Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 25 1950	Jimmy Palmer And His Orchestra play the fifth night of four weeks at The Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 25 1950	Griff Williams And His Orchestra play the fifth of 28 nights at The Trianon Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1950)
May 25 1953	Stan Kenton And His Orchestra record All About Ronnie for Capitol Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1953)
May 25 1954	Howlin' Wolf records Baby How Long and Evil [Is Going On] in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a band including Hubert Sumlin, Jody Williams, Otis Spann and Willie Dixon. (1954)
May 25 1959	Chuck Berry releases a classic double-sided single, Back In The USA / Memphis, Tennessee, on Chicago-based Chess Records in the USA. (1959)
May 25 1961	Jerry Lee Lewis, Ben E. King, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Mary Wells , Sugar Pie DeSanto and others play the last night in a week of concerts at The Regal, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1961)
May 25 1961	Blues guitarist Jimmy Rogers plays the last night of two weeks in the Camellia house Lounge at The Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1961)
May 25 1962	Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers play the fifth night of a two-week season at McKie's Disc Jockey Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1962)
May 25 1968	Steppenwolf play the second of three nights at The Kinetic Playground [aka The Electric Theater], 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA, supported by Influence. (1968)
May 25 1969	The Illinois Speed Press, play at The Kinetic Playground, 4812 North Clark Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1969)
May 25 1974	Blues singer and guitarist David 'Honeyboy' Edwards records Hambone Blues for Trix Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1974)
May 25 1983	R.E.M. play at Park West, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1983)
May 25 2006	Imogen Heap plays at Park West, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (2006)
May 25 2012	David Guetta plays at The Congress Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (2012)/strong>