July 12
1962, Ray Charles was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Don Gibson-penned country ballad '
I Can't Stop Loving You'.
1962, The Rolling Stones made their live debut at the Marquee Jazz Club, London, with Dick Taylor on bass (later of The Pretty Things) and Mick Avory on drums, (later of The Kinks). Billed as The Rollin Stones, they were paid £20 for the gig.
1969, One Hit Wonders Zager and Evans started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'In The Year 2525, (Exordium And Terminus)'.
The song was also No.1 in the UK, making them the only one hit wonders ever in both the US and UK singles charts.
1980, Olivia Newton-John
and the Electric Light Orchestra had the UK No.1 single with 'Xanadu', taken from the film of the same name. It gave Olivia Newton-John her third UK No.1 single.
1986, Simply Red scored their first US No.1 single with 'Holding Back The Years'. Simply Red singer Mick Hucknall wrote the song when he was seventeen, while living at his father's house. The chorus did not come to him until many years later.
1988, Michael Jackson arrived in the UK for his first ever-solo appearances. He performed a total of eight nights to 794,000 people.
2000, A statue erected in the memory of John Lennon was unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square.
The sculpture featured a revolver with a knotted barrel created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward.
2008, Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood left his wife of 23 years and moved in with an 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress. [
She got Wood!] The 61 year-old dad-of-four had met the teenager while out drinking and had taken her away to his luxury pad in Ireland.
1675 Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
, 1934 Van Cliburn

, 1942 Steve Young, 1943 Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac), 1945 Butch Hancock (The Flatlanders), 1947 Wilko Johnson (Dr. Feelgood), 1948 Walter Egan (sang "
Magnet & Steel"), 1949 John Wetton

(Asia, King Crimson), 1950 Eric Carr


(KISS), 1952 Philip Taylor Kramer

(Iron Butterfly), 1954 Eric Adams (Manowar), 1956 Sandi Patty, 1965 Robin Wilson (The Gin Blossoms), 1966 Taiji

(Loudness), 1967 John Petrucci

(Dream Theater), 1984 Gareth Gates
1742 Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco
, 1947 Jimmie Lunceford, 1973 Lon Chaney, Jr. (mentioned in "
Werewolves Of London"), 1979 Minnie Riperton, 1983 Chris Wood (Traffic), 1998 Jimmy Driftwood, 2003 Benny Carter, 2013 Amar Bose (founded the Bose Corporation)