Cегодняшний день в истории рок-музыки

12 НОЯБРЯ(продолжение)

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1962, The Beatles appeared at the Star Club, Hamburg, Germany, sharing the bill with Little Richard.

1965, After changing his name from Toby Tyler to Marc Bolan, the future T Rex star performed his first single 'The Wizard' on the UK TV show 'Ready Steady Go!'

1965, Velvet Underground(photo) made their live debut when the played at Summit High School, New Jersey, the band were paid $75 for the gig.

1966, The Monkees debut album started a 13-week run at No.1 on the US album chart, selling over 3 million copies in three months.

1966, Pink Floyd appeared at the Corn Exchange, Bedford, England. The set list for these early Floyd shows included: 'Let's Roll Another One', 'Gimme A Break', 'Interstellar Overdrive', 'Astronomy Domine' and 'Stoned Alone'. 'Stoned Alone' was also known as 'I Get Stoned', and was possibly the first song Syd Barrett wrote for Pink Floyd.

1968, UK book and record chain W.H. Smiths refused to display The Jimi Hendrix Experience album 'Electric Ladyland' due to the naked girls featured on the sleeve. The album was then made available as two albums with changed artwork after the complaints.

1971, Led Zeppelin appeared at The Locarno, Sunderland, England, with tickets at 75p. The set included: 'Immigrant Song', 'Heartbreaker', 'Black Dog', 'Since I’ve Been Loving You', 'Rock And Roll', 'Stairway To Heaven', 'That’s The Way', 'Going To California', 'Tangerine', 'Dazed And Confused', 'What Is And What Should Never Be', 'Celebration Day', 'Whole Lotta Love' and 'Communication Breakdown'.

1973, Mott The Hoople kicked off a 20-date UK tour at Leeds Town Hall with support group Queen.

1977, During a UK tour Blondie appeared at Friars in Aylesbury, supported by XTC.

1990, Rolling Stone Ron Wood broke both his legs after his car crashed on the M4 motorway near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. Wood was trying to wave other cars past his when he was run over.

1993, John Otway played at London's Astoria. It was Otway's 2,000 gig, (his highest chart position until now was with 'Cor Baby, That's Really Free' which made UK No.27).

1997, US singer, keyboard player Billy Preston was jailed for three years for possessing cocaine.

1997, George Michael launched his fanclub 'Members Online' on the internet.

1999, Gary Glitter was sentenced to four months in a Bristol prison after being found guilty of downloading child pornography from the Internet. He was released on 11th January 2000.

1999, Oasis announced their new bass player was Andy Bell, the ex-Ride guitarist, who until recently looked set to join UK band Gay Dad.

2001, Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker made an appearance as a DJ at Pentonville Prison, North London as part of his club night 'Desperate.'

2002, Die-hard Beatles fans were enraged after Paul McCartney altered the song writing credits on his 'Back In The US 2002' album, changing them to McCartney and Lennon from Lennon and McCartney.

2008, Mitch Mitchell, the British drummer with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was found dead in his US hotel room aged 61. Mitchell had been working with Georgie Fame & the Blue Flames when in 1966 he was invited to audition for a new band being formed to back Jimi Hendrix. During the 70's Mitchell failed an audition for Paul McCartney's new band, Wings.