1970 – The movie “Ned Kelly”, which featured Mick Jagger in the lead role, is released and the critics trash the movie as. One reviewer wrote: “He looks about as lethal as last week’s lettuce.” The movie tanked at the box office.
1977 – Lynyrd Skynyrd play their last show In Greenville, South Carolina, before their ill-fated plane crash.
1979 – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their third album “Damn the Torpedoes”. The album is breakthrough for Petty which sells two million copies in the U.S.
1993 – Pearl Jam release their second album “Vs”. The album would a sell a then-record selling over 950,000 in its first week of release.
1994 – During a Pink Floyd concert at London’s Earls Court, a section of seating collapses and most of the 1,000 avoid serious injuries.