Births
1945: Ric Grech (Bass for Blind Faith & Traffic)
1949: David Foster (Producer)
1950: Dan Peek (Guitar and vocals for America)
1957: Lyle Lovett (Country Artist)
1959: Eddie Macdonald (Bass for The Alarm)
1962: Anthony Kiedis (Singer for Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1962: Mags Furuholmen (Guitar & Keyboards for A-Ha)
1963: Rick Allen (Drums for Def Leppard)
1972: Jenny McCarthy (Just because)
1981: LaTavia Roberson (Original member of Destiny's Child)
Events
1955: Macon, GA R&B favorites The Famous Flames enter local radio station WIBB to record a demo of their first song, "Please, Please, Please." The primitive scorcher, featuring lead singer James Brown pleading into a single microphone while standing on a Coca-Cola carton, would be rejected by several record labels before finally being picked up by Federal Records in Cincinnati.
1959: Ray Charles leaves his old label, Atlantic, for ABC-Paramount Records.
1959: Elvis Presley's current stint in the Army means that for the first time in nearly five years, no Elvis single resides on the Billboard charts.
1964: Yet another British Invasion band makes its US television debut on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show: The Dave Clark Five, whose clean-cut image visibly relieves the host, who is still suffering from the Stones riot of a few days' earlier. After the band plays "Glad All Over," Ed goes out of his way to tag them as "nice, neat boys."
1965: The Rolling Stones' concert in Rochester, NY, ends abruptly when 3,000 rabid fans storm the stage after just seven minutes. After three more attempts to resume the show, it's cancelled by police, with only six songs having been played.
1968: George Harrison released his first solo album, 'Wonderwall Music' on the Apple label. The songs which were mostly Harrison instrumentals, featured Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and an unaccredited banjo contribution by Peter Tork of The Monkees.
1970: ABBA, then known as the Festfolk Quartet, play their first-ever concert at a Gothenburg, Sweden restaurant.
1975: Due to lead singer Karen Carpenter's struggle with anorexia, the Carpenters are forced to cancel their upcoming European tour.
1979: Bob Dylan debuts the songs from his new album, a Christian polemic called Slow Train Coming, on the first night of his new tour in San Francisco, CA. A shocked audience boos the new material throughout the set.
1980: Bruce Springsteen scored his first No.1 US album with 'The River', featuring the US No.5 single 'Hungry Heart.'
1993: Flavor Flav (William Drayton )from Public Enemy was arrested charged with attempted murder of his neighbor. Flav claimed he had sex with his girlfriend.
