Births
1948: Chuck and John Panozzo (Bass and Drums for Styx)
1957: Alannah Currie (Vocals & Sax for The Thompson
Twins)
1960: Dave Hemmingway (Lead Vocals for The Housemartins)
1960: Robert Wiggins (Cowboy Rapper in Grandmaster Flash And
The Furious Five)
1966: Nuno Bettencourt (Guitar & Singer / Songwriter for
Extreme)
1967: Gunnar
& Matthew Nelson (Vocalists for Nelson)
1968: Ben Shepherd (Bass for Soundgarden)
1979: Rick Woolstenhulme (Guitar for Lifehouse)
Events
1955: Tennessee Ernie Ford records
the Merle Travis-written "Sixteen Tons" at the Capitol Recording
Studio on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood.
1966: George Harrison went to
India for his first visit to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
1969: During a meeting in London between John Lennon, Paul
McCartney and Ringo Starr, Lennon announced he was leaving The Beatles.
1969: Blind Faith started a two-week run at No.1 on the UK
chart with their self-titled debut album. The only release from the Eric
Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker & Rick Grech line-up also reached No.1
in the US. The only UK gig was in Hyde Park, London on 7th Jun 1969.
1970: Jim Morrison of The Doors was acquitted on charges of
lewd and lascivious behavior, but was found guilty of exposing himself during a
concert at The Dinner Key Auditorium in Coconut Grove a year and a half
earlier. At his trial at the Dade County Courthouse in Miami, Judge Goodman
sentenced Morrison to six months hard labor and a $500 fine for public exposure
and sixty days hard labor for profanity. The sentence was appealed, but
Morrison was never brought to trial, as he would die in Paris France on July 3,
1971.
1971: Peter Frampton quit Humble
Pie to follow a solo career.
1972: Paul and Linda McCartney were arrested for the second
time in four weeks for possession of cannabis this time at their Scottish
farmhouse in Campbeltown.
1973: On his way to perform his second concert of the day, US
singer / songwriter Jim Croce was killed with five others when his chartered
aircraft hit a tree on take off in Louisiana.
He was 30 years old.
1973: A day after Gram Parsons died, his body is stolen
during transfer at the Los Angeles International Airport, then taken to Joshua
Tree, where it is burned, in accordance with his request. Road manager Phil
Kaufman is among two charged with the crime.
1973: The
Sunset Strip's legendary Roxy club opens in Los Angeles with a performance by
Neil Young and his band Crazy Horse. The opening acts were Elton John,
Carole King and Jackson Browne.
1975: 'Fame' gave David Bowie his first No.1 in the US, the
song was co-written with John Lennon.
1975: The Bay City Rollers made their US TV debut when they
appeared on the 'Saturday Night Variety Show' with host Howard Cosell.
1976: The Captain and Tennille musical variety show premiered
on ABC TV in the US.
1980: Kate Bush scored her first UK No.1 album with 'Never
For Ever.' It was the first ever album by a British female solo artist to top
the UK album chart as well as being the first album by any female solo artist
to enter the chart at No.1.
1980: Queen started a five-week run at No.1 on the US album
chart with 'The Game', the group's only US No.1 album.
1982: A
seriously ill Karen Carpenter, now weighing only 77 pounds due to her anorexia,
is admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and fed intravenously in order
to get her weight back to normal.
1993: Just back from a tour of Japan, keyboard player with
The Charlatans Rob Collins was out with an old friend. They stopped at a liquor
store and his friend went in, half-jokingly saying he could rob the place. When
he came out with a loud bang, Collins stupidly picked him up. The police
arrested the pair the next day and charged them both with attempted robbery and
possession of a firearm (it was a replica gun).
1994: The Dave Matthews Band released ‘Under the Table and
Dreaming’, the album featured their first commercial hits ‘What Would You Say,’
‘Satellite,’ and ‘Ants Marching.’ The album was dedicated to Matthews' older
sister Anne, who was killed by her husband in 1994 in a murder-suicide.
1994: The
Temptations are awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7060 Hollywood
Blvd.
2002: Lynchburg, Virginia, names a street after hometown boy
Phil Vassar when he performs in the city. Lynchburg also proclaims Phil Vassar
Day, and presents him with a key to the city.
2003: Nelly Furtado gave birth to a daughter, Nevis, at a
hospital in Toronto, Canada.
2005: Canadian JD Fortune, beat two other finalists to become
the new lead singer with INXS after a worldwide search to replace the late
Michael Hutchence. INXS held auditions in six continents as part of a reality
TV series.
2007: Stereophonics singer Kelly Jones was admitted to
hospital when he was injured during an altercation with a member of a club's
security team. The band had gone to a west London club after appearing at the
Vodafone Live Music Awards.
