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Just a day after performing a relatively sedate version of ?Hound Dog? on the nationally televised Steve Allen Show, Elvis Presley records the song in New York. It?s done in 31 takes. The tune was originally an R&B hit for Willie Mae (Big Mama) Thornton. ?Don?t Be Cruel,? Elvis? biggest ?50's hit, is also recorded. It?s Presley's first session with the Jordanaires providing backing vocals. 1956
1940's Roy Britten, of Bruce Springsteen?s E Street Band, is born. 1949

1950's Johnny Colla, a founding member of Huey Lewis & The News, has a birthday. The guitarist/sax player starts life in Sacramento, CA. 1952

?King Creole,? one of Elvis Presley?s better movies, opens. 1959
1960's

Jimi Hendrix is discharged from the army. The original story claims Jimi broke his ankle on a parachute jump. However, evidence suggests Hendrix faked being gay to get out. It was the very same ploy Doors singer Jim Morrison used a few years later to avoid the draft. 1962

Bush?s Dave Parsons has a birthday. 1965

Bassist Noel Redding quits the Jimi Hendrix Experience to form his own group, Fat Mattress. The group goes nowhere. 1969
1970's

David Bowie?s ?Young Americans? LP featuring the title track and ?Fame? goes gold. 1975

?Rust Never Sleeps? is released. The Neil Young live album is half acoustic and half electric, and features "Hey Hey, My My.? 1979
1980's It?s a riotous day. Grateful Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are charge with interfering with drug related arrests at the San Diego Sports Arena though the official charge is ?suspicion of inciting a riot.? Sounds cooler, doesn?t it. 1980

Bruce Springsteen plays the first Rock show in Jersey?s Brendan Bryne Meadowlands Arena. There are six sold out shows. 1981

1990's A fan videotaping a Guns ?N? Roses concert is enough to cause Axl Rose to leap from the stage and attack the fan. A riot results trashing the venue outside of St. Louis. Sixty people are hurt. 1991

Another page in the long strange trip. Grateful Dead fans riot at a Noblesville (great name), Indiana concert. Seventeen arrests. 1995
2000's "Shenanigans," a collection of Green Day rarities and B-sides, arrives in stores. 2002

Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland enters a no-contest plea in L.A. to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence. The count stems from an incident the previous October, where the singer crashed his vehicle into a parked van. 2004

Staind, Shinedown and Powerman 5000 are on a DVD chronicling the 2003 Locobazooka! Festival in Fitchburg, MA. Money raised goes to "Homes For Our Troops," a nonprofit group that constructs modified homes for disabled veterans. 2004

Viva Lost Wages. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Weezer headline a free concert in Las Vegas to celebrate the Sin City's centennial. Vegas Rocks 100 takes place on soccer fields next to Sam Boyd Stadium. It was moved from the Strip due to concerns about heat and overcrowding. 2005

The Live 8 concerts take place. Green Day and Audioslave play Berlin while U2, Velvet Revolver and R.E.M. appear in London. Pink Floyd?s London performance is the original lineup?s first show since The Wall tour in ?81. It?s also the group?s first public performance since ?94. On the other side of the pond, Linkin Park and Bon Jovi perform in Philadelphia as Motley Crue and Jet hit the stage in Barrie, north of Toronto. Rome, Moscow, Tokyo and Paris also host Live 8 concerts which raise awareness of the extreme poverty across Africa. 2005

Elton John is among the artists who perform in London at a EuroPride Day concert called The Show. The event is part of the city's gay-pride festivities. "Elton wants to be celebrating EuroPride 2006 in London with the rest of us," says actor Ian McKellen, the Show's creative director. "He is one of the most generous stars in the world." 2006

Who fans watch the group's entire Hyde Park (London) Calling concert online for 99 cents. Proceeds benefit guitarist Pete Townshend's Double O charity. 2006

?Saints Of Los Angeles? debuts at #4 on the Billboard 200 chart with 99,000 copies of the Motley Crue album sold in its first week of release. 2008

Paul McCartney?s ?Live And Let Die? is used in a promotional TV commercial as part of a fundraising campaign for disabled U.K. athletes traveling to the '08 Paralympic Games in Beijing. 2008

It's the last day to bid on framed and autographed Rolling Stone magazine covers featuring the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Crowes, Slash, Rob Zombie and Bon Jovi. The collectibles are auctioned off to benefit the Grammy Foundation and MusiCares charity. 2009
2010's Maroon 5 is on NBC's Today Show as part of the program's summer concert series. The band performs ?Misery,? the lead single from their album ?Hands All Over.? 2010

Faith No More play their first New York show in 12 years. The band performs their hit ?Epic? plus covers of songs by the Bee Gees (?I Started A Joke?) and the Commodores (?Easy?) in addition to their own catalog. 2010

U2 plays Vanderbilt Stadium on their 360? Tour. It?s the group?s first Nashville show in 29 years. 2011

Jon Bon Jovi announces two new fragrances in his Unplugged perfume line. The scents, distributed through Avon, are Unplugged for Her and Unplugged for Him. 2012

Relient K issue ?Collapsible Lung? their first studio album of original material in four years. "This time around, we wanted to have a collection of songs that surprised even us," states frontman Matt Thiessen. "Each song includes a different combination of authors, yet there is an underlying thread that ties the tunes together thematically.? 2013

Kings Of Leon give their first performance in Norway in a decade when they headline the Hove festival on the island of Tromoya, situated on the south coast of Norway. 2013

Motley Crue begin their farewell tour (though they may record and perform live after the tour) in Grand Rapids, MI. Alice Cooper is the special guest on the five month tour sponsored by Dodge. 2014