On May 19th in music history: 

Births

1919: Georgie Auld
1932: Alma Cogan
1940: Mickey Newbury
1945: Pete Townshend (The Who)
1947: Jerry Hyman (Blood Sweat and Tears)
1947: Steve Currie (T. Rex)
1947: Paul Brady
1948: Tom Scott
1949: Dusty Hill (ZZ Top)
1950: Mike Wedgwood (Curved Air)
1950: Romeo Challenger (Showaddywaddy)
1952: Barbara Joyce Lomas (B.T. Express)
1954: Phil Rudd (AC/DC)

Deaths

1969: Coleman Hawkins
1989: Ron Wilson (The Surfaris)
1991: Odia Coates
2001: Mike Sammes
2006: Freddie Garrity (Freddie and the Dreamers)
2007: Frank Guida

Events

1956: Skiffle comes to the US as Lonnie Donegan makes his US TV debut, singing his huge British hit "Rock Island Line" on NBC's Perry Como Show.
 

1958: The first single to be recorded on an 8-track console, Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash," is released.
 

1960: Massively influential DJ Alan Freed is officially indicted, along with seven others, in the "payola" scandal, charged with accepting over thirty thousand dollars from six different labels in order to play their songs.
 

 A 17-year-old Annette Funicello blows off her high school graduation ceremony in order to perform at Radio City Music Hall.
 

1961: The Everly Brothers form the Calliope label, the first artist-owned label to be formed by a rock group.
 

1963: For the first time, female Beatles fans attempt to sneak into the group's dressing room while they're supporting Roy Orbison at a gig in Hanley, England. The three girls, who used a ladder to get through the window, are caught but released without charges after the group signs a few autographs for them.
 

1965: Convinced that the lyrics to the Kingsmen's hit "Louie Louie" are as filthy as urban legends claim, the FBI visits Wand Records to ask a few questions. Eventually, they decide the group's version of the Richard Berry R&B classic is too garbled to make out, anyway.
 

1967: The release party for the Beatles' latest album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, is held at manager Brian Epstein's home in the Belgravia section of London.
 

1973: After Elvis Presley's critically-savaged debut at the Sahara resort on Lake Tahoe, and several more cancellations due to "illness," manager Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis' father Vernon plead with Los Angeles lawyer Ed Hookstratten to look into Elvis' prescription drug use and identify his main suppliers. With Elvis unwilling to cooperate, however, the investigation dies a slow death.
 

1976: Keith Richards nods off while driving and crashes his Bentley into a highway divider just north of London. Unfortunately, police who come to his rescue also find marijuana and cocaine in the car.
 

1979: Jessi Colter and husband Waylon Jennings, outlaw country's first duo, become the proud parents of their only child together, son Wayne Albright Jennings.
 

1980: Ringo Starr and his fiancee, actress Barbra Bach, crash their car very near the spot where T. Rex's Marc Bolan lost his life in a similar crash, but despite totaling the car, both are uninjured.
 

1984: Pink Floyd's epochal Dark Side Of The Moon LP marks its tenth anniversary, having never left the Billboard album charts.
 

1985: Motown celebrates the 50th anniversary of the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem with NBC-TV's special Motown Returns To The Apollo, featuring performances by James Brown, The Cadillacs, Joe Cocker, The Commodores, Sammy Davis Jr., The Drifters, The Four Tops, Al Green, Thelma Houston, Chuck Jackson, Patti Labelle, Little Richard, The Manhattans, Marilyn McCoo, Wilson Pickett, Billy Preston, Lou Rawls, Martha Reeves, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross, Mavis Staples, Rod Stewart, The Temptations, Sarah Vaughn, Mary Wells, and Stevie Wonder.
 

1998: Sonny and Cher are awarded with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7020 Hollywood Blvd.
 

 Peter, Paul and Mary begin their 40th anniversary tour with a three-night stint in Vegas.
 

2000: Guitarist and founder Dickey Betts leaves the Allman Brothers Band over "creative differences."

Releases

1973: Paul Simon, "Kodachrome"
1978: Dire Straits, "Sultans Of Swing"

Recording

1958: Ritchie Valens, "Come On, Let's Go"
1958: Peggy Lee, "Fever"
1960: The Drifters, "Save The Last Dance For Me"
1965: Elvis Presley, "Hard Luck"

Charts

1958: The original Broadway soundtrack to South Pacific hits #1
1962: Johnny Tillotson's "It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'" enters the charts
1973: Stevie Wonder's "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" hits #1
1979: Supertramp's Breakfast In America hits #1

Certifications

1964: Roger Miller's "King Of The Road" is certified gold
1969: The Beatles' "Get Back" is certified gold

On May 20th in music history: 

Births

1920: Vic Ames (The Ames Brothers)
1937: Teddy Randazzo
1939: Sal Mineo
1940: Shorty Long
1942: Jill Jackson (Paul and Paula)
1944: Joe Cocker
1946: Cher
1954: Jimmy Henderson (Black Oak Arkansas)
1959: Susan Cowsill (The Cowsills)

Deaths

1964: Rudy Lewis (The Drifters)
1967: Manuel Fernandez (Los Bravos)

Events

1920: Montreal Canada's XWA broadcasts the first scheduled radio program in North America.
 

