The answer to today's Moxie's Flashback Pop Quiz is: Jethro Tull.
Today is George Washington's Birthday, Be Humble Day, Walking The Dog Day, and International World Thinking Day.
THIS DAY IN ROCK!
1957 The Film Don't Knock The Rock opens at the Paramount Theatre in New York.
1960 "Theme From A Summer Place" by Percy Faith began its nine week run at #1.
1974 Ten Years After gives their final concert in London.
1976 Florence Ballard of The Supremes died of heart attack at the age of 32.
1986 MTV begins showing 22 hours of episodes of The Monkees TV series.
1990 Stevie Wonder wins a plagiarism lawsuit filed against him for "I Just Called To Say I Love You".
2016 Sonny James, of the 1957 hit "Young Love" died at the age of 88.
SONGWRITERS HALL! Robert Lamm, James Pankow and former Chicago member Peter Cetera -- are among this year's inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Lamm, Pankow and Cetera are responsible for penning nearly every well-known Chicago song and will receive the honor at the 48th Annual Induction and Awards diner on June 15 in New York City. Get the list of inductees.
BOWIE BIRTHPLACE MEMORIAL! A U.K. artist collective called This Ain't Rock'n'Roll plans to erect a a sculpture paying tribute to David Bowie in the London district where he was was born. The 30-foot tall structure will be a giant three-dimensional depiction of the blue-and-red lightning bolt that's painted on Bowie's face on the cover of his 1973 album Aladdin Sane. Get a preview.
HARRISON FORD'S CLOSE CALL! A video has surfaced of Harrison Ford's close call with a passenger jet at Santa Monica, California's John Wayne Airport last week. The video was captured by runway cameras and shows how dangerously close he passed over an American Airlines 737 that was on the taxiway. Watch it now.
MONOPOLY TOKEN AXED! Monopoly is doing away with one of its legendary player tokens. The piece is going away after an online in a contest in which more than 4 million voters from around the world were asked to determine the tokens for an updated version of Monopoly. The said piece was introduced in 1935. So what piece was voted out? Get the details.
