History Highlight:

Today in 1984, Frankie Goes To Hollywood started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with "Relax." Arguably one of the most controversial singles in British music history, "Relax" was banned by the BBC and several commercial British radio stations, although significant radio personalities including John Peel continued to play the song. At first, the band insisted that the song's lyrics weren't sexual, saying they were simply about "motivation." However, the ruse was eventually dropped, and the band admitted the song was an ode to gay sex.

Also, Today In:

1968 - Jim Morrison of The Doors was arrested and charged with public drunkenness after harassing a security guard at a Las Vegas adult movie theater.

1988 - Eleven years after it was released, The Sex Pistols album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols went Gold in the US with sales over 500,000.

1998 - Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher played a 20-minute solo gig at the King Head, an English pub in Santa Monica, in front of 250 fans.

2004 - Elvis Presley fans expressed their anger at plans to cut up a rare tape of the singer's early songs and sell the snippets at auction.

Birthdays:

Robert Wyatt, of Soft Machine, is 70 today.

Influential Jamaican electronics musician King Tubby was born today in 1941.