1960: The US Congress' committee on "payola" indicts eight men accused of receiving $116,580 in illegal payoffs for promoting records. The indictments will lead, two years later, to highly influential DJ Alan Freed's eventual indictment for tax-evasion.
 

 A Liverpool band called Johnny and the Moondogs changes their name to the Silver Beetles and embarks on a Scottish tour, backing singer Johnny Gentle. The band members, except for leader John Lennon, take pseudonyms: Paul McCartney becomes Paul Ramon, George Harrison becomes Carl Harrison, and Stu Sutcliffe becomes Stuart de Stael. A punk band called the Ramones would later take their name from McCartney's fake one.
 

1964: Elvis' 15th movie, Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret, premieres in Hollywood.
 

1966: At tonight's Who gig in Windsor, England, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey perform with the rhythm section of the opening act when John Entwistle and Keith Moon are late for the show. When the duo finally arrive, with the show half over, Townshend hits Moon over the head with his guitar. Keith and John quit the band, but are convinced to return within the week.   <<< That made me chuckle... >>>
 

 Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band play their first gig at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.
 

1967: The Beatles premiere their new album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, on Kenny Everett's BBC radio program Where It's At. All the tracks are played save "A Day In The Life," which the "Beeb" has banned the day before for its seemingly positive attitude towards drug use. Paul and John give live interviews about the making of the album.
 

 Jimi Hendrix signs with the Reprise label.
 

1968: John Lennon and Paul McCartney, fresh off their trip to India to study with the Maharishi, arrive at George Harrison's home in Esher, Surrey, to demo 28 new songs, all but a handful of which will turn up in some form on the band's next LP, The Beatles (a/k/a "The White Album").
 

 Pete Townshend of the Who marries his first and only wife, Karen Astley, daughter of composer Ted Astley. The couple would divorce in 2000.
 

1970: George Harrison meets producer Phil Spector at Abbey Road Studios to play demos of the songs which will appear on his debut album, All Things Must Pass.
 

1971: Chicago singer and bassist Peter Cetera attends a Chicago Cubs game, where four Marines who notice his long hair beat him so badly he breaks his jaw and loses four teeth. He spends five hours in surgery and two days in intensive care.
 

1978: The beloved/notorious biopic The Buddy Holly Story, starring Gary Busey, premieres in Holly's hometown of Lubbock, TX.
 

1985: After extensive renovations, the historic Apollo Theatre in Harlem reopens with a concert that features Hall and Oates performing with Temptations Eddie Kendrick and David Ruffin. The concert is later released as Live At The Apollo.
 

1988: At the height of the "Is Elvis Dead" phenomenon, Priscilla Presley holds a press conference to confirm that the King did, indeed, pass on in 1977.
 

1995: The Eagles' Don Henley marries his first and only wife, model Sharon Summerall, in Malibu, with Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Randy Newman, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Jimmy Buffett, Sheryl Crow, and other celebs attending. At the reception, live music is provided by Tony Bennett, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, and Sting.
 

1998: Frank Sinatra's funeral is held Beverly Hills' Church of the Good Shepherd, with attendees including Tony Bennett, Bob Dylan, Liza Minnelli, Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Sophia Loren, Bob Newhart, Faye Dunaway, Angie Dickinson, and ex Mia Farrow. Dylan's statement reads, in part, "Right from the beginning, he was there with the truth of things in his voice... He was one of the very few singers who sang without a mask." Ten years later to the day, May 13th is declared Frank Sinatra Day by the Congress of the United States.
 

2003: South Carolina's parole board pardons James Brown of all past offenses committed in the state, even the felonies, spurring James to spontaneously sing "God Bless America" at the conclusion of the hearing.
 

2006: Their hometown of Hawthorne, CA dedicates a monument to the three Wilson brothers in the Beach Boys.

Releases

1954: Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around The Clock"

Recording

1941: Harry James, "You Made Me Love You"
1957: Frank Sinatra, "Witchcraft"

Charts

1967: The Young Rascals' "Groovin'" hits #1
1978: Wings' "With A Little Luck" hits #1

Robin Gibb              December 22, 1949 - May 20, 2012

On May 21st in music history: 

Births

1901: Horace Heidt
1904: Fats Waller
1918: Dennis Day
1941: Ronald Isley (The Isley Brothers)
1943: Hilton Valentine (The Animals)
1943: Vincent Crane (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
1943: John Dalton (The Kinks)
1944: Marcie Blane
1947: Bill Champlin
1948: Leo Sayer

Deaths

1990: Morris Levy
2001: Tommy Eyre

Events

1956: 2,500 fans storm the stage at the Municipal Auditorium in Topeka, KS during Elvis Presley's show there.
 

1960: Fabian is reported to be working on two upcoming movies: High Time, starring Bing Crosby, and North To Alaska, starring John Wayne.
 

1964: After performing in England, Bob Dylan takes a vacation in Paris, where he would meet German model Nico, for whom he would later pen the classic "I'll Keep It With Mine."
 

1966: The Castiles, a band made up of five school kids from Freehold Regional High in New Jersey, perform at their own senior prom. Lead singer: future superstar Bruce Springsteen.
 

