Happy Birthday: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s guitarist Gary Rossington – born in 1951
1971 – During a Frank Zappa’s “Mothers of Invention concert in Montreux, Switzerland, the building burned down. Deep Purple immortalized the incident in their song “Smoke on the Water” released the following year.
1979 – The USC Trojan Marching Band joins Fleetwood Mac on stage in LA for a live performance of “Tusk” at The Forum in Inglewood CA.
1980 – Led Zeppelin publicly announce that they were breaking up after John Bonham’s passing stating. “We wish it to be known, that the loss of our dear friend and the deep respect we have for his family, have led us to decide that we could not continue as we were.
1993 – Frank Zappa died of prostate cancer at the of 52 years old.