Musical CalendarJANUARYJanuary 1: The Grateful Dead and Big Brother & The Holding Company on the New Year's Wail run / Whale in San Francisco. Hell's Angels hosted the bash at Haight-Ashbury hippies, get out Angel Chocolate George thank from prison (1967) 2 January: Five thousand people visit R & B star Johnny Ace's funeral in Memphis, after he accidentally killed himself in a game of Russian Roulette (1955) 3 January: Aretha Franklin was the first woman in the Hall of Fame (1987) 4 January Date: The Jimi Hendrix Experience played the first of more than 240 concerts were this year if, on Brömel Club, Bromley (published 1967) 5 January: Kinks singer Ray Davies was shot in the leg while on holiday in New Orleans. The 59-year-old singer-songwriter was shot when running after two men who defeated his girlfriend's purse at gunpoint (2004) 6 January: The Rolling Stones begin their first headlining tour (with the Ronettes) (1964) 7 January: San Francisco underground FM station KMPX holding a vote by the listeners to figure out who the best candidate would be on a pro-grass ticket. People say they want for president Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield for Vice-President, George Harrison as a UN ambassador, Jefferson Airplane, as the Ministers of Transport (DUH) and the Grateful Dead as Attorney General. They had to deal with Nixon (1968) 8 January: Elvis Presley was born (1935) 9 January: Mick Jagger was a Japanese visa because of a 1969 drug raid, refused. This, unfortunately, the Rolling Stones' plan in the East (1973) 10 January tour interrupted: An Australian woman accused are now facing the court repeatedly stabbing her partner with a pair of scissors in the back, shoulder and thigh, because he played Elvis Presley song "Burning Love" over and over again (2006) 11 January. The Whiskey-a-Go-G0 nightclub opened in Los Angeles, CA. : It is as the first disco in the USA (1963) 12 Scheduled in January. The Supremes appeared in an episode of "Tarzan" on NBC-TV. The ladies played a group of nuns (1968) 13 January: Bobby Brown was in Augusta, GA, was arrested for simulating a sex act on stage. It was the second time that he had of the Augusta police for the same offense (1993) 14 Arrested in January: The term "Rock & Roll" is coined by Alan (1955) 15 January Feed: Sean Lennon's remake of his father was "Give Peace A Chance", published to coincide with the United Nations withdraw midnight deadline for Iraq from Kuwait. The texts have been updated to reflect concerns the 1990 (1991) 16 January: Paul McCartney was taken to Tokyo for possession of half a pound of marijuana in prison. He spent ten days behind bars before being kicked-out of the country by the Japanese authorities. The rest of his tour was canceled (1980) 17 January: NBC bought The Monkees TV series, placing it on their 1966 fall schedule (1966) 18 January: First jazz concert at the Met: Louis Armstrong and others (1944) 19 January: The soundtrack of the movie was Easy Rider, the movie that made a star of Peter Fonda, a gold record. It was the first pop culture, film soundtracks deserve the Gold Award (1917) 20 January. During an Ozzy Osbourne concert in Des Moines, Iowa, a member of the audience threw an unconscious bat on stage. Think it was one of his rubber fakes, he picked it up and Ozzy bit the head. The singer was taken to hospital for a rabies injection at (1982) 21 be January: David Palmer, former keyboardist for Jethro Tull changed his name to Dee Palmer after a successful sex change. Palmer was the keyboard player for Jethro Tull 1969-1980 (2003) 22 January: The Columbia Phonograph Company in Washington DC (1889) 23 January is formed: Rock 'n' roll fans under 18 years in Cleveland, Ohio, have been banned from dancing in public (unless accompanied by an adult), to Ohio police, a law dating from 1931 (1956) 24 January: The producer of the New Kids on 'Tough Hangin' "the Block LP sued for several million dollars for creative contributions and royalties. They claim that they only sang about 20% of the texts. The claim is eventually dropped (1992) 25 January. . John Lennon and Yoko Ono completely shave their heads and declare 1970 as "Year One '. Peter Green, guitar virtuoso, Fleetwood Mac first lead guitarist, was committed to a psychiatric hospital in England: Her hair is too "Black House", an interracial community center in north London for auction (1970) 26 January donated. He had a pistol in the general direction of the shot delivery boy. The depressive, Peter had left the band in May 1970 (1977) 27th January: Following controversy over Ice-T's song ". Cop Killer, "announced Warner Brothers Records, that released him from his contract due to" creative differences "(1993) 28 January: Ted Nugent On request his autograph in a fan's arm with his carving knife Bowie (1978) 29January: In the UK Virgin Megastores reports that John Lydon role on the TV game show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here has pushed sales of the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks album to 20% (2004) 31 January: Cher singing the U.S. national anthem at Super Bowl XXXIII (1999) FEBRUARYFebruary 1: Neil Young, at the age of 17, his first professional date at a country club in Winnipeg (1963) 2 February: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York. It was a party at the home of Vicious' release on $ 50,000 bail to celebrate his trial for the murder of his former girlfriend, Nancy Spungen (1979) 3 February, Buddy Holly (22), Ritchie Valens (17), and the Big Bopper (28) died in a plane crash in Iowa (1959) 4 February: Alice Cooper is born (1948) 5 February: to ban because of a Musicians' Union, were the Rolling Stones are not allowed to play their hit "Let's Spend the Night Together", if on a ITV Show (1967) 6 Published in February: Bob Marley is born (1945) 7 February: Stephen Stills was the first rock performer to digital technology in Los Angeles' Record Plant Studio (1979) 8th February entry: Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" is Certified Gold (1973) 9 February: Oprah Winfrey announced that Garth Brooks had promised, his earnings from sales of his album "Sevens" donate for a period of seven days. The money went to "Oprah's Angel Network (1998) 10 February: Michael Jackson granted his first interview in 15 years, Oprah Winfrey in an interview, Jackson claimed that he had a disorder that has destroyed the pigmentation of the skin and that he had had. very little plastic surgery (1993) 11 February: The Beatles make their entire LP Deput in less than ten hours (1963) 12 February: David Bowie gets a star on the Hollywood Walk (1997) 13 February: Led Zeppelin was forced to cancel a concert in Singapore when officials would not let her off the plane because of their long hair (1972) 14 February: On CBS Walter Cronkite reported that the Iranian government, Rock & Roll becausee it is against the concepts of Islam and banned a risk to health (1958) 15 February: Big Joe Turner recorded the original "Shake, Rattle & Roll" (1954) 16 February: Jerry Lee Lewis passed on the federal authorities to answer income tax evasion, he was later acquitted 17th (1984). February: Kate Bush publishes "The Kick Inside" (1978) 18 February: .. David Gimour replaced Syd Barrett in Pink Floyd Barrett had checked into a psychiatric hospital and then went into seclusion (1968) 19 February: married "Baywatch's" Pamela Anderson Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee on a Cancun beach, the bride wears a white bikini (1995) 20 February. Four sets of footprints in Kiss the sidewalk outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood (1976) 21 February down: For the first time in seven years, carried out Bruce Springsteen with the E Street Band live The New York City nightclub appearance was for a video for Jonathan Demme's film (1995) 22 February. "Murder Incorporated.": The Beatles formed their Northern Music Publishing Company. Michael Jackson eventually purchased (1963) 23 February. "Laugh-In" Ringo Starr guest appearances on it was his first solo television appearance (1970) 24 February: Lauryn Hill wins five Grammys for her debut album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" (1999) 25 February: Prince of a copyright and trademark infringement action filed against nine sites, with allegations that the sale of bootleg recordings and provides unauthorized song downloads (1999) 26 February included: Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album hits # 1 and stays for 37 weeks (1983) 27 February: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder album "Ebony and Ivory" (1981) 28 February: Michael Jackson won a record eight Grammy Awards with the album "Thriller." (1984) 29 February: The glasses that Buddy Holly was wearing when he was in a police file in Mason, Iowa, after he died discovered there for over 21 years (1980) march march 1: Queen begin their first headlining tour in Blackpool United Kingdom (1974) 2. March: "Sound of Music" opens (1965) 3 March: Cab Calloway and his orchestra record "Minnie the Moocher" (1931) 4 March: John Lennon's statement that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus Christ" was published in the London Evening Standard. "Christianity will resign. It will shrink and disappear. We are more popular then Jesus now, I do not know which to go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was