History Highlight:

Today in 1970, the gender-bending single "Lola," by The Kinks, was released. The song details a romantic encounter between a young man and a possible transvestite or transgender person he meets in a club in Soho, London, with the narrator describing his confusion towards a person named Lola who "walked like a woman and talked like a man".

Also, Today In:

1958 - 15-year-old George Harrison joined a local Liverpool band called The Quarrymen, which featured Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

1964 - "Oh, Pretty Woman," by the great Roy Orbison, was released on this day.

1976 - Jimmy Reed, the influential Big Boss Man of the Blues, died at the age of 50.

1977 - Elvis Presley's body was removed from a Memphis cemetery and re-entombed at Graceland after three people were arrested while attempting to steal his corpse.

2005 - 77-year-old Fats Domino was rescued from the flooding in New Orleans caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Birthdays:

Michael Jackson was born today in 1958. He passed away June 25, 2009.