Births
1888: Irving
Berlin (Composer)
1941: Eric
Burdon (Singer for The Animals & Solo)
1947: Butch
Trucks (Drummer for The Allman Brothers)
1966: Christoph "Doom" Schneider
(Drummer for Rammstein)
1988: Ace Hood (Antoine McColister) (Rapper)
Events
1957: The
Everly Brothers make their stage debut in Nashville at the Grand Ole Opry.
1957: Buddy
Holly and the Crickets fail an audition to appear on CBS-TV's Arthur
Godfrey's Talent Scouts.
1958: Connie Francis was at No.1 on the UK
singles chart with a cover of the 1923 song 'Who's Sorry Now.' Francis was the
first female rock 'n' roll star to reach No.1.
1959: Annette
Funicello makes her first appearance as Gina Minelli on tonight's "Gina
From Italy" episode of CBS-TV's sitcom Make Room For Daddy.
1963: The Beatles started a 30 week run at No.1
on the UK album charts with their debut album 'Please Please Me', making it the
longest running No.1 album by a group ever. The bands follow up 'With The
Beatles' replaced it at the top of the charts on 7th December 1963 and stayed
there for 21 weeks.
1964:
Britain's latest hot group, the Rolling Stones, are nonetheless refused service
for lunch at Bristol, England's Grand Hotel because they're not properly
attired in jackets and ties. The next day, the Daily Express calls them
"the ugliest group in Britain" and remarks, "The Rolling Stones
gather no lunch."
1965: The
Byrds make their television debut, singing their cover of Bob Dylan's "Mr.
Tambourine Man" on NBC's musical variety show Hullabaloo.
1967: ABC-TV
broadcasts its musical special ABC Stage 67: Rodgers and Hart Today,
featuring the songwriting duo's classics being reinterpreted by the likes of
Bobby Darin, The Supremes, The Mamas and the Papas, and Petula Clark.
1970: Sammy
Davis, Jr. marries his third wife, Altovise Gore, a dancer in his current
Broadway hit Golden Boy. The Rev. Jesse Jackson presides; the couple
would remain married for the rest of Davis' life.
1972: John
Lennon makes another celebrated guest appearance on ABC-TV's Dick Cavett Show
and casually tells Cavett that he believes the FBI is wiretapping his phone in
order to gather evidence for his deportment. As it turns out, he's entirely
correct.
1972: David
Cassidy, then at the very peak of his career, appears in a controversial nearly-naked
pose on the cover of Rolling Stone.
1974: Elvis
Presley plays a show at the Los Angeles Forum, attended by members of Led
Zeppelin who were also in town for a gig. Upon learning of his famous fans,
Elvis turns to his backup band after a somewhat sloppy opening number and
jokingly admonishes them: "Wait a minute. Let's see if we can start
together, fellas, because we’ve got Led Zeppelin out there. Let's try to look
like we know what we’re doing." Afterwards, the band meets Elvis backstage
and is more than a little starstruck; Zeppelin manager Peter Grant and Elvis
spontaneously swap their expensive watches, and then Robert Plant, just before
the meeting breaks up, finally summons up the courage to sing Elvis' 1956 hit
"Love Me." Elvis joins in for a few bars.
1975: Cher's
new boyfriend, rocker Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers, appears as a guest
on her CBS-TV show Cher.
1979: Lester
Flatt (Flatt & Scruggs) dies of hear failure.
1981: In July
1977, Bob Marley was found to have acral lentiginous melanoma, a form of
malignant melanoma from a wounded toe playing football. The spread of melanoma
to his lungs and brain caused his death on this day. He was 36.
1988: On the
occasion of his 100th birthday, legendary Tin Pan Alley songwriter Irving
Berlin is serenaded by a crowd of fans singing his standards outside his New
York apartment. That night, Carnegie Hall presents a program of the composer's
hits.
1989: The
late Roy Orbison is posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in
New York, with Eric Clapton presenting the award to Orbison's widow.
1990: The
late Ritchie Valens is finally awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at
6733 Hollywood Blvd.
1995: Jimmy Vaughn, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy
Guy and Robert Cray reunited for a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughn. All five had
played with Vaughan at his last show on August 26, 1990, before he was killed
in a helicopter crash.
1997: Trace Adkins marries Rhonda Forlaw at
Nashville's Belle Meade Mansion in front of 800 people. Adkins sings a song he
wrote for his bride: "The Rest Of Mine".
2002: Over 500 Michael Jackson fans held a
demonstration outside the Sony records building in Berlin complaining that the
label hadn’t promoted the singer's latest album ‘Invincible.’
2003: Jackson
Browne is the guest star (as himself) on tonight's "Brake My Wife,
Please" episode of Fox-TV's The Simpsons.
2003: Noel
Redding (Guitarist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience) died from "shock hemorrhage
due to oesophageal varices in reaction to cirrhosis of the liver".
2004: John
Whitehead (McFadden and Whitehead) was murdered by two unknown gunmen while
fixing his car on the street outside his Philadelphia home with his nephew.
2004: Willie
Nelson cancels ten upcoming concerts in order to get some much-needed carpal
tunnel surgery.
2006: George Michael was involved in his second
minor car crash in a month after a tabloid photographer found Michael asleep in
his parked car in central London. The singer crashed into a bollard after he
woke up and was driving away.
2007: Rapper, The Game, was arrested at his home
in connection with an incident at a basketball game in South Los Angeles in
February 2007. He was alleged to have threatened a person with a gun. The
rapper was released the next day, after posting $50,000 bail.
2008: John
Rutsey (Original Drummer for Rush) died in his sleep of an apparent heart
attack, related to complications from diabetes.
