46 years ago... Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" was released. It didn't find any success, however, until the following year when it was included on the soundtrack of "Blackboard Jungle." (1954)

37 years ago... Bob Dylan and Joan Baez team up with Pete Seeger at the first Monterey Folk Festival. (1963)

37 years ago... Little Stevie Wonder who turned 13, just eight days ago, records his second album. "The Twelve Year-Old genius," live at a Detroit ballroom. One tune off the album, "Fingertips, Part Two," will become Wonder's first hit, topping both the R&B and the pop charts. (1963)

35 years ago... The Byrds enter the Hot 100 for the first time with an electric version of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tamborine Man." It will peak at Number One after 13 weeks on the charts. The song's success prompts Dylan to go electric as well. (1965)

35 years ago... The Rolling Stones appear with Chuck Berry on the television show "Hollywood A-GO-GO." The Stones, trying to drive off in a Limo after the show, are attacked by a mob of fans. (1965)

35 years ago... The Beach Boys appear on the "The Ed Sullivan Show" performing their latest hit, "Help Me Rhonda." (1965)

34 years ago... British singer Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" enters the Hot 100, where in 13 weeks, it becomes her biggest hit, reaching #4. (1966)

33 years ago... Jimi Hendrix signs his first American record contract with Reprise Records. He and his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, have already released records on the Polydor and Track labels in Britain. (1967)

33 years ago... The BBC bans the Beatles' "A Day In The Life" from its airwaves claiming it contained explicit drug references. On the same day, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr went to the BBC to record interviews with DJ Kenny Everett for his show "Where It's At." The three play all three tracks of the upcoming Sgt. Pepper album with the exception of "A Day In The Life." (1967)

31 years ago... The Beatles' single "Get Back" is awarded a gold record for sales over 1 million; within a week it hits Number One in the U.S. (1969)

31 years ago... The New Musical Express announces for the the first time ever, album production and sales outdid production and sales of singles in Great Britain, in 1968. (1969)

31 years ago... John Lennon, declared "an inadmissable immigrant to the U.S.," seeks a visa to visit America. Ten days before, Lennon's "standing visa" was revoked by the U.S. Embassy in London because of his drug conviction last November. (1969)

31 years ago... John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin a ten-day "bed-in" in Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel. (1969)

31 years ago... The Who's Pete Townshend spends an evening in a New York City jail after being charged with assault. Plainclothes policeman Daniel Mulhearn ran onstage at the Fillmore East to grab the microphone and alert the crowd that a grocery store next to the theater was on fire. Townshend thought the officer was a member of the audience and kicked Mulhearn off the stage. The audience didn't belive the story and doesn't leave the Fillmore until Townshend is finally dragged off the stage. (1969)

29 years ago... Two John Lennon and Yoko Ono films are screened at the Cannes Film Festival. The first is "Apotheosis," an 18-minute camera shot of a snowy countryside. Ono's "Fly" is a graphic exploration of a nude women's body by a fly. (1971)

26 years ago... Bill Wyman, the quiet Rolling Stone, releases his first solo album, "Monkey Grip." It's the first solo LP by a member of the group. (1974)

26 years ago... Frank Zappa and his wife announce the birth of their third child, a boy named Ahmet Rodan. He is named after the Japanese movie monster who lived mostly on a diet of 707 jets. (1974)

25 years ago... Elton John was awarded a platinum record for his album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. It was the first album to sell one million copies on its first day of release. (1975)

25 years ago... Just two weeks before the start of the Rolling Stones' long Tour of the Americas '75, Mick Jagger puts his right hand through a window at Gorman's restaurant in Montauk, on Long Island. It takes 20 stitches to make it like new.

21 years ago... Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr perform with Eric Clapton, Denny Laine and Mick Jagger at a wedding reception for Clapton and the former Mrs. Harrison, Patti Boyd. The two married the previous March. (1979)

20 years ago... Dr. George C. Nichopoulous is indicated in Memphis on 14 counts of overprescribing drugs to Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and nine other patients. (1980)

20 years ago... Singer/guitarist Joe Strummer of the British punk group the Clash is arrested in Hamburg, Germany following a concert in which a battle erupted betwen the band and the audience. Strummer hit one fan on the head with his guitar. (1980)

16 years ago... Just before the beginning of the "Born in the U.S.A." world tour, guitarist Nils Lofgren joins Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Lofgren replaced "Miami" Steve Van Zandt. (1984)

2 years ago... Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards falls while reaching for a book of nude art in his Connecticut home. He was going to use the book as inspiration to create a celebrity art piece. The fall breaks his ribs causing the Rolling Stones to postpones many dates on their Bridges To Babylon tour. (1998)

Yep, Sex, drugs & Rock n' Roll... some things never change...

Info from Arrow FM "This Day in Rock & Roll History
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