Births
1915: Willie
Dixon (Blues Musician)
1939: Delaney
Bramlett (Delaney and Bonnie)
1945: Deborah Harry (Singer for Blondie &
Solo)
1951: Fred Schneider (Vocals for The B-52’s &
Solo)
1954: Keith Whitley (Country Singer / Songwriter)
1956: Phil Solem (Singer for The Rembrandts)
1960: Evelyn
"Champagne" King (R&B Singer)
1963: Roddy Bottum (Keyboards for Faith No More)
1967: Pamela Anderson (…Just because)
1971: Missy Elliott (Rapper)
Events
1897: The
trade paper Billboard Advertising renames itself The Billboard.
1956: NBC's Steve
Allen Show capitalizes on the outrage engendered by Elvis Presley's recent
version of "Hound Dog" on The Milton Berle Show by winkingly
presenting a new, "clean" Elvis, dressed in a tuxedo and singing
"Hound Dog" to an actual basset hound perched on a stool. Backstage,
a humiliated Elvis explodes in fury at the Colonel for agreeing to the stunt.
The next day, however, fans protest the show, demanding "The REAL
Elvis."
1956: An
11-year-old Brenda Lee signs her first recording contract with Decca Records.
1959: Dave
Brubeck recorded "Take Five".
1964: Married
only four days before, Michael Nesmith of The Monkees leaves his San Antonio
home to make a name for himself as a folk singer in Los Angeles.
1968: The Band released their debut album Music
From Big Pink. The album, which features their first hit single The Weight, was
recorded in studios in New York and Los Angeles in 1968, and followed the
group's backing of Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour (as The Hawks).
1969: John
Lennon and Yoko Ono, along with his son Julian and her daughter Kyoko, are
injured in a car crash near Golspie, Scotland. John gets 17 stitches in his
face while Yoko has 14; soon, he will bring a cot into Abbey Road studios so
she can rest comfortably while he records "Come Together."
1969:
Legendary producer Sam Phillips sells his Sun Records Studio in Memphis.
1970: Casey
Kasem begins his weekly Billboard countdown on the nationally syndicated
radio show American Top 40.
1975: Ringo
Starr divorces his first wife Maureen Cox after a decade of marriage.
1976: Connie
Francis is awarded $2.5 million from the motel where she was sexually assaulted
two years earlier.
1981: Rushton
Moreve (Bass for Steppenwolf) died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle
accident in Santa Barbara, California. He was 32.
1983: A New Jersey based quintet calling
themselves Bon Jovi signed to Phonogram's Mercury records.
1989: Milli Vanilli scored their first US No.1
single with 'Baby Don't Forget My Number'.
1990: Hank Williams Jr. marries his fourth
wife--Mary Jane Thomas, a former model for Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion--in
Montana. They honeymoon in Tanzania, where they discover their camp is infested
with cobras.
1995: Wolfman
Jack died of a heart attack at 57 years old.
1998: In her
Malibu home, Barbra Streisand marries her second husband, actor James Brolin.
1999: Reggae
artist Dennis Brown was rushed to Kingston's University Hospital, suffering
from cardiac arrest on June 30th. Brown died on this day in 1999 and
the official cause of his death was a collapsed lung, although his cocaine
habit was considered a contributing factor. He was 42 years old.
2003: Jazz
flutist Herbie Mann died after a long battle with prostate cancer
at 73 years old.
2004: Glen Campbell began serving 10 nights in
jail along with two years of probation for a November 2003 drink-driving, hit-and-run
collision. The 68 year old entertainer was also sentenced to 75 hours of
community service and fined $900.
2005: Four Tops singer Renaldo "Obie"
Benson died aged 69 in a Detroit hospital from lung cancer. He was diagnosed
after having a leg amputated due to circulation problems.
2005: American R&B and soul
singer-songwriter, record producer Luther Vandross died at the age of 54 at the
JFK Medical Centre in New Jersey, two years after suffering a major stroke.
2008: Whitesnake guitarist Mel Galley, died at
the age of 60 from cancer of the oesophagus. Galley also played with Trapeze,
Glenn Hughes, Cozy Powell and the Blue Jays.
2011: Supermodel Kate Moss married Guitarist Jamie
Hince of The Kills in England's Cotswolds region.
