From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: APRIL 30
1953: Frank Sinatra begins working with his new arranger, Nelson Riddle.
1955: Perez Prado’s “Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White” hits No. 1 on the charts.
1962: The Orlons records “Wah-Watusi” in the Parkway Records studio.
1965: Bob Dylan begins the tour immortalized in the documentary Don’t Look Back, performing at the City Hall in Sheffield, England.
1965: Herman’s Hermits make their U.S. stage debut, with the Zombies as the opening act.
1966: The Young Rascals hits No. 1 on the national charts with their single, “Good Lovin’.”
1968: Organist Al Kooper announces that he’s leaving Blood, Sweat and Tears.
1968: The Cilla Black Show, featuring the theme song “Step Inside Love” written by Paul McCartney, debuts on the BBC, making Cilla the first English woman with her own TV show.
1969: “Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In” by the Fifth Dimension is certified gold.
1970: Allman Brothers tour manager Twiggs Lyndon is arrested for stabbing a club manager over a contract dispute. Incredibly, in a strange turn of justice, Lyndon gets off by pleading temporary insanity caused by being the tour manager for the Allman Brothers. At one point Lyndon’s lawyers declared that touring with the Allman Brothers alone would have been enough to drive anyone insane. (Twiggs died nine years later in a freak sky-diving accident).
1976: Bruce Springsteen, fresh from a Memphis concert, attempts to vault a fence at Graceland to see his idol, Elvis Presley, but was unsuccessful and was escorted away by security.
1976: The Who’s Keith Moon pays $100.00 to nine different New York City cab drivers to completely block off a city street end-to-end, allowing the drummer to throw all his furniture through the hotel room high-rise window while watching them literally smash below onto the street.
1977: Led Zeppelin break the single-act attendance record for a concert when 76,229 fans pay to see them perform at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, breaking the previous record set by the Who, who also had performed at the Silverdome as well.
1983: To celebrate the 25th anniversary of London’s legendary Marquee Club, Manfred Mann reforms in their original sixties incarnation to play the venue they (they and so many others) started in.
1988: For the first time since since its release 11 years earlier, Pink Floyd’s landmark LP Dark Side Of The Moon leaves the Billboard Charts, only to return a few months later.
2003: Sixties blues man and soul-icon Earl King is buried in his hometown of New Orleans with an authentic jazz funeral. Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton send their condolence.
2004: Michael Jackson is arraigned on his child molestation charges, pleading not guilty to ten different counts, also including extortion and false imprisonment.
2004: Ray Charles appears at his Los Angeles recording studio to attend a ceremony marking it as an historic landmark.It will be the last public appearance he will ever make.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day…. 