1968: Police raid the London flat of the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones and find marijuana, which Jones claims was left behind by a friend; although already on probation, he is merely fined 150 pounds by a sympathetic judge.
 

1971: Free announce their breakup; two of the band members would go on to form Bad Company.
 

1976: The Rolling Stones begin the first of six nights residency at London's Earls Court Arena, a tired series of shows, later immortalized on the Love You Live album, that lead to the first charge of "dinosaur" from the country's burgeoning punk movement.
 

1979: Elton John plays the first of eight historic concerts in Moscow, making him the first rock star to perform there.
 

1980: Gold albums of Jimi Hendrix' Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love, Cry Of Love, Rainbow Bridge, and Live At Monterey are stolen from New York's Electric Lady Studios.
 

 After poor ticket sales cause him to cancel his second concert there, Bob Dylan his last "gospel" show in Dayton, OH, eventually returning to secular music.
 

1981: Bob Marley is laid to rest, with full state honors, in St. Ann's, Jamaica.
 

1983: Ex-Doobie Brother Michael McDonald marries his first wife, singer Amy Holland.
 

1992: Johnny Carson, ending his 26-year tenure as host of NBC-TV's Tonight Show with his next-to-last show. The lone guest is Bette Midler, who famously sings a rewritten version of "You Made Me Love You" (as "You Made Me Watch You") and a moving version of "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)."
 

2003: Paul McCartney is awarded an honorary doctorate in music from the conservatory of Russia's St. Petersburg University.
 

2008: Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, well-known for having overcome drug addiction decades earlier, shocks the rock world by checking into a rehab facility in Pasadena, CA.

Releases

1968: Elvis Presley, "Let Yourself Go"
1971: Paul McCartney, Ram

Recording

1940: Will Bradley, "Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar"
1955: Chuck Berry, "Maybelline"
1957: Paul Anka, "Diana"
1959: Jackie Wilson, "I'll Be Satisfied"
1962: Dee Dee Sharp, "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)"
1963: Stevie Wonder, "Fingertips (Part 2)"
1964: The Drifters, "Under The Boardwalk"
1965: Bob Dylan, "If You Gotta Go, Go Now"

Charts

1966: Dusty Springfield's "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" enters the charts
1966: The Mamas and the Papas' LP If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears hits #1
1977: Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke" hits #1

Certifications

1973: Sylvia's "Pillow Talk" is certified gold

On May 22nd in music history:

Births

1923: Hurricane Smith
1936: Ernie K-Doe
1938: Bobby Hendricks (The Drifters)
1943: Mick Green (Johnny Kidd and the Pirates)
1945: Oliver
1953: John Sparks (Dr. Feelgood)

Deaths

1976: Florence Ballard (The Supremes)
1987: Andy Warhol
1994: Papa John Creach
2001: John Fahey

Events

1957: Gladys and Vernon Presley, Elvis' parents, are filmed in the audience as their son performs "Got A Lot O' Livin' To Do" for Loving You. After her death, Elvis will never watch the scene again.
 

1958: The Rock and Roll movie The Big Beat, a virtual rewrite of 1957's Rock Around The Clock, opens in Detroit, featuring The Diamonds, The Del-Vikings, The Mills Brothers, and Fats Domino, who sings the hit title track.
 

1963: Fulfilling the prophecy of producer George Martin, "Please Please Me" by The Beatles becomes the group's first Number One hit in the UK. That same day, the group forms their Northern Songs publishing company, and later manager Brian Epstein brings the group to a Soho eatery to celebrate.
 

1967: Having dispensed with an earlier attempt to hum a single chord, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Beatles assistant Mal Evans, sitting at three different pianos, strike a simultaneous E major chord nine times, finally producing on the last take the final chord of "A Day In The Life." George Martin later overdubs the same chord on a harmonium, to get an even more lasting effect, and then the entire recording, which lasts 43 seconds, is overdubbed three times and attached to the end of the song. The fadeout is elongated by bringing up the faders in the studio, with the result that one of the piano stools can be heard creaking during the decay. (David Crosby of The Byrds is visiting in the studio, but does not contribute.)
 

1969: In Britain's {i]Oz Magazine, reviewer Felix Dennis says, of Led Zeppelin's debut album: "Very occasionally a long-playing record is released that defies immediate classification or description, simply because it's so obviously a turning point in rock music that only time proves capable of shifting it into eventual perspective."
 

1986: Having just acquired all 45 episodes of The Monkees, cable channel MTV airs them all in a 22-hour marathon, sparking a completely unexpected career revival for the prefab pop group.
 

1990: Stevie Wonder wins a lawsuit brought by an associate, Lloyd Chiate, who alleged that the singer stole part of his 1976 song "I Just Called To Say" for Stevie's 1984 smash, "I Just Called To Say I Love You."
 

2000: The recently departed soul legend Curtis Mayfield is honored at a First African Methodist Episcopal Church service in Los Angeles, featuring performances from Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, and, spontaneously, Lauryn Hill.
 

2001: British newspaper Sunday Mirror reports that the Beatles, who have been broken up for 31 years, are nevertheless the top grossing recording group of the year 2000.
 

2002: Little Richard is this year's recipient of the Image Award from the NAACP.
 

