Births
1920: Mario Puzo (Wrote
The Godfather)
1938: Fela
Kuti (Nigerian Musician)
1946: Richard
Carpenter (Piano in The Carpenters)
1948: Chris DeBurgh (Pop Singer)
1953: Tito
Jackson (Lead Guitar & Vocals in The Jacksons)
1966: Eric Benét (R&B Singer)
1970: Ginuwine (Elgin Lumpkin) (R&B Singer)
1981: Keyshia Cole (R&B Singer)
Events
1960: While
in Hamburg, The Beatles back Wally Eymond, the guitarist for Rory Storm and the
Hurricanes, on his version of George Gershwin's "Summertime." As
Beatles drummer Pete Best is absent from the session, the band plays with Rory
Storm's drummer, Ringo Starr. This is the first known recording of the group
together, though the master is lost to history; two years later, the group
would hire Ringo permanently.
1964: Cole
Porter died of kidney failure at the age of 73 in Santa Monica, California.
1965: Mike
Love of the Beach Boys marries his second wife, Suzanne Celeste Belcher, in Las
Vegas.
1965: Jimi
Hendrix signs his first recording contract -- for one dollar plus one percent
of his royalties.
1968: The
former New Yardbirds, now known as Led Zeppelin, perform their first gig under
that name at England's Surrey University.
1969: Famed
blues singer Howlin' Wolf suffers his first non-fatal heart attack.
1969: Johnny Cash wins a record-setting five
times during the Country Music Association awards at Nashville's Ryman
Auditorium. He wins Entertainer and Male Vocalist; Album, for "San
Quentin"; Single, for "A Boy Named Sue"; and Vocal Group, with
June Carter.
1971: Rick
Nelson (formerly Ricky) is invited to perform at the Seventh Annual Rock 'n'
Roll Revival Show, an oldies concert held at Madison Square Garden in New York
City. Debuting some of his newer, country-rock material with his Stone Canyon
Band, Nelson is booed by the audience; the experience so unnerves the former
teen idol that he goes home and pens a song about the experience, ironically
entitled "Garden Party." Ironically, in 1972 it will become his first
US Top Ten hit since 1963's "For You."
1973: The
Rolling Stones' Keith Richards is found guilty in Nice, France, of possessing
and intending to distribute both marijuana and heroin. He receives a one-year
suspended sentence, is fined 5,000 francs, and is forbidden from entering the
country for two years.
1973: Having
experienced respiratory problems for the past four days, Elvis Presley is
admitted to Memphis' Baptist Memorial Hospital, where Dr. George Nichopoulos,
Elvis' personal physician, discovers his patient's addiction to Demerol.
1976: Ike and Tina Turner split their musical act.
1977: Debbie Boone’s “You Light Up My Life” hits
#1 and stays there for 10 weeks. It will
go on to be the #1 song of 1977 and of the decade.
1980: For the
first time ever, London's legendary Abbey Road Studios auctions off thousands
of dollars of equipment, including some used on Beatles recordings.
1991:
Creedence Clearwater Revival leader John Fogerty is the proud father of son
Shane Cody, his fourth child.
1995: Paul
and Linda McCartney make a memorable appearance on tonight's "Lisa The
Vegetarian" episode of FOX's The Simpsons, doing their voice-overs
only on condition that the Lisa character stay a vegetarian forever after.
1997: Patricia Ann Richardson filed suit against
Snoop Doggy Dogg, his former manager Sharita Knight, and Death Row Records for
allegedly tricking her into transporting packages of marijuana to a venue where
Snoop Doggy Dogg was performing.
1998: MCA Records Inc. filed a breach-of-contract
lawsuit against New Edition members Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ricardo Bell,
Michael Bivins, and Ronald DeVoe for alleged failure to deliver albums.
2003: Dave
Clark Five lead singer Mike Smith suffers a tragic fall from a ladder at his
home in Spain, leaving him without any movement in three limbs. He would remain
a near-quadriplegic until his death in 2008 from pneumonia, a complication of
the original injury.
