From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: APRIL 25
1955: The United Nation’s Commission on Narcotics releases a report stating there is a “definite connection between increased marijuana smoking and that form of entertainment known as be-bop and re-bop.”
1960: Eddie Cochran is laid to rest at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress, California.
1970: At today’s concert at Raleigh, North Carolina, the interracial band Pacific Gas and Electric Company is subject to verbal abuse while on stage. Later, as they leave, four bullets are fired in the van. No one is injured. no one is arrested.
1974: According to the new issue in Rolling Stone, “streaking” has become so popular that Yes and Greg Allman concerts have been interrupted by the fad. At a recent Beach Boys concert, the magazine says, the band was streaked by it’s own crew.
1977: Elvis Presley performs at the Civic Center in Saginaw, Michigan, with a mobile unit capturing what would be his very last recording, released on the RCA album Moody Blue.
1977: The musical variety television special Paul Anka — Music My Way, featuring Natalie Cole, The Savannah Band, and a host of cameos, airs on ABC-TV.
1981: Denny Laine leaves Paul McCartney and Wings, essentially leaving McCartney as a solo act once again.
1990: A London auction house sells the Fender Stratocastor on which Jimi Hendrix played the U.S. national anthem at Woodstock for $295,000.
1993: Legendary album artist Stanley “Mouse” Miller, designer of the Grateful Dead “skull and roses” logo, has his upcoming liver transplant financed by the band.
1994: After an absence which lasted fourteen years, the Eagles perform at the Warner Burbank Studios for what will be the first of two reunion concerts chronicled on the live studio album Hell Freezes Over.
1994: A judge finds Michael Bolton’s 1991 hit “Love Is A Wonderful Thing” plagiarizes the Isley Brothers 1966 song of the same name, despite Bolton’s protest he’s never heard of the song.
2003: The parents of the late Doors lead singer Jim Morrison sue the remaining members of the band for touring with a new singer as “The Doors 21 Century” using the band’s image and logo.
2003: Nina Simone is laid to rest in Cary-Le-Rouet, France, with attendees including Miriam Makeba and gifts sent by luminaries like Elton John.
2004: For the third time in two years, Billy Joel is involved in a traffic accident, driving his car into a home in Bayille, Long Island, New York. No one is injured.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day…. 
