Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 21 1926	Albert Grossman is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He will find success as a music business entrepreneur and manager, taking care of business for Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and others throughout the sixties. (1926)
May 21 1928	Influential underground radio deejay Tom Donahue is born. He will start San Francisco's first progressive music station, KMPX, in 1967 and will become a hugely influential underground radio deejay. (1928)
May 21 1947	Bill Champlin is born in Oakland, California, USA. He will become the founder/leader of San Francisco, California, USA, band The Sons Of Champlin, then go on to sing with Chicago. (1947)
May 21 1966	Love play the second of three nights at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA. (1966)
May 21 1966	The Sopwith Camel perform at a Kathryn Branson School Dance, in the home of Mrs Vernon Skewes-Cox, San Francisco, California, USA. (1966)
May 21 1967	Quicksilver Messenger Service and Country Joe And The Fish play the last of three nights at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, California, USA. (1967)
May 21 1967	Love and Moby Grape play the second of two nights at Winterland, San Francisco, California, USA. (1967)
May 21 1970	B.B.King, Albert King and Mendelbaum play the first of four nights at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA. (1970)
May 21 1979	Former San Francisco fireman and Vietnam Veteran Dan White is convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. The conviction will widely be seen as too lenient and White will become known as 'the most hated man in San Francisco's history'. I Fought The Law by The Dead Kennedys tells Dan White's story by re-writing the lyric of the original hit version of I Fought The Law by The Bobby Fuller Four. (1979)
May 21 1982	Asia play the first of two nights at The Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, USA. (1982)
May 21 1982	Tito Puente plays at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, California, USA, during a thirteen-night season. (1982)
May 21 1982	Dr. John plays at The Keystone, Berkeley, California, USA. (1982)
May 21 2011	On her Aphrodite World Tour, Kylie Minogue plays at The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California, USA. (2011)