What happened on this day in the music industry.
1962: John Lennon married Cynthia Powell at Liverpool's Mount Pleasant register office. He then played a gig that night with The Beatles at Liverpool's Riverpark Ballroom.
1967: Joni Mitchell played her first ever UK show when she opened for The Piccadilly Line at The Marquee Club in London.
1975: Joy Division singer Ian Curtis married Deborah Woodruff, whom he met while still at school, when he was 19 and she was 18. They remained married until his death when he hanged himself in the kitchen of his house in Macclesfield, England at the age of 23.
2002: The Strokes, Foo Fighters, Prodigy, Offspring, Muse, Sum 41, Janes Addiction, The Dandy Warhols, Jimmy Eat World, Incubus, Pulp, The White Stripes, Feeder and Cornershop all appeared at the UK Carling Leeds-Reading Weekend Festival in England, said to be the most powerhouse line-up in the festival’s history..
2004: Queen, became the first UK rock band to receive official approval in Iran, where Western music was strictly prohibited.
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