Births
1926: Chuck
Berry (Guitarist & Singer)
1947: Laura
Nyro (Singer / Songwriter)
1949: Gary
Richrath (Guitar for REO Speedwagon)
1961: Wynton
Marsalis (Jazz Trumpeter)
1974: Peter Svensson (Guitar for The Cardigans)
1977: Simon Rix (Bass for the Kaiser Chiefs)
1982: Ne-Yo ( Shaffer Chimere Smith) (R&B
Singer)
1984: Esperanza
Spalding (Jazz Bassist)
1987: Zachary Efron (Singer / Actor)
Events
1952: Hank Williams
marries Billie Jean Jones Eshliman in Minden, Louisiana. On the way back to
Shreveport, their car runs out of gas.
1957: For the
Quarrymen's gig at the New Clubmoor Hall, Norris Green, Liverpool, Paul
McCartney joins the group on stage for the first time, as a guitar player.
Having made a few mistakes on his solo for Arthur Smith's "Guitar
Boogie," a distressed and nervous McCartney attempts to repair his image
by showing Quarrymen leader John Lennon some of the songs he's composed. John
responds in kind, leading to the beginning of the Lennon-McCartney songwriting
partnership.
1957: ABC-TV
debuts The Frank Sinatra Show.
1959: 75
teens are arrested outside of the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, KS after
a riot breaks out, further making civic leaders to decry the rock and roll
"menace."
1963: Chuck
Berry is released from prison after serving 19 months for a Mann Act violation
(transporting a minor across state lines for immoral purposes).
1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience played their
first gig as a band supporting French pop star Johnny Hallyday at the Paris
Olympia in France.
1968: John
Lennon and Yoko Ono are busted for marijuana possession in their apartment in
London's Montague Square, a flat leased to them by Ringo and previously lived
in by Jimi Hendrix. Having gotten wind of the bust ahead of time (and also
having begun experimenting with heroin), John, Yoko, and John's friend Pete
Shotton clean the place to within an inch of its life, but the police
nevertheless claim to find approximately 230 grains of cannabis resin, enough
to arrest the two. They were fined $250.
1969: In
Hawaii, Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane is arrested for possession of
marijuana.
1969: Rod
Stewart joins the Faces, formerly known as the Small Faces.
1969: A
clearly ill Bill Haley plays the First Annual Rock and Roll Revival show at New
York's Madison Square Garden and, at the end of his set, receives an
eight-minute standing ovation.
1969: The
Jackson 5 make their television debut when they appear on tonight's episode of
ABC's variety show Hollywood Palace.
1974: Al
Green's ex, Mary Woodson, still jealous over his infidelities, breaks into his
home in Memphis, TN, and dumps a pot of boiling grits on the singer's naked
body while he is in the bathtub, burning Green very badly. A distraught Woodson
then goes into the next room and takes her life with a handgun. Green will
later point to this incident as one of the major catalysts for his decision to
leave secular music behind.
1975: Paul
Simon reunites with former partner Art Garfunkel on tonight's second-ever
episode of Saturday Night Live, performing "Scarborough Fair,"
"The Boxer," and their new single, "My Little Town."
1979: Police
break up a 15-man robbery ring set up in the parking lot of Madison Square
Garden during an Earth, Wind and Fire concert there.
1986:
Fleetwood Mac's Christine McVie marries her second husband, Portugese music
composer Eduardo Quintela.
1989: During a gig at The Los Angeles Coliseum,
California, (Opening for The Rolling Stones)Guns N' Roses front man Axl Rose
announced to the crowd that he was quitting the band.
1990: The
city of Los Angeles declares today "Rocky Horror Picture Show Day" in
honor of the 1975 cult classic musical.
1992: Lynn Anderson was released from jail after
serving two days in jail in Nashville, TN for a contempt of court sentence for
swearing in front of her children.
1998: Metallica performed at the Playboy Mansion.
2002: Citing
a contract all group members signed in 1963, the New York Court of Appeals
overturns an earlier ruling that awarded three million dollars in unpaid
royalties from Phil Spector to the Ronettes, ending a 15-year court battle for
the group.
2005: Madonna admitted that she
wrote a grovelling letter to Abba asking if she could sample their music on her
latest single ‘Hung Up.’ The singer had to seek permission to sample ‘Gimme
Gimme Gimme’ and became only the second act that Abba has allowed to sample
their work. The Fugees used part of ‘The Name Of The Game’ on their 1996 track
‘Rumble In The Jungle.’
2007: South African reggae star,
Lucky Dube was shot dead by car thieves when he was dropping his teenage son
and daughter off in a Johannesburg suburb. Police said Dube's son and daughter
were already out of the car when three shots were fired through the car window,
witnesses said the wounded singer tried to drive away, but lost control of his
car and hit a tree.
2007: Amy Winehouse and her husband
Blake Fielder-Civil were arrested in Bergen, Norway and held overnight for
possession of cannabis. The singer was released the following morning after
paying a fine of $714.
2008: Adele appeared on Saturday
Night Live along with then US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The show
earned its highest ratings in 14 years with a total of 17 million viewers.
2009: Toby Keith is named Songwriter/Artist of the Decade and
"Live Like You Were Dying" author Craig Wiseman is honored as
Songwriter of the Decade by the Nashville Songwriters Association
International.
