Presty the DJ for July 31

Today in 1964, a Rolling Stones concert in Ireland was stopped due to a riot, 12 minutes after the concert began.

Today in 1966, Alabamans burned Beatles products in protest of John Lennon’s remark that the Beatles were “bigger than Jesus.” The irony was that several years earlier, Lennon met Paul McCartney at a church dinner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3cUejOltsA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNRREguqHgs

Other than my mother (who was a singer, but never recorded any records, unlike my father’s band, which released a couple of them), birthdays today include Kent Lavoie, better known as Lobo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6imiU8Wv78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8tjgum0_E

Bob Welch, who before his solo career was in Fleetwood Mac before they became big:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKYVFL_Kvzk