The late Felix Pappalardi bassist for Mountain was born on this day in 1939.
Happy Birthday: Punk rocker Patti Smith born in 1946. Jeff Lynne-singer & guitarist for Electric Light Orchestra, Traveling Wilburys and a very talented producer born in 1947
1968 – Led Zeppelin is advertised as Len Zefflin during a show at Gonzaga University Gymnasium in Washington. It’s also the earliest known Led Zeppelin bootleg recording.
1978 – Emerson, Lake and Palmer announce they are splitting up. They reunited in 1992 before splitting up for good in 1998.
1999 – A scary moment… George Harrison is stabbed in his own home by an intruder who broke into his house. His wife Olivia saves George by hitting him in the head with a lamp. Harrison suffered a collapsed lung, but eventually recovered from the incident.