PETE TOWNSHEND...Scoop
Released: 30 years ago in April 1983
Highest Chart Position: #35 Billboard album charts
Label: Atco
Track Highlights: So Sad About Us/Brrr; Zelda; Politician;
(CD, vinyl, Allmusic review)
ROCK BIRTHDAYS FOR MAY 29
Gary Brooker formerly with Procol Harum is 68; Michael Porcaro of Toto is 58; Melissa Etheridge is 52; Noel Gallagher formerly with Oasis is 46; Chan Kinchla of Blues Traveler is 44; Dave Buckner formerly with Papa Roach is 43;
ON THIS DATE
1971 At a Grateful Dead concert in San Francisco 36 people are given medical treatment after they unknowingly drank LSD-laced cider
1977 Elvis Presely walks off stage in Baltimore because he was upset with his performance
1999 Four years after his disappearance the remains of Philip Taylor Kramer of Iron Butterfly were found at the bottom of Decker Canyon near Malibu, California. His death was ruled a suicide
2004 Josey Scott of Saliva marries Kendra Lynnett Edney at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee
2008 In Stockholm, Sweden Kiss meets U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
2009 A judge in Los Angeles sentenced music producer Phil Spector to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson
2009 Ozzy Osbourne files a lawsuit against his Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi over rights to the group's name
2012 Bob Dylan receives the Medal of Freedom from President Obama in a ceremony at the White House. The Medal of Freedom is America's highest civilian honor
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