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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 Mayall’s 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)