Births
1912: Gil
Evans (Jazz Pianist)
1933: Mike
Stoller (Composer)
1941: Ritchie
Valens (Guitarist & Singer)
1943: Mary
Wells (R&B Singer)
1945: Magic
Dick (Harmonica for J. Geils Band)
1947: Overend
Watts (Bass for Mott The Hoople)
1950: Danny
Kirwan (Guitarist & Vocals for Fleetwood Mac)
1950: Stevie
Wonder (R&B Singer & Piano Player)
1951: Paul
Thompson (Drummer for Roxy Music)
1966: Darius Rucker (Singer & Guitar for
Hootie & The Blowfish & Solo)
1966: Goldfrapp (Alison Goldfrapp) (Singer)
1969: Buckethead (Brian Carroll) (Guitarist)
1979: Michael Madden (Bass for Maroon 5)
Events
1938: Louis
Armstrong recorded "When The Saints Go Marching In".
1955: At
tonight's show in Jacksonville, FL, Elvis Presley tells the girls who make up
the majority of the 14,000-plus crowd that he'll "see (them)
backstage." The crowd proceeds to do just that, ripping the King's
clothes, causing Elvis' first-ever riot and, reportedly, convincing Tom Parker
about Elvis' popularity once and for all.
1957: Elvis
begins filming his third movie, Jailhouse Rock, in Hollywood.
1966: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band gives its first
performance at The Paradox in Orange, California.
1967: The Supremes scored their 10th US No.1
single with 'The Happening'. It was the
last single to be released as the Supremes, from now on they were known as
Diana Ross and the Supremes.
1969: The
Beatles meet at EMI House in London to replicate the cover of their first LP, Please
Please Me, now with beards and long hair, for the cover of their next
project, Get Back. When that project morphs into Let It Be, the
photo is eventually used for the cover of their "blue album," The
Beatles 1967-1970.
1970: The
Beatles' last film, the misbegotten documentary Let It Be, premieres in
New York.
1970:
Badfinger recorded "No Matter What".
1971:
Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick accidentally wrecks her Mercedes on a wall
near the Golden Gate Bridge, forcing the band to put off recording its new
album until the singer recovers from her injuries.
1971: Motown
child prodigy Stevie Wonder turns 21, and is by law released from his recording
contract and given $1 million of the $30 million he has earned while at the
label. Nevertheless, after gaining complete artistic control, Wonder resigns to
Tamla.
1974: An
unlikely riot occurs at tonight's Jackson 5 concert at RFK Stadium in
Washington DC when impatient fans begin smashing bottles in the parking lot.
Fifty fans are injured; forty-three are brought to jail.
1975: Bob
Wills (Country Artist) died of pneumonia.
1977: Linda
Ronstadt indirectly declines an offer placed in Hustler magazine,
promising a million dollars to any of ten female celebrities (including
Ronstadt) willing to pose for a nude photo shoot.
1978: With
Yvonne Elliman's version of "If I Can't Have You" reaching the top of
Billboard's pop chart, the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb becomes the first
songwriter in history to have written four consecutive Number One US singles.
1985: Bruce
Springsteen marries his first wife, model and actress Julianne Phillips, in
Lake Oswego, OR, with Little Richard officiating and Percy Sledge singing
"When A Man Loves A Woman." The couple would divorce in 1989.
1988: Chet
Baker was found dead on Prins Hendrikkade, near Zeedijk, on the street below
his second-story room (Room 210) of Hotel Prins Hendrik in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, with serious wounds to his head. Heroin and cocaine were found in
his hotel room, and an autopsy also found these drugs in his body. There was no
evidence of a struggle, and the death was ruled an accident.
1993: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bette Midler and
Barry White were guest voices on the season finale of the "The
Simpsons." The episode was entitled "Krusty Gets Kancelled."
2000: Happy Monday’s singer Shaun Ryder's
Volkswagen Corrado was found abandoned after being used as the getaway car. It
was used in an armed robbery on Harry Ramsden's fish and chip restaurant in
Manchester. $13,000 cash was taken in the robbery.
2003: Michael
Jackson sues Motown records for alleged nonpayment of Jackson 5 royalties and
unauthorized usage of the group's music in TV commercials.
2004: In an
Australian radio interview, Gene Simmons of KISS states of Islam: "This is
a vile culture, and if you think for a second that it's willing to just live in
the sands of God's armpit you've got another thing coming... they want to come
and live right where you live and they think that you're evil." After a
flood of angry calls from Muslims, Simmons claims he was speaking only of
extremists.
2007: Queen's
Brian May is put on a round-the-clock watch after a schizophrenic leaves a
letter at the guitarist's home blaming him for his mental illness, claiming
himself as the real Brian May, and marking the guitarist for death.
2007: After
complaining of not feeling well during a gig in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the day
before, and after becoming notably disoriented at the airport the next day, Bo
Diddley is found to have suffered a mild stroke and is hospitalized at
Crieghton University Medical Center in nearby Omaha, NE.
2008: The
Turtles' Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, better known as "Flo and
Eddie," sue Capitol Records for allowing the Ice Cube to sample the
group's 1972 song "Buzzsaw" for Cube's 1992 hit "Jackin' For
Beats."
2008: The US Postal Service issued a 42-cent
postage stamp in honor of Frank Sinatra. The design showed a 1950s-vintage
image of Sinatra, wearing a hat. It was
also the first “Frank Sinatra Day” to celebrate the day before his death in
1998.
2011: The
surviving members of Pink Floyd reunited at London's O2 Arena for a rare
collaboration, after swearing that they would never tour again upon breaking up
in the mid-80s. David Gilmour joined Roger Waters and Nick Mason for renditions
of "Comfortably Numb" and "Outside the Wall."
2011: Lloyd
Knibb, an influential Jamaican drummer who played with the Skatalites and
helped develop the ska beat, died from liver cancer.
