Births
1934: Uriel Jones (Drummer for The Funk Brothers)
1940: Bobby Freeman (R&B Singer)
1941: Marv Tarplin (Guitarist for The Miracles)
1942: James Carr (R&B Singer)
1949: Dennis Locorriere (Dr. Hook) (Singer)
1951: Howard Leese (Guitar for Heart & Bad Company)
1963: Robbie Merrill (Bassist for Godsmack)
1968: David Gray (Singer & Songwriter)
1969: Jamie Walters (Singer & Guitarist)
1970: Rivers Cuomo (Lead Singer & Guitar for Weezer)
Events
1958: A 17-year-old Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, CA.
1959: US Army Private Elvis Presley receives a 15-day furlough and uses it to travel to Paris, ostensibly to meet film sexpot Brigitte Bardot. While there, he and his entourage take up a suite at the Prince De Galles Hotel (on the Champs Elysees) and visit the Moulin Rouge and also the Lido club, home of the famous dancers the Bluebell Girls. Elvis and company take some of the girls back to the hotel tonight, a practice they would continue throughout his leave.
1964: The Rolling Stones' first major US television appearance is made on ABC's Hollywood Palace, a variety show with rotating host spots. This week's host, Dean Martin, who has made no secret of his dislike for rock in general and the British Invasion in particular, mocks the Stones at every turn for their long hair and seeming delinquency; after acrobat Larry Griswold performs several death-defying trampoline stunts, Martin claims, "That's the father of the Rolling Stones. He's been trying to kill himself ever since."
1969: The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown announces its breakup.
1970: Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac) released a solo album and then announced her retirment from music. She later came out of retirement.
1971: Frank Sinatra performs his "retirement" concert at Los Angeles' Music Center, although he would return to the stage, the studio, and the television screen just two years later.
1972: R&B Singer Clyde McPhatter, original lead vocalist with The Drifters, died of a heart attack in his sleep at the age of 39 from complications of heart, liver, and kidney disease, brought on by alcohol abuse. He joined Billy Ward & the Dominoes in 1950, formed The Drifters in 1953, had several solo hits including 1962 'Lover Please,' was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
1975: John Lennon makes what would prove to be his last TV appearance, performing "Imagine" and a cover of Little Richard's "Slippin' And Slidin'" on the ABC special A Salute To Sir Lew Grade.
1980: Charles Miller (Sax and Flute for War) was murdered in Los Angeles.
1986: Benny Goodman died from a heart attack in New York City in 1986 at the age of 77.
1988: Stevie Wonder and a host of pop stars perform a charity concert at London's Wembley Stadium for struggling children's charities in apartheid-torn South Africa, as well as anti-apartheid causes in the UK.
1989: Jerry Lee Lewis is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 6631 Hollywood Boulevard.
1992: Billy Ray Cyrus started a 17-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Some Gave All'.
1992 : Law enforcement officials in Texas called for a ban on Ice-T's Rock Band “Body Count”s "Cop Killer" album.
1995: Alanis Morissette released 'Jagged Little Pill'. The album went on to sell over 30 million copies world-wide making Morissette the first female Canadian to score a US No.1 album.
1995: Country Singer Ty Hernodon was arrested by an undercover officer on drug possession charges.
2000: Singer Bobby Brown admitted he was an alcoholic, saying, 'I have a disease, I am an addict, I am an alcoholic'. The singer made the admission while appearing in a Florida court.
2003: Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers is awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the annual Queen's Birthday Honours. Errol Brown of Hot Chocolate is similarly honored; Pink Floyd's David Gilmour is awarded the much higher CBE (Commander of the British Empire).
2004: After Rapper 50 Cent mentioned R. Kelly's pending child pornography trial during an appearance at the New York Summer Jam XI concert, chairs were thrown onstage forcing 50 Cent and his G-Unit crew to leave the stage area.
2005: After a sensational 16-week trial in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson is found innocent of child molestation charges.
2006: Heather Mills, ex-model, activist, and estranged wife of Paul McCartney, announces her intention to divorce the ex-Beatle.
2008, A Chicago jury acquitted R. Kelly of all 14 charges of child pornography against him. The US singer was found not guilty of making an explicit sex video that prosecutors had said showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13. Both Kelly and the alleged victim, now 23, denied they were the people shown on the tape, which the jury saw. The defence argued that the man in the tape did not have a large mole on his back as does Mr Kelly, and that the tape could have been doctored.
2011: Clarence Clemons, saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen's iconic E Street Band, suffered a stroke at his home in Florida.
