1957: John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time in Liverpool.
1975: Keith Richards was arrested & charged with reckless driving & carrying large knife in Arkansas. He was later released on a $162 bail & cleared of all charges.
1977: Here’s inspiration at the oddest time. At a Pink Floyd concert in Montreal, Roger Waters got so angry at a fan that was climbing the mesh that separated the crowd from the band, he spits on him. This incident would later inspire their next album, The Wall.
1987: The Grateful Dead released In the Dark. The album becomes the bands biggest album selling two million copies in the U.S. This was their highest charting album in the U.S.
1991: Van Halen’s For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge debuted at number one on the album charts for the first of three weeks.
The day we lost singer Charlie Daniels in 2020, he was 83.