Cliff Richard scored his first UK number 1 with ‘Living Doll’ in 1959.
The Rolling Stones put on a very short show in Belfast in 1967 – thanks to a riot, it lasted just 12 minutes.
Geoffrey Edelsten paid more than 6-million dollars for the South Melbourne football team in 1985 and renamed them the Sydney Swans.
Keith Richard announced a 7 million dollar deal to write his autobiography in 2007.
And in 2011 Cold Chisel’s ‘Khe Sanh’ cracked the Australian Top 40 – 33 years after it was first released.
Today’s Birthdays:
B.J. Novak turns 37 (1979)
Coldplay drummer, Will Champion, turns 38 (1978)
JK Rowling is 51 (1965)
Wesley Snipes is 54 (1962)
And Ernie Dingo is 60 (1956)
