Births
1925: Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)
1945: Pete
Townshend (Guitar for The Who)
1947: Steve
Currie (Bass for T. Rex)
1948: Tom
Scott (Jazz Saxophonist)
1948: Grace Jones (Singer)
1949: Dusty
Hill (Bass & Vocals for ZZ Top)
1951: Jeffrey Hyman (Joey Ramone) (Vocals for The
Ramones)
1954: Phil
Rudd (Drummer for AC/DC)
1956: Martyn Ware (Keyboard & Vocals for The
Human League & Heaven 17)
1962: Iain Harvie (Guitarist for Del Amitri)
1970: Stuart Cable (Drums for Stereophonics)
1972: Jenny Berggren (Singer & Songwriter for
Ace Of Base)
Events
1958: The
first single to be recorded on an 8-track console, Bobby Darin's "Splish
Splash," is released.
1958: Peggy
Lee recorded "Fever".
1960:
Massively influential DJ Alan Freed is officially indicted, along with seven
others, in the "payola" scandal, charged with accepting over thirty
thousand dollars from six different labels in order to play their songs.
1960: A
17-year-old Annette Funicello blows off her high school graduation ceremony in
order to perform at Radio City Music Hall.
1960: The
Drifters recorded the song "Save The Last Dance For Me".
1961: The
Everly Brothers form the Calliope label, the first artist-owned label to be
formed by a rock group.
1963: For the
first time, female Beatles fans attempt to sneak into the group's dressing room
while they're supporting Roy Orbison at a gig in Hanley, England. The three
girls, who used a ladder to get through the window, are caught but released
without charges after the group signs a few autographs for them.
1965:
Convinced that the lyrics to the Kingsmen's hit "Louie Louie" are as
filthy as urban legends claim, the FBI visits Wand Records to ask a few
questions. Eventually, they decide the group's version of the Richard Berry
R&B classic is too garbled to make out, anyway.
1967: The Beatles held a press party at manager's
Brian Epstein's house in London for the launch of the 'Sgt Pepper's' album.
Linda Eastman was hired as the press photographer.
1969: Coleman
Hawkins (Jazz legend) died of pneumonia.
1973: After
Elvis Presley's critically-savaged debut at the Sahara resort on Lake Tahoe,
and several more cancellations due to "illness," manager Colonel Tom
Parker and Elvis' father Vernon plead with Los Angeles lawyer Ed Hookstratten
to look into Elvis' prescription drug use and identify his main suppliers. With
Elvis unwilling to cooperate, however, the investigation dies a slow death.
1973: Paul Simon released the single ‘Kodachrome’
which became a hit in the US, but was banned from airplay in the UK because it
contained a brand name.
1976: Keith
Richards nods off while driving and crashes his Bentley into a highway divider
just north of London. Unfortunately, police who come to his rescue also find
marijuana and cocaine in the car.
1978: Dire
Straits release their first single "Sultans Of Swing".
1979: Eric Clapton held a party at his Surrey
house celebrating his recent marriage to Patti Boyd. Clapton had set-up a small
stage in the garden and as the evening progressed Paul McCartney, George
Harrison and Ringo Starr ended up jamming together along with Clapton, Ginger
Baker and Mick Jagger. The all-star band ran through old Little Richard and
Eddie Cochran songs.
1979: Jessi
Colter and husband Waylon Jennings, outlaw country's first duo, become the
proud parents of their only child together, son Wayne Albright Jennings.
1980: Ringo
Starr and his fiance, actress Barbra Bach, crash their car very near the spot
where T. Rex's Marc Bolan lost his life in a similar crash, but despite
totaling the car, both are uninjured.
1984: Pink
Floyd's epochal Dark Side Of The Moon LP marks its tenth anniversary,
having never left the Billboard album charts.
1988: James Brown was arrested for the fifth time
in 12 months, following a car chase near his home. He was charged with assault,
resisting arrest and being in charge of illegal weapons, he was given a 6 year
jail sentence.
1998: Sonny
and Cher are awarded with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7020
Hollywood Blvd.
2000:
Guitarist and founder Dickey Betts leaves the Allman Brothers Band over
"creative differences."
2011: Diddy, whose Twitter handle used to read
@iamdiddy, has changed his name to @iamswag. "Allow me to reintroduce
myself- I AM SWAG," the rapper formerly known as Puff Daddy and P. Diddy
posted on Twitter.
