![7 апреля]( "7 апреля")
7 апреля
События:
1956: The first national rock and roll radio series, Alan Freed's Rock 'N' Roll Dance Party
1956: The Platters make their television debut on the Dorsey Brothers' Stage Show, broadcast on CBS.
1958: The Capitol label officially abandons issuing 78 rpm records.
1962: Elvis Presley arrives in Hawaii to begin shooting the ocean shots for his latest film, Blue Hawaii. At his hotel, the Kaiser Hawaiian Village, he is mobbed by over a thousand fans and sprints away from them, losing several pieces of jewelry in the process. (His ring was returned the next day.)
1962: Teen idol Bobby Rydell is ironically cast as Hugo Peabody in the film version of the hit Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie.
1962: Unknown London musicians Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, attending a performance of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated at the Ealing Jazz Club, meet a young guitarist named Brian Jones.
1967: San Francisco's KMPX becomes the first FM station to play "deep cuts" from albums, rather than merely singles, a "free-form" non-format that will soon transform rock radio.
1967: Sonny and Cher's ill-fated comedy film, a collection of film spoof skits called Good Times , debuts in Chicago.
1970: B.J. Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head," featured in the Robert Redford / Paul Newman film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, wins Best Original Song at this year's Academy Awards.
1975: Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore(фото) leaves the group to form Rainbow. He will be replaced by Tommy Bolin.
1981: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play their first concert outside North America, opening their new tour at the Congress Centre in Hamburg.
1988: While rehearsing a morbid "hanging" stunt for his upcoming tour, Alice Cooper is nearly killed when the safety rope breaks, leaving him swinging in the air for a few moments. Fortunately, a roadie quickly steps in and gets him down.
1990: As famed child AIDS victim Ryan White dies in his hospital bed, Elton John, who has taken up his cause, performs "Candle In The Wind" for him during Farm Aid IV in Indianapolis.
1994: Percy Sledge pleads guilty to evading taxes on $260,000 of his income and is sentenced to six months in prison (which he is allowed to serve in a "halfway house").
2006: A fan site for the legendary psych-pop band Love reports (correctly) that leader Arthur Lee is dying from leukemia.
2008: Bob Dylan is awarded an honorary Pulitzer for "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."
2008: Olivia Newton-John begins a walk across the entire length of China's Great Wall in order to raise funds for and awareness of the battle to cure breast cancer. The walk will take three weeks and cover 141 miles.
