The Day in Rock 8/29

1958 – Guitarist George Harrison joins the Quarrymen, whose members include John Lennon and Paul McCartney, at the opening of the Casbah Club in Liverpool, a spot run by Pete Best’s mother.

1966 – The Beatles play their final concert ever at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

RECORD RELEASES
1964 – Roy Orbison with “Oh Pretty Woman”
1970 – The Kinks with “Lola”

BIRTHDAYS
Chris Copping, England, 1945. Bass and keyboardist with Procal Harem.
Michael Jackson, Gary In,1958. Youngest of the Jackson Five, he rises to superstardom in the late seventies and eighties.