This Day In Music - May 12

 This Day In Music - May 12

1928 - Burt Bacharach born in Kansas City, Missouri.

1940 - Motown songwriter Norman Whitfield is born in Harlem, New York City.

1942 - Ian Dury (Kilburn and the High-Roads, Ian Dury & the Blockheads) is born in England.

1942 - Country singer Billy Swan is born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

1945 - Ian McLagan (keyboardist for The Small Faces, The Faces) is born in Hounslow, Middlesex, England.

1948 - Steve Winwood (of Traffic, Blind Faith and The Spencer Davis Group) is born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England.

1950 - Rocker Billy Squier is born in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

1958 - The Everly Brothers' "All I Have to Do Is Dream" hits #1 for the first of five weeks.

1959 - Ray Gillen (of Black Sabbath, Badlands) is born in New York City, but raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.

1960 - Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley appeared on the same TV special and performed the other's hit. Elvis sang "Witchcraft" and Sinatra sang "Love Me Tender."

1961 - Billy Duffy (guitarist for The Cult) is born in Hulme, Manchester, England.

1963 - Bob Dylan walked out of dress rehearsals for "The Ed Sullivan Show" when CBS censors told him he could not perform "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues."

1965 - "Satisfaction" was recorded by the Rolling Stones.

1965 - Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter is #1 in Australia from this day.

1967 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their debut album "Are You Experienced."

1967 - Procol Harum release "A Whiter Shade Of Pale."

1971 - Jerry Lee Lewis was granted a divorce from his cousin Myra.

1971 - Mick Jagger marries his first wife, Bianca Perez-Mora, who is four months pregnant with their daughter, Jade, in St. Tropez, France. The couple divorce in 1978..

1972 - The Rolling Stones released the album "Exile on Main St."

1973 - Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy goes to #1 in America.

1975 - Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell, each performing in the Sydney production of Jesus Christ Superstar, meet on the first day of rehearsals. Later in the year, they form Air Supply.

1980 - The single "It's Still Rock & Roll" was released by Billy Joel.

1981 - Debbie Harry branches off from Blondie, announcing her solo career.

1982 - I Love Rock 'N' Roll by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts is #1 in Australia from this day.

1983 - Meat Loaf files for bankruptcy.

1983 - I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green) by Redgum was #1 In Australia from this day.

1985 - An honorary Doctor of Music degree was given to Lionel Richie from his alma mater Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

1999 - George Jones pled guilty to driving while impaired and violating the Tennessee's open-container law in Franklin. He was fined $550.

2001 - Perry Como dies in his sleep less than week before his 89th birthday.

2002 - At Miami International Airport, Dionne Warwick was arrested when baggage screeners found 11 marijuana cigarettes inside her lipstick container.

2013 - After the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield records the David Bowie song "Space Oddity" on board the International Space Station, his sublime rendition is posted to YouTube, quickly garnering millions of views.