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first black group to have a number one pop hit when my prayer reaches the top spot on the billboard chart 1958 the teddy bears aching teen ballad to know him is to love him is released a singer in the group phil spector produces the session the song title is reportedly taken from his late father s headstone billboard publishes its first hot 100 chart 1959 seth lover working for gibson guitars is granted patent 2 896 491 by the u.s. patent office for his magnetic pickup for stringed musical instrument better known as the humbucker pickup the patent was applied for on june 22 1955 gibson added the new pickups to its electric solidbody and archtop guitars in 1957 including the les paul during late 1957 a small black decal with gold lettering was added to the underside of the pickup that read patent applied for today paf pickups are the most collectible and desirable pickups fetching upwards of 1 000 each among vintage guitar collectors by mid to late 1962 gibson changed the pickup decal to read patent no. 2 737 842 interestingly enough the patent number listed on the decal was not for seth s pickup design but was for les paul s trapeze tailpiece not one to raise a legal fuss apparently seth really is a lover not a fighter 1960 when the scheduled vocalist fails to show for a recording session producer ike turner presses his wife tina into service on the track a fool in love much sampled by modern hip hop and r & b acts the single will be the first of 20 hot 100 hits produced by the contentious couple this same day future soul star aretha franklin cuts her first secular sides 1965 the beatles second feature film help debuts in london with that pretty nice girl queen elizabeth in attendance 1966 bob dylan suffers major injuries when the brakes on his triumph motorcycle lock up near his home in woodstock new york though the exact nature of his injuries are never disclosed it is clear that he suffered a broken neck and used his lengthy convalescence to marshal his artistic resources reflecting on the wreck later dylan says when i had that motorcycle accident i woke up and caught my senses i realized that i was just workin for all these leeches . and i really didn t want to do that . 1967 pandora s box the hippie nightspot on the sunset strip feels the wrath of the wrecking ball in the wake of teenage riots the previous year local politicos say the club played a big role in turning west hollywood into a teenage wasteland 1968 the beatles enter the studio to cut hey jude the song will top the hot 100 chart for nine weeks and become the beatles biggest hit 1969 carl wilson of the beach boys is indicted for draft dodging after he fails to show up for work as a hospital orderly in lieu of military service 1971 george harrison organizes the concert for bangladesh to help war victims of the south asian country the stellar lineup includes bob dylan ringo starr billy preston eric clapton ravi shankar and members of badfinger 1980 the fbi arrests john phillips of the mamas & the papas on cocaine charges he is later sentenced to five years hard time but dodges prison by delivering 250 hours of anti drug lectures as an alternative sentence 1981 mtv bursts onto the airwaves by broadcasting the buggles somewhat prophetic video killed the radio star of course that job was later completed by file sharing 1992 in warwick rhode island patti labelle abruptly pulls the plug on her concert there after complaining that the food backstage isn t up to snuff after all it s common knowledge that you can t sing unless the stomach is full 1994 michael jackson and lisa marie presley announce they were secretly married in the dominican republic 11 weeks earlier the union will last for 21 months 1996 aerosmith cans their manager tim collins saying they re tired of constant pressure to get involved in social causes he s committed to like the let s buy tim collins a ferrari fund perhaps 1998 in san fernando california grammy winning gospel singer sandra crouch is ordained as a minister of the christ memorial church ordained by her twin brother andrae also a gospel star the pair defy church of god in christ rules that forbid female ministers after 12 years and six albums toad the wet sprocket finally croaks 2001 rap group d12 executes a brutal attack on detroit rap rivals esham and t.n.t. during a warped tour stop in camden new jersey t.n.t. is bruised and cut while esham suffers a broken nose ruptured eyeball concussion and hearing damage d12 is promptly kicked off the tour that same day in l.a. 300 fortunate foo fighters fans are treated to a rare club gig when the band plays the legendary troubador attendees are chosen from entries emailed to the fighters website 2004 simon and garfunkel play a free concert in rome for 600 000 lucky italians 2005 newly unearthed documents relating to mick jagger s drug bust in 1969 reveal that the stones singer had alleged he was framed and that a cop planted heroin in his home offering to quash the charges if jagger paid 1 000 at