thick were fine, but his disciples and ordinary "Lennon later apologized (1966) 5 March:. Rod Stewart met Swedish actress Britt Ekland at a party in Los Angeles, went to the couple, a great love story (1975) have sixth March: Bonnie Raitt recorded in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2000) 7 March: The Beastie Boys became the first rap act, a No.1 album in the U.S. with their debut album are "Licensed to Ill" (1987) 8 March: Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "Star Spangled Banner" by Radio Hanoi (1971) 9 March broadcast: Robert Plant play secret gig at Keele University, England with his new band The Honey Drippers (1981) 10 March: Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde was leading an animal rights protest against the clothing company Gap, the slaughter of the use of leather from cows "illegal and cruel" were accused arrested The protest took place in a shop in Manhattan (2000) 11 March:. Paul McCartney to Queen Elizabeth II (1997) 12 March knighted .. A Philadelphia court sentenced jazz singer Billie Holiday to one year probation after being found guilty of narcotics possession (1958) 13 March: Eric Clapton left The Yardbirds, dissatisfied with the group "too commercial" direction (1965) 14 March: "Grease" opened off-Broadway where it ran for the next decade for a total of 3388 performances (1972) 15 March: Pretenders in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2005) March included 16: Trouble broke out during a Metallica concert in Orlando Arena, where fans of an usher his ankles dangling from the balcony, the band was paid $ 38,000 (£ 22,353) for repairs and cleaning after the audience in the trash of the building (1992) 17 March:. Billboard reports that Ray Charles had started Tangerine, his own record label (1962) 18 March: four guns and 25 crates of ammunition were Kurt Cobain (Nirvana), after his wife, Courtney Love, said the police seized was afraid he would commit suicide. He wanted to commit suicide about 3 weeks later (1994) 19 March: Elvis Presley bought Graceland (1957) 20 March: .. The first Motown package is in London, with Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas, The Temptations, The Supremes (1965) 21 March: Dick Clark announced he would no longer host the show, he was the host for 33 years (1989) 22 March, "American Bandstand". Electric Circus club in New York, is a corrupt bomb (1970) 23 March: Pink Floyd album "Dark Side of the Moon" (1974) 24 March: In a Lou Reed show in Buffalo, New York, a fan jumped on stage and bit Lou was thrown on its soil, the man. out of the theater and Reed completed the show (1973) 25 March was saved Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder took him 250 meters after a riptide off the coast of New Zealand (1995) 26 March: Diana Ross was born (1944) 27 March: Donnie Wahlberg of New Kids on the Block was arrested in Louisville, KY, for first-degree arson, he is poured vodka on a hotel carpet and set it on fire (1991) 28 March:. More than 6,000 radio stations played "We Are the World" at the same time (1986) 29 March: Led Zeppelin had all their six albums in the U.S. Top 100 charts in the same week (1975) 30 March: .. Jimi Hendrix lit his guitar on stage for the first time at Finsbury Park in the beginning of 24 Date UK tour with Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humberdinck (1967) April April 1: The first car to change Grammophon is inserted through HMV, price £ 125 (1928) 2. April: Steve Winwood left to form the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and The Beatles finished recording the album "Sgt. . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band "the best-selling album of the 60s in the UK (1967) 3 April: Bob Dylan made his first entry into the UK charts with his single "The Times They Are A-Changin '(1964) 4 April: The Beatles hold the five chart positions simultaneously (1965) 5 April: Kurt Cobain found from an apparent suicide (1994) 6 April dead. Carly Simon, James Taylor after their show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, married the couple introduced. to 3 November 1972 (1972) 7th April: Billie Holiday born (1915) 8 April: BBC banned the song "100 Pounds of Clay (Gene McDaniels and Craig Douglas), because they respect a woman had to be created from building materials - as blasphemous to be The song reached number 9 in the UK charts of 20 April (1961) 9 April:. ABBA's "Dancing Queen" hits No. 1 (1977) 10 April: 27-year-old Paul McCartney announces he plans to quit the Beatles without capture for the future or re-appear with the Beatles, or write any music with John Lennon He added that he is "McCartney Productions", and that he Film