History Highlight:

Today in 2001, Radiohead went to No.1 on the UK album chart with Amnesiac. The band's fifth studio album debuted at No.2 on the US Billboard 200 and produced three singles, "Pyramid Song," "I Might Be Wrong," and "Knives Out."

Also, Today In:

1964 - During a recording session at Chess in Chicago, The Rolling Stones ran into a couple of their heroes: Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon.

1967 - Bob Dylan and The Band began recording the legendary Basement Tapes in Woodstock, New York.

1986 - Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats was awarded an honorary Knighthood for his efforts to raise funds to eradicate famine in Ethiopia. Geldoff's coordination of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas" in 1984 kicked off a massive awareness of the issue of hunger in Africa (spawning the American response, "We Are The World"), culminating in the Live Aid concerts of 1985.

2004 - Singer-songwriter Ray Charles died aged 73.

Birthdays:

Minnesota's own Judy Garland was born today in 1922.

Howlin' Wolf was born today in 1910.