the time his allegations were swept aside and he was ultimately fined 200 for pot possession an unnamed bidder coughs up 1.1 million for a scrap of paper on which john lennon had scrawled the lyrics for all you need is love in preparation of the beatles 1966 bbc satellite broadcast the paper tossed by lennon after the show was retrieved by a bbc employee during the same auction a pair of lennon s specs go for 98 000 2006 a court awards jimi hendrix s stepsister control of the late great guitarist s estate cutting out his brother leon this comes after years of legal wrangling between the family members bono along with five partners buys a 40 percent stake in forbes magazine for a reported 250 300 million a 30 year old man is beaten to death at the atlanta stop of the ironically titled family values tour led by korn the victim was attempting to protect a pregnant friend from two unruly fans a suspect is arrested a week later in england the long running brit tv pop music show top of the pops breathes its last gasp the show had aired on the bbc continuously since 1964 on the domestic dissolution front travis barker files a divorce suit against shanna moakler his wife of two years and former miss usa and keeping up with the barkers chris robinson of the black crowes and his missus actress kate hudson file for divorce steely dan s walter becker and donald fagen fire off a letter to actor luke wilson charging that his brother director owen wilson has misappropriated the name of a character from their song cousin dupree for the movie you me and dupree in which luke wilson s dupree character is a couch hopping loser the letter posted on the steely dan website warns wilson that there are some pretty heavy people who are upset about this whole thing and we can t guarantee what kind of heat little owen may be bringing down on himself the letter goes on to suggest that wilson should make an appearance at a dan concert and apologize to their fans the tongue in cheek feud continues when wilson fires back cousin dupree and i don t even know who this gentleman mr. steely dan is . i hope this helps to clear things up and i can get back to concentrating on my new movie hey 19 . 2007 when a ballsy female concertgoer reaches out and grabs tim mcgraw s nether regions at the cajundome in lafayette louisiana his missus faith hill tells the errant fan in no uncertain terms that that sort of behavior is frowned upon in them there parts well depending on who s doing the grabbing berlin names street 13 in former communist east germany frank zappa strasse or frank zappa street to honor frank zappa in a letter of thanks zappa s brother bobby says the grammy winning rocker who died in 1993 would have been pleased 2008 a funeral is held in the midtown offices of hachette the book publisher to mourn the passing of what it called a dear friend the cassette tape long abandoned by the music industry cassettes lived on in audio books r.i.p. cassettes and that was the week in music birthdays july 28 singer actor bandleader rudy vall e 1901 flamenco and andalusian copla singer dolores jim nez alc ntara 1909 mississippi bluesman junior kimbrough 1930 george cummings of dr. hook 1938 michael bloomfield guitarist with al kooper and electric flag 1943 keyboardist richard rick wright of pink floyd 1943 singer songwriter jonathan edwards 1946 guitarist steve morse of dixie dregs and deep purple 1954 july 29 revolutionary jazz guitarist charlie christian 1916 guitar amp maker jim marshall 1923 neal doughty of reo speedwagon 1946 geddy lee 1953 patti scialfa of the e street band 1953 john sykes of whitesnake and thin lizzy 1959 country singer martina mcbride 1966 chris gorman of belly 1967 wanya morris of boyz ii men 1973 july 30 blues guitarist buddy guy 1936 paul anka 1941 saxophonist david sanborn 1945 jethro tull bassist jeffrey hammond 1946 guitarist hughie nicholson of blue 1949 rat scabies of the damned born chris miller 1957 singer songwriter kate bush 1958 craig gannon guitarist with the smiths 1966 manic street preachers drummer sean moore 1968 brad hargraves of third eye blind 1971 july 31 r & b singer drummer bandleader roy milton 1907 producer and founder of atlantic records ahmet ertegun 1923 singer and son of jerry gary lewis 1946 karl green of herman s hermits 1947 elo s hugh macdowell 1953 daniel ash of love and rockets 1957 bill berry of r.e.m. 1958 norman quentin cook aka fatboy slim of the housemartins 1963 john 5 born john william lowery guitarist with marilyn manson rob zombie 1971 coldplay s will champion 1978 august 1 francis scott key 1779 piano slim born robert t. smith 1928 folk singer ramblin jack elliot born elliott charles adnopoz 1931 jerry garcia 1942 geoff britton of wings 1943 boz burrell of bad company 1946 rick coonce of the grass roots 1946 rick anderson of the tubes 1947 tommy bolin guitarist with zephyr the james gang and deep purple 1951 bto s tim bachman 1951 bluesman robert cray 1953 joe elliott of def leppard 1959 public enemy s chuck d born carlton douglas ridenhour 1960 rapper coolio