Today in Rock Music History

2004
-Guitarist Dante DeCaro leaves much hyped Canadian rockers Hot Hot Heat

2000
-50s musician Julie London dies in LA

1997
-Former Alice Cooper manager Glen Buxton dies at age 49

1994
-Lee Allen, sax player, dies in LA at age 68

1986
-Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie marries Eduardo DeMendoca

1979
-Police arrest 15 youths at Earth, Wind and Fire concert. They are charged with robbing fans on their way to the gig

1975
-For the 2nd episode of Saturday Night Live, Simon and Garfunkel are the musical guests

1974
-Al Green's ex-girlfriend Mary Woodson pours pot of boiling grits on the soul singer in the bathroom of his Memphis home

1969
-Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kantner is arrested for marijuana possession

1968
-Police raid John Lennon and Yoko Ono's apartment in London and arrest the couple and charge them with possession of marijuana

1967
-John Lennon stars as Private Gripweed in How I Won the War

1966
-The Jimi Hendrix Experience play before 14,500 people at the Paris Olympia less than a week after starting.

1964
-The Animals begin their first headlining tour in Manchester, England
-The Beatles' record Eight Days a Week

1961
-Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, is born in New Orleans

1957
-Paul McCartney makes his live debut with the Quarrymen at New Clubmoor Hall in Liverpool, England

1952
-The Doobie Brothers drummer Keith Knudsen is born in Ames, Iowa. Joined the band in 1974

1949
-REO Speedwagon guitarist Gary Richrath is born in Peoria, Ill.

1947
-Songwriter Laura Nyro, is born in Bronx, New York

1943
-Russ Gugiere, Association vocalist, is born in Portsmouth, N.H.

1937
-Songwriter Cynthia Weil is born in New York

1926
-Chuck Berry is born in St. Louis