Births
1917: Dizzy Gillespie (Jazz Trumpeter)
1925: Celia Cruz (Salsa Singer)
1940: Manfred Mann (Keyboardist)
1941: Steve Cropper (Guitar for Booker T. and the MGs)
1942: Judge Judy Sheindlin
1946: Lux Interior (Erick Lee
Purkhiser) (Singer for The Cramps)
1952: Brent Mydland (Keyboards for Grateful Dead)
1953: Charlotte Caffey (Guitar
for The Go- Go's)
1957: Steve Lukather (Guitar & Vocals for Toto)
1957: Julian Cope (Vocals for The Teardrop Explodes
& Solo)
1976: Josh Ritter (Singer /
Songwriter)
1980: Kim Kardashian (umm.. Don’t
know..)
Events
1908: The first two-sided vinyl record was offered for sale
by the Columbia label in an ad running in this week's Saturday Evening Post.
1956: Elvis Presley visits his favorite local movie theater,
the Memphian, and is attacked by an adoring crowd who scratch his new Cadillac.
This begins Elvis' new habit of renting the entire theater whenever he wants to
watch a movie.
1958: Buddy Holly recorded his last
studio session including “True Love ways”.
1961: Bob Dylan recorded "Bob
Dylan," his first album. He was 20 years old when he did the recording for
Columbia Records. The cost to produce the session was $400.
1965: Bill Black, Elvis
Presley's bass player from 1954-57, died four months after receiving surgery to
remove a brain tumor, he was 39.
1971: In Paris, Mick Jagger and girlfriend Bianca become the
proud parents of Mick's first child, Jade.
1975: The city of Los Angeles declares this "Elton John
Week" and awards the musician his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
at 6915 Hollywood Blvd.
1976: Keith Moon played his last
show with The Who at the end of a North American tour at Maple Leaf Gardens,
Toronto. On September 7, 1978, Moon died of an overdose of a sedative
Heminevrin that had been prescribed to prevent seizures induced by alcohol
withdrawal.
1992: Elvis' first grandson, Benjamin Storm, is born to Lisa
Marie Presley and Danny Keough.
1992: Elton John sues the syndicated US television show Hard
Copy for alleging that the singer moved to the Atlanta suburbs to be near an
AIDS treatment facility.
1994: Neil Diamond publicly announces his divorce from his
second wife, Marcia Murphey, whom he has been with since 1969.
1995: Green Day singer Billie
Joe was arrested and fined $141 after mooning at the audience during a gig in
Milwaukee.
1995:
Shannon Hoon (Singer for Blind Melon) dies of a cocaine overdose at 28.
2003: Elton John signs the deal for the first of his famous
"Red Piano" concerts at Las Vegas' Ceasar's Palace.
2004: Bo Diddley postpones a concert in California to have a
toe amputated due to complications from diabetes.
2006: Sandy West (Drummer for The Runaways) was diagnosed
with lung cancer, which later spread to her brain. She died on this day at age 47.
2007: Kid Rock and five members
of his entourage were arrested after an argument with a man escalated into a
fight in a restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. Kid Rock’s tour bus was pulled over
by police after it left the scene; Rock was released after posting $1,000 bail.
