Musician Birthdays: Southside Johnny (singer, harmonica player for Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, born in 1948), Gary Rossington (guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, born in 1951), Jay-Z (rapper, born in 1969)

– In 1956: The so-called ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ jam session took place at Sun Studios in Memphis with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins.

– In 1962: The Beatles made their London-area debut on television when they appeared in a live broadcast from Wembley on ‘Tuesday Rendezvous’, on ITV station Rediffusion. The Beatles performed live, doing lip-sync performances of ‘Love Me Do’ and 45 seconds of ‘P.S. I Love You.’

– In 1964: The Beatles released their fourth album ‘Beatles For Sale’. The album featured: ‘No Reply’, ‘I’m a Loser’, ‘Baby’s in Black’, ‘Rock and Roll Music’, ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’, ‘Mr. Moonlight’, ‘Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey’, ‘Eight Days a Week’, ‘Words of Love’, ‘Honey Don’t’, ‘Every Little Thing’, ‘I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party’, ‘What You’re Doing’, and ‘Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby’. It spent 11 weeks as the UK No.1 album.

– In 1965: The Byrds started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Turn! Turn! Turn!’ the group’s second No.1. A No.26 hit in the UK. Unlike their first chart topper, ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’, the entire band was allowed to play on the recording, instead of studio musicians.

– In 1971: Led Zeppelin started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK chart with the Four Symbols album, otherwise known as Led Zeppelin IV Featuring the 8-minute track Stairway To Heaven, the album stayed on the US chart for one week short of five years, selling over 23 million copies in the US alone.

– In 1971: Sly and the Family Stone started a five-week run at No.1 on the US single chart with ‘Family Affair’, their third US No.1.

– In 1971: T Rex scored their first No.1 album with their 6th release ‘Electric Warrior’.

– In 1971: Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’ entered the US Hot 100. The eight and a half minute song would eventually sell over 3 million copies.

– In 1976: American guitarist Tommy Bolin died from a heroin overdose aged 25. Member of Zephyr (1969 to 1971), The James Gang (1973 to 1974) and Deep Purple (1975 to 1976).

– In 1976: Workers at EMI records went on strike, refusing to package the Sex Pistols single ‘Anarchy In The UK.’

– In 1980: Led Zeppelin disbanded, due to the death of their drummer and band mate, John Bonham. The band felt they couldn’t go on without him.

– In 1987: Madonna filed for divorce from actor Sean Penn and then changed her mind a week later.

– In 1988: Roy Orbison played his final ever gig when he appeared in Cleveland, Ohio. Orbison died of a heart attack two days later.

– In 1993: Multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer, Frank Zappa died of prostrate cancer. Zappa recorded many albums with The Mothers Of Invention and solo including the 1969 album ‘Hot Rats’ and 1974 album ‘Apostrophe.’ Zappa recorded one of the first concept albums, ‘Freak Out’. He married Adelaide Gail Sloatman, in 1967, they had four children: Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet Emuukha Rodan and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen.

– In 2002: Whitney Houston admitted in an US TV interview that drink and drugs nearly killed her. Bobby Brown’s missus also admitted to being addicted to sex. She said her business is sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, and got into the lifestyle after missing out on partying when her career kicked off aged 18.

– In 2006: Yahoo revealed that Britney Spears was the most searched for term of 2006 with more online searches done about Spears than any other topic or person. Female celebrities dominated the top 10 overall search list, with Shakira at number three, Jessica Simpson at number four and Paris Hilton at number five.