Births
1947: Greg
Ridley (Bass for Humble Pie)
1949: Würzel
(Michael Burston) (Guitar for Motorhead)
1956: Dwight
Yoakam (Country Artist)
1959: “Weird” Al Yankovic (Comedian)
1964: Roberto Trujillo (Bass for Metallica &
Suicidal Tendencies)
1972: Richard McNamara (Guitar for Embrace)
Events
1954: Elvis
Presley's second Sun single, "Blue Moon Of Kentucky," breaks out in
Nashville and New Orleans, becoming his first chart hit outside of his native
Memphis.
1962: 12 year old Little Stevie Wonder recorded
his first single for Motown Records, 'Thank You For Loving Me All The Way.'
1966: The
Yardbirds, in their first concert featuring Jimmy Page on lead guitar, open at
San Francisco's Fillmore West.
1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their
first single 'Hey Joe', at De Lane Lea studios in London.
1969:
Columbia Records announces its intention to prosecute the purveyors of Great
White Way, an unauthorized collection of unreleased Bob Dylan demos that is
often considered the first "bootleg" record.
1976: Led
Zeppelin make their belated US television debut on an episode of the syndicated
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. They performed ‘Black Dog’ and ‘Dazed And
Confused’.
1978: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious attempted to
commit suicide while awaiting trial for killing his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.
1980: On the
same day that John Lennon's "comeback" single, "Starting
Over," is released, Mark David Chapman ,his future killer, signs out of
his detail as a security guard for the last time. Instead of signing
"Chappy," as he usually does, the killer tellingly signs out as
"John Lennon."
1995: In Houston, TX, a jury convicted
Yolanda Saldivar of the murder of Selena.
1995: Tone-Loc was ordered to take an anger
management class after fighting with a pizza delivery person.
1998: A St.
Louis federal judge rules that the local