TODAY IN HISTORY – 29TH JULY
1946 - Born this day, Neal Doughty, musician, keyboardist, REO Speedwagon, 1981 US No.1 and 1981 UK No.7 single Keep On Loving You, 1981 UK No.19 single Take It On The Run, 1985 UK No.16 single Can't Fight This Feeling.
1953 - Born on this day, Patti Sciafa, US singer, worked with The Rolling Stones and on Keith Richards 'Talk Is Cheap' album. Toured with Bruce Springsteen Band from 1984 Born in the USA tour, married Springsteen on June 8th 1991. She has released two solo albums
1956 - Carl Perkins was on the UK singles chart with his debut UK hit 'Blue Suede Shoes'. Johnny Cash planted the seed for the song in the fall of 1955, while Perkins, Cash, Elvis Presley, toured throughout the South. Cash told Perkins of a black airman whom he had met when serving in the military in Germany. He had referred to his military regulation air shoes as "blue suede shoes." Cash suggested that Carl write a song about the shoes.
1963 - Elvis Presley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with '(You're The) Devil In Disguise'. His 14th UK No.1. In 1963, when the song was debuted to a British audience on the BBC television show Juke Box Jury, the celebrity guest John Lennon voted the song “a miss” stating on the new song that Elvis Presley was "like Bing Crosby now."
1965 - The Queen of England attended the premiere of the motion picture, Help!, starring The Beatles. The command performance was held at the London Pavilion. The film later earned first prize at the Rio De Janeiro Film Festival in Brazil. It cost $1.5 million to make and was very successful.
1965 - The Beatles second feature film 'Help!' had its UK premiere at The Pavilion in London. The Beatles later said the film was shot in a "haze of marijuana". According to Starr's interviews in The Beatles Anthology, during the Austrian Alps film shooting, he and McCartney ran off over the hill from the "curling" scene set to smoke a joint.
1966 - Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker made their live debut as Cream at The Twisted Wheel, Manchester, England. The group's third album, Wheels of Fire, was the world's first platinum-selling double album.
1966 - Bob Dylan was riding his Triumph 55 motorcycle to a garage near his home in Woodstock, New York for repairs when the rear wheel locked. Dylan lost control and was thrown over the handlebars, suffering a broken neck vertebra. His recuperation led to a period of reclusive inactivity.
1967 - Light My Fire by The Doors, jumped to the No.1 spot on Billboard's record chart, and stayed there for 3 weeks. The groups first US No.1, it only reached No.49 on the UK chart. When re-issued in 1991, it made No.7 in the UK.
1968 - Gram Parsons left The Byrds on the eve of a tour of South Africa, refusing to play to segregated audiences.
1972 - UK singer songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan started a 5 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Alone Again (Naturally). It was his only US No.1, the follow up Claire only made it to No.2.
1972 - Screaming Lord Sutch was arrested in London after jumping from a bus in Downing Street with four nude women. Sutch was publicising his forthcoming London gigs.
1973 - Led Zeppelin lost $180,000 in cash when a thief made off with their safe deposit box from two Madison Square Garden concerts.
1974 - Died this day, Cass Elliot of the Mamas And The Papas, died from a heart attack after choking on her own vomit. She was staying at Harry Nilsson's London flat when she died. She was 32.
Better known as Mama Cass, she was a powerful vocalist who recorded many famous songs with the Mamas and Papas, including Monday Monday, I Saw Her Again, and California Dreamin'. She was successfully establishing her own solo career when she died.
1978 - Prince appeared on the US charts for the first time with Soft and Wet.
1982 - Andy Taylor from Duran Duran married the group's hairdresser, Tracey Wilson during a US tour in Los Angeles.
1988 - American record producer and pedal steel guitar player Pete Drake died of lung disease. Worked with Elvis Presley, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Played on such hits as Lynn Anderson's ‘Rose Garden’, Charlie Rich's ‘Behind Closed Doors', Bob Dylan's ‘Lay Lady Lay' and Tammy Wynette's ‘Stand by Your Man’.
1990 - Elton John checked into a Chicago clinic to cure bulimia and an addiction problem, taking over a year off from touring and recording.
2001 - Atomic Kitten started a two week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of the 1989 Bangles hit Eternal Flame.
2006 - Pamela Anderson married for the second time to US rapper Kid Rock, on a yacht off the French resort of St Tropez. The 39-year-old former Baywatch star divorced from rock star Tommy Lee in 1998, had recently got back together with Kid Rock, after a brief engagement ended in 2003. Anderson and Rock split after four months of marriage.
2007 - Heart problems forced Kiss singer and guitarist Paul Stanley to abandon a show in California. Paramedics stopped and restarted his heart to give it a regular rhythm after his heart spontaneously jumped to 190 plus beats per minute.
