girlfriend, Sharon Sheeley are badly injured … the driver emerges unscathed …

1963, The Drifters cut a topical Lieber-Stoller song titled "Only in America" that, due to lyrics which obliquely refer to race issues, is deemed a hot potato … the black group’s vocals are edited off the track and are replaced with those of Jay & the Americans, a white group … thought to be lost, the Drifters’ version turns up as a bonus track on a Jay & The Americans CD in 1983 …

1966, Jan Berry, half of the duo Jan & Dean, notable for their many car-related hits, wipes out his Corvette and suffers major head injuries that lead to paralysis and a long, hard road to recovery …

1967, proving that capitalists will always be hot on the heels of revolutionaries, Gray Line Tours begins busing tourists through the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco on a guided tour of Hippieland … this same day the Rolling Stones slash a hole in the Iron Curtain when they play a show in Warsaw, Poland … some of the fans get out of hand and are doused with tear gas …

1968, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention perform at the National Academy of Arts and Sciences Dinner in New York … Zappa makes some cutting remarks, terming the event, "a load of pompous hokum … all year long you people have manufactured this crap, now for one night you’re gonna have to listen to it!" … recalling the event later, Zappa says, "We played the ugliest sh*t we could … that’s what they expected us to play" …

1970, Johnny Cash drops in on Richard Nixon at the White House and performs "A Boy Named Sue" at the president’s special request …

1981, "This Little Girl" by Gary U.S. Bonds is released … the song was written and co-produced by Bruce Springsteen who has long been a Bonds fan … it will reach #11 on the Pop Chart and become Bond’s first chart hit in 19 years … though Elvis is known as "The King of Rock ’n’ Roll," his "Lovin’ Arms" lands on the country chart this week in 1981 marking the 84th time Elvis scored in that genre …

1983, Mountain bassist Felix Pappalardi is shot to death by his wife Gail Collins who claims the gun accidentally fired … she is convicted of criminally negligent homicide … this same day Pretenders bassist Pete Farndon is found drowned in his bathtub, the result of a heroin overdose … the needle is still in his arm …

1989, Roy Orbison’s single "You Got It" enters the Pop Top Ten … it’s his first such hit in 24 years … unfortunately the big-voiced singer is unable to enjoy his revival having died four months earlier …

1993, Elton John’s single "A Simple Life" climbs to #30 on the Pop Chart … it will ultimately top out at #10 and give the British rocker the distinction of being the only artist to enjoy Top 40 hits for 24 straight (if you’ll pardon the expression) years while surpassing Elvis’ 23 …

1998, Linda McCartney dies of breast cancer …

1999, Skip Spence, former drummer and guitarist with The Jefferson Airplane and Quicksilver Messenger Service, and founder of Moby Grape, dies of lung cancer … he suffered for years from drug-induced schizophrenia and was often institutionalized … during his last years he subsisted on welfare, living and panhandling on the streets of Santa Cruz, California … his 1969 psychedelic/folk album Oar is considered a classic of the era … on other fronts, after a year in the grave, the body of Tammy Wynette is exhumed and autopsied as the result of a $50 million wrongful death civil suit brought against the country singer’s doctor by her daughters … the medical examiner says she died of natural causes and the case is settled out of court …

2000, annual record sales peak at $38.5 billion … illegal downloading and piracy will result in significant reductions in that number over the coming years … coincidentally this same week George Lucas’ Lucasfilm Ltd. sues Dr. Dre claiming the rap producer used their trademarked "THX Deep Note" sound on his album 2001 without permission …

2003, R&B singer Luther Vandross lapses into a stroke-induced coma from which he will awaken six weeks later …

2005, Michael Jackson earns the ire of British veterans during his child-molestation trial by wearing military medals purchased from an antiques dealer … Valerie Klink, commander of the British War Veterans of America says, "Where does he get off wearing them? It’s like wearing the Purple Heart when you’re not injured" … a spokesman for the British Ministry of Defence says the official reaction is one of "general indifference" … a source said to be close to Jackson says that the singer "sees going into court as a battle" … meanwhile on another legal front, a settlement is reached between Rosa Parks and rap act Outkast over use of the civil rights pioneer’s name in the lyrics and title of a song appearing on their 1998 CD … as part of the settlement Outkast and its label, Sony BMG, agree to develop programs to "enlighten today’s youth about the significant role Rosa Parks played in making America a better place for all races" …

2006, jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk is awarded a posthumous Special Citation by The Pulitzer Prize Board for his contributions to American music … a notebook in which 10-year-old John Lennon scribbled poems, journal entries, and drawings is auctioned for $226,150 … among the drawings is an illustration of Lewis Carroll’s poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter" that later serves as inspiration for "I Am the Walrus."

