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Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day: Tom Jones lost a paternity suit in July of 1989 and was ordered to pay $200 a week in child support to 27 year old Katherine Berkery of New York. The judge in the case was Judith B. Sheindlin, who was still serving in her fifteen year tenure as a New York Family Court judge before appearing in her TV show, Judge Judy. #RockTrivia

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day: George Young, who co-founded AC/DC along with his brothers Angus and Malcolm, was the lead guitarist for a band called The Easybeats, who scored a Billboard Top 20 hit in 1967 with "Friday On My Mind". #RockTrivia

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day: On June 7th, 1979, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service charged Chuck Berry with three counts of tax evasion. Just hours later, he performed at a concert for President Jimmy Carter on the front lawn of the White House. #RockTrivia

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day: Members of The Beach Boys sang background vocals for Chicago's "Wishing You Were Here" and Elton John's "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me". #RockTrivia

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day: The Zombies 1964 #2 smash, "She's Not There", was only the third song that Rod Argent ever wrote. He was just eighteen at the time. #RockTrivia

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day: Elvis Presley offered the press a chance to interview him in June of 1972 for a fee of $120,000. There were no takers. #RockTrivia

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day: At one point, The Beach Boys' Mike Love, keyboard player Billy Preston, Marilyn McCoo and Ron Townsend of The Fifth Dimension and guitarist Johnny Echols of the L.A. band Love, all attended Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. #RockTrivia

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day: The Kingsmen's Jack Ely once said that when the band entered the studio, their intention was to record "Louie Louie" as an instrumental, but they changed their mind at the last minute and he decided to add a vocal track. #RockTrivia

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day: Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs' 1965 #2 hit "Wooly Bully" was the first Billboard Record of the Year not to have topped a weekly Hot 100. #RockTrivia

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day

Rock n' Roll Trivia of the Day: Country singer Tanya Tucker was such a big Elvis fan, she named one of her daughters "Presley." #RockTrivia