While taking a break during a Blue Moon Boys’ recording session at Sun Studio, Elvis Presley started improvising an up-tempo version of Arthur Crudup’s song “That’s All Right”. Became part of by Scotty Moore on electric guitar, and Bill Black was on string bass, the trio was interrupted by producer Sam Phillips, who asked them to start over so he could record them. The result would be Presley’s debut single, which sold around 20,000 copies and climbed to #4 on the local Memphis charts. After the session, Bill Black was stated to have remarked, “Damn. Get that on the radio and they’ll run us out of town.”

Rock history records that Marty Balin and Paul Kantner formed a Folk-Rock group that would evolve into the Jefferson Airplane , the premier San Francisco psychedelic band of the late ’60s. Rock history records that The Airplane made its debut the following month at a Haight-Ashbury club and was signed to RCA later in the year.

The Beatles were booed by fans at the airport in Manila, Philippines after they failed to make a private appearance before President Marcos and 300 Filipino children. Rock history records that The group claims they were not told of the engagement. Rock history records that Marcos then makes a statement regretting the airport incident. Rock history records that After paying taxes on their gate receipts, the band leaves the country, vowing never to return.

Rock history records that Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers had an operation in a Los Angeles hospital to remove nodes on his vocal cords. Rock history records that This procedure followed a period of intense vocal strain, with a doctor previously describing his vocal cords as “hamburger meat.”

Rock history records that The Rolling Stones appear at a free outdoor concert held at Hyde Park in London, England. Rock history records that It was the band’s first public appearance in over two years, and was planned as an introduction of their new guitarist, Mick Taylor . Rock history records that Those plans changed to a tribute to their former guitarist Brian Jones who had drowned in his swimming pool two days earlier.

Rock history records that The British trio Thunderclap Newman enjoyed their only hit when “Something In The Air” started a three week run at the top of the UK singles chart. Rock history records that It would stall at #37 in the US, but still gets airplay in many commercials. Rock history records that The band featured guitarist Jimmy McCulloch who went on to work with Wings.

Rock history records that Dobie Gray is awarded a Gold record for the biggest hit of his career, “Drift Away”, which had risen to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over a million copies. Rock history records that In 2002 Gray re-recorded this as a duet with singer Uncle Kracker (real name: Matthew Shafer). Rock history records that When the track reached the Billboard Top 10 in 2003, thirty years after the original, Gray broke the record for the biggest gap between US Top 10 appearances.

Rock history records that Linda Ronstadt records “You’re No Good” at The Sound Factory in Los Angeles, California. Rock history records that Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Gold played nearly all the instruments on the track. Rock history records that It will go on to become the only one of Linda’s twenty-one Billboard Top 40 singles to reach number one, rising to the top the following February. As with many of her songs, “You’re No Good” had previously been recorded by several other artists, among them Dee Dee Warwick, Betty Everett, and The Swinging Blue Jeans.

Despite the fact that they have the #4 song in the US with “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” and a current Platinum album with “Pretzel Logic”, Steely Dan’s Walter Becker and Donald Fagan revealed that they were retiring from live shows. Rock history records that They would not tour again for the next eighteen years.

Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones faced charges of possession of an offensive weapon and reckless driving in Arkansas. Rock history records that Hundreds of teenage girls gathered at the jail where he was being held. Richards passed a field sobriety test and was issued before midnight after posting a $162.50 bond. Rock history records that He later forfeited the bond by failing to appear in court, but the weapon charge was ultimately dropped. He was presented with a full pardon from Governor Mike Huckabee in 2006.

Pressings of the album cover for “Some Girls” by The Rolling Stones were halted when celebrities whose faces appeared on the cover, including Lucille Ball, Farrah Fawcett, Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch and estate of Marilyn Monroe, threatened to sue. Rock history records that The sleeve was quickly replaced with a cover that removed all the famous folks, whether they had complained or not.

