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On This Day in Music History: The King Makes the Hits

Posted at 7:28 AM on July 19, 2010 by Jill Riley
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:
Queen guitarist Brian May is 63.
Bernie Leadon, multi-instrumentalist in The Eagles through 1975, is 63. He was born in Minneapolis in 1947!
Keith Godchaux, keyboardist in The Grateful Dead from 1972-1979, would have been 62. He died in 1980.
Kevin Haskins, the drummer in Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, is 50.
Jason McGerr of Death Cab For Cutie is 36.

This Day in Music:
1966 - Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow got married. He was 51, she was 21.

1969 - The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women," featuring drummer Charlie Watts on cowbell on the intro, was released.

1972 - Following a scuffle with a newspaper photographer, five members of The Rolling Stones entourage, including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, were arrested in Warwick, Rhode Island, on charges of assault and obstructing police; all five pled guilty and were released. Consequently, the bad boys of rock were four hours late to their Boston show.

1975 - Country singer Lefty Frizzell died in Nashville.

1980 - David Bowie made his stage debut in the Denver production of "The Elephant Man."

1991 - Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steve Adler filed a lawsuit against the band. He claimed the other members had forced him to use heroin, then made him quit the band while he tried to kick his drug habit.

1995 - Dr. George "Feel Good" Nichopoulous, Elvis's one-time personal physician, had his medical license revoked.

History Highlight:
1954 - Elvis Presley's first single was released by Sun Records. It was "That's All Right (Mama)" backed by "Blue Moon of Kentucky." Both songs were hits in Memphis.

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