Births
1932: Junior
Parker (Blues Singer & Harmonica)
1935: Ramsey
Lewis (Jazz Pianist)
1939: Don
Williams (Country Singer & Songwriter)
1945: Bruce
Cockburn (Singer / Songwriter)
1948: Pete
Sears (Bass Guitar in Jefferson Starship)
1957: Siouxsie Sioux (Susan Dallion) (Vocals for
Siouxsie And The Banshees)
1958: Neil Finn (Guitar & Vocals for Split
Enz & Crowded House)
1966: Sean Kinney (Drummer for Alice In Chains)
1971: Lisa Left-Eye Lopes (Vocals for TLC)
1975: Andre 3000 (Andre Benjamin) (Rapper in Outkast)
1975: Jadakiss (Rapper)
Events
1957: Buddy
Holly and the Crickets released their first single "That’ll Be The
Day".
1957: Buddy
Holly recorded the singles "Not Fade Away" &
"Everyday".
1961: Johnny
Cash guest stars on tonight's "The Deathly Quiet" episode of NBC-TV's
little-remembered Henry Fonda Western The Deputy.
1962: At the
Grammy Awards in New York, Andy Williams' "Moon River," from the
movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, is named both Record and Song of the Year.
1964: Eleven
schoolboys are suspended from a grammar school in Coventry, England, for
showing up with Mick Jagger-style haircuts.
1966: The
Exploding Plastic Inevitable show, featuring the Velvet Underground and the
Mothers of Invention, plays its first gig on the West Coast, at San Francisco's
Fillmore Auditorium.
1966: Before
his concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, Bob Dylan welcomes the Beatles
again in his dressing room; Paul, anxious to impress the singer, plays him an
early, electronic version of a track that would later become "Tomorrow
Never Knows." "Oh, I get it, you don't want to be cute anymore,"
Dylan laughs, and leaves the room.
1967:
Columbia and RCA announce plans to raise the price of long-playing LP (33 rpm)
records one dollar to a high of $4.98.
It’s first increase since 1953.
1974: Lisa
Marie Presley, then five, meets an 11-year-old Michael Jackson for the first
time when Elvis brings her to the Jackson 5 show at the Sahara in Vegas.
1977: Declan McManus made his 'live' debut at the
Nashville in London as Elvis Costello.
1977: The Sex Pistols single 'God Save The Queen'
was released in the UK. Banned by TV and radio, high street shops and pressing
plant workers refused to handle the record. It sold 200,000 copies in one week
and peaked at No.2 on the UK charts behind Rod Stewart's 'I Don't Want to Talk
About It'. There have been persistent rumors, (never confirmed or denied), that
it was actually the biggest-selling single in the UK at the time, and the British
Phonographic Industry conspired to keep it off the No.1 slot.
1983: The Smiths were at No.1 on the UK
independent chart with their debut single 'Hand In Glove.'
1987: During a show in Rome's Flaminio Stadio, U2's
sound system set off earthquake alarms in two neighborhoods.
1989:
Celebrated anti-communist labor leader Lech Walesa presents Stevie Wonder with
a "Badge of Solidarity" from his native Poland.
1989: For the
first time since 1975, Chicago and the Beach Boys begin a joint headlining tour
of the US, with Brian Wilson joining his old group on some of the dates.
1994: The
Eagles reunite after 14 years, giving a two-and-a-half-hour performance in
Burbank, CA, including two encores and a finale of "Desperado."
1997: Oasis singer Liam Gallagher was left with
cuts and bruises after a scuffle with a youth at the Tower Thistle Hotel in
east London. Members of the band had been drinking at the bar when the fight
broke out.
1999: Lionel
Richie and wife Diane Alexander become the proud parents of their first child,
Miles Brockman.
2000: Paula Yates was awarded $680,000 in an
out-of-court settlement from her boyfriend Michael Hutchence fortune. The INXS
singer Hutchence was found dead in his hotel suite in Sydney in 1997 aged 37.
2004: The Bee
Gees are made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire by Prince Charles
at Buckingham Palace; Maurice's son Adam accepts on behalf of his father, who'd
just died six months earlier.
2007: Saatchi & Saatchi were fired by Dr
Martens for running an advertising campaign featuring dead rock stars such as
Kurt Cobain and Sid Vicious wearing the brand's boots in heaven. David Suddens,
the chief executive of Dr Martens parent company Airwear, said the brand had
not commissioned the series of four print ads. "Dr Martens are very sorry
for any offence that has been caused by the publication of images showing dead
rock icons wearing Dr Martens boots."
2009: A credit card company sued Courtney Love,
claiming she owed more than $350,000. In court papers filed in Los Angeles,
American Express said it had suspended Love's Amex Gold card after she
"failed and refused" to make payments.
2010: Dozens of AC/DC fans needed treatment after
complaining of burning eyes during a concert on the runway of Wels Airport,
Wels, Austria. Around 150 fans had to be treated. Doctors found that the fans
showed allergic reactions to bark mulch spread at the venue – the runway of
Wels Airport – to avoid the soil getting too muddy after hours of massive
rainfall.
2011: Soul & Jazz poet Gill Scott- Heron dies. He had been HIV-positive for several years
and been previously hospitalized for pneumonia.