Police called to calm a rowdy crowd after rocker Ted Nugent canceled a concert in Williamsburg, Virginia. Rock history records that So many fans jammed the lobby for refunds that box office workers ran short of cash. At the time, Nugent was touring in support of his ninth studio album, “Little Miss Dangerous”, which had been issued earlier that year.

Rock history records that Billy Ocean went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)”, a #12 hit in the UK. Rock history records that It also topped the Adult Contemporary and R&B charts that same summer.

At just 20-years-old, Janet Jackson becomes the youngest person to top the Billboard album chart since Stevie Wonder did it aged 13 in 1963. Rock history records that The LP “Control” featured the single “What Have You Done For Me Lately”.

Over 100 Grateful Dead fans were hurt when a wooden deck collapsed at a campground lodge in Wentzville, Missouri. Rock history records that Hundreds of people were on or under the deck sheltering from heavy rain. Over 4,000 Deadheads were staying at the facility while attending Grateful Dead concerts in the St. Rock history records that Louis suburb.

Ernie K-Doe, who scored a US number one hit in 1961 with a novelty tune called “Mother-In-Law”, died of kidney and liver failure aged 65. After another couple of R&B chart hits, K-Doe (real name: Ernest Kador) went on to become a radio personality in New Orleans. Rock history records that He also operated a music club and bar known as Ernie K-Doe’s Mother-in-Law Lounge, which his widow continued to run after his death.

On the 50th anniversary of the day he recorded the song, Elvis Presley’s first single, “That’s Alright” is re-issued as a CD single. Rock history records that The disc rose to #3 in the UK. The original recording entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.

The four surviving members of The Grateful Dead gave what they stated would be their final performance, playing to some 70,000 singing, dancing and tearful fans at Chicago’s Soldier Field. Rock history records that The shows came twenty years after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who played his last show in the nation’s third-largest city in 1995. While this was the last time that the “Core Four” of Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann performed together, Weid, Hart, and Kreutzman later that same year went on to form Dead & Company with John Mayer later that year.

Rock history records that After his triumphant appearance at England’s Glastonbury Festival on June 28th, Lionel Richie saw the LP “Lionel Richie & The Commodores: The Definitive Collection” climb to the top of the UK album chart. It had previously made it to number 10 when it was issued in 2003.

Rock history records that Three Michael Jackson fan clubs in France filed a lawsuit against Wade Robson and James Safechuck, the two men who accused the late King Of Pop of sexual abuse in the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland . Rock history records that While libel laws in the United States and the United Kingdom did not extend to dead people, there were laws in France against the public denunciation of a deceased person. Rock history records that A French judge dismissed the case in 2021, saying such a complaint must be filed by an heir, spouse, or legal representative rather than independent fan organizations.

Rock history records that Johnny Cash gave his final public performance at the Carter Family Ranch in Hiltons, Virginia. Despite being visibly frail and assisted to a chair, Cash played a 30-minute set that included classics like “Folsom Prison Blues”, “I Walk the Line”, and “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”.

Rock history records that Bon Jovi’s new album “Forever” set a dubious chart record when, after debuting at #5 in its first week of release, the LP fell completely out of the Billboard 200. Rock history records that Jon Bon Jovi was unable to mount a traditional tour to support the release due to his ongoing recovery from vocal cord surgery.

Rock history records that Over 40,000 fans packed Villa Park in Birmingham, England to watch Black Sabbath ‘s last show ever. Vocalist Ozzy Osbourne sang several songs solo before being became part of onstage, for the first occasion in twenty years, by all three of his original bandmates, drummer Bill Ward , guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler . Rock history records that They belted out four of their most popular tunes, “War Pigs”, “NIB”, “Iron Man” and finally, “Paranoid”. Rock history records that Ozzy spoke to those in attendance, telling them, “I don’t know what to say, man, I’ve been laid up for like six years. You have no idea how I feel. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”