1937, Merle Haggard is born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, a town that will loom large in his career when the country singer's anti-hippie anthem "Okie From Muskogee" becomes a hit in 1970 …

1943, LSD is synthesized for the first time by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann … more than two decades later the psychoactive substance fuels a revolution in consciousness, music, and pop culture …

1956, later to become known as Soul Brother Number One, Mr. Dynamite, and The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, James Brown charts for the first time with "Please, Please, Please" … meanwhile in Alabama, while performing before an all-white audience at the Birmingham Municipal Auditorium, Nat "King" Cole is attacked by a group of racists who knock him off his piano bench and beat him … a shaken Cole returns to the stage a few minutes later to a five-minute standing ovation … however he does not complete the set … later that night he performs for an all-black audience in the same venue …

1961, Bob Dylan makes his professional singing debut in Greenwich Village at Gerde's Folk City opening for John Lee Hooker … he performs "House of the Rising Sun" and "Song to Woody" … Joan Baez joins him for the second number … Dylan's previous gig had been in pop singer Bobby Vee's backup band from which he'd been fired after a three-week tenure …

1962, Pravda, the official Russian communist newspaper, publishes an article warning teenagers about the dangers of doing The Twist … meanwhile at London's Ealing Blues Club, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Brian Jones decide to form a band they'll ultimately call The Rolling Stones … the name is inspired by a Muddy Waters song … prior to quitting their day jobs Jagger had been an ice cream peddler while Richards was a ball boy at a tennis club …

1964, The Beatles occupy a record-breaking 14 spots on the U.S. Pop Chart ranging from #1 down to #81 … "Can't Buy Me Love" (1), "Twist and Shout" (2), "She Loves You" (4), "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (7), "Please Please Me" (9), "Do You Want to Know a Secret" (14), "I Saw Her Standing There" (38), "You Can't Do That" (48), "All My Loving" (50), "From Me to You" (52), "Thank You Girl" (61), "There's a Place" (74), "Roll Over Beethoven" (78), and "Love Me Do" (81) … a struggling young act called The Detours auditions for England's Fontana Records … they go on to release some tracks with the label under the moniker The High Numbers, but it isn't until they become known as The Who that they will make a serious impression on the rock world …

1968, Pink Floyd cofounder Syd Barrett leaves the band … Barrett’s mental instability, exacerbated by heavy drug use, has become so severe he can no longer function …

1971, the jazz-rock outfit Chicago plays Carnegie Hall in New York City … they are the first rock group to do so …

1981, Sam Goody, the nation's leading music retailer, is convicted of selling pirated tapes through its stores …

1983, U.S. Interior Secretary James Watt bans the Beach Boys from performing at the 4th of July celebration on the Washington Mall, offering the rationale that rock 'n' roll bands attract the wrong element … two days later President Reagan overturns Watt's decision and personally invites the Beach Boys to perform …

1994, In Utero, Nirvana's third full-length and final studio album, is certified double-platinum … this same week, Kurt Cobain ends it all with a shotgun, ruining any celebration there might have been …

2000, Metallica files suit against Napster, USC, Yale, and Indiana University alleging the institutions are guilty of copyright infringement, unlawful use of a digital audio interface device, and violations of the Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) … the charges are dropped when the schools remove Napster from their file servers … Star magazine reports that Screamin' Jay Hawkins' dying wish was that his 57 children, the result of many liaisons, meet one another … the bluesman had claimed before his death that at the height of his career he had engaged in sex on average 14 times a day …

2002, Eminem agrees to pay $100,000 to John Guerra in a settlement resulting from a civil lawsuit … the suit claims that the rapper attacked Guerra, hitting him in the face and head with a handgun … the alleged attack was allegedly punishment for Guerra having allegedly kissed Eminem's wife, Kim …

2004, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco checks himself into a Chicago rehab facility to be weaned from addictive pain meds he uses to deal with chronic migraine headaches … he emerges 26 days later proclaiming it "the most beautiful thing I’ve ever done" …

2006, rapper Proof (born Deshaun Horton) of the group D12 is shot to death after an argument at Detroit nightclub CCC escalates into violence … Proof was the best man at Eminem’s re-marriage to wife Kim Mathers in January of 2006 and often appeared onstage during Eminem concerts … club bouncer Mario Ethridge will later be found guilty of two weapons charges but is exonerated of murder when a court finds that he acted in self-defense … this same week, British anti-terrorism detectives escort a man named Harraj Mann from a plane after a taxi driver becomes suspicious when his fare starts singing along to an MP3 track by punk band, The Clash … reacting to the anarchistic lyrics of "London Calling," the cabby alerts detectives who halt the London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley Airport and take Mann off the plane … he is questioned and soon released … afterwards Mann said of the taxi driver, "He didn't like Led Zeppelin or The Clash but I don't think there was any need to tell the police"

1946, up-and-coming semipro bowler Robert Moog's life is forever changed when he breaks a wrist and four bones in his right hand in a horrific Scrabble tournament incident … he is attacked by his opponent after scoring a devastating 45 points on the word "oscillator" and is forced to physically defend himself, resulting in the injuries … in an effort to alleviate Moog's depression over his inability to grip a bowling ball, his father purchases a Heathkit Electronics Learning Lab …

1938: RCA (Germany) introduced the world's first fully automatic record changer

1942: Liberty Records est'd in Hollywood, CA, USA. Two months later the name was changed to Capital records.

