Births
1939: Frankie
Avalon (Pop Singer)
1949: Kerry
Livgren (Guitar for Kansas)
1951: Dee Dee Ramone (Douglas Colvin) (Bass for
The Ramones)
1961: James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano)
1962: Joanne Catherall (Vocals for The Human
League)
1967: Ricky Bell (Singer for New Edition &
Bell Biv DeVoe)
1969: Cappadonna (Darryl Hill) (Rapper in Wu-Tang
Clan)
1974: Xzibit (Alvin
Nathaniel Joiner ) (Rapper)
Events
1955:
CBS-TV's popular variety show Toast Of The Town is renamed what many
people had been calling it all along, The Ed Sullivan Show.
1956: Rock
shows are banned at the US Naval Station in Newport, RI after a fight breaks
out during a Fats Domino concert.
1957: The
Big Record, CBS-TV's answer to American Bandstand, premieres with
host Patti Page and guests Billy Ward & the Dominoes and Tony Bennett.
1960: Teen idol
Frankie Avalon turns 21, making him an adult and therefore eligible to claim
the over $600,000 he earned while underage.
1967: The Beatles journey to the Raymond Revue
bar in London to film the notorious "striptease" scene in Magical
Mystery Tour. Accompanying stripper Jan Carson is the Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band,
playing a song called "Death Cab For Cutie."
1969: Tiny Tim announced on "The Tonight
Show" to Johnny Carson his engagement to Miss Vicki Budinger. Carson asked
the two to be married on the show. They made TV history with the wedding on
December 17, 1969.
1970: Jimi
Hendrix asphyxiated in his own vomit, mainly red wine which had filled his
airways and he died at age 27.
1971: The
ill-fated Bobby Sherman sitcom Getting Together premieres on ABC-TV.
1977: All 4
Kiss members release solo albums.
1980: The
tenth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix' untimely death is marked by a multimedia
event, featuring Experience members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, held at
the Paradise Club in Amsterdam.
1981: Gary Numan took off on a round the world
trip in a single engine Cessna plane. The attempt ended after he was forced to
land in India, where local police arrested him.
1983: For an
MTV publicity stunt to promote KISS' new album, Lick It Up, the band
appear in public for the first time without makeup.
1993: Garth Brooks went to No.1 on the US album
chart with 'In Pieces'. The album spent 25 weeks on the chart and sold over 6m
copies.
1998: Reba McEntire receives a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999: The
governor of Tennessee, Donald K. Sundquist, declares today Carl Perkins Day in
honor of its native son.
2004: Britney Spears married dancer Kevin
Federline during a private ceremony in Los Angeles. Federline had two daughters
from his previous relationship with actress Shar Jackson.
2006: Willie
Nelson's tour bus is stopped near Lafayette, LA, and Nelson, along with four
members of his band, are arrested for possession of marijuana and psychedelic
mushrooms.
2006: Echo And The Bunnymen singer Ian McCulloch
was convicted of committing a breach of the peace by shouting, swearing and
threatening Gary Duncan and his girlfriend Juliet Sebley backstage at Glasgow
Barrowlands in Scotland. A court was told that McCulloch had lost his temper
when he discovered the two fans in a toilet cubicle inside his private dressing
room.
2008: The
Village People are honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of fame at 6529
Hollywood Blvd.
2009: Leonard Cohen collapsed on
stage during a concert in Valencia in Spain and was taken to hospital. He was
later discharged after doctors told him he had food poisoning. Cohen was in the
middle of singing his song Bird On The Wire when he fainted, prompting the band
to stop playing and rush to help him.
