ANNIVERSARIES
1961-Bob Dylan plays harmonica on three tracks of his friend Caroline Hester's first album. Producer John Hammond is so impressed that he signs Dylan to a contract and arranges for a solo recording session in October.
1963-The Rolling Stones began their first tour of the United Kingdom, where they played 32 dates, opening for acts like The Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley and Little Richard.
1973-Grand Funk scored their first number one record when "We're An American Band" hit the top of Billboard's Hot 100.
1976-Enjoying his own birthday celebrations singer Jerry Lee Lewis accidentally shot his bass player Norman Owens in the chest. Lewis had been blasting holes in an office door. Owens survived but sued his boss.
1987-Pink Floyd's thirteenth studio album A Momentary Lapse Of Reason was on the UK chart. The shoot for the album cover involved dragging 800 hospital beds onto Saunton Sands in Devon, but rain interrupted the session and they had to repeat the exercise two weeks later. A hang glider can be seen in the sky, a possible reference to the track 'Learning to Fly'. Photographer Robert Dowling won a gold award at the Association of Photographers' Awards for the image, which took about two weeks to create.
1989-With a full-scale Eagles reunion still five years away, Glenn Frey joins Don Henley onstage for the first time since 1980 at a concert in LA.
BORN TODAY
1935-Jerry Lee Lewis,
(often known by his nickname, The Killer). He had the 1958 UK No.1 & US No.1 single 'Great Balls Of Fire', and the 1957 multi million seller 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On'. Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis.
1948-Mark Farner
singer, guitarist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lead guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad
1958-Mick Harvey
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