rights to 'Rupert the Bear "purchased (1970) 11 April:. Bob Dylan makes his New York debut at Gerde's Folk City (1961) 12 April: U.S. Greyhound bus company will start a tour service Hippyland "in San Francisco (1967) 13 April was the first band Led Zeppelin sold out, the Montreal Forum (1970) 14 April: Motown Records and Stevie Wonder gave a press conference to announce that he had a "13 million U.S. dollars-plus" contract with the label (1976) 15 April signed: Tone Loc Loc-ed After Dark became the first black rap LP to number 1 in the U.S. hit (1989) 16 April: Queen held her first U.S. concert at Regis College in Denver, CO (1974) 17 April: Johnny Cash played at the White House for President Nixon, who demanded he played "A Boy Named Sue". (1970) 18. April: The Neil Young film "Journey Through the Past" at the Dallas Film Festival (1973) 19 April debut, "The Music Man" with Robert Preston, opens on Broadway (1957) 20 April: Robert Plant released Disney's Theatre of the Stars in Orlando, Florida to leave his handprints in front of the Theatre (2000) 21 April: Janis Joplin, from their newly formed band accompanies her first London concert performance at the Royal Albert Hall, Janis Joplin & Her Kozmic Blues Band. Which included a brass section had a southern soul leaning and feeling this performance was one of the best of their career.April 22:. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd made their first appearance as The Blues Brothers when they appeared on U.S. TV's "Saturday Night Live" (NBS 1978) 23rd April:. Whitney Houston will be the first artist to No. 1 on the U.S. Hot 100 hit with seven consecutive singles like "Where Broken Hearts Go" hits the top the previous record holder (with six each Thursday) were Beatles and Bee Gees it is only the second artist to four No. 1s from the same LP (1988) 24 April release. The pipeless organ was Laurens Hammond (1934) 25 April patented: The Beatles refused to carry out Queen of England at a British Olympic Appeal Fund show, because: "Our decision would be the same no matter what the cause. We make no advantages "(1968) 26 April: Rod Stewart is mugged, the shooter stole his $ 50,000 Porsche (1982) 27 April: Bee Gees debut on the UK charts with ". New York Mining Disaster "and Traffic debut on U.S. charts with their LP" Mr. Fantasy "(1967) 28 April: Apple launched its iTunes Music Store (2003) 29 April: Jazz musician Duke Ellington receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1969) 30 April: BBC TV has started the show Cilla Black, Cilla what have the first British female performer in her own TV show's theme song, "Step Inside Love" was written by Paul McCartney (1968) written MayMay first Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" premiered in Vienna (1786) 2 May: Ed Sullivan announced that he would never Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stoneson his CBS-TV Sunday night show back in time, he calls her back (1965) 3 May did. New York City Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center announced that they begin to present rock, pop and jazz concerts and classical (1971) 4 May: Sony launches its Connect Music Store (2004) 5 May: Carnegie Hall in New York is (1891) 6 May: In a Clearwater, Florida hotel room starts, Keith Richards writes for the Stones, Jagger, and he worked, for the opening riff of the song satisfaction by Richards buying a Gibson fuzz box on this day (1965) 7 May: Ringo Starr, Brian Jones and members of the Beach Boys and The Moody Blues were in the audience to see Jimi Hendrix, the two shows at London's Saville Theatre (1967) 8 May played: Tom Waits won $ 2,500,000, when a Los Angeles court ruled that Frito-Lay unlawfully used a Waits sound-alike in its Doritos ads (1990) May 9: The Guess Who No. 1 with "American Woman" , (1970) 10 May made. Frank Sinatra's version of "My Way", the British top ten for the first time in the next three years in the top 50 singles chart eight times (1969) 11 May: Reggae legend Bob Marley died (1981) 12 May: Tiny Tim said in New York City mayoral candidate, he did not believe in elections (1989) 13 May win. Forty-three people were arrested and more than fifty people were injured after youths started throwing bottles outside a Jackson Five concert at RFK Stadium in Washington DC (1974) 14 May 40th Led Zeppelin to Atlantic Records Anniversary party in New York will reunite with the son of John Bonham, on drums, Jason (1988) 15 May: Pink Floyd perform two-and-a-half hours set at Crystal Palace, with fireworks and fifty foot inflatable octopus The concert is so loud that the fish die in the lake (1970th) 16 May: The Beach Boys album "Pet Sounds" (1966) 17 May: ACID 1.0 Music Creation Software: The first Monterey Folk Festival was with Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Peter Paul and Mary (1963) 18 Instead of being released in May (1998) 19 May: Peter Gabriel released "So" (1986) 20 May: Pete Cetera, bass player and singer in Chicago experiences, five hours of emergency surgery after losing four teeth in a fight at a Dodgers baseball game-boys. Four Rednecks objection to the length of the hair (1971) 21 May 1975 Elton John performs the first of eight concerts in the USSR - the first Western rock star, where 4,000 people to play the show (1975) 22 May. Jerry Lee Lewis is in Heathrow for the start of UK tour, accompanied by his fourteen-year-old woman (and third cousin), Myra (1958) 23 May: The Who album "Tommy", the first rock opera (1969) 24 May: BBC-TV broadcast until '33 Revolutions Per Monkee & A Third ', including guests Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Julie Driscoll (1969) 25 May: Miles Davis was born (1926) 26 May: In the Irish TV Guide; at 4.00 "Top Cat", 4.30 "Skippy" and at 5:30 "Young Line" (a series for young people highlighting their interests) with a new pop group U2 (aka Hype ) (1978) 27. May: Siouxsie Sioux (born 1957) 28 May: Billboard reports that "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" was the most popular song in the U.S. (1955) 29 May. One of the rocks first events will take place outdoors (in rain) in Herndon Stadium in Atlanta, Ray Charles, BB King, Ruth Brown and Drifters are on the bill (1959) 30 May: Irish acts held No. 1 and No. 3 on Hot 100 with U2's "With or Without You" and Chris de Burgh's "Lady in Red" (1987) 31 May Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) left the Spice Girls (1998) junejune 1 was signed after leaving the political rock group The Clash drummer Topper Headon in London for stealing a bus stop and receiving stolen stereo system (accused in 1982) 2 June: The Beatles album "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band "(1967) 3 June: The Rolling Stones began their "Exile on Main Street" tour in front of 17,000 fans Vancouver t I was the Stones first North American appearance in three years, Keith Richards blew two guitars .. . During the show, which was received only lukewarm by the audience Stevie Wonder was the opening act (1972) 4 June, won for "The Monkees" TV show, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series (1967) 5 June: Cyndi Lauper hits No. 1 with "Time After Time" (1984) 6 June: Roy Orbison's "Only the Lonely" It appeared to be the number two on the Billboard Hot 100 to reach and inspire Bruce Springsteen to write (1960) 7 June. "Born to Run". "The Johnny Cash Show" debuts on ABC-TV (1969) 8 June: ". Tales From Topographic Oceans "keyboardist Rick Wakeman of the progressive rock band Yes to leave at the end of the album Wakeman openly expressed its shock and disappointment about the album. and the band returned Wakeman Yes in 1976 but split from the group back in 1980 (1974) 9 June: Les Paul was born (1915) 10 June: The rock supergroup Asia by Steve Howe and Geoff Downes of Yes, Carl Palmer was formed by Emerson, Lake and Palmer and John Wetton of Uriah Heep (1981) 11 June: Janis Joplin performed for the first time with Big Brother and the Holding Company at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco (1966) 12 June: Madonna arrived in Japan to begin their world tour (1987) 13 June: Live Aid concert in 14 LondonJune staged: The Rolling Stones announced the formation of their own record label Rolling Stone magazine said the proposed name of the label was bulb, but it was just Rolling Stones. Records, a subsidiary of the Atlantic (1969) 15 June, Egyptian officials said was a Peter Gabriel concert expected in a resort near the Israeli border, Israel 7000, was the limit for the show Cross and local officials feared would be on the Egyptian side. his anger (1994) 16 June: The Blues Brothers movie premieres in Chicago (1980) 17 June: Latin pop singer Jon Secada fell through the stands when he was near the stage leading to an estimated one billion television viewers during the opening ceremonies of the World Cup in Chicago. Secada unable to free themselves from the hole, and since the band had already started playing, he began singing with his head above the stage level. He was finally pulled from the hole, and moves the focus to end his performance Secada later with a dislocated shoulder (1994) 18 Diagnosed in June. The Blues Brothers "movie opened in the USA and Canada (1980) 19 June: Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream announces new flavor Cherry Garcia (1987) 20 June: British synth band Depeche Mode canceled a concert at the Ottawa Civic Centre to asbestos