1946 - Born this day, Neal Doughty, musician, keyboardist, REO Speedwagon, 1981 US No.1 and 1981 UK No.7 single Keep On Loving You, 1981 UK No.19 single Take It On The Run, 1985 UK No.16 single Can't Fight This Feeling.
1953 - Born on this day, Patti Sciafa, US singer, worked with The Rolling Stones and on Keith Richards 'Talk Is Cheap' album. Toured with Bruce Springsteen Band from 1984 Born in the USA tour, married Springsteen on June 8th 1991. She has released two solo albums
1956 - Carl Perkins was on the UK singles chart with his debut UK hit 'Blue Suede Shoes'. Johnny Cash planted the seed for the song in the fall of 1955, while Perkins, Cash, Elvis Presley, toured throughout the South. Cash told Perkins of a black airman whom he had met when serving in the military in Germany. He had referred to his military regulation air shoes as "blue suede shoes." Cash suggested that Carl write a song about the shoes.
1963 - Elvis Presley was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with '(You're The) Devil In Disguise'. His 14th UK No.1. In 1963, when the song was debuted to a British audience on the BBC television show Juke Box Jury, the celebrity guest John Lennon voted the song “a miss” stating on the new song that Elvis Presley was "like Bing Crosby now."
1965 - The Queen of England attended the premiere of the motion picture, Help!, starring The Beatles. The command performance was held at the London Pavilion. The film later earned first prize at the Rio De Janeiro Film Festival in Brazil. It cost $1.5 million to make and was very successful.
1965 - The Beatles second feature film 'Help!' had its UK premiere at The Pavilion in London. The Beatles later said the film was shot in a "haze of marijuana". According to Starr's interviews in The Beatles Anthology, during the Austrian Alps film shooting, he and McCartney ran off over the hill from the "curling" scene set to smoke a joint.
1966 - Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker made their live debut as Cream at The Twisted Wheel, Manchester, England. The group's third album, Wheels of Fire, was the world's first platinum-selling double album.
1966 - Bob Dylan was riding his Triumph 55 motorcycle to a garage near his home in Woodstock, New York for repairs when the rear wheel locked. Dylan lost control and was thrown over the handlebars, suffering a broken neck vertebra. His recuperation led to a period of reclusive inactivity.
1967 - Light My Fire by The Doors, jumped to the No.1 spot on Billboard's record chart, and stayed there for 3 weeks. The groups first US No.1, it only reached No.49 on the UK chart. When re-issued in 1991, it made No.7 in the UK.
1968 - Gram Parsons left The Byrds on the eve of a tour of South Africa, refusing to play to segregated audiences.
1972 - UK singer songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan started a 5 week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with Alone Again (Naturally). It was his only US No.1, the follow up Claire only made it to No.2.
1972 - Screaming Lord Sutch was arrested in London after jumping from a bus in Downing Street with four nude women. Sutch was publicising his forthcoming London gigs.
1973 - Led Zeppelin lost $180,000 in cash when a thief made off with their safe deposit box from two Madison Square Garden concerts.
1974 - Died this day, Cass Elliot of the Mamas And The Papas, died from a heart attack after choking on her own vomit. She was staying at Harry Nilsson's London flat when she died. She was 32.
Better known as Mama Cass, she was a powerful vocalist who recorded many famous songs with the Mamas and Papas, including Monday Monday, I Saw Her Again, and California Dreamin'. She was successfully establishing her own solo career when she died.
1978 - Prince appeared on the US charts for the first time with Soft and Wet.
1982 - Andy Taylor from Duran Duran married the group's hairdresser, Tracey Wilson during a US tour in Los Angeles.
1988 - American record producer and pedal steel guitar player Pete Drake died of lung disease. Worked with Elvis Presley, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Played on such hits as Lynn Anderson's ‘Rose Garden’, Charlie Rich's ‘Behind Closed Doors', Bob Dylan's ‘Lay Lady Lay' and Tammy Wynette's ‘Stand by Your Man’.
1990 - Elton John checked into a Chicago clinic to cure bulimia and an addiction problem, taking over a year off from touring and recording.
2001 - Atomic Kitten started a two week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with their version of the 1989 Bangles hit Eternal Flame.
2006 - Pamela Anderson married for the second time to US rapper Kid Rock, on a yacht off the French resort of St Tropez. The 39-year-old former Baywatch star divorced from rock star Tommy Lee in 1998, had recently got back together with Kid Rock, after a brief engagement ended in 2003. Anderson and Rock split after four months of marriage.
2007 - Heart problems forced Kiss singer and guitarist Paul Stanley to abandon a show in California. Paramedics stopped and restarted his heart to give it a regular rhythm after his heart spontaneously jumped to 190 plus beats per minute.