1972 – Paul McCartney’s Wings played the first night of a UK College tour in
Nottingham. The group arrived unannounced asking social secretaries if they
would like them to perform that evening
1981 – American singer and musician Bill Haley became known as the first Rock n
Roll star, was found dead, fully clothed on his bed at his home in Harlingen,
Texas from a heart attack, aged 55. He scored the 1955 UK & US No.1 single
‘Rock Around the Clock’ as well as ‘See You Later, Alligator’
1982 – George Harrison presented UNICEF with a cheque for $9 million (£5.3
million), ten years after the fundraising The Concert For Bangladesh
1985 – Madonna started a three-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Like A
Virgin’, a No.3 hit in the UK
1997 – Scottish singer Brian Connolly with the Seventies Glam rock group Sweet died
of kidney and liver failure aged 51
1997 – American Delta blues singer and guitarist Jack Owens died aged 92. He was a
recipient of a 1993 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National
Endowment for the Arts, which is the highest honor in the folk and
traditional arts in the United States