1990: Louis Nelson died in New Orleans, LA, USA. Age: 87. This trombonist was active in the New Orleans jazz scene of the 1920's he had worked with "Kid" Rena, the Original Tuxedo Orchestra, and spent 15 years with Sidney Desvigne's big band. Starting in 1944, he was closely associated with "Kid" Thomas Valentine, George Lewis and the many musicians in the 1960's who played New Orleans' Preservation Hall.

1952, bebop drummer "No Hands" Henderson—famous for his legendary sessions with Biz and Dix as well as his unique headbanging style—knocks himself out during an especially spirited solo at New York's Blue Note …

1954, Amos Robinson, a black guitarist-vocalist suffering from an extreme case of vitiligo, which causes his skin to appear white, becomes a regular performer at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville … Robinson’s hip-swiveling brand of rockabilly becomes such a hit at the Opry that when a teenage Elvis Presley auditions he is rejected and told "we already got one of you" …

1969, attending a Grateful Dead show in Binghampton, New York, Deadhead Rollie Schwartz is unable to score acid and is forced to watch the concert straight … asked for his reaction to the show, Schwartz responds, "What a lame-ass band!" …

1977, RCA releases the latest Elvis album The King Requests which consists of taped phone calls Elvis made to a Memphis deli over the years to order sandwiches, pizza, and other snacks for delivery to Graceland … the calls were recorded over a span of 12 years on 37 cassettes by the enterprising deli owner who sold them to RCA for $385,000 … and yes, every call ended with Elvis saying "thang-you-very-much" … the remastered CD version from 1983 contains some hilarious outtakes including the time Elvis called and couldn’t remember what he wanted, or the time E called three times in five minutes with the exact same order …

1979, The Economist reports that the cost of funkmeister Rick James' cocaine intake for 1978 exceeds the GNP of Zimbabwe by a ratio of 5 to 4 …

1984, William Shatner releases an album of all-original songs inspired by his experiences playing a police officer on the popular TV program T.J. Hooker … song titles include "Book 'Em Hooker," "The Sergeant and the Lady," "Flashing Lights," and "Hot Pursuit" …

1987, sultry country songstress Crystal Gayle marries maker of premium guitar strings, Ernie Ball … music industry officials refuse to prognosticate on the singer’s future were she to tour under her married name, Crystal Ball …

1988, during a show in Throckmorton, Vermont, guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen suffers second- and third-degree burns to his fingers in the midst of an extended solo when his fretboard bursts into flames …

1989, Miles Davis gets his name into the Guinness Book of Records … his autobiography sets the all-time world record for the number of times the word "motherf***er" is repeated in a single work …

1998, Steve Vai scores big at Paris Fashion Week with his "'70s Pimp Drag" collection of men's apparel …

2002, Kenny G. challenges Pat Metheny to an open match on Celebrity Boxing … he tells Fox TV, "I could fling that snooty bitch with one hand tied behind my back" …

2003, writers from magazines covering the indie rock music scene come together in Chicago to bestow the title of "Most Indie Artist of the Decade" upon the band Leaves of Green … the little-known group of tastemakers had only one real member, recorded only two songs, never played a show, never got signed to a label, and broke up after only three weeks of half-hearted disinterest … record store clerks everywhere instantly begin touting Leaves of Green as their favorite band and lamenting the loss of its unique and creative musical genius …

2004, ex-Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighter Dave Grohl sets a new record by playing on every single album released in the past year …

2005, pop music sustains a stunning setback when Antares, maker of the pitch-correcting wunderware AutoTune, announces they are closing their doors … panicking pop performers flood therapists' offices suffering from what is coined "Milli Vanilli Syndrome" …

2006, ever the trend-setter, ’80s pop icon and fitness guru Madonna causes a huge uproar among both the religious right and the scientific community … skirting current cloning laws and taking her passion for Ashtanga Yoga to new heights, Madonna has her DNA combined with cryogenically stored DNA samples from India’s late political and spiritual leader, Mahatma Ghandi … according to attending physicians, little Mahatma Donna is doing fine …

2007, Pink Floyd reunites to re-record, note-for-note, their landmark album Dark Side of the Moon claiming that new recording technology has rendered the original version "obsolete" …

2012, Janet Jackson's right breast is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Nina Simone
this beautiful woman passed away in 2003, women everywhere will miss her.

Johnny Thunders
born John Anthony Genzale, Jr (July 15, 1952 - April 23, 1991)

Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
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Chopsticks
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Chopstick History
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