2004: Bobby Vinton collapses during a show in Lancaster, PA, but the piano player catches him before he falls. Sweating heavily, the singer recovers backstage and is not hospitalized.
 

2008: Muscle Shoals native Boyd Bennett, of "My Boy -- Flat Top" fame, is inducted into the Alabama Music Hall Of Fame.
 

 After much controversy and debate over whether or not to honor recently deceased musician and Mississippi native Ike Turner, the state legislature compromises and passes a resolution that honors his musical achievements only.

Recording

1967: The Beatles, "A Day In The Life"
1969: The Beatles, "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
1969: Elvis Presley: "In The Ghetto," "Who Am I?"

Charts

1956: Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" enters the charts
1960: Percy Faith's "Theme From A Summer Place" hits #1
1975: Average White Band's "Pick Up The Pieces" hits #1
1975: The Average White Band LP AWB hits #1

On May 23rd in music history:

Births

1910: Artie Shaw
1920: Helen O’Connell
1928: Rosemary Clooney
1934: Dr. Robert Moog
1944: Raymond Fulwood (The Parliaments)
1944: Norman Johnson (The Chairmen Of The Board)
1945: Misty Morgan
1946: Danny Klein (J. Geils Band)
1953: Rick Fenn (10CC)

Deaths

2006: Clifford Antone

Events

1963: Paul Revere and the Raiders sign their first major label contract with Columbia.
 

1964: Elvis Presley's ninth film, Follow That Dream, opens.
 

 Ella Fitzgerald's cover of the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" enters the UK charts, making her the first outside artist to have a hit with a Beatles song.
 

1970: The latest (and last) Beatles album, Let It Be, logs record-setting advance orders of a staggering 3.7 million.
 

 The Grateful Dead make their UK stage debut with a four-hour show at the Hollywood Music Festival, ironically held in Staffordshire, England, with Mungo Jerry opening.
 

1971: Iron Butterfly announces their breakup.
 

1973: Columbia Records fires head Clive Davis, citing alleged misuse of company funds to pay for interior decorating and his son's bar mitzvah.
 

1977: San Francisco bans electric instruments from all free outdoor concerts, leaving Jefferson Starship to cancel their planned free concert in Golden Gate Park. Years later, Bernie Taupin would write "We Built This City" for the band about this event.
 

1978: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band begin their legendary "Darkness Tour" at Shea's Buffalo Theatre in Buffalo, NY.
 

1979: Tom Petty declares bankruptcy after his record label, ABC, is sold to MCA.
 

 ABC-TV airs the self-explanatory show The Third Barry Manilow Special.
 

 The Who's acclaimed documentary The Kids Are Alright debuts in New York.
 

1984: Tina Turner continues her historic comeback with the release of her Private Dancer LP, her first in five years.
 

1985: Still riding the crest of her own improbable comeback, Aretha Franklin has "Aretha Franklin Appreciation Day" declared in the state of Michigan by Governor James. J. Blanchard.
 

1987: The Doobie Brothers reform with most of their members past and present -- a dozen members in all -- for a Vietnam Veterans benefit that raises $350,000. Two thousand vets attend the show for free.
 

1990: Nick Mason, drummer for Pink Floyd, marries his second wife, Annette Lynton, in London.
 

1992: Freddie Mercury's will bequeaths the bulk of the deceased Queen singer's $17 million estate to his longtime companion, Mary Austin.
 

2007: The US Library of Congress hands out the first Gershwin Award to Paul Simon for being a "performer whose lifetime contributions exemplify the standard of excellence associated with the Gershwins."
 

2008: Shirley Bassey suffers from abdominal pains in Monaco, necessitating emergency surgery and forcing her to cancel her upcoming appearance at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday concert.

Releases

1964: The Beach Boys, "I Get Around"
1966: The Beatles, "Paperback Writer" b/w "Rain"
1969: The Who, Tommy

Recording

1940: Frank Sinatra, "I’ll Never Smile Again"
1967: Pink Floyd, "See Emily Play"
1976: Bob Dylan, Hard Rain

Charts

1953: Bill Haley and his Comets' "Crazy, Man, Crazy" enters the charts
1960: The Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
1964: Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" enters the charts
1970: Paul McCartney's LP McCartney hits #1

Certifications

1975: B.J. Thomas' "(Hey, Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" is certified gold
1979: Sister Sledge's "We Are Family" is certified platinum

On May 24th in music history:

Births

1938: Prince Buster
1940: Tommy Chong (Cheech and Chong)
1941: Bob Dylan
1942: Derek Quinn (Freddie and the Dreamers)
1944: Patti LaBelle
1945: Priscilla Presley
1946: Steve Upton (Wishbone Ash)
1947: Cynthia "Plaster" Caster
1947: Albert Bouchard (Blue Oyster Cult)

Deaths

1963: Elmore James
1974: Duke Ellington
1991: Gene Clark (The Byrds, Dillard and Clark)

Events

1965: John Lennon's second book of prose, A Spaniard In The Works, is published.
 

1966: Elvis begins filming his 20th film, Frankie And Johnny, in Hollywood.
 

1969: The Guess Who make their debut on American television, singing "These Eyes" and "Laughing" on ABC-TV's American Bandstand.
 

1970: Peter Green plays his last show with the band he founded, Fleetwood Mac, at the Bath Festival in Somerset, England.
 

