History Highlight:

Today in 1977, The Sex Pistols were involved in a fight at London's Speakeasy Club with Bob Harris, presenter of BBC 2's The Old Grey Whistle Test, resulting in one of the show's engineers needing 14 stitches in his head. Two days later Harris's lawyers contacted the band's record label. The label decided to cancel the Pistols' contract and halt production of the bands first single, "God Save The Queen."

Also, Today In:

1955 - In New York City, legendary jazz saxophonist/junkie/genius Charlie "Bird" Parker, only 34, died of heart failure. Parker, along with Dizzy Gillespie and a few others, had more or less invented the then-radical form of bebop jazz music in the mid-'40s. He remains a tremendous influence.

1974 - John Lennon, during his famous "lost weekend," was involved in a punch-up with a photographer outside the Troubadour club in Los Angeles. Lennon and Harry Nilsson had been razzing comedian Tommy Smothers and were forcibly ejected from the club. This was the infamous occasion where Lennon wore a tampon scotch-taped to his head.

1981 - Bow Wow Wow were forced to cancel the first dates of a UK tour after Greater London Council stated that singer Annabella Lwin aged 15 would be guilty of truancy.

Birthdays:

Pete Doherty of The Libertines is still alive! He's 34 today.

Graham Coxon, guitarist for Blur, is 44 today.

Mike Gibbins, the drummer for Badfinger, was born today in 1949.