The Day In Rock 7/5

1954 – Bill Haley and the Comets hit the American charts with “ Shake Rattle and Roll”

1969 – The Rolling Stones give a free concert at Hyde Park in London where Mick reads to the crowd of 250,000 an excerpt from a Shelly poem as a memorial to the recently departed Brian Jones.

GOLD ROCORDS
Dobie Gray for the single “ Drift Away” 1973
Elton John for “Caribou” 1974
RECORD RELEASES
Bad Company “Feel Like Making Love” 1975
BIRTHDAYS
Robbie Robertson, born Jamie Robertson in Toronto, Canada 1944