Births
1925: B.B.
King (Riley B. King) (Blues Guitarist &
Singer / Songwriter)
1941: Joe
Butler (Lead Vocals for The Lovin' Spoonful)
1944: Betty
Kelly (Singer in Martha and the Vandellas)
1948: Kenney
Jones (Drummer for The Small Faces & The Who)
1948: Ron Blair (Bass for Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers)
1953: Earl
Klugh (Jazz Pianist / Guitarist)
1954: Colin Newman (Guitar & Vocals for Wire)
1961: Bilinda Butcher (Guitar & Vocals for My
Bloody Valentine)
1963: Richard Marx (Singer / Songwriter)
1964: David “The Snake” Sabo (Guitar for Skid
Row)
1968: Marc Anthony (Marco Antonio Muñiz ) (Latin American Singer)
1969: Justine Frischmann (Guitar & Vocals for
Elastica)
1977: Musiq Soulchild (Taalib Johnson) (R&B
Singer)
1988: Teddy Geiger (Singer / Songwriter)
1992: Nick Jonas (Singer / Songwriter)
Events
1959: Dick
Clark's first "Caravan of Stars" tour opens in New York, featuring
The Coasters, The Drifters, Lloyd Price, LaVern Baker, Duane Eddy, Paul Anka
and Annette Funicello.
1963:
Currently the #1 song in England, the Beatles' "She Loves You" is
released by the tiny Swan label in America, but the stateside public has no
idea who the group is, and the single fails to chart. Four months later, after
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" and the attendant Beatlemania, a
re-released "She Loves You" single will reach #1 in the US as well.
1964: ABC-TV
premieres the musical variety show Shindig!, featuring the Everly
Brothers, the Righteous Brothers, and Bobby Sherman.
1965: NBC-TV
premieres The Dean Martin Show, featuring the theme song (and recent
hit) "Everybody Loves Somebody," and, later, a chorus of beautiful
showgirls named The Golddiggers. The famously laid-back and largely improvised
show, which made stars of Dom DeLuise, Charles Nelson Reilly, Tom Bosley, and
Nipsey Russell, would run for a full decade.
1966: Tom
Drilberg, MP of Barking, England, asks the House of Lords to censure a
magistrate who'd recently spoken out against the Rolling Stones as
"complete morons (who) wear their hair down to their shoulders, wear
filthy clothes and act like clowns."
1966: Pete
Quaife, bassist for the Kinks, leaves the band after injuries from a recent car
crash threaten his ability to play. He will eventually return and stay with the
band through 1969.
1970: Jimi
Hendrix takes the stage at an Eric Burdon and War concert at London club Ronnie
Scott's, marking the last time the guitarist will ever play in public.
1972: Former
Herd and Humble Pie guitarist Peter Frampton plays his first solo gig, opening
for the J. Geils Band in New York.
1977: Marc
Bolan (Singer & Guitar for T. Rex) was a passenger in a purple Mini 1275GT
driven by Gloria Jones as they headed home from Mortons drinking club and
restaurant in Berkeley Square, London. Jones lost control of the car and it
struck a sycamore tree after failing to negotiate a small humpback bridge near
Gipsy Lane on Queens Ride, Barnes, southwest London. Bolan died instantly at 29 years old.
1979: The first rap single was released, The
Sugarhill Gang's 'Rapper's Delight' at 14:59 minutes long.
1988: Former Clash drummer Topper Headon was
released from jail after serving 10 months of a 15-month sentence on a
narcotics charge.
1988: Singer
Fish (Derek William Dick) leaves
rock group Marillion.
1991: Willie Nelson and makeup artist Ann-Marie
D'Angelo got married. It's his fourth marriage.
1993: Grace Slick's (Jefferson Airplane / Starship)
home was destroyed by fire.
1998: The members of Mott The Hoople played
together for the first time in 24 years at the Virgin Megastore on London's
Oxford Street.
2004: Weather Girls singer Izora Armstead died aged
62 of heart failure at a hospital in San Leandro, East San Francisco. Also
member of Two Tons O' Fun featured on four Sylvester albums, including '(You
Make Me Feel) Mighty Real.'
2006: Bob
Dylan's new album Modern Times goes to #1 in Billboard's album
chart, making the 65-year-old the oldest musician to ever hold that honor until
2011’s Tony Bennett Album “Duet’s II”.
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