Rick Davies-keyboardist & singer for Supertramp-born in 1944
Don Henley born in 1947
1965: Mick Jagger, Brian Jones & Bill Wyman were fined 5 pounds each for urinating on the wall of a gas station in East Ham, England.
1983: Dire Straits began a two night stand at London’s Hammersmith Odeon where they recorded & filmed their first live album & concert video Alchemy: Dire Straits Live which was released the following year.
1996: Donovan has to cancel a North American tour when he is denied entry to the US because of a 1966 marijuana possession conviction.
2016: Great Britain’s Official Charts Company named Paul McCartney as the UK’s most successful albums artist of all time. His first #1 LP, “Please Please Me”, still holds the record for the most weeks at the top of the chart with 30. “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” is the largest selling studio album of all time in England with sales of over 5.1 million. In total, McCartney has spend a total of 191 weeks atop of the UK Albums Chart over his 50+ year career.