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Rock and Metal history, a day like today July 19

1947: Bernie Leadon (guitarist, vocalist for Eagles) is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

1948: Keith Godchaux (keyboardist for Grateful Dead throughout the '70s) is born in Seattle, Washington, but will grow up in Concord, California.

1952: Allen Collins (guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd) is born Larkin Allen Collins Jr. in Jacksonville, Florida.

1954: Elvis Presley releases "That's All Right".

1965: The Beatles release "Help!" (sINGLE)

1967: The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'All You Need Is Love' the group's 12th UK No.1 single.

1976: Deep Purple split up at the end of an UK tour. David Coverdale went on to form Whitesnake, Jon Lord and Ian Paice formed a band with Tony Ashton. The classic line up of Blackmore, Gillan, Glover, Lord & Paice reformed in 1984. Glenn Hughes returned to Trapeze and Tommy Bolin put together his own band, (but would die before the end of the year)

1980: Queen scored their third UK No.1 album with 'The Game', featuring the single 'Another One Bites The Dust'.

1984: Razor released the EP “Armed and Dangerous”

1986: Genesis went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Invisible Touch'.

1987: Bruce Springsteen played his first ever show behind the Iron Curtain when he appeared in East Berlin in front of 180,000 people. The show was broadcast on East German TV.