Music Features
The Rock History Report for
August 14th, 2009
1970 - Stephen Stills was arrested at a motel in La Jolla, California for cocaine possession, but was later released on $2,500 bail.
1971 - Rod Stewart’s "Maggie May" was released.
1976 - The Steve Miller Band released "Rock 'N Me."
1985 - Michael Jackson paid $47.5 million for the Beatles publishing catalog. The late King of Pop outbid Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono, and secured the rights to more than 250 songs written by John Lennon and McCartney.
1989 - Bon Jovi's album New Jersey became the first American album legally released in the Soviet Union. And because rubles can't leave the country, the Russian label Melodiya paid the group with a truckload of firewood.
1995 – After some consideration, The Grateful Dead decided to cancel their fall tour in the wake of Jerry Garcia's death.
2000 - Police in Los Angeles, CA, fired pepper spray and rubber bullets to clear a crowd of 9,000 people when a free concert by Rage Against the Machine turned violent.
2001 - The Red Hot Chili Peppers canceled a concert scheduled to take place in Israel on August 28th, after the U.S. State Department issued a security advisory recommending that U.S. citizens not travel to the country.
Birthdays:
1940 Dash Crofts of Seals and Crofts
1941 David Crosby of The Byrds/Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
1944 Tim Bogert of Vanilla Fudge
1946 Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone
