Pick a Day

4 SEPTEMBER

In Music History

1971 At a Bruce Springsteen show at the Student Prince in Asbury Park, New Jersey, the E Street Band comes together when sax player Clarence Clemons joins the band on stage for the first time, a story recounted in the song "Tenth Avenue Freeze-out."

1970 The Rolling Stones release Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!

1969 The Youngbloods, a rare rock band scheduled to appear on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, are scratched. Carson says it's because they were being disrespectful; the band says they were slated to play two songs: a new one and their hit "Get Together," but when the show went long, the producers nixed the new song, so they walked.

1968 The Beatles play to a live audience for the first time in two years when they record promotional films for "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" at Twickenham Studios in front of an audience of about 100. It goes so well, they decide to make a documentary, which becomes Let It Be.

1967 The Doors release their alienation anthem "People Are Strange."

1965 While The Who shop for a guard dog, their van and $10,000 worth of equipment is stolen.

1964 The Animals play America for the first time with a show at New York's Paramount Theatre.

1960 Kim Thayil (lead guitarist for Soundgarden) is born in Seattle, Washington. He would be raised near Chicago in Park Forest, Illinois.

1958 Jerry Butler & the Impressions make their national TV debut on American Bandstand.

1957 Jerry Lee Lewis files for divorce from his second wife (he marries cousin Myra three months later, before it's final.)

1952 Gladys Knight & the Pips form at a birthday party for Gladys' brother Bubba.

1952 Martin Chambers (drummer for The Pretenders) is born in Hereford, England.

1951 Frank Sinatra plays Vegas for the first time, performing at the Desert Inn hotel and casino. In 1959, with his "rat pack," he becomes a top draw in the city.

1944 Gene Parsons (multi-instrumentalist for The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers) is born in Morongo Valley in California's Mojave Desert.

1942 Glady's Knight's brother Merald "Bubba" Knight, who joins her backing group The Pips, is born in Atlanta, Georgia.