The answer to today's Flashback Pop Quiz is: The $10,000 Pyramid.
Today is Best Friends Day, Name Your Poison Day, and World Ocean Day.
THIS DAY IN ROCK!
1969 An official press release announces that Brian Jones has quit The Rolling Stones.
1970 Deep Purple had their van and equipment impounded by East German police while on an European tour, after mistakenly driving too close to the border.
1971 Jerry Lee Lewis marries his fourth wife, a 29-year-old divorcee who worked as a secretary for the Memphis sheriff's department. The pair would split just two weeks later, but never divorced. They would remain married, seeing each other only occasionally until she was found floating dead in her backyard swimming pool on June 8th, 1982.
1974 Rick Wakeman left Yes. He rejoined the group in 1976, but left again in 1980.
1991 Bruce Springsteen marries Patti Scialfa, a backup singer in the E Street Band.
1998 The surviving Beatles are seen together for the first time in nearly 30 years at a memorial service for Linda McCartney held at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, England.
2003 Billy Joel won a Tony award for the orchestration of his musical, Movin' Out.
2016 Janis Joplin's childhood home in Port Arthur, Texas was put up for sale for $500,000.
NEW MOVIES IN THEATERS! Some of the new flicks opening in theaters nationwide tomorrow include It Comes At Night (R), Megan Leavey (PG-13), and The Mummy (PG-13). Click here for the rest of the new flicks to blow your hard earned money on this weekend.
PHIL FALLS FLAT! Phil Collins has cancelled his London shows tonight and tomorrow after suffering a nasty fall in his hotel room last night. He was taken to the hospital where he had stitches to close a gash on his head which he got after he slipped and bashed his on a chair. The concerts have been rescheduled for November 26 and 26. But don't worry. As his tour proclaims, he's "Not Dead Yet." Get the prognosis.
ELVIS BOXED! A new Elvis compilation featuring his earliest recordings, including his complete body of work with Sun Records, will be released on July 28. A Boy from Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings will be available as a three-CD box set and will include every known master and outtake he recorded for Sun records. Get more sunny details.
POT PIZZA! A medical marijuana dispensary in Quincy Massachusetts has added pot pizza to its menu.. But it ain't cheap. A six-inch cheese pizza sells for $38 and is sold frozen, so people can just throw them in the oven and bake, then bake. Only people with state-issued medical marijuana ID cards are eligible to purchase. Unfortunately, eating the weedza only makes you hungry for more. Get the baked details.
