August 29

On this day in 1920, Charlie "Bird" Parker was born in Kansas City.

 

Celebrating the late Michael Jackson’s birthday. He would have been 62 today

 

On this day in 1966, The Beatles played their last concert before a paying audience, at Candlestick Park in SF, CA

 

Today in 2011, Delta bluesman David "Honeyboy" Edwards died of congestive heart failure in Chicago, Illinois, at age 96

 

Today in 2005, Fats Domino was rescued from his Ninth Ward home in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

 

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ was released today in 1986