Births
1922: Charles
Mingus (Jazz Bass Player)
1927: Laurel
Aitken (Ska Singer)
1936: Glen
Campbell (Country Singer)
1950: Peter
Frampton (Singer & Guitarist)
1951: Paul Carrack (Keyboards, Guitar& Vocals
for Mike & The Mechanics, Squeeze & Solo)
1956: Kenny Lyons (Bass for .38 Special & The
Lemonheads)
1974: Shavo Odadjian (Bassist for System of a
Down)
1978: Aaron Fink (Guitar for Breaking Benjamin)
1979: Daniel Johns (Singer & Guitar for
Silverchair)
Events
1956: Elvis Presley made
his Las Vegas debut at the Frontier Hotel.
1957: Elvis Presley had
his custom built ‘Music Gates’ installed at Gracelands. The gates were designed
by Abe Saucer and custom built by John Dillars Jr, of Memphis Doors inc.
1959: The
Alan Freed "rock and roll movie" Go, Johnny, Go premieres in
New York, featuring Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran,
The Cadillacs, and the Flamingos.
1962: Jerry
Lee Lewis loses his first son, Steve Allen (named after the TV host and good
friend), in a tragic drowning accident at the age of three.
1964: The
President of England's National Federation of Hairdressers makes headlines when
he offers a free haircut to the next rock group to reach Number One.
1966: A young
Bruce Springsteen gets a boost when his band The Castiles wins a battle of the
bands contest at a roller rink in Matawan, NJ. The first prize? Opening for the
Crystals and the Ad-Libs at next week's show.
1966: 'Wild Thing' by The Troggs (who were
originally called The Troglodytes) was released in the U.S. on both the Atco
and Fontana labels. The song went on to reach No.1. Fronted by Reg Presley,
'Wild Thing' became a major influence on garage rock and punk rock.
1968: Herb
Alpert sings a Burt Bacharach composition, "This Guy's In Love With
You," to his wife on the Tijuana Brass' CBS special Beat Of The Brass,
sparking a national demand for the song, which results in it being released a
few weeks later. It goes on to sell a million records.
1969: On the
roof of Apple headquarters at 3 Savile Row, London, John Winston Lennon has his
name legally changed to John Ono Lennon.
1969: Today
is Tommy Day. The Who perform their new rock opera Tommy for the first
time on stage in its entirety at a concert in Dolton, England; five years later
to the day, the group begins filming the movie version (with Tina Turner's turn
as the Acid Queen being filmed first), and, on the same date in 1993, the
Broadway play based on the album opens.
1976: Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady"
became the first single to sell over 2 million copies.
1978: Bob
Marley headlines the historic One Love Peace Concert in Jamaica, the
singer's first appearance in his home country since an assassination attempt
two years before. At the concert, Marley manages to unite Jamaican Prime
Minister Michael Manley with rival Edward Seaga, who had both been using local
warlords to battle for power.
1978: On
tonight's Saturday Night Live, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd team up to
debut two new characters called "The Blues Brothers," who perform a
cover of Sam and Dave's "Soul Man."
1979: The
Rolling Stones play two concerts in Oshawa, Ontario for the Canadian National
Institute for the Blind, a result of court-ordered community service for
guitarist Keith Richards, busted two years earlier in Toronto for heroin possession.
1981: Eric
Clapton is involved in a car crash near Seattle and is hospitalized with
bruised ribs and lacerations, a mere two days after being released from
hospitalization for ulcer treatment in St. Paul, MN.
1991: The Dave Matthews Band played their first
ever-live show when they appeared at The Earth Day festival in Charlottesville,
Virginia.
1998: It was announced that Faith No More was
breaking up.
2008: Singer
Paul Davis died of a heart attack at the Rush Foundation Hospital in Meridian,
Mississippi.
2010: Bret Michaels (Poison) was rushed to the
hospital. It was discovered that he had suffered from a brain hemmorage. Two
weeks earlier Michaels had been taken to the hospital and underwent an
emergency appendectomy.
2011: LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian got married at
an intimate wedding at a private residence in California.
