Birthdays
1938 Daevid Allen (Soft Machine, Gong)
1957 Don Snow (Squeeze, The Catch, The Sinceros)
1961 Suggs (Madness)
1961 Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips)
1964 David McCluskey (The Bluebells)
News
1978 The Police start recording their debut album.
1984 BBC Radio 1 announced a ban on ‘Relax’ by Frankie Goes To Hollywood after DJ Mike Read called it ‘obscene’, a BBC TV ban also followed.The song eventually became a UK number 1.
1986 Sex Pistols members John Lydon, Steve Jones and Paul Cook, as well as the mother of Sid Vicious, sued former manager Malcolm McLaren for GBP1 million ($1.7 million). They later settled out of court.
2021 New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain died from cancer at the age of 69.
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