September 7

Births

1930: Sonny Rollins (Jazz Sax Player)

1936: Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) (Guitarist & Singer / Songwriter)

1949: Gloria Gaynor (Disco Singer)

1951: Chrissie Hynde (Vocals for The Pretenders)

1954: Benmont Tench (Keyboards for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)

1956: Michael Feinstein (Pianist & Singer)

1957: Jermaine Stewart (Singer for Shalamar & Solo)

1961: LeRoi Moore (Saxophonist for Dave Matthews Band)

1964: Eazy-E (Eric Lynn Wright) (Rapper for NWA)

1966: Chris Acland (Drummer for Lush)

1970: Chad Sexton (Drummer for 311)

Events

1957: Sam Cooke's first single "You Send Me" was released.

1958: Riding the crest of the nation's latest youth craze, Georgia Gibbs performs "The Hula-Hoop Song" on tonight's broadcast of CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show.

1963: The Rolling Stones' debut UK single, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Come On," stalls at #21.

1966: Roy Orbison begins filming his one and only starring role, in the unlikely Western comedy The Fastest Guitar Alive, with a cameo by Sam "The Sham" Samudio of "Wooly Bully" fame.

1968: Led Zeppelin take the stage for the first time, still under the Yardbirds name, at Denmark's Teen-Clubs Box 45. On the same night, the Doors make their UK stage debut at London's Roundhouse Club.

1969: After a four-year US run, ABC-TV cancels the Beatles' cartoon series. The show had debuted on September 25, 1965.

1973: Having threatened to clear the label's roster of illegal drug abusers, and after hesitating when Eric Burdon of the Animals requests to have his contract terminated for just that reason, Mike Curb leaves his post as president of MGM Records.

1973: Infamous adult-movie star Linda Lovelace opens Elton John's show at the Hollywood Bowl by introducing Elton as "the biggest, largest, most gigantic and fantastic man" and "the co-star of my next movie."

1975: The Guess Who hold their final concert in Montreal, though leaders Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman have reunited onstage since then.

1976: Abba were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Dancing Queen', the group's fourth UK No.1 single and their only US No.1 chart topper. The song was a No.1 hit in over a dozen countries and stayed at the top of the Swedish charts for 14 weeks.

1978: Keith Moon (drummer for The Who) died of a drug overdose at age 31.  He took 32 tablets of Clomethiazole (Heminevrin) prescribed to combat alcoholism, with only 6 that cause death.  The other 26 were undissolved in his body.

1984: 18 year-old Janet Jackson announced that she had married singer James Debarge. The couple split the following year.

1985: Ringo Starr becomes the proud grandfather of Tatia Jayne by his son Zak -- the first Beatle to be so honored.

1986: Completing the Monkees' unlikely comeback, Michael Nesmith finally relents and joins the group for its first full stage reunion in Los Angeles.

1991: Gloria Estefan was awarded damages of $5 million for the injuries she sustained when her tour bus was involved in an accident.

1991: Brooks & Dunn reach #1 in Billboard for the first time with "Brand New Man".

1991: Motley Crue signed a record deal for which they were guaranteed $22.5 million.

1996: Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres married model Eva Herzigova.

1996: Tupac Shakur and Marion "Suge" Knight are shot while in Las Vegas after a Mike Tyson fight. Shakur died six days later.

2000: Timothy Commerford (Rage Against the Machine) was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Commerford had climbed a scaffold during the MTV Music Awards delaying the show 20 minutes.

2001: During his 30th Anniversary celebration at Madison Square Garden, Michael Jackson is reunited onstage with the Jackson 5 for the first time since 1984.

2003: Warren Zevon died of cancer.

2010: Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney and wife Tiffany Fallon have a daughter, Raquel Blue Rooney.

2010: Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was voted the greatest ‘lighter in the air song of all time’ by lighter company Zippo. Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway To Heaven’, was voted in at No. 2 and Meat Loaf’s ‘I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)’ was at No. 3 in the survey.