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1956: Elvis Presley made his first appearance at a Las Vegas resort on this day. He was actually booked as the opening act for headlining comedian Shecky Greene. He bombs badly with the middle-age crowd at the Frontier Hotel and is fired only one week into his engagement.
It wasn’t a total loss. While there, Elvis hears a lounge act called Freddie Bell and the Bellboys performing their version of a Big Mama Thornton tune called “Hound Dog.” The rest is rock ‘n’ roll history.
1965: One of the most famous arrests in the history of rock and roll took place on this day when 3 of the Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger, Brian Jones & Bill Wyman) are busted for urinating on the side of a gas station.
The arrest cements their reputation as rock’s “bad boys” and makes them definitely the #1 alternative to the far better-behaved Beatles.
Today, many people believe the whole stunt was conceived by the Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham purely as a publicity stunt.
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