April 23, 1976 – The Ramones release their self-titled debut album, a punk rock landmark filled with frantic 2-minute songs like “Blitzkrieg Bop” and “Beat On The Brat.”

April 24, 1961 – Bob Dylan makes his professional recording debut when he plays harmonica on the Harry Belafonte recording of “Midnight Special.” Dylan makes $50 for the session.

April 25, 1994 – A jury rules that Michael Bolton’s 1991 hit “Love Is a Wonderful Thing” plagiarises The Isley Brothers 1966 song of the same name and awards $5.4 million in damages, the largest ever in a music plagiarism case.

April 26, 2013 – Country singer George Jones dies at age 81 from hypoxic respiratory failure, just a couple weeks after his final concert in Knoxville, Tennessee.

April 27, 2002 – For the first time since 1963, there are no British acts in the US Hot 100, as Americans reject acts like Blur, Oasis and Robbie Williams.

April 28, 2003 – Apple launches the iTunes store, the first widely successful legal music download app, thanks to the emergence of the iPod, which lets people take their music with them. At first, the service is available only to Mac users, with the music files encoded in Apple’s proprietary format (AAC) restricting where they can be played.

April 29, 1980 – Black Sabbath launch their first tour with Ronnie James Dio as lead vocalist, replacing Ozzy Osbourne.

April 30, 1988 – After hanging on at #198 the week before, Pink Floyd’s album Dark Side Of The Moon drops out of the Billboard Albums chart for the first time in 11 years. The band is still on the chart though, with A Momentary Lapse Of Reason at #62.