From the MCRFB music calendar:
Events on this date: MAY 3
1958: One of the first major rock and roll riots breaks out during Alan Freed’s “Big Beat Spring 1958” show at the Boston Arena, with Boston police threatening to shut the show down because of the overly-crowd dancing and Alan Freed telling the crowd from the stage, “The police doesn’t want you to have fun.” He is arrested for inciting a riot.
1964: Gerry and the Pacemakers make their first US television debut, singing “Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying” on CBS’ Ed Sullivan Show.”
1965: Motown’s Supremes release their new hit, “Back In My Arms Again.”
1967: The Walker Brothers announce their split. Scott Walker would go on to be a highly influential solo artist in the late Sixties.
1968: Having just returned from studying the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India, the Beach Boys make him the opening lecture act on their new tour. About half the dates are eventually cancelled.
1971: Grand Funk Railroad holds their sparsely-attended first press conference at the Gotham Hotel in New York City.
1971: Led Zeppelin play their song “Four Sticks” for the first and only time in a concert during a show in Denmark.
1976: Paul Simon, Phoebe Snow, Jimmy Cliff and others perform a benefit concert to raise funds for the financially-strapped New York Public Library.
1976: Paul McCartney opens hid first tour with his new band as the massively successful Wings Over America tour begins in Ft. Worth, Texas.
1978: The movie FM, a flop comedy about a radio station, opens in Los Angeles. However, the title track and the name of their LP, performed by Steely Dan, becomes a huge hit for the band.
1991: Texas Governor Ann Richards officially declares today ZZ Top Day in the Lone Star State.
1991: Andy Williams marries his second wife, Debbie Haas, in New York City.
2006: Bob Dylan’s first hosted radio show airs on XM Satellite Radio, with the folk-rock legend playing his favorite hits by Prince, Wilco, Blur, LL Cool J, and Billy Braggs, among others.
And that’s just a few of the events which took place in pop music history, on this day…. 
