1941- Otis Redding is born Otis Ray Redding Jr. in Dawson, Georgia. He would be raised in nearby Macon.
1954 Elvis played at the opening of the Lamar-Airways Shopping Center in Memphis Tennessee.
1967 The Doors played at the Village Theater in New York City. (Later known as The Fillmore East).
1967 Sam and Dave release “Soul Man.”
1971 Led Zeppelin played at Hampton Roads Coliseum in Hampton.
1971 John Lennon releases Imagine in the US
1975 Paul McCartney and Wings begin their historic 13-month world tour
1977 Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention played at the SDSU Open Air Theatre, San Diego, California.
1978 Frank Zappa, The Tubes, Peter Gabriel, The Boomtown Rats, Rockpile and Wilko Johnson’s Solid Senders all appeared at Knebworth Park, England
1978 U2 played at Top Hat Ballroom, Dublin, Ireland
1978 The Rolling Stones release “Beast Of Burden.”
1980 The Allman Brothers Band played at Manchester’s Apollo Theatre.
1989 Sonic Youth supported by Nirvana played at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago.
1994 Green Day play a free concert at the Hatch Shell in Boston
2003 John Mayer releases his second studio album, Heavier Things
2005 U2 played at the Air Canada Center in Toronto, Canada
2007 Rock guitarist Hughie Thomasson (of The Outlaws and Lynyrd Skynyrd) dies of a heart attack in Brooksville, Florida, at age 55.
