Cегодняшний день в истории рок-музыки

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1960 – A 17-year-old Mick Jagger accidentally meets his old school chum Keith Richards on a train. The two bonds together again over a mutual love of R&B records and later join Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys. Fame and the Glimmer Twins were a long way off.

1962 – The Beatles do their first-ever interview, for the radio station at Cleaver and Clatterbridge Hospital. Paul reveals, “John Lennon is the leader of the group.”

1963 – The Beatles begin their first tour of Sweden in Karlstad(photo).

1968 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono announce that their first child should be born sometime in January. Unfortunately, Yoko miscarries.

1969 – Led Zeppelin play to their largest indoor crowd to date. At the Boston Garden, they perform before a crowd of 17,000 and rake in $45,000. Support comes from the MC5 and Johnny Winter.

1969 – Pink Floyd releases their quadruple-sided monstrosity Ummagumma. Song titles include “The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party,” “Sisyphus, Part IV,” and “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict.” Gruesome.

1974 – No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Then Came You,” Dionne Warwick & the Spinners. The song is the first No. 1 single for both Warwick and the Spinners.

1978 – At New York’s Bottom Line Club, Keith Richards joins Rockpile for a jam onstage. The day before he had pleaded guilty to heroin possession in Toronto, but was given a one-year suspended sentence.

1991 – Rock promoter Bill Graham dies in a helicopter crash after a Huey Lewis concert in Concord, Calif. He was 60. Among the events produced by Graham were the Live Aid concert, Amnesty International tour and US Festival. At times he managed the careers of the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and Santana.

1992 – King of the Road Roger Miller dies from throat cancer. The country singer also wrote the Tony Award-winning musical Big River.

1995 – British rocker Cliff Richard receives a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Cliff is reputed to be the favorite singer of the 95-year-old Queen Mother.

2006 – Guitarist Andy Taylor leaves Duran Duran … again. On their MySpace page, the “Rio” band explain, “There is an unworkable gulf between us and we can no longer effectively function together.” Taylor first quit the band in 1985.

2006 – Ronnie James Dio announces he’s reuniting with his old Black Sabbath chums–Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward–as Heaven and Hell.

2006 – Kurt Cobain tops Forbes’ list of the top-earning dead rock stars. No. 2 is Courtney Love. Sorry, that should read “Elvis Presley.” The Nirvana singer’s corpse earned $50 million over the past year.