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July, 25

  • 2000 Pat DiNizio, frontman of the Smithereens, officially announces that he is running for a U.S. Senate sear for New Jersey on the Reform Party ticket.
  • 1999 At Woodstock 99, all hell breaks loose. Fires fueled by paper plates, pizza boxes and garbage strewn around everywhere break out during a set by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The group’s encore is delayed because a remote sound tower begins to burn. A fire truck is brought in to put out the blaze.
  • 1998 Jazz guitarist Tal Farlow dies of esophageal cancer in New York. He is 77. Farlow worked with such musicians as Charles Mingus, Red Norvo, and Eddie Costa in a career spanning four decades.
  • 1997 On the Grand Old Opry Martina McBride debuts her new single “Broken Wing” with a special guest. Her father, Daryl Schiff (considered a part-time singer) joins her on the stage.
  • 1997 John Berry fills a tall order when he provides music following the weddings of 48 couples as a radio station promotion for WYGY-FM in Cincinnati. Following the ceremony, Berry serenades the couples with his romance-oriented hits, “Your Love Amazes Me” and “I Will If You Will.”
  • 1995 Singer Nina Simone fires a gun at a pair of noisy teenagers playing next door to her home in southern France. She is put on 18 months probation and ordered to seek psychological counseling.
  • 1992 Bryan Adams helps two motorists whose car struck his on a highway in St. Gellen, Switzerland. Adams was traveling from Zurich to Vienna as part of a concert tour when the other car skidded out of control, grazed his car and hit an embankment.
  • 1990 Comic Roseanne Barr is booed off the field after she screeches a crotch-grabbing rendition of the national anthem at a Padres baseball game in San Diego. President Bush calls the performance “disgusting.”
  • 1969 Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young give their first live performance at the Fillmore East in New York.
  • 1966 Eric Clapton plays lead guitar for George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on the album “The Beatles” (also known as “The White Album”).
  • 1965 Bob Dylan performs his first non-acoustic set at the Newport Folk Festival to a hostile crowd.
  • 1962 The Elvis Presley film “Kid Galahad” premieres.