1932
Singer and guitarist Buster Benton is born.

1946
Alan Gorrie of Average White Band is born in Perth, Scotland. The group’s only No. 1 song is the million-selling single "Pick Up the Pieces." The song is written in memory of the band’s drummer, Robbie McIntosh, who died of a heroin overdose.

1947
Bernie Leadon, guitarist for the Eagles, is born. Bernie's the one in the hat:

1947
The great Brian May, Queen's guitar hero, is born.
Spotlight On: Brian May of Queen

1948
Keith Godchaux, keyboard player for the Grateful Dead, celebrates a birthday.

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Elvis Presley's first single, "That's All Right Mama," is released by Sun Records.

1969
The Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" is released.

1969
The Spencer Davis group breaks up.

1972
Five members of the Rolling Stones entourage, including Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are picked-up in Warwick, Rhode Island on charges of assualt and obstructing police. This follows an altercation with a newspaper photographer. All plead guilty and are released. The Stones are four hours late to their concert in Boston, but it almost gets cancelled altogether. The hero of the hour is Boston's Mayor, who personally bails out Mick and Keith and transports them to the concert.

1973
Clarence White of the Byrds is buried in California. A couple of days before, he was hit by a suspected drunk driver outside a Palmdale, California nightclub. He was 29.

1975
"Listen To What The Man Said" by Wings hits #1 on the singles chart.

1975
Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" peaks at #36 on the singles chart.

1975
Orleans' "Dance With Me" is released.

1976
Deep Purple breaks up.

1980
Billy Joel's "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me" hits #1.

1980
Elton John's "Little Jeannie" hits #3 on the singles chart.

1980
The Grateful Dead's "Alabama Getaway" peaks at #68 on the singles chart.

1980
Jackson Browne's Hold Out enters the album chart. The album features the hits "Boulevard" and "That Girl Could Sing."
Jackson Browne "Boulevard" Live 1986

1980
Queen's The Game LP enters the chart. It features the #1 hits, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites The Dust."
Queen "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"

1980
The Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue LP enters the album chart. It eventually hits #1 for 7 weeks.

1981
"Roy Orbison Day" is celebrated in Odessa, Texas.

1986
"Dreams" by Van Halen peaks at #22 on the singles chart. Robert Palmer's "Hyperactive" peaks at #33 on the singles chart. Genesis' "Invisible Touch" hits #1 on the singles chart.
Van Halen "Dreams"

1986
The Ruthless People soundtrack enters the album chart. It features the Billy Joel hit, "Modern Woman."

1989
After stacks of money are found inside James Brown's cell, the troubled Soul Brother No. 1 is moved from a minimum-security jail to a medium-security one.

1991
Former Guns n' Roses drummer Steven Adler files a lawsuit against the band. He claims the other members forced him to use heroin, then made him quit the band while he tried to kick his drug habit.

1991
Gloria Estefan gets her own wax effigy in Los Angeles' Movieland Wax Museum.

1995
Elvis Presley's former doctor Dr. George Nichopoulous, loses his medical license for being "too liberal" in prescribing addicitive drugs.

1999
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince steals the show at the second annual Yahoo! Internet Life Awards, held at Studio 54 in New York. He wins best Internet-only single ("War") and leads an impromptu musical reunion that features James Brown saxophonist Maceo Parker and four members of Sly & the Family Stone.

1999
They Might Be Giants release their new album Long Tall Weekend exclusively in the MP3 format. Visitors to e-tailer EMusic can download the entire album for $8.99 or individual tracks for .99 each.

1999
"Weird Al" Yankovic kicks off his Running With Scissors tour in Green Bay, Wis.

2000
Creed accuse Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst of "a mobster mentality" in his bid to get TapRoot signed to his label, Interscope. Durst said TapRoot would "be blackballed and probably erased" if they didn’t sign with him. Must admit, you don’t hear much about them anymore.

2002
Blues singer/guitarist "Little" Jimmy King dies at his Memphis home of undetermined causes. He is 36.

2005
It is declared Solomon Burke Day in the artists hometown of Philadelphia, Pa.

2003
Jermaine Jackson tells the BBC that Michael Jackson will reunite with the Jackson Five for a new album and tour.

2003
The troubled Lollapalooza tour with Jane's Addiction and Audioslave cancels an upstate New York date, citing rising production costs.

2003
Thousands of mourners line the streets of Miami to view the body of Celia Cruz, the late Queen of Salsa.

2006
Thom Yorke has more reasons to be angst-ridden. The Radiohead frontman's solo disc The Eraser debuts at No. 2 in the U.S. album charts, right below hits compilation Now That's What I Call Music.

July 19 Birthdays

• Samuel Colt 1814
• Edgar Degas 1834
• Lizzie Borden 1860
• Charles Horace Mayo 1865
• Percy Lebaron Spencer 1894
• A.J. Cronin 1896
• Charles Teagarden 1913
• Rosalyn Yalow 1921
• George McGovern 1922
• Pat Hingle 1924
• Sue Thompson 1926
• Helen Gallagher 1926
• Buster Benton 1932
• Philip Agee 1935
• George Hamilton IV 1937
• Richard Jordan 1938
• Vikki Carr 1941
• Natalya Bessmertnova 1941
• Dennis Cole 1943
• George Dzundza 1945
• Alan Gorrie (Average White Band) 1946
• Brian Harold May (Queen) 1947
• Bernie Leadon (The Eagles) 1947
• Beverly Archer 1948
• Keith Godchaux (Grateful Dead) 1948
• Allen Collins (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 1952
• Peter Barton 1956
• Kevin Haskins (Love and Rockets) 1960
• Campbell Scott 1962
• Anthony Edwards 1962
• Kelly Shiver (Thrasher Shiver) 1963
• Clea Lewis 1965

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