fell from the ceiling, as the group of the crew was setting up equipment (1990) 21 June: Pete Townshend, the use of British slang term "bomb" on the success of the Who rock opera "Tommy" caused him were detained at the airport will describe Memphis. FBI agents thought it was a bomb threat (1970) 22 June: Todd Rundgren Born (1948) 23 June: Alice Cooper broke six of his ribs after he fell off the stage during a concert in Vancouver. Several dates on his "Welcome to My Nightmare" tour canceled (1975) 24 be June: "Scream," the first single from Michael Jackson's "History" album on the Billboard Hot 100 at number five. It was the highest ever debut on the chart (1995) 25 June: Madonna donated $ 300,000 gain from the recent North American tour of "Blond Ambition" tour to AIDS research. Twenty thousand people attending the show in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Madonna made a similar donation from a 1987 concert (1990) 26 June: Cher divorces Sonny Bono (1975) 27 June: miliant the black rap group Public Enemy disbanded following anti-Jewish statements made by member Richard (Professor Grif) Griffin. Griffin, the group of so-called Minister of Information, has already been fired after he told a Washington newspaper, that Jews were responsible for "the majority of wickedness that goes around the world." Public Enemy's record company said the decision, dissolve itself had nothing to do with press reported by the music industry. The group was back together within a few weeks (1989) 28 June: A week enormously in their hyped reunion tour, stopped the Sex Pistols concert in Copenhagen after 15 minutes because fans would not stop throwing bottles at them. A fan said, "In the old days, they would have returned the bottles." (1996) 29 June: folk singer Tim Buckley died of an overdose of heroin and morphine in Santa Monica, California at the age of 28 years. had evidence in the coroner's inquest indicated Buckley snorted what he thought cocaine. The man, the house where Buckley died was, of involuntary manslaughter (1975) 30 June condemned property: Cher married Gregg Allman (1975) JULYJuly 1: Sony Walkman introduced (1979) 2 July: Elvis Presley recorded "Hound Dog" and "Don 't Be Cruel". (1956) 3. July: Jim Morrison found dead in Paris (1971) 4 July: Casey Kasem hosted radio's "American Top 40" for the first time (1970) 5 July: Sarah McLachlan stages of the first Lilith Fair Concert (1977) 6 July: The Damned made their debut performance in the 100 Club in London (1976) 7 July: The original lineup of Led Zeppelin was his last show (1980) 8 July: "Playboy" and "Penthouse" magazines went on sale with nude photos of Madonna (1985) 9 July: Johnny Cash signed with Columbia Records (1958) 10 July: Eric Clapton announced that Cream would break after a farewell tour (1968) 11 July: The Supremes hit No. 1 with "Where Did Our Love Go" (1965) 12 July: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born (1948) 13 July: Eric Clapton's "I Shot The Sheriff" was published (1974) 14 July: Steve Miller, got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (1987) 15 July: Run-DMC's "Raising Hell" is certified, the first rap album platinumJuly 16: In London, founded by Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, the band Cream (1966) 17 July: 1st Newport Jazz Festival (1954) 18 July: Metallica played at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, CA. The audience was 1000 winner of the "Blind Date" contest of Miller Genuine Draft (2000) 19 , Planned: Former Guns N 'Roses drummer Steven Adler brought against the band. He claimed that the other members had forced him to heroin, then made him leave the band when he was a rehabilitation program (1991) 20 July Social: Billboard magazine publishes its first "Music Popularity Chart" (1940) 21 July: Roger Waters staged a production of "The Wall" at Potsdamer Platz, Germany. Sinead O'Connor, Bryan Adams, Phil Collins and Cyndi Lauper among others involved on the benefits (1990) 22 July: Little Richard, known as Reverend Richard Penniman, spoke at a conference in North revitalization Richmond, CA. He warned the congregation about the evils of Rock & Roll Music (1979) 23 July: ". Falling From Grace "Production began on the film, the film marks John Mellencamp's acting and directing debut (1990) 24 July: Public Enemy shifted his televised address last concert in the UK because of Flava Flav broke his arm in a scooter accident (1995) 25 July: Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival (1966) 26 July: A U.S. federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against Napster, Inc. The injunction had been requested by the Recording Industry Association of America of (RIAA).