1966 - The Doors officially signed with Elektra Records in a deal for the band to produce seven albums. The band also reluctantly agreed to release ‘Break On Through’ as their first single. The lyric "She gets high/she gets high/she gets high" was changed to ‘She gets/she gets/she gets" in order to secure radio play.
1969 - Jimi Hendrix closes out Woodstock with an early morning performance of "Hey Joe." The festival headliner, he was supposed to play the previous night, but when it ran long, he ended up taking the stage on a Monday morning. His set includes a scorching rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner."
While shutting down Woodstock, Hendrix becomes a human tuning fork for the '60s zeitgeist, dousing the US national anthem in tie-dyed mix of rage and exuberance. (Photo by -/Svenska Dagbladet/AFP via Getty Images)
1969 - Mick Jagger was accidentally shot in the hand during filming of Ned Kelly in Australia. The film was dogged by problems: Jagger's girlfriend of the time, Marianne Faithfull, had gone to Australia to play the lead female role (Ned's sister, Maggie), but the Jagger-Faithfull relationship was breaking up, and she took an overdose of sleeping tablets soon after arrival in Sydney resulting in being hospitalized in a coma, and pulling out of the film.
The classic "Wild Horses", was partially inspired by the incident. Faithfull, claims "Wild horses couldn't drag me away" was the first thing she said to Mick after she pulled out of the coma.
1992 - Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love became parents, giving birth to a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
2010 - French beauty brand Etat Libre D'Orange announced that it had teamed up with The Sex Pistols to bottle the scent of the punk era by launching the band's first fragrance. Company executives said, "To wear this scent, you must resist tradition, fight conformity, and disregard aromatic conventions."
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Erik Schrody/Everlast of House of Pain is 54. Breaking into the early-'90s mainstream with rap unit House of Pain and their enduring hit "Jump Around," Everlast successfully reinvented himself in 1998 with the multi-platinum Top Ten album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, an acoustic-rock-meets-hip-hop genre crossover that included the storytelling hits "What It's Like" and "Ends." Riding the success of Whitey Ford, he won a Grammy in 2000 with the Santana collaboration "Put Your Lights On."
On this Day In Music History was sourced from This Day in Music, Song Facts Allmusic, and Wikipedia.
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