1969 - Creedence Clearwater Revival peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Bad Moon Rising” which was their second top ten single in the U.S.
1977 – Elton John achieved a lifelong ambition when he became the Chairman of Watford Football Club.
1978 – The Clash supported by The Specials appeared at Friars, Aylesbury
1979 – Born on this day, Tim McCord, bass, Evanescence
1980 – Roxy Music scored their second UK No.1 album with ‘Flesh And Blood’.
1983 – David Bowie appeared at The Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, on his Serious Moonlight tour.
1990 – Over 200 women filed court actions against Chuck Berry after it was alleged that he had been secretly filming them in the rest rooms of the restaurant he owned.
1991 – “Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio” debuts at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral. McCartney co-writes the 90-minute work with American-born composer Carl Davis to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Liverpool’s Royal Philharmonic.
1993 – The Manic Street Preachers played a sold out gig at the Marquee Club, London.
1996 – Def Leppard kicked off the North American leg of their 133-date Slang world tour at The Blossom Music Centre, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
1997 – Radiohead went to No.1 on the UK album chart with their third album ‘OK Computer’.
1997 – The classic Pink Floyd album ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ spent its 1056th week on the US album chart.
1997 - Bob Seger drove his BMW off of the Trans-Canada Highway in Nipigon, Ontario & was charged with drunk driving after crashing his car.
2000 – Chris Cornell, former lead singer of Seattle’s Soundgarden, and his wife, artist manager Susan Silver, become parents of a baby daughter when Lillian Jean is born.
2001 – Phish and the Grateful Dead are the big winners at the second annual Jammy Awards, held at New York’s Roseland Ballroom.
2002 - Rush kicked off their tour in support of Vapor Trails which was their first tour in five years at the Meadows Music Theater in Hartford, CT.
2010 - Bill Aucoin, who, as KISS's manager, turned four young New York City kids into a Rock group that would sell more than 100 million albums, died from complications of prostate cancer at the age of 66.
2015 - Chris Squire, bassist and co-founder of Yes, lost his battle with leukemia at the age of 67.
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