08/28/08

 

1993 Billy Joel's River of Dreams enters the Billboard chart at number-one, where it remains for three weeks.

 

1988 Charlie Daniels and several members of his band escape injury when their bus bursts into flames on the Ventura Freeway in southern California.

 

1986 In Long Beach, California, Neil Young, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and The Eagles (minus Glenn Frey, who's in the hospital with an intestinal disorder) perform at a benefit called Get Tough on Toxics.

 
1979 Neil Young has two albums certified gold: Decade, his triple-disc best-of, and Rust Never Sleeps.

 

1977 Jackson Browne performs in Columbia, Maryland, a show that yields the live album Running on Empty.

 

1973 Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" single is certified gold.

 

1972 Procol Harum's Live in Concert With the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is certified gold.

 

1971 Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" enters the Billboard Top 40 on its way to number-one in October.

 

1969 Paul and Linda McCartney have a daughter, Mary.

 

1968 The Beatles record "Dear Prudence," a John Lennon song named for Mia Farrow's sister.

 

1968 The Doors get a gold record for "Hello, I Love You."

 

1967 The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company play at the wake for a Hell's Angels member who was hit by a car in San Francisco.

 

1966 The Beatles perform at Dodger Stadium in L-A. The crowd of 45-thousand makes it the biggest show on their final U-S tour-as well as one of the most frenzied. Police have to fight off fans, who climb over barricades and jump on the limo that was supposed to take The Beatles away from the show. Instead, The Fab Four leave in an armored car from the opposite end of the stadium.

 

1965 Bob Dylan performs a totally electric set in front of a somewhat hostile audience at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York. Keyboardist Al Kooper, guitarist Robbie Robertson, drummer Levon Helm and bassist Harvey Brooks are his backup band.

 

1965 The Beach Boys' "California Girls" peaks at number-three on the Billboard chart.

 

1965 The Rolling Stones announce that Allen Klein, whom they met three days earlier, will co-manage the group with Andrew Loog Oldham. At the same time, they sign a five-year recording deal with Decca Records in Britain (London Records in the U-S).

 

1964 The Beatles return to New York for the first time since conquering America in February. After arriving at 3:02 a-m at Kennedy Airport--where three-thousand fans are still waiting-they stay at the Delmonico Hotel. That evening, they give the first of two sold-out shows at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium before 15-thousand-983 screaming fans. The Beatles arrive by helicopter and play behind a fence topped by barbed wire. Outside The Beatles' hotel, a girl yanks Ringo's St. Christopher's medal from his neck. Angie McGowan returns it to him at a press conference later in the day and poses for pictures with him and Paul McCartney. While in the city, they meet Bob Dylan, who allegedly turns them on to marijuana for the first time at the Delmonico Hotel.

  

Today's Birthdays:

 

Dave Hlubek 1952 Ex-Molly Hatchet guitarist (Age: 56)

 

Danny Seraphine 1948 Chicago's drummer (until 1990) really stands out on "Make Me Smile." (Age: 60)

 

David Soul (David Solberg) 1943 Actor-singer (Age: 65)