Births
1901: Nelson
Eddy (Pop Singer)
1943: Little
Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd) (Pop Singer)
1948: Ian
Paice (Drummer for Deep Purple & Whitesnake)
1953: Colin Hay (Singer for Men At Work)
1953: Don Dokken (Singer for Dokken)
1961: Greg Hetson (Guitar for Redd Kross, Circle
Jerks & Bad Religion)
1965: Tripp Eisen (Guitar for Static-X & Dope)
1976: Bret McKenzie (Vocals & Guitar in
Flight Of The Conchords)
1978: Nicole Scherzinger (Lead Singer in Eden’s
Crush, Pussycat Dolls & Solo)
1983: Aundrea Fimbres (Singer in Danity Kane)
Events
1957: The
government of Iran officially bans rock and roll after declaring rock dancing
"as harmful to health." The ban would stay in place until the 1990s.
1957: Buddy
Holly recorded "Peggy Sue". It
was originally named “Cindy Lou” after Buddy’s niece, but changed to be named
after the drummer’s girlfriend and future wife.
1959: Dick
Clark announces his first series of four "Caravan of Stars" concerts
over the course of the next year, with his first being headlined by the
Skyliners of "Since I Don't Have You" fame.
1963:
Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts.
1967: Keith
Richards of the Rolling Stones is sentenced to three months in jail and lead
singer Mick Jagger to a full year after a raid of Richards' home in February
turned up cannabis residue. After a public outpouring of sympathy, including a
famous essay in the London Times defending the pair ("Who Breaks A
Butterfly Upon A Wheel?" July 1, 1967), Richards' charges are dropped and
Jagger's reduced to probation.
1967: While
on tour with the Hollies, Graham Nash writes a song called "Marrakesh
Express," which will later find a home (and a hit) with his new band,
Crosby Stills and Nash.
1969: The
Jimi Hendrix Experience play their last gig together at the Denver Pop
Festival.
1969: R&B
Singer Shorty Long and a friend drowned when their boat capsized on the Detroit
River in Michigan. He was 29 Years old.
1970: NBC-TV
presents the Liza Minnelli special Liza, also starring songwriters
Anthony Newley, Jimmy Webb, and Randy Newman.
1973: Deep
Purple "Mark II," the most famous incarnation of the band, comes to
an end after tonight's show in Osaka, Japan, with lead singer Ian Gillan and
bassist Roger Glover abruptly quitting the group.
1974: Neil
Peart replaces John Rutsey as the drummer for Rush.
1974: Singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot scored
his only US No.1 single with 'Sundown'.
1975: Elton
John appears onstage with the Doobie Brothers in Oakland, CA, for an impromptu
duet on the Doobies hit "Listen To The Music."
1975: Singer/Songwriter Tim
Buckley died from a morphine & heroin overdose at age 28.
1976: The
Memphis City Council votes to change Elvis' home street, Highway 51 South, to
"Elvis Presley Boulevard."
1978: While
driving with his girlfriend in the Bahamas, Peter Frampton crashes and severely
injures himself, breaking his arm, cracking several ribs, causing a concussion,
and cutting short his rise to superstardom as he mends in a local hospital for
months.
1979: Lowell
George (Singer for Little Feat) collapsed in his Arlington, Virginia hotel room
and died. An autopsy showed that he died of an accidental drug overdose.
1985: New
York's Cooper-Hewitt museum fetches a record $3,006,385 for John Lennon's
"Roller," a 1965 Rolls Royce Phantom V painted groovy psychedelic
colors by Apple associates The Fool.
1985: In
order to create a new single as part of the massive Live Aid series of
concerts, Mick Jagger and David Bowie rush into a recording studio and produce
their hit cover of Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing In The Street"
in under 12 hours. As with the concerts, all proceeds go to feed victims of the
Ethiopian hunger crisis.
1988: Brenda
Richie, wife of former Commodore and current solo star Lionel, is arrested for
assault after allegedly striking her husband after finding him in bed with
another woman. She is later released on $5,000 bail.
1994: Barbra
Streisand sets a new record after grossing $16 million for a series of Madison
Square Garden comeback shows.
1995: Ringo
Starr's first-ever TV commercial, for Pizza Hut, debuts in the US, as does a
similar spot by the newly-reformed Monkees.
1996: It was reported that US record company
bosses were considering random drug tests for pop stars similar to those
carried out on athletes to try and reduce the drug death toll in the industry.
1998: George
Harrison shocks the world with an announcement that he is currently undergoing
chemotherapy for throat cancer, assuring his fans that he's fine and that
"I'm not going to die on you folks just yet." Harrison would succumb
to the disease three years later.
1999: Former
teen heartthrob Leif Garrett is arrested in Los Angeles for possession of
cocaine.
1999: Michael Jackson suffered severe bruising
after falling over 50 feet when a bridge collapsed during a concert at Munich's
Olympic stadium. Jackson was singing 'Earth Song' at the time of the accident.
2000: The casket
holding Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zandt is stolen from its
mausoleum in Jacksonville, FL, but left after vandals were unable to open it;
member Steve Gaines' ashes are spilled from his urn, which is also stolen.
2000: Eight men were trampled to death during
Pearl Jam's performance at The Roskilde festival, near Copenhagen. Police said
the victims had all slipped or fallen in the mud in front of the stage.
2000: Eminem’s mother went to court claiming
defamation of character in a $10 million civil suit, after taking exception to
the line “My mother smokes more dope than I do” from her son’s single ‘My Name
Is’.
2002: Singer
Rosemary Clooney died of lung cancer at age 74.
2007: George
McCorkle (Guitarist for Marshall Tucker Band) died from cancer at 49 years old.
2007: Lily Allen was questioned by police over an
alleged assault on a photographer outside a nightclub in London. She was freed
on police bail after she was quizzed about an alleged assault on a male
photographer in his 40s near the Wardour club in London's Soho in March.
2011:
Justin Timberlake became co-owner of Myspace with Specific Media.
