Births
1908: Mel Blanc (Voice
of Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck)
1909: Benny
Goodman (Clarinetist & Bandleader)
1944: Lenny
Davidson (Guitar for The Dave Clark Five)
1955: Nicky 'Topper' Headon (Drummer for The
Clash)
1958: Marie Fredriksson (Vocals for Roxette)
1960: Stephen Duffy (Singer, songwriter,
guitarist, founding member of Duran Duran)
1964: Tom Morello (Guitar for Rage Against The
Machine)
1964: Wynonna Judd (Country Singer)
1966: Stephen Malkmus (Guitar & Vocals for
Pavement & Solo)
1967: Sven Pipien (Bass for The Black Crowes)
1967: Tim Burgess (Vocals for The Charlatans)
1971: Patrick Dahlheimer (Bassist for Live)
1974: Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway) (Singer,
rapper, songwriter and record producer for Goodie Mob, Gnarls Barkley &
Solo)
1974: Big L (Lamont Coleman) (Rapper)
Events
1966:
University of New Brunswick student Anne Murray catches her first big break
when the producers of the CBC-TV variety show Singalong Jubilee, for
whom she'd auditioned two years earlier, offer her a weekly contract on the
program.
1966: Dolly
Parton marries her first and only husband, Carl Dean, in Ringgold, GA.
1968: The Beatles began recording what became
known as the White Album. The double-LP whose official title was simply ‘The
Beatles’ became the first Beatles album released with the Apple label. The
first track they recorded was ‘Revolution’.
1969: The
Beatles' latest single, John Lennon's autobiographical "The Ballad Of John
And Yoko," is immediately banned at many radio stations in America due to
its supposedly blasphemous lines "Christ, you know it ain't easy / You
know how hard it can be / The way things are going / They're gonna crucify
me." Some DJs create homemade versions of the song with the word
"Christ" reversed, so as to defuse the controversy.
1972: Roxy
Music makes their stage debut at The Great Western Express Festival in
Lincolnshire, England.
1974: Bernadette Whelan, a 14 year-old David
Cassidy fan, died of heart failure four days after attending a concert of his.
Over 1,000 other fans had to be given first aid during the White City Stadium
show.
1978: Led
Zeppelin begin recording what would be their final studio album, In Through
The Out Door.
1980: Carl
Radle (Bass for Derek and the Dominoes) died from a kidney infection,
exacerbated by the effects of alcohol and narcotics at the age 0f 38.
1987: Adam Horovitz from The Beastie Boys was
arrested while on tour after a beer can hit a fan during a disturbance in
Liverpool, England.
1990: Midnight Oil closed down 6th Avenue in New
York City as they played a protest concert in front of Exxon's offices. The
protest was in reaction to the Exxon Valdez disaster.
1991: Morrissey played the first date on his debut
'Kill Uncle' US concert tour at San Diego Sports Arena, California.
1992: Paul
Simon marries his third wife, singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, in New York,
raising some eyebrows due to the couple's 25-year age difference.
1993: Jazz
Bandleader & Composer Sun Ra died from pneumonia.
1997: Neil Young canceled his European tour because
he had cut his finger while slicing a ham sandwich.
1999: In London, a bomb threat at a Kenny Rogers
concert being held at Royal Albert Hall caused the evacuation of more than
3,000. No bomb was found and no injuries were reported.
1999: In New Jersey, Lenny Kravitz walked off stage
after 40 minutes and collapsed from heat exhaustion. He had been performing in
a fur coat.
2002: On the
eve of her latest tour, Diana Ross voluntarily enters rehab in Malibu in order
to "clear up some personal issues."
2003: Singer Finley Quaye was threatened with
jail after his mobile phone rang when he was in the dock waiting to be
sentenced on charges of assault. After being found guilty of assaulting his
former girlfriend he was ordered to attend a six-month domestic violence
program by a district Judge.
2004: Madonna was forced to pay out $400,000 in a
lawsuit after copying ideas by the late French erotic photographer Guy Burton.
Madonna had admitted that the video for her song ‘Hollywood’ was inspired by
Burton.
2009: Six
audience members are stabbed during gang violence at a War concert in Mountain
View, CA.
2009: Little
Richard, Chuck Berry, and B.B. King gather for a benefit concert to raise money
for New Orleans public schools struggling to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
Though too ill to perform, Katrina survivor Fats Domino attends as a special
guest.
