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 64 today...

 

On this day in 1966, The Beatles played their last concert before a paying audience, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, 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 had to be rescued from his Ninth Ward home in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city...

 

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