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45 year old Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen, died of bronchopneumonia induced by HIV, at his home in London, England, only one day after publicly acknowledging he had the disease. Along with the other members of Queen, he placed fifteen songs on the UK’s Top 40 and eleven on the US chart.

The world’s first jukebox, then known as a “nickel in the slot machine,” was installed at San Francisco’s’ Palais Royal Hotel. It had been created by simply adding a coin slot to an Edison phonograph. The machine had no amplification and patrons had to listen to the music using one of four listening tubes. In its first...

UP FIRST IN 1963:...

The Ramones’ lead singer, Joey Ramone (real name: Jeffrey Hyman) suffered second degree burns when a faulty humidifier exploded before a show in Passaic, New Jersey. After emergency treatment, he finished the concert, but would spend the following week at the New York Hospital Burn Center...

The FBI in Phoenix, Arizona arrested The Doors’ Jim Morrison for drunk and disorderly conduct aboard a plane. The singer was on his way to a Rolling Stones concert with actor Tom Baker and had been drinking heavily and was rude and disrespectful to the stewardesses. The two spent the night in jail and were later released on...

Elton John became only the third artist in history to put 50 hit records on the UK charts. His first was “Your Song” in 1971 and the fiftieth was “Sacrifice”. The first two artists with 50 hits were Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard.

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Chuck Berry, an icon of rock and roll, was born today...

Ringo Starr fills in for Pete Best when The Beatles play back-up at a recording session for Rory Storm And The Hurricanes’ guitarist, Wally Eymond, in the small Akustik studio in Hamburg, Germany. Nine copies of a song called “Summertime” were pressed onto 78 RPM acetate discs, though none are known to have survived. It...

Music publishing firm Arco Industries files a $500,000 dollar lawsuit against Creedance Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty, claiming that his song “Travelin’ Band” contains substantial material copied from Little Richard’s “Good Golly, Miss Molly”. The suit is eventually dropped....

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Johnny Cash was arrested crossing the Mexican border into El Paso, Texas after customs officials found hundreds of pills in his guitar case. He would receive a suspended jail sentence and a $1,000 fine

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.

1971 - John Lennon’s “Imagine” LP is released. It would reach #1 on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named “Imagine” as #76 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time....