Today is National Columnists Day and National Pink Day.
THIS DAY IN ROCK!
1960: Paul Anka becomes the youngest act to open at New York's Copacabana nightclub.
1963: Del Shannon's cover of "From Me To You" hits the Billboard Hot 100, thus becoming the first Lennon-McCartney composition to ever make the US charts.
1972: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles perform for the last time together at a Washington, DC. concert.
1975: Alice Cooper falls off the stage in Vancouver, breaking six ribs in the process.
1976: Paul McCartney wraps up the Wings Over America tour at the Forum in Los Angeles.
1990: Gary Busey purchases one of Buddy's guitars at auction for approximately $240,000.
1994:The Barry Manilow tribute musical Copacabana opens in London.
NEW MOVIES IN THEATERS! Stuff hitting the big screen tomorrow includes Accidental Exorcist, Les Cowboys (R), Independence Day: Resurgence (R) and Septembers of Shiraz (PG-13). Click here for the rest of the new stuff opening nationwide tomorrow.
LED ZEPPELIN VERDICT! A Los Angeles jury has found that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page did not steal the opening of the Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven" from the 1968 Spirit song "Taurus." Attorneys representing the estate of late Spirit frontman Randy California had sought to prove that a guitar riff featured in "Taurus" was plagiarized and used as the basis for the opening of "Stairway to Heaven," but the jury decided that there was no "extrinsic similarity" between the two songs. Get the verdict.
CELEBRITY GUN CONTROL! More than 150 entertainers have signed a special "Open Letter to Congress" urging tighter gun laws. Among the John Hancocks includes Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks, Carole King, Jackson Browne, John Mellencamp and Cher. The letter urges Congress to require a background check for every gun sale and block suspected terrorists from buying guns. Get more.
FLYING CARS! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! But it's not a flying car. Yet. Why haven't flying cars taken flight yet? Probably because only rich people will be able to afford them. Click here for some of the most promising designs.
