Births
1942: Arthur
Brown (Singer for The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown)
1944: Jeff
Beck (Guitar for The Yardbirds & Solo)
1944: Chris
Wood (Sax & Flute for Traffic)
1945: Colin
Blunstone (Guitar & Vocals for The Zombies)
1947: Mick
Fleetwood (Drummer for Fleetwood Mac)
1948: Patrick
Moraz (Keyboards for Yes & The Moody Blues)
1949: John
Illsley (Bassist for Dire Straits)
1950:
Derrick "Duckie" Simpson (Black Uhuru)
1957: Terence Wilson (Astro) (Vocals for UB40)
1959: Andy McCluskey (Vocals, Bass Guitar &
Keyboards for Orchestral Manoeveres In The Dark)
1961: Curt Smith (Vocals & Bass for Tears For
Fears)
1967: Jeff Cease (Guitar for The Black Crowes)
1967: Richard Zven Kruspe (Lead Guitarist for
Rammstein)
1970: Glenn Medeiros (Singer)
Events
1964: Sam
Cooke, preceded by a 70-foot billboard in Times Square, begins a famous
two-week engagement at New York's Copacabana club that would come to define the
beginning of "supper-club soul."
1966: John
Lennon's second whimsical book of original prose, poetry, and drawings,
entitled A Spaniard In The Works, is published in his native England.
1966: In a
watershed moment for the brother/sister duo later known as the Carpenters, the
jazz combo known as the Richard Carpenter Trio wins the Hollywood Bowl's
"Battle of the Bands" contest.
1966: With
the McCoys and the Standells opening, the Rolling Stones' 1966 tour begins at
the Manning Bowl in Lynn, Massachusetts, inciting yet another crowd riot that
the police counteract with tear gas. Rock concerts are banned from the venue
for nearly two decades.
1967: Led by
Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd make their TV debut performing their hit single
"See Emily Play" on BBC's Top Of The Pops.
1967: 5th
Dimension make their TV debut performing their hit single "Up, Up And
Away" on ABC's American Bandstand.
1967:
Guitarist Zal Yanovsky quits the Lovin' Spoonful after their gig at the Forest
Hills Music Festival in New York.
1972: At
tonight's show in Fort Worth, TX, the Rolling Stones film the performance that
would become the quadrophonic concert documentary Ladies And Gentlemen, The
Rolling Stones.
1973: After
an extensive two-year investigation, 19 major music label heads, including
Clive Davis of Arista and the Gamble-Huff team behind Philadelphia
International, are indicted by the state of New Jersey for "payola"
practices and income tax evasion.
1973:
Legendary rock organist Al Kooper rejoins his first band, Blues Project,
onstage during a concert in Central Park.
1977: En
route to his hotel while on tour in Madison, WI, Elvis spots an altercation
between two young men and a gas station attendant and immediately gets out of
his limo, striking a karate pose, shouting "I'll take you on!" When
all three get a glimpse of their intruder, however, they immediately forget the
fight and ask for pictures and photographs.
1984: Jimmy
Page of Led Zeppelin joins Yes onstage in Dortmund, Germany for a cover of the
Beatles' "I'm Down," further fueling rumors that the guitarist will
assemble a new band called XYZ (Ex-Yes and Zeppelin).
1988: UB40 bass player Earl Falconer was sent to
prison for six months, with a further 12 suspended, after admitting to causing
his brothers death in a car accident.
1989: The
Beatles finally get a US #1 Country hit when Rosanne Cash's cover of "I
Don't Want To Spoil The Party" reaches the top spot.
1990: Perry Bamonte replaced Roger O'Donnell as
keyboardist in The Cure.
1990: New Kids On The Block's Donnie Wahlberg
spent two days in hospital after falling through an unlocked trapdoor
mid-concert in Saratoga Springs, New York.
1992: Billy
Joel's old alma mater, Hicksville High in Long Island, NY, awards the
singer-songwriter an honorary diploma in place of the one he never stayed in
school to receive.
1993: Hank
Williams' illegitimate daughter Jett, is awarded a piece of the country
legend's estate from his son, Hank Jr.
1998: Johnny
Cash makes his first public appearance since announcing his battle with
Shy-Drager Syndrome, walking onstage at Kris Kristofferson's latest Nashville
concert to sing Cash's hit "Sunday Morning Coming Down," written by
Kris.
1999: Eric
Clapton auctions off one hundred of the guitars in his collection to raise
money for his Crossroads drug rehab clinic in Antigua, with the 1956 Fender
"Layla" was written on going for nearly half a million dollars, a
record at the time. Five years later, a similar auction, held like the first at
Christie's in New York, nets another record -- almost one million dollars for
another Fender Clapton named "Blackie," making it the most expensive
guitar of all time.
2000:
Preparing for "retirement," KISS begin auctioning off their
quarter-century of band memorabilia, netting $876,000.
2000: The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines marries
actor Adrian Pasdar at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas following a
Chicks concert. To celebrate, the couple hits the casinos and wins $740.
2003: Gert
van der Graaf, former boyfriend of ABBA's Agnetha Faeltskog, is arrested near
her home for stalking the singer, despite having received a restraining order
three years earlier.
2003: Beyoncé Knowles released her debut solo album
"Dangerously in Love".
2004: US
President George W. Bush awards the Medal of Freedom to Doris Day.
