History Highlight:

Today in 2004, Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) died in Los Angeles after a five-year battle with prostate cancer. In 2003, he appeared on Time's "10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players". That same year, he was number 16 on the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list in Rolling Stone.

Also, Today In:

1956 - Elvis Presley started a five-week run at No.1 on the US charts with "Don't Be Cruel." "Don't Be Cruel" went on to become Presley's biggest selling single recorded in 1956, with sales over six million by 1961.

1961 - A group from Hawthorne, California called The Pendletones attend their first real recording session at Hite Morgan's studio in Los Angeles. The band recorded "Surfin," a song that would help shape their career as The Beach Boys.

1962 - The Beatles are "a nothing group," the conclusion of Brit journalist Peter Jones after having interviewed them for the London Daily Mirror.

1979 - Bob Dylan released his "Christian" album, Slow Train Coming; it was produced by Mark Knopfler.

1979 - The Charlie Daniels Band enjoyed their biggest single success with "The Devil Went Down To Georgia," which broke into the Top 5 on this day.

1980 - David Bowie opened on Broadway as The Elephant Man.

1989 - The Rolling Stones released Steel Wheels.

1997 - A French court awarded the equivalent of $15,000 to a French citizen after he lost his hearing when he stood too close to loudspeakers at a U2 concert four years earlier.