The Day in Rock 8/4

1970 – Jim Morrison is arrested and charged with public drunkenness in Los Angeles when he falls asleep on a old woman’s front porch.

1975 – Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, his wife and two children are seriously injured in a car accident while vacationing in Greece. Plant later records the vocals for the album “Presence” from a wheelchair.

1980 – John and Yoko begin recording the album which will become “Double Fantasy”

RECORD RELEASES
1974 - Paul Simon with “Love Me Like a Rock”
1979 – “Don’t Bring Me Down” by Electric Light Orchestra

BIRTHDAYS
Maureen Cox Starkey, 1946. First wife of Ringo Starr