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July 8, 1947

New Mexico’s Roswell Daily Record reports an alien aircraft has crashed near a local ranch with the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer In Roswell Region.” In the coming decades, extraterrestrials and flying saucers invade several songs, including David Bowie’s “Starman,” Megadeth’s “Hangar 18,” and Radiohead’s “Subterranean Homesick Alien.”

July 9, 1955

Bill Haley & His Comets’ “Rock Around The Clock” becomes the first Rock song to hit #1 on the Billboard Pop chart, where it stays for eight weeks. The song was originally released as the B-side of “Thirteen Women,” but became a massive hit after it appeared in the film Blackboard Jungle.

July 10, 2016

Aerosmith lead guitarist Joe Perry suffers a cardiac arrest while performing with Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp, fellow members of the supergroup The Hollywood Vampires, in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. The 65 year old is rushed to Coney Island hospital, where he’s listed in stable condition.

July 11, 2014

RIP – Tommy Ramone (drummer for Ramones) dies of bile duct cancer at age 65.

July 12, 1992

After a European tour, Axl Rose is arrested at JFK airport in New York, charged with inciting a riot at a Guns N’ Roses show in St. Louis the previous year. He gets two years’ probation and a $50,000 fine.

July 13, 2004

RIP – Arthur Kane of the New York Dolls dies of leukaemia at age 55.

July 14, 1967

The Who launched their first large-scale American tour, playing the first of 55 dates with… Herman’s Hermits.

July 15, 2018

“November Rain” by Guns N’ Roses became the first ’90s video to pass a billion views on YouTube. The next closest ’90s video is “Zombie” by The Cranberries, at 739 million.