Births
1932: Casey Kasem (Radio DJ)
1944: Cuba Gooding, Sr. (Singer in The Main Ingredient)
1946: Gordon Haskell (Singer
& Bass for King Crimson)
1947: Pete Ham (Vocals & Guitar in Badfinger)
1948: Kate Pierson (Vocals for
The B-52's)
1949: Herbie Murrell (The Stylistics)
1951: Ace Frehley (Guitar in KISS)
1959: Marco Pirroni (Guitar for
Adam And The Ant)
1959: Sheena Easton (Pop Singer)
1972: Bob Coombes (Keyboards for
Supergrass)
1979: Will Boyd (Bass for
Evanescence)
1984: Patrick Stump (Lead singer
& Rhythm Guitarist for Fall Out Boy)
Events
1956: Capitol Records signs Gene Vincent, intending to market
him as the next Elvis.
1957: Elvis makes his second and last appearance outside of
the US, wearing his classic gold lame suit for the last time as he plays
Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens.
1968: Simon and Garfunkel release the single "Mrs. Robinson".
1969: Joe Cocker makes his television debut, singing
"Feelin' Alright" on tonight's episode of CBS' Ed Sullivan Show.
1969: Jose Feliciano's TV special Very Special, guest
starring Glen Campbell and Dionne Warwick, airs on NBC.
1970: John Lennon's explicit "Bag One" lithographs
are returned to the London Arts Gallery exhibition after a High Court judge
rules them "unlikely to deprave or corrupt."
1971: The Grateful Dead appeared
at the Fillmore East in New York City. The Beach Boys also appeared on stage
with the Dead, who together performed a short set of Beach Boys songs.
1975: 511 audience members are in custody in Los Angeles for
smoking marijuana during Pink Floyd's recent five nights at the Los Angeles
Arena.
1976: David Bowie is detained at the Poland-Russian border
after Nazi memorabilia (mostly books) are found in his luggage. The singer, who
claims they're research for an upcoming film about Joseph Goebbels, is
released.
1979: At a Duke Ellington tribute concert held at UCLA,
Stevie Wonder makes a surprise appearance to sing his hit tribute "Sir
Duke" and also Ellington's own "C-Jam Blues."
1980: The legendary New York disco of discos, Studio 54,
closes its doors after exactly three years and a day due to violations of city
liquor licenses.
1981: Ringo Starr marries his second wife, actress Barbara
Bach, a former "Bond girl" and model he met while filming the flop
comedy Caveman. The two are married at the Marylebone Registrar's Office in
London with the other two surviving Beatles attending.
1984: Blues Singer Z.Z. Hill died in Dallas at the age of 48
from a heart attack after a road accident.
1988: Queensryche released the album "Operation: Mindcrime."
1990: Singer Axl Rose
(Guns N' Roses) married Erin Everly. The marriage lasted for 27 days.
1990: David Bowie plays his Seventies hits for the last time
as he begins his latest American tour, "Sound + Vision."
1991: Bonnie Raitt and Michael O'Keefe were married.
1992: Singer Belinda Carlisle (Go Go’s) Morgan Mason
give broth to a son.
1993: Prince issued a statement
saying he was retiring from studio recordings to concentrate on film and other
ventures.
1994: San Francisco's legendary rock venue the Fillmore
Auditorium reopens, with performances by Smashing Pumpkins and American Music
Club.
1994: A man was arrested after
breaking into Ace Of Base singer Jenny Berggren's home. Jenny was asleep at the
time and woke up to find the man above her holding a hunting knife.
1999: Jazz trumpeter Al Hirt died, aged 76, in New Orleans of
liver failure, after spending the previous year in a wheelchair due to edema in
his leg.
1999: UK band The Verve
announced that they had split.
2000: Vicki Sue Robinson died eleven days after the release
of Red Lipstick. Robinson died of cancer
at her home in Wilton, Connecticut. She was thirty-five days short of reaching
the age of 46.
2003: Iggy Pop reuintes with the Stooges for the first time
in three decades at the close of this year's Coachella festival.
2004: Elton John publicly responds to American Idol's snub of
Jennifer Hudson by declaring the call-in voters "incredibly racist."
2006: 63-year-old Keith Richards falls from a palm tree while
vacationing in Fiji, landing on his head and causing a hemorrhage that required
doctors to drain his skull. He makes a full recovery.
2009: Pearl Jam bassist Jeff
Ament was the victim of a robbery outside Southern Tracks Recording studios in
Atlanta, where the band were recording. Ament and a band employee had arrived
at the rear of the studio when three assailants brandishing knives emerged from
the woods wearing black masks and smashed the windows of a rented Jeep. The
robbers grabbed a BlackBerry and Ament’s passport and stole $3,000 in cash and
$4,320 worth of goods.
2009: Aerosmith were to hold a
free concert in Hawaii to placate angry fans who brought a legal case against
them. Fans filed a class action case, which claimed the band had cancelled a
sold-out show in Maui two years ago, leaving hundreds of fans out of pocket in
favour of a bigger gig in Chicago. Lawyers for the would-be concert-goers said
Aerosmith had now agreed to put on a new show, and would pay all expenses.
‘Everyone who bought a ticket to the original concert will receive a free
ticket.
2011: 70’s folk singer Phoebe
Snow died from complications of a brain hemorrhage she suffered in January 2010.
