October 29

Births

1944: Denny Laine (Guitar for The Moody Blues & Wings)

1946: Peter Green (Original Guitarist for Fleetwood Mac)

1949: James Williamson (Guitar for Iggy Pop & The Stooges)

1955: Kevin DuBrow (Singer for Quiet Rio)

1955: Roger O'Donnell (Keyboards for The Cure)

1961: Randy Jackson (Singer in Jackson 5)

Events

1971: Guitarist Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers Band was killed when he lost control of his motorcycle on a Macon, Georgia street while trying to swerve to avoid a tractor-trailer. He was three weeks shy of his 25th birthday.

1987: Rolling Stones guitarist and sometime painter Ron Wood gets his first public presentation, Decades, in London, featuring mostly portraits of Wood's famous friends over the past two decades.

1990: The inductees for the sixth annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are announced, a list which includes Wilson Pickett, Ike and Tina Turner, The Byrds, The Impressions, LaVern Baker, Jimmy Reed, and John Lee Hooker.

1991: Memphis City Council named interstate 55 through Jackson, The B.B. King Freeway.

1991: Three members of Pink Floyd were injured in an auto race in Mexico.

1995: Paul Anka guest stars on tonight's "Treehouse of Horror VI" episode of Fox-TV's The Simpsons.

1996: Manchester band The Stone Roses split up. Singer Ian Brown said 'having spent the last ten years in the filthiest business in the universe, it's a pleasure to announce the end of The Stone Roses.'

1996: In Pasadena, California, a judge drops drug possession charges against Scott Weiland, the singer for the Stone Temple Pilots. The judge concluded that Weiland had made significant progress in rehab.

1998: Guns ‘N’ Roses Drummer Steven Adler surrendered to authorities to begin serving a sentence of 150 days for two counts of battery and violation of probation.  

2002: Palm Springs, CA, dedicates a portion of its airport as the Sonny Bono Memorial Concourse, in honor of the famous singer who also served as the town's mayor in the late Eighties.

2003: A study by the Neilsen ratings people finds that a full third the sales of Beatles 1 were to new fans between the ages of 19 and 24, skewing the fan base even younger than it had been previously.

2005: The wax figures of the younger Beatles used in the cover of the band's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album are auctioned off for $160,000 in London after being discovered languishing in the backroom of Madame Tussauds' famous wax museum.