July 6
1963, James Brown went to No.2 on the US album chart with 'Live At The Apollo'.
Recorded on the night of October 24, 1962 at Brown's own expense, it spent 66 weeks on the Billboard Albums chart. In 2003, the album was ranked No. 24 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
1968, Woburn Music Festival,
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire took place. A two-day affair featuring Donovan, Fleetwood Mac, Pentangle, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Alexis Korner, Family, Taste, Tim Rose, John Mayalls Bluesbreakers, Duster Bennett and Tyrannosaurus Rex, two-day tickets were priced at £2.
2002, George Harrison's widow Olivia put the couple's home, Friar Park,
up for sale for £20m saying she couldn't bear to live with the memories of the attack by schizophrenic Michael Abram who broke into the house in 1999.
2003, The Dixie Chicks performed a concert at Dallas' American Airlines Center despite an anonymous threat that group member Natalie Maines would be shot on stage, (after the controversy regading her comments about President George W. Bush, and the Iraq war). Maines had a police escort to and from the show and then directly to the airport.
1924 Louie Bellson

(pioneered the use of two bass drums), 1925 Bill Haley, 1931 Della Reese, 1937 Gene Chandler (
"The Duke Of Earl"), 1939 Jet Harris

(The Shadows, Jeff Beck Group), 1940 Jeannie Seely, 1949 Michael Shrieve

(Carlos Santana), 1975 50 Cent, 1979 Nic Cester (Jet
"Are You Gonna Be My Girl?")
1971 Louis Armstrong, 1979 Van McCoy (Van McCoy & The Soul City Orchestra
"The Hustle"), 1998 Roy Rogers, 2003 Buddy Ebsen, 2010 Harvey Fuqua (The Moonglows)