Today In rock History by Helen Bach

No 1’s
1988 Aswad: Don’t Turn Around UK 45
1988 Morrissey: Viva Hate UK LP
1994 Morrissey : Vauxhall and I : UK LP
1994 Soundgarden : Superunknown : US LP
Births
1944 Diana Ross (Supremes)
1946 Fred Sheehan (Boston)
1948 Steve Tyler (Aerosmith)
1948 Richard Tandy (ELO)
1950 Teddy Pendergrass

Deaths
no one cool…yet
Other
BEST EVER
1958 Taking a break from Capitol sessions, Eddie Cochran records Summertime Blues
1970 Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary pleads guilty at a Washington district court to taking immoral liberties with a fourteen-year-old girl. The group had just won a Grammy award for best children’s recording
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