May 12th
2000: Thieves stole the gates to Liverpool,
England’s Strawberry Fields, the landmark later immortalized in The Beatles’
song. A scrap dealer later returns the gates to the police.
1992: Billy Joel and Paul Simon meet with Mikhail Gorbachev in New York.
1983: Meat Loaf files for bankruptcy with debts totaling more than $1 million after his assets were frozen due to a lawsuit from former managers.
1967: Pink Floyd performs at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, which is one of their first concerts to experiment with quadraphonic sound. They compose a song for the Games of May event, which would later become See Emily Play.
1963: Bob Dylan walks off The Ed Sullivan Show when CBS refuses to let him perform Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues.
Birthdays:
Ian Dury born in 1942
Ian McLagan-keyboardist of The Faces born in 1946
Steve Winwood-vocalist of the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic & Blind Faith born in 1948
Billy Squier born in 1950
Billy Duffy-guitarist of The Cult born in 1959
1992: Billy Joel and Paul Simon meet with Mikhail Gorbachev in New York.
1983: Meat Loaf files for bankruptcy with debts totaling more than $1 million after his assets were frozen due to a lawsuit from former managers.
1967: Pink Floyd performs at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, which is one of their first concerts to experiment with quadraphonic sound. They compose a song for the Games of May event, which would later become See Emily Play.
1963: Bob Dylan walks off The Ed Sullivan Show when CBS refuses to let him perform Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues.
Birthdays:
Ian Dury born in 1942
Ian McLagan-keyboardist of The Faces born in 1946
Steve Winwood-vocalist of the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic & Blind Faith born in 1948
Billy Squier born in 1950
Billy Duffy-guitarist of The Cult born in 1959
