The answer to today's Flashback Pop Quiz is: Back In The U.S.S.R. and School's Out.
Today is World No Tobacco Day, Save Your Hearing Day and National Macaroon Day.
THIS DAY IN ROCK!
1956 Buddy Holly, after seeing the John Wayne movie The Searchers is inspired to write "That'll be the day."
1961 Chuck Berry opens an amusement park that he calls Berry Park, in Wentzville, Missouri.
1964 The Dave Clark Five appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first of 11 appearances.
1976 The Who's concert at the Charlton Athletic Grounds in England sets the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest rock band at 120 decibels.
1979 Supertramp performs at New York's Madison Square Garden.
1980 The Theme From M*A*S*H* was at the top of the UK singles chart, ten years after it was first recorded.
GREGG ALLMAN TRIBUTE! This year's CMT Music Awards ceremony will feature a musical salute to Gregg Allman, who died this past Saturday from complications from liver cancer at age 69. The tribute will include special perofrmancesby Darius Rucker, Jason Aldean and Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley.
The 2017 CMT Music Awards will air Wednesday, June 7. Get the details.
CELEBRITY RE-COUPLED? Are Sean Penn and Robin Wright back together? It's been seven years since their divorce was finalized, but on Tuesday they flew into JFK Airport Tuesday morning, and left together in the same SUV. The couple got married in 1996. However, their relationship was tumultuous and they filed for divorce in 2007, then reconciled briefly, before calling it quits in 2010. Click here for the rampant rumor.
A REAL GO-GATOR! Over the Memorial Day weekend , a Florida family was shocked to find an unwelcome visitor in the their pool; an 8 foot alligator. It's not clear how it got there but it was safely removed and relocated to a safer and more appropriate location. No doubt the family will keep their pool covered from now on. Watch the removal.