1971: In honor of Bob Dylan's 30th birthday, Peanuts runs a strip in which Linus mentions the milestone to Charlie Brown, who replies "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard." Dylan himself marks the occasion at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall.
 

1974: NBC-TV's wildly successful variety show, The Dean Martin Show, signs off after nine years.
 

1979: The three remaining members of Genesis give the fans a thrill by manning the box office and selling their own tickets to the upcoming show at the Roxy in Los Angeles.
 

1982: The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Starship, Boz Scaggs, and Country Joe and the Fish play a benefit concert for Vietnam vets at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
 

1986: Riding the wave of their inexplicable MTV-fueled comeback, the Monkees (minus Mike Nesmith) begin their smash comeback tour at the Concord Hotel in New York's Catskill Mountains.
 

2003: Paul McCartney sits down for tea with Russian premier Vladimir Putin, then heads to Red Square for his very first performance behind the iron curtain, for an audience of 20,000.
 

2004: An auction of Bruce Springsteen's birth certificate on eBay is shut down by the Boss' legal team.

Charts

1952: Doris Day's "A Guy Is A Guy" hits #1
1969: The Beatles' "Get Back" hits #1
1975: Earth Wind and Fire's "Shining Star" hits #1

Happy 71st Birthday To Bob Dylan!! 

duder1982:

Nice to know I share the same bday with tommy, and dylan amd many others.

Indeed, you share your birthday with some good ones... 

On May 25th in music history: 

Births

1921: Hal David
1922: Kitty Kallen
1926: Miles Davis
1927: Norman Petty
1936: Tom T. Hall
1936: Donnie Elbert
1942: Brian Davison (The Nice)
1943: John Palmer (Family)
1947: Jessi Colter
1947: Mitch Margo (The Tokens)
1950: Jean Millington (Fanny)
1950: Robert Steinhardt (Kansas)
1955: John Grimaldi (Argent)

Deaths

1965: Sonny Boy Williamson (II)
1981: Roy Brown
1990: Gary Usher (The Hondells)
2005: Domenic Troiano (The Guess Who, The James Gang)
2006: Desmond Dekker

Events

1961: Gidget Goes Hawaiian, starring teen idol James Darren and Sally Field, premieres in Honolulu.
 

1965: While onstage at a concert in Cardiff, Wales, Kinks guitarist Dave Davies slips and falls into Mick Avory's drum kit, knocking himself unconscious and forcing the group to cancel their current tour.
 

1966: Felton Jarvis takes over from Chet Atkins as Elvis Presley's producer. Jarvis, a fan from the early days, will be instrumental in moving the singer back to blues, gospel, and R&B-based material.
 

1967: Bobby Darin's latest film, Cop Out, in which he stars alongside James Mason, premieres nationwide.
 

1969: Folk group Fairport Convention holds a benefit at London's Roundhouse for recently deceased drummer Martin Lamble, who was killed in a car accident along with guitarist Richard Thompson's girlfriend and the band's clothes designer.
 

1973: Carole King holds a free concert in Central Park which draws a then-record 100,000 fans.
 

1978: The Who perform a concert at London's Shepperton Film Studios specifically for use in the upcoming documentary The Kids Are Alright. It will sadly prove to be the group's last performance with original drummer Keith Moon.
 

1995: The earliest known recording of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, dating all the way back to 1961, is sold at a London auction for over $85,000.
 

1997: Bob Dylan is admitted into a Los Angeles hospital suffering from chest pains and is eventually diagnosed as suffering from histoplasmosis, an inflammation of the cardial sac.
 

 Elvis Presley officially tops the list of dead entertainers with sales of over one billion records.
 

1998: Chicago mayor Richard Daley declares this Ramsey Lewis Week in honor of the native pop-jazz pianist.
 

2007: Wayne Fontana of Mindbenders fame arrives for his London trial on charges of dousing a police car in gas and setting fire to it, appearing as "Lady Justice" replete with a cape, crown, and dark glasses in place of a blindfold, and carrying a sword and scales. He is reprimanded by the judge.

Releases

1962: The Isley Brothers, "Twist And Shout"
1971: Elvis Presley, "Life"

Recording

1961: Ral Donner, "You Don't Know What You've Got"
1966: Elvis Presley: "Run On," "How Great Thou Art"
1967: The Beatles, "It's All Too Much"
1969: The Hollies, "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"

Charts

1968: Simon and Garfunkel's LP Bookends hits #1

Happy Birthday to Jessi Colter     (not sure of her age as wikipedia and my source list different birth years 1943/'47)

Anyone know for sure?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessi_Colter

On May 26th in music history:  

Births

1886: Al Jolson
1904: George Formby
1909: "Papa" Charlie McCoy
1916: Moondog
1920: Peggy Lee
1926: Miles Davis
1940: Levon Helm
1940: Ray Ennis (The Swinging Blue Jeans)
1941: Art Sharp (The Nashville Teens)
1944: Verden Allen (Mott The Hoople)
1945: Garry Peterson (The Guess Who)
1946: Mick Ronson (David Bowie, Mott The Hoople)
1948: Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac)
1949: Vicki Lawrence
1949: Hank Williams Jr.

