1967 - If you want to see gob-smacking hysteria from when The Rolling Stones performed their first concert behind the Iron Curtain at the Palace of Culture in Warsaw, Poland, 44 years this very day, this is the video for you. Astounding, really. It was also Poland's first real rock concert.
1969 - Forty two years ago today, Diana Ross appeared solo on Dinah Shore's NBC-TV special Like Hep, and a year later, same day, Led Zeppelin became the first band to sell out the Montreal Forum. And this was the Zep in 1970, performing live (possibly at the Montreal Forum), one of their finest, Communication Breakdown.
1973 - The Who's Roger Daltrey released his first solo album today and seven years later on the same day the Broadway musical Grease closed after 3,883 performances. The title song was written by Barry Gibb, and the two songs Hopelessly Devoted To You and You're The One That I Want were written by Australian John Farrah, who once led a band named The Strangers. He also married Pat Carrol who once sang with Olivia Newton-John..."So...tell me about it, stud!"
1981 - This is the day Australia's swaggering rock'n'roll band, Cold Chisel released their first single in the USA, My Baby, just as their live album, Swingshift, went to #1 in their home country. And their album, East, debuted in America at #193, but unfortunately, in the long run, the band never went on with it in any substantial way in the USA.
1982 - David Crosby was arrested for the second time in three weeks for drugs in Dallas today, and three years to the day later, the single We Are the World hit #1 in the U.S, while on the same day, same year The Grand Ole Opry debuted on television. Almost a decade later, and song writer Billy Joel and model Christie Brinkley announced they were separating. Billy clearly didn't feel that way when he wrote this song about his wife...just skip the advert at the start, dear reader.
1999 - It is now 12 years since TV station VH1 debuted their Internet radio station called VH1 at Work. The first webcast was the Divas Live concert and on the same day, Yoko Ono sued Fredieric Seaman over personal effects of the late John Lennon. Seaman, a former assistant to Lennon, was accused of "an elaborate scheme" to "exploit Lennon's death by stealing priceless personal and sentimental items." I know it's not popular to say so, but I think as an artist, Yoko was so far ahead f her time. This is her finest commercial song, introduced by her husband, John Lennon.
2000 - This is the day Heather Mills won $316,700 in damages for a 1993 accident that involved a British motorcycle officer. Mills, Paul McCartney's girlfriend, received the out-of-court-settlement without any admission of guilt for the loss of her left leg. And here's the spot in London she lost her leg, as shown by Ms. Mills, to American TV interviewer Barbra Walters
