Births
1940: Fred
Cash (Singer in The Impressions)
1948: Johnny Ramone (John Cummings) (Guitar for
The Ramones)
1950: Robert
"Kool" Bell (Vocals & Bass for Kool and the Gang)
1965: C-Jay Ramone (Chris Ward) (Bass for The
Ramones)
1967: Teddy Riley (Producer & Singer for Guy,
Blackstreet & Solo)
1968: C.L. Smooth (Corey Brent Penn, Sr) (Rapper)
1980: Nick Cannon (Singer)
1973: Terry Balsamo (Guitarist for Cold, Limp
Bizkit & Evanescence)
1985: Bruno Mars (Peter Gene Hernandez) (Pop
Singer)
Events
1935:
Bandleader Ozzie Nelson marries his lead vocalist, Harriet Hilliard.
1956: The show "Lawrence Welk’s Top Tunes and
New Talent" debuted.
1957: Jerry Lee Lewis recorded the song "Great
Balls Of Fire."
1966: Cream
drummer Ginger Baker collapses while on stage at a Sussex University gig in
England, just after completing his epic 20-minute solo on "Toad."
1968:
"Mama" Cass Elliot's initial solo engagement at Caesars' Palace is a
disaster, with Elliot collapsing from exhaustion and her backup band
ill-rehearsed. While hospitalized, she contracts tonsillitis, forcing the
cancellation of the entire two-week engagement.
1971: "Imagine" was recorded by John
Lennon.
1977: NBC
airs The Paul Simon Special, which again reunites the singer with old friend
Art Garfunkel.
1980: Bob Marley collapsed onstage during a show in
Pittsburgh, PA.
It was the last show he would ever perform. He died seven months later of
cancer.
1985: Little
Richard passes out behind the wheel while driving his sports car in West
Hollywood and runs into a telephone pole, seriously injuring him and forcing
him to miss his induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After he recovers,
he returns to spiritual music.
1987: The
acclaimed Chuck Berry documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll premieres in
US theaters on the same day that Berry himself is awarded a star on the
Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 1777 N. Vine.
1987:
Promoting their space-themed Afterburner record, ZZ Top book passage on
what is announced as the first passenger flight to the moon.
1988: The
Rolling Stones' Keith Richards performs his first solo single, "Take It So
Hard," on tonight's episode of Saturday Night Live.
1988: Pink Floyd's ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’
finally left Billboard's Hot 200 Album Chart after a record breaking 741 weeks.
1989: After
Rolling Stone Ron Wood suggested the Who were reforming for the money alone,
Who guitarist Pete Townshend publicly answered: "Mick needs a lot more
than I do. His last album was a flop," referring to the Stones' legendary
miscue Dirty Work.
1992: The US
Postal Service issues a booklet of commemorative rock and roll stamps featuring
Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Bill Haley, Ritchie Valens, Clyde
McPhatter, and Dinah Washington.
1996: Jimmy Chamberlin, formerly
of the Smashing Pumpkins, pled guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with
the heroin related death of Jonathan Melvin.
2002: Trace Adkins suffers a
hairline sternum fracture and bruises when he's pinned under a tractor in a
freak accident, while building a gravel road on his property in Rutherford
County, Tennessee. He's immediately hospitalized, and cancels two Texas
concerts.
2003: Coldplay singer Chris
Martin asked Australian police to drop a charge of malicious damage after
allegedly attacking a photographer's car. Martin was charged in July after
breaking a windscreen with a rock after being photographed surfing. Martin did
not appear in court at Byron Bay, New South Wales, when his lawyer, Megan
Cusack, asked for the charge to be dropped.
2004: Rapper Beanie Sigel was sentenced to a year
in federal prison on a gun-possession charge that stemmed from a traffic stop
in 2002.
2011: One-time bassist for Weezer Mikey Welsh was
found dead in a Chicago hotel room. Forty-year-old Welsh played in the group
between 1998 and 2001, leaving after suffering a nervous breakdown. Police said
prescription drugs were found in the room, along with a plastic baggie
containing white powder believed to be heroin.
