May 12

BIRTHDAYS FOR MAY 12
Ian McLagan is 64; Steve Winwood is 61; Billy Squier is 59; Billy Duffy of the Cult is 48;

ON THIS DATE
1959 Ray Gillen, who toured with Black Sabbath in 1986, was born in New York City. Gillen died in 1993
1963 Bob Dylan is invited to appear on TV’s Ed Sullivan Show but refuses when he is forbidden to sing “Talking John Birch Society Blues.”
1967 Pink Floyd stages the first-ever rock concert with quadraphonic sound at Queen Elizabeth Hall in England
1971 Mick Jagger and Bianca Perez-Mora marry in St. Tropez, France
1972 Exile On Main Street by the Rolling Stones is released
1992 Rob Halford of Judas Priest holds a press conference to announce that he does not have AIDS
2008 Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots enters a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department jail to begin serving his sentence for a DUI conviction stemming from an arrest the previous November. He’s in custody for 10 hours but only spends 14 minutes behind bars before he’s released

IN CONCERT
Saturday, August 15 COUNTING CROWS Hard Rock Cafe Orlando
Monday, August 17 COUNTING CROWS Ruth Eckerd Hall Clearwater
Thursday, Rocktober 8 JOHNNY WINTER Jannus Landing St. Petersburg
Saturday, Rocktober 17 DR. JOHN Mary McLeod Bethune Performing Arts Center Daytona Beach