1965 - The Rolling Stones released one of the all-time most popular rock tunes, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Mick Jagger wrote all the lyrics except the line "can't get no satisfaction." The lyrics deal with what Jagger saw as the two sides of America: the real and phony. The song is about a man looking for authenticity but not being able to find it through the haze of marketing. It became their first #1.
1972 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono release Some Time In New York City. Apolitical album where they wail against sexism, political incarceration, colonialism, and racism. They get it on with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on the live set.
1982 - As part of the "No Nukes" movement during the Cold War, the largest political rally in US history takes place when about 750,000 people go to New York's Central Park for the Rally for Nuclear Disarmament, which features performances by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, and Gary "U.S." Bonds. Highlights were released on the 2 LP set, No Nukes.
2012 - Radiohead scuppered a blackmail attempt by releasing 18 hours of music recorded during the making of their classic album OK Computer. Tapes from the sessions had been stolen by hackers who demanded $150,000 for their return. Instead, the band released the tapes in full, with profits going to climate crisis activists Extinction Rebellion. "For £18 you can find out if we should have paid that ransom," said guitarist Jonny Greenwood in a statement.
2015- Dave Grohl falls off the stage and breaks his leg during a Foo Fighters show in Gothenburg, Sweden. He gets medical attention but returns to finish the show, propped up while someone holds his leg. The rest of their European tour is cancelled while he gets surgery, but the tour resumes on July 4 in Washington, DC, with Grohl performing from a custom-made guitar throne. Solid work ethic.(Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
Birthdays:
Roy Harper is 82. He's the singer songwriter Led Zeppelin paid tribute to with their version of the traditional song "Shake 'Em on Down". Retitled "Hats Off to (Roy) Harper", it appeared on the album Led Zeppelin III. He also provided Pink Floyd with the vocals on "Have A Cigar".
Chick Corea was born today in 1941. A masterful and creatively wide-ranging jazz pianist, Chick Corea was a celebrated performer whose influential albums found him exploring harmonically adventurous post-bop, electric fusion, Latin traditions, and classical.
He joined Miles Davis' first electric ensemble and appeared on the landmark 1969 album Bitches Brew.
Junior Brown, known as the Hillbilly Hendrix, is 71. Brown's signature instrument is the "guit-steel" double neck guitar, a hybrid of electric guitar and lap steel guitar.
On this Day In Music History was sourced from This Day in Music, Allmusic, Song Facts and Wikipedia.
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