Deaths

1933: Jimmie Rodgers
1968: Little Willie John
1977: William Powell (The O'Jays)
2006: Desmond Dekker

Events

1953: After hitchhiking to the Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Show in Meridian, MS, Elvis Presley wins second prize in the talent competition there.
 

1956: Liberace plays to a huge crowd of 16,000 at Madison Square Garden in a three-hour solo performance that draws mostly ladies.
 

 Two months after heading to his scheduled television appearance and nearly dying in a car crash, Carl Perkins finally appears on NBC-TV's Perry Como Show.
 

1958: On the third date of his first English tour, Jerry Lee Lewis is booed off the stage, having two days previously revealed that he was married to his 14-year-old cousin, Myra Lee Brown. The scandal forces Jerry Lee to end this tour immediately, flying back to America, where he finds the scandal has unfortunately followed him.
 

1965: At their insistence, the Rolling Stones perform "How Many More Years" with one of their influences, bluesman Howlin' Wolf, on tonight's episode of ABC-TV's Shindig!
 

1969: Still on honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono check in to room 1742 in Montreal's Hotel La Reine, where they begin their second "bed-in" for peace.
 

1972: With Mott The Hoople threatening to disband due to public indifference, David Bowie gives the band two of his new, unrecorded songs. The band passes on "Suffragette City" but decides to cut a song called "All The Young Dudes," a massive hit that revives the group's career.
 

1974: An overenthusiastic crowd at a David Cassidy concert in London rushes the stage, injuring a thousand screaming fans and crushing 14-year-old Bernadette Whelan, who died from her injuries four days later. A distraught Cassidy refuses to tour for the next eleven years.
 

1976: On a transatlantic British Airways flight, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin get drunk and verbally harass the other first-class passengers on the flight, including actors Dudley Moore and Telly Savalas.
 

1977: The rock group KISS provides Marvel Comics with a small vial of their blood to be mixed with printers' ink for their upcoming faux-autobiographical comic.
 

 Beatlemania! a Broadway tribute to the music of the Beatles, starring sound- and look-alikes, opens at the Winter Garden Theater to rave reviews.
 

1982: The late Bobby Darin is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1735 Vine St.
 

1993: Singapore lifts its decades-old ban on the music of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Chicago.
 

1994: Michael Jackson marries his first wife, Lisa Marie Presley, only daughter of Elvis, in a secret ceremony held in the Dominican Republican. The couple would divorce twenty months later.
 

1996: Firemen arrive at the burning home of Eric Clapton to find the guitarist running in and out of the home to save his guitar collection. The house is gutted, with about three million dollars' damage.
 

2008: Yale awards Paul McCartney an honorary Doctorate of Music.

Releases

1962: The Isley Brothers, "Twist And Shout"
1973: Deep Purple, "Smoke On The Water"

Recording

1937: Lionel Hampton, "Flying Home"
1963: Elvis Presley: "Echoes Of Love," "Please Don't Drag That String Around," "(You're The) Devil In Disguise," "Never Ending"
1966: Elvis Presley: "Where No One Stands Alone," "Down In The Alley," "Tomorrow Is A Long Time," "Love Letters"
1966: The Beatles, "Yellow Submarine"
1967: The Beatles, "It's All Too Much"
1971: Don McLean, "American Pie"

Charts

1962: Mr. Acker Bilk's "Stranger On The Shore" hits #1
1973: The Edgar Winter Group's "Frankenstein" hits #1
1973: The Beatles' LP The Beatles 1967-1970 hits #1

Certifications

1970: The Beatles' LP Let It Be is certified gold

On May 27th in music history:

Births

1932: Junior Parker
1935: Ramsey Lewis
1935: Rudy Lewis (The Drifters)
1939: Don Williams
1943: Cilla Black
1944: Lenny Davidson (The Dave Clark Five)
1947: Peter Knight (Steeleye Span)
1947: Marty Kristian (The New Seekers)
1948: Pete Sears (Jefferson Starship)

Events

1960: Frank Sinatra makes his television debut on NBC-TV's Star Spangled Revue special, hosted by Bob Hope.
 

1961: Johnny Cash guest stars on tonight's "The Deathly Quiet" episode of NBC-TV's little-remembered Henry Fonda Western The Deputy.
 

1962: At the Grammy Awards in New York, Andy Williams' "Moon River," from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, is named both Record and Song of the Year.
 

1964: Eleven schoolboys are suspended from a grammar school in Coventry, England, for showing up with Mick Jagger-style haircuts.
 

1966: The Exploding Plastic Inevitable show, featuring the Velvet Underground and the Mothers of Invention, plays its first gig on the West Coast, at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium.
 

 Before his concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Bob Dylan welcomes the Beatles again in his dressing room; Paul, anxious to impress the singer, plays him an early, electronic version of a track that would later become "Tomorrow Never Knows." "Oh, I get it, you don't want to be cute anymore," Dylan laughs, and leaves the room.
 

1967: Columbia and RCA announce plans to raise the price of long-playing LP (33 rpm) records one dollar to a high of $4.98.
 

1974: Lisa Marie Presley, then five, meets an 11-year-old Michael Jackson for the first time when Elvis brings her to the Jackson 5 show at the Sahara in Vegas.
 

1989: Celebrated anti-communist labor leader Lech Walesa presents Stevie Wonder with a "Badge of Solidarity" from his native Poland.
 

 For the first time since 1975, Chicago and the Beach Boys begin a joint headlining tour of the US, with Brian Wilson joining his old group on some of the dates.
 

1994: The Eagles reunite after 14 years, giving a two-and-a-half-hour performance in Burbank, CA, including two encores and a finale of "Desperado."
 

1999: Lionel Richie and wife Diane Alexander become the proud parents of their first child, Miles Brockman.
 

2004: The Bee Gees are made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace; Maurice's son Adam accepts on behalf of his father, who'd just died six months earlier.

Releases

1957: Buddy Holly and the Crickets, "That’ll Be The Day"
1963: The Beatles, "From Me To You"
1963: Bob Dylan, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

Recording

1957: Buddy Holly: "Not Fade Away," "Everyday"
1963: Elvis Presley: "What Now, What Next, Where To," "Witchcraft," "Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers," "Love Me Tonight," "Memphis, Tennessee," "Long Lonely Highway," "Western Union"
1966: Elvis Presley: "So High," "Farther Along," "By And By," "In The Garden," "Beyond The Reef," "Somebody Bigger Than You And I," "Without Him"

Charts

1947: Ted Weems' "Heartaches" hits #1
1967: The Bar-Kays' "Soul Finger" enters the charts
1972: The Chi-Lites' "Oh Girl" hits #1

Certifications

1971: The Bells' "Stay Awhile" is certified gold

On May 28th in music history:

Births

1910: T-Bone Walker
1917: Papa John Creach (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Starship)
1931: Sonny Burgess
1943: Tony Mansfield (Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas)
1944: Gladys Knight
1944: Gary Stewart
1945: John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1948: Larry Gatlin (The Gatlin Brothers)
1948: Ray Laidlan (Lindisfarne)

Deaths

1943: Vaughn Deleath
1985: Roy Plomley
2001: Tony Ashton (Deep Purple)

Events

1955: According to Billboard, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" is the nation's most popular tune, with four different versions on the charts at one time, equaling 18 million copies sold.
 

 Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on theBig D Jamboree radio program, broadcast from the Dallas Sportatorium by KRLD.
 

1957: The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) is established, leading to the creation of the annual Grammy Awards.
 

1958: Buddy Holly receives his draft notice in Lubbock, TX, but is refused induction because of his notoriously poor eyesight and also a stomach ulcer.
 

1960: Elvis Presley visits Vegas, and his entourage is for the first time dubbed the "Memphis Mafia" in the local media, due to their penchant for wearing long coats and dark glasses.
 

1966: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' latest album, What Now My Love, enters the Billboard Top Ten, joining three other Alpert LPs there (Whipped Cream and Other Delights, South of the Border, and Going Places) and setting a record for most albums simultaneously in the top ten.
 

1967: The Association make their television debut, performing "Along Comes Mary" on CBS-TV'sSmothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
 

1969: Mick Jagger and girlfriend Marianne Faithfull are arrested in their London home on charges of marijuana possession, but released on 50 pounds' bail.
 

1973: Ronnie Lane leaves the Faces.
 

1976: After leader Gregg Allman testifies against the Allman Brothers' road manager, Scooter Herring in order to avoid prosecution in a drug trafficking sting, the band, considering Gregg's actions a betrayal against a member of the "family," breaks up. Herring is sentenced to 75 years in prison.
 

1977: Having finally settled his two-year-long legal battle with former manager Mike Appel, Bruce Springsteen is finally freed to record his follow-up to the 1975 smash Born To Run.
 

1978: David Cassidy is the guest star on tonight's "A Chance to Live" episode of NBC-TV's Police Story, a surprisingly effective dramatic turn that garnered such praise it led to his own show, the legendary flop David Cassidy: Man Undercover.
 

1988: Steven Tyler of Aerosmith marries his second wife, Teresa Barrick, in her hometown of Tulsa, OK.
 

2003: Paul McCartney and his second wife, model/activist Heather Mills, announce the upcoming birth of their first child, to be named Beatrice Milly.

Releases

1965: Elvis Presley, "(Such An) Easy Question"
1966: Tina Turner, "River Deep, Mountain High"

Recording

1941: Frank Sinatra, "This Love Of Mine"
1963: Elvis Presley: "Slowly But Surely," "Blue River," "Ask Me"
1964: Marianne Faithfull, "As Tears Go By"

Charts

1966: Percy Sledge's "When A Man Loves A Woman" hits #1

Certifications

1975: The Doobie Brothers' LP Stampede is certified gold

Happy 67th Birthday to John Fogerty!! 

On May 29th in music history:

Births

1903: Bob Hope
1936: Sylvia Vanderpool (Mickey and Sylvia)
1941: Roy Crewsdon (Freddie and the Dreamers)
1942: Sir Monti Rock III (Disco Tex and his Sex-O-Lettes)
1945: Gary Brooker (Procol Harum)
1950: Joey Levine (Ohio Express, Reunion)
1955: Mike Porcaro (Toto)

Deaths

1977: Goddard Lieberson
1989: John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1996: Jimmy Rowles
2005: Oscar Brown Jr.

Events

1959: Herndon Stadium in Atlanta holds one of the first outdoor rock concerts, featuring Ray Charles, Jimmy Reed, and B.B. King. Nine thousand people attend.
 

1971: Three dozen audiences members attending today's Grateful Dead show at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom are treated for hallucinations after drinking apple juice purposefully spiked with LSD (some say by the band themselves).
 

1972: After seeing his protest song "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" banned by the BBC for its content, Paul McCartney puckishly rush releases a version of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb" as the followup. In the US, where no one is in on the joke, it actually makes it to #28.
 

1973: The Byrds officially disband for good (or so it seems) when founder and leader Roger McGuinn performs his first solo concert at New York's Academy of Music.
 

1975: The Osmonds' appearance at Wembley Pool in London sets off a riot amongst fans.
 

1977: Elvis leaves his show in Baltimore, MD for a full half-hour, angering and bewildering fans.
 

1983: KISS play their last concert in their traditional makeup (although, reformed with all original members, they would return to the painted faces in 1996).
 

1987: Michael Jackson's reputed offer of $50,000 for the bones of John Merrick, the infamous "Elephant Man," is first made public.
 

1988: Bob Dylan duets with Band drummer Levon Helm on the group's "The Weight" at a Helm show in New York. The duo also perform Chuck Berry's "Nadine."
 

1989: Elvis Presley's first grandchild, Danielle Riley Keough, is born to Lisa Marie Presley.
 

1992: After the recent AIDS-related death of lead singer Freddie Mercury, the Queen song "We Are The Champions" is banned from the graduation ceremony at Sacred Heart private school in Clifton, NJ.
 

1999: Photographers taking shots of old cars wrecked at the bottom of Malibu's Decker Canyon discover the body of Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Kramer, who had gone missing on February 12, 1995. His death is ruled a suicide.

Releases

1973: Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells

Recording

1942: Bing Crosby, "White Christmas"
1958: Little Anthony and the Imperials, "Tears On My Pillow"

Charts

1961: Ricky Nelson's "Travelin' Man" hits #1
1963: Del Shannon's "From Me To You" enters the charts
1965: The Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" hits #1
1971: The Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs" enters the charts
1971: The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" hits #1
1976: Diana Ross' "Love Hangover" hits #1

Certifications

1972: The Osmonds' LP Phase III is certified gold

On May 29th in music history:

Births

1903: Bob Hope
1936: Sylvia Vanderpool (Mickey and Sylvia)
1941: Roy Crewsdon (Freddie and the Dreamers)
1942: Sir Monti Rock III (Disco Tex and his Sex-O-Lettes)
1945: Gary Brooker (Procol Harum)
1950: Joey Levine (Ohio Express, Reunion)
1955: Mike Porcaro (Toto)

Deaths

1977: Goddard Lieberson
1989: John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1996: Jimmy Rowles
2005: Oscar Brown Jr.

Events

1959: Herndon Stadium in Atlanta holds one of the first outdoor rock concerts, featuring Ray Charles, Jimmy Reed, and B.B. King. Nine thousand people attend.
 

1971: Three dozen audiences members attending today's Grateful Dead show at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom are treated for hallucinations after drinking apple juice purposefully spiked with LSD (some say by the band themselves).
 

1972: After seeing his protest song "Give Ireland Back To The Irish" banned by the BBC for its content, Paul McCartney puckishly rush releases a version of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb" as the followup. In the US, where no one is in on the joke, it actually makes it to #28.
 

1973: The Byrds officially disband for good (or so it seems) when founder and leader Roger McGuinn performs his first solo concert at New York's Academy of Music.
 

1975: The Osmonds' appearance at Wembley Pool in London sets off a riot amongst fans.
 

1977: Elvis leaves his show in Baltimore, MD for a full half-hour, angering and bewildering fans.
 

1983: KISS play their last concert in their traditional makeup (although, reformed with all original members, they would return to the painted faces in 1996).
 

1987: Michael Jackson's reputed offer of $50,000 for the bones of John Merrick, the infamous "Elephant Man," is first made public.
 

1988: Bob Dylan duets with Band drummer Levon Helm on the group's "The Weight" at a Helm show in New York. The duo also perform Chuck Berry's "Nadine."
 

1989: Elvis Presley's first grandchild, Danielle Riley Keough, is born to Lisa Marie Presley.
 

1992: After the recent AIDS-related death of lead singer Freddie Mercury, the Queen song "We Are The Champions" is banned from the graduation ceremony at Sacred Heart private school in Clifton, NJ.
 

1999: Photographers taking shots of old cars wrecked at the bottom of Malibu's Decker Canyon discover the body of Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Kramer, who had gone missing on February 12, 1995. His death is ruled a suicide.

Releases

1973: Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells

Recording

1942: Bing Crosby, "White Christmas"
1958: Little Anthony and the Imperials, "Tears On My Pillow"

Charts

1961: Ricky Nelson's "Travelin' Man" hits #1
1963: Del Shannon's "From Me To You" enters the charts
1965: The Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" hits #1
1971: The Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs" enters the charts
1971: The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" hits #1
1976: Diana Ross' "Love Hangover" hits #1

Certifications

1972: The Osmonds' LP Phase III is certified gold