Today in Rock n Roll History

1949: RCA unveils the first 45-rpm record-playing system. It is the first time a record and record changer are made for each other.

1956: The Rock and Roll Ice Revue, billed as 'the hottest production ever staged on ice', opens at the New York Roxy.

1964: Kingsmen's Louie Louie banned in Indiana following speculation that some of the almost unintelligible lyrics are obscene. Subsequently publisher Max Firetag offers $1000 to anyone who could find an obscene lyric in the song, which was originally recorded by Richard Berry and the Pharaohs in the late 1950s.

1967: Beatles record title song for Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP

1969: Tommy Roe hits US chart with original version of Dizzy on his way to No. 1.

1974: Health problems force guitarist Eric Bell to leave Thin Lizzy.

1978: Bob Dylan film Renaldo and Clara premieres in Los Angeles

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
1934: Bob Shane singer/guitarist of the Kingston Trio
1937: Don Everly singer/guitarist of the Everly Brothers
1937: Ray Sawyer singer of Dr. Hook
1938: Jimmy Carl Black drummer of the Mothers of Invention