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89: July 6, 1977
ROGER WATERS SPITS AT A FAN DURING A PINK FLOYD SHOW: The incident would inspire Waters to write "The Wall", a masterpiece of rock-star alienation and anomie.
88: April 6, 1974
ABBA WIN THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: Making possible the ascendance of Swedish pop and approximately 18 bajillion drunken wedding dances.
87: October 9, 1999
COACHELLA KICKS OFF: Beginning the annual pilgrimage of alterna-kids to the Sonoran Desert.
86: November 21, 1959
ALAN FREED FIRED IN FIRST PAYOLA SCANDAL: Ending the career of the DJ who invented the term rock & roll.
85: July 18, 1991
LOLLAPALOOZA PREMIERES: Introducing the U.S. to the traveling music festival.
84: September 19, 1955
PAT BOONE HITS NO. 1 WITH "AIN'T THAT A SHAME": With this bleached-out version of Fats Domino's original, Boone becomes the trailblazer for years of Whitney childproofing R&B.
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100: October 3, 2000
RADIOHEAD RELEASE KID A: Spontaneously, guitar fans everywhere begin weeping.
99: December 11, 1965
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND PLAY THEIR FIRST SHOW: Giving birth to the sound of alternative rock.
98: April 13, 1963
THE KINGSMEN RECORD "LOUIE LOUIE": When it becomes a hit, everone assumes singer Jack Ely's incomprehensible mumbling masks obscenity, causing the first panic over dirty lyrics.
97: November 23, 1936
ROBERT JOHNSON'S FIRST RECORDING SESSION: The king of delta blues singers hooks up with the devil, provides Rosetta Stone for rock pioneers including Eric Clapton and Keith Richards.
96: December 14, 1977
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER DEBUTS IN NEW YORK: Prompting the inexorable march of polyester suits and disco into the suburbs-and throughout the world.
95: August 21, 1966
THE DOORS PERFORM "THE END" AT L.A.'S WHISKY A GO GO: Jim Morrison's II-minute-plus nightmare about Oedipal desire, snakes and ancient lakes cements the Doors' Dionysian rep-and earns them a permanent ban from the club.
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44: April 15, 1981
R.E.M. RECORD "RADIO FREE EUROPE": Minting the new sound of college rock- jangly guitars adn incomprehesible lyrics- that eventually made R.E.M. the biggest cult band in history.
43: August 15, 1955
ELVIS SIGNS WITH "COLONEL" TOM PARKER: Striking a bargain that begins the long slow death of the Hillbilly Cat, the commercialization of rock & roll- and the triumph of the Suit over creativity.
42: July 13, 1985
LIVE AID: A staggering trans- Atlantic lineup and a record-breaking TV audience of 1.5 billion ensures that philanthropy- and U2's record sales- will never be the same again.
41: July 6, 1957
JOHN MEETS PAUL: The teenage music geeks encounter each other when Lennon's group takes part in a village festival; McCartney impresses him by playing "Twenty Flight Rock" on an upside-down guitar, and the partnership that would become the Beatles is born.
40: December 12, 1957
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