Births
1923: Jim
Reeves (Country Singer)
1942: Isaac
Hayes (R&B Singer)
1946: Ralf
Hutter (Keyboards & Lead Singer for Kraftwerk)
1948: Robert
Plant (Vocals for Led Zeppelin)
1949: Phil
Lynott (Bass & Lead Vocals for Thin Lizzy)
1952: John Hiatt (Guitarist and Singer)
1952: Doug Fieger (Lead Singer & Guitar for
The Knack)
1965: KRS-One (Lawrence Krisna Parker) (Rapper in Boogie Down Productions & Solo)
1966: “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott (Guitarist for
Pantera)
1970: Fred Durst (Vocals for Limp Bizkit)
1979: Jamie Cullum (Jazz Singer / Songwriter)
1992: Demi Lovato (Pop Singer)
Events
1920:
Detroit, MI's 8MK (today known as WWJ 950 AM) goes on the air as America's
first radio station, eventually offering the first news broadcast, sports
play-by-play, and religious broadcast.
1960: Connie
Francis begins filming her first movie, Where The Boys Are, in Ft.
Lauderdale, FL. The first college teen comedy to really explore the sex lives
of its characters, it served as the inspiration for countless "spring
break" movies, as well as the homage/parody Grease.
1968: Bobby
Darin, still traumatized by the recent assassination of his good friend,
Senator Robert Kennedy, sells off his music publishing and production company,
TM Music, for one million dollars.
1969: The
four members of the Beatles gather in the Abbey Road studios in London for the
last time as they complete work on "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and
ostensibly finalize the track order and mastering of their last recorded album,
Abbey Road. (Three of the Beatles would later be present in the studio
to overdub salvaged tracks from the Let It Be sessions.)
1969: Frank Zappa disbanded the Mothers of
Invention right after an eight-day tour in Canada. Zappa said that he was
"tired of playing for people who clap for all the wrong reasons."
1974: David Allan Coe records "the perfect
country & western song," "You Never Even Called Me By My
Name," at Nashville's Columbia Studio A, namechecking Waylon Jennings,
Charley Pride, Merle Haggard and songwriter Steve Goodman in the process.
1979: Rod
Stewart and his first wife, Alana Hamilton, become the proud parents of their
first child, Kimberly.
1987: Lindsey
Buckingham, who had helped turn Fleetwood Mac into one of the biggest-selling
groups of the Seventies, leaves the group after refusing to tour behind its
latest album, Tango In The Night.
1987: Alabama
dedicates a section of its Interstate 65 highway as the Hank Williams Memorial
Lost Highway, a reference to one of his best-known songs. The fifty-mile
stretch begins near his hometown of Georgiana and runs north to Montgomery,
where he is buried.
1992: A US Doctor filed a $35m lawsuit against
the Southwest Bell phone company. He alleged that his wife died because he
could not reach 911 due to all lines being jammed by demand of Garth Brooks
concert tickets.
1992: Singer
Sting weds Trudie Styler.
1996: Snoop Doggy Dogg settled out of court with
the Woldemariam family in a wrongful death suit that the family brought against
the rapper three years earlier. Twenty-year-old Phillip Woldemariam was shot
and killed by Snoop Doggy Dogg's body guard from the back of a moving car which
the rapper himself drove. The two claimed the shooting occurred in
self-defense.
2001: The remaining dates of Foo Fighters European
tour was cancelled when drummer Taylor Hawkins was admitted to a hospital.
2003: In Rhode Island, OSHA fined Derco LLC, which
operated The Station club, $85,200 for one "willful" violation and
six serious violations related to the February 20 fire that killed 100 and
injured almost 200. Great White was fined $7,000 for failing to protect
employees from fire hazards.
2004: A man from Stoke-on-Trent, England, named
Bryan Adams as the 'other man' in his divorce papers after years spent trying
to cope with his wife's obsession with the singer. Rob Tinsley said he had to
live with a 6ft cut-out of Adams which stood at the foot of the bed and posters
on the bedroom walls.
