Births
1911: Maxine Sullivan (Blues & Jazz Singer)
1912: Gil Evans (Jazz Pianist)
1914: Johnnie Wright (Johnnie and Jack)
1933: Mike Stoller (Writer)
1941: Ritchie Valens (Guitarist & Singer)
1943: Mary Wells (R&B Singer)
1945: Magic Dick (Harmonica for J. Geils Band)
1949: Overend Watts (Bass for Mott The Hoople)
1950: Danny Kirwan (Guitarist for Fleetwood Mac)
1950: Stevie Wonder (R&B Singer & Piano Player)
1951: Paul Thompson (Drummer for Roxy Music)
1966: Darius Rucker (Singer & Guitar for Hootie & The Blowfish)
1979: Michael Madden (Bass for Maroon 5)
Events
1938: Louis Armstrong recorded "When The Saints Go Marching In".
1955: At tonight's show in Jacksonville, FL, Elvis Presley tells the girls who make up the majority of the 14,000-plus crowd that he'll "see (them) backstage." The crowd proceeds to do just that, ripping the King's clothes, causing Elvis' first-ever riot and, reportedly, convincing Tom Parker about Elvis' popularity once and for all.
1957: Elvis begins filming his third movie, Jailhouse Rock, in Hollywood.
1960: The juvenile delinquent movie Platinum High School, starring Conway Twitty, opens in New York.
1965: Elvis Presley's sixteenth movie, Tickle Me, premieres in Hollywood.
1966: The Kinks recorded the single "Sunny Afternoon".
1966: The Rolling Stones release "Paint It Black".
1967: The Supremes scored their 10th US No.1 single with 'The Happening'. It was the last single to be released as the Supremes, from now on they were known as Diana Ross and the Supremes.
1969: The Beatles meet at EMI House in London to replicate the cover of their first LP, Please Please Me, now with beards and long hair, for the cover of their next project, Get Back. When that project morphs into Let It Be, the photo is eventually used for the cover of their "blue album," The Beatles 1967-1970.
1970: The Beatles' last film, the misbegotten documentary Let It Be, premieres in New York.
1970: Badfinger recorded "No Matter What".
1971: Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick accidentally wrecks her Mercedes on a wall near the Golden Gate Bridge, forcing the band to put off recording its new album until the singer recovers from her injuries.
1971: Motown child prodigy Stevie Wonder turns 21, and is by law released from his recording contract and given $1 million of the $30 million he has earned while at the label. Nevertheless, after gaining complete artistic control, Wonder resigns to Tamla.
1971: James Brown recorded the single "Hot Pants".
1974: An unlikely riot occurs at tonight's Jackson 5 concert at RFK Stadium in Washington DC when impatient fans begin smashing bottles in the parking lot. Fifty fans are injured; forty-three are brought to jail.
1975: Bob Wills (Country Artist) died of pneumonia.
1977: Linda Ronstadt indirectly declines an offer placed in Hustler magazine, promising a million dollars to any of ten female celebrities (including Ronstadt) willing to pose for a nude photo shoot.
1978: With Yvonne Elliman's version of "If I Can't Have You" reaching the top of Billboard's pop chart, the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb becomes the first songwriter in history to have written four consecutive Number One US singles.
1981: Joan Weber (Pop Singer) died of heart failure at a mental institution.
1985: Bruce Springsteen marries his first wife, model and actress Julianne Phillips, in Lake Oswego, OR, with Little Richard officiating and Percy Sledge singing "When A Man Loves A Woman." The couple would divorce in 1989.
1988: Chet Baker was found dead on Prins Hendrikkade, near Zeedijk, on the street below his second-story room (Room 210) of Hotel Prins Hendrik in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with serious wounds to his head. Heroin and cocaine were found in his hotel room, and an autopsy also found these drugs in his body. There was no evidence of a struggle, and the death was ruled an accident.
1993: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bette Midler and Barry White were guest voices on the season finale of the "The Simpsons." The episode was entitled "Krusty Gets Kancelled."
2003: Michael Jackson sues Motown records for alleged nonpayment of Jackson 5 royalties and unauthorized usage of the group's music in TV commercials.
2004: In an Australian radio interview, Gene Simmons of KISS states of Islam: "This is a vile culture, and if you think for a second that it's willing to just live in the sands of God's armpit you've got another thing coming... they want to come and live right where you live and they think that you're evil." After a flood of angry calls from Muslims, Simmons claims he was speaking only of extremists.
2007: Queen's Brian May is put on a round-the-clock watch after a schizophrenic leaves a letter at the guitarist's home blaming him for his mental illness, claiming himself as the real Brian May, and marking the guitarist for death.
2007: After complaining of not feeling well during a gig in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the day before, and after becoming notably disoriented at the airport the next day, Bo Diddley is found to have suffered a mild stroke and is hospitalized at Crieghton University Medical Center in nearby Omaha, NE.
2008: The Turtles' Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, better known as "Flo and Eddie," sue Capitol Records for allowing the Ice Cube to sample the group's 1972 song "Buzzsaw" for Cube's 1992 hit "Jackin' For Beats."
2008: The US Postal Service issued a 42-cent postage stamp in honor of Frank Sinatra. The design showed a 1950s-vintage image of Sinatra, wearing a hat.
