Today in Rock History... [05.19]

1919 -- Pete Seeger was born.

1945 -- Pete Townshend was born.

1949 -- Dusty Hill (Z.Z. Top) was born

1951 -- Jeffrey Hyman (a.k.a. Joey Ramone) is born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York.

1960 -- DJ Alan Freed and eight others charged by federal grand jury for commercial bribery, better known as payola. Freed refuses to testify and becomes the scapegoat for others.

1976 -- Keith Richards crashes his Bentley in Buckinghamshire, England, after falling asleep at the wheel. There's more rude awakening to come after police discover cocaine and marijuana in the car.

1998 -- Rod Stewart releases 'When We Were the New Boys,' which contains songs by Oasis, the Waterboys, Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and Nick Lowe – as well as the Faces and Stewart himself, a return to form but, sadly, his last decent album.

"A great singer of great songs, but a shitty singer of shitty songs as well" -- Ron Wood on Rod