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Birthdays:
1939: Born on this day, Ray Manzarek, keyboards, with The Doors who had the 1967 US No.1 & UK No.9 single 'Light My Fire' and the 1971 single 'Riders On The Storm'. Manzarek died on 20th May 2013, he had suffered from bile duct cancer for many years. He formed the band with lead singer Jim Morrison in 1965 after a chance meeting in Venice Beach, Los Angeles.
Releases and Charts:
1889: Caesar Franck's Symphony in D premieres
1924: George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue gets its first public performance, conducted by jazz legend Paul Whiteman at New York City's Aeolian Hall. Gershwin himself plays piano. Luminaries in the audience include John Philip Sousa and Jascha Heifetz.
1966: Simon and Garfunkel: "Homeward Bound"
1972: Yes: "Roundabout" released
1975: Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks released
1972 : Al Green's Let's Stay Together hits #1
1977: Pink Floyd released their tenth studio album Animals in the US, where it reached No.3 in the charts. The album's cover image, a pig floating between two chimneys on Battersea Power Station, was conceived by bassist Roger Waters and realized by long-time design and photographic collaborators Hipgnosis.
News of the Day
1965: Pye Records announced that they'd signed 'the British Bob Dylan, when they added Donovan to the label. The Scottish singer-songwriter produced a series of hit albums and singles between 1965 and 1970 and became a friend of leading pop musicians including Joan Baez, Brian Jones and and The Beatles. He influenced John Lennon when he taught him a finger-picking guitar style in 1968.
1967: Rolling Stone's guitarist Keith Richards' England home, known as "Redlands," is raided by 15 policemen who find "various substances of a suspicious nature." Finding "various substances of a suspicious nature," officials arrest Richards and his companions, Stones singer Mick Jagger and his girlfriend, singer Marianne Faithful, on May 10. The arrest sets off a national furor, since it is alleged the raid was orchestrated by the News of the World tabloid for revenge against a Jagger libel suit.
1939: Born on this day, Ray Manzarek, keyboards, with The Doors who had the 1967 US No.1 & UK No.9 single 'Light My Fire' and the 1971 single 'Riders On The Storm'. Manzarek died on 20th May 2013, he had suffered from bile duct cancer for many years. He formed the band with lead singer Jim Morrison in 1965 after a chance meeting in Venice Beach, Los Angeles.
Releases and Charts:
1889: Caesar Franck's Symphony in D premieres
1924: George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue gets its first public performance, conducted by jazz legend Paul Whiteman at New York City's Aeolian Hall. Gershwin himself plays piano. Luminaries in the audience include John Philip Sousa and Jascha Heifetz.
1966: Simon and Garfunkel: "Homeward Bound"
1972: Yes: "Roundabout" released
1975: Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks released
1972 : Al Green's Let's Stay Together hits #1
1977: Pink Floyd released their tenth studio album Animals in the US, where it reached No.3 in the charts. The album's cover image, a pig floating between two chimneys on Battersea Power Station, was conceived by bassist Roger Waters and realized by long-time design and photographic collaborators Hipgnosis.
News of the Day
1965: Pye Records announced that they'd signed 'the British Bob Dylan, when they added Donovan to the label. The Scottish singer-songwriter produced a series of hit albums and singles between 1965 and 1970 and became a friend of leading pop musicians including Joan Baez, Brian Jones and and The Beatles. He influenced John Lennon when he taught him a finger-picking guitar style in 1968.
1967: Rolling Stone's guitarist Keith Richards' England home, known as "Redlands," is raided by 15 policemen who find "various substances of a suspicious nature." Finding "various substances of a suspicious nature," officials arrest Richards and his companions, Stones singer Mick Jagger and his girlfriend, singer Marianne Faithful, on May 10. The arrest sets off a national furor, since it is alleged the raid was orchestrated by the News of the World tabloid for revenge against a Jagger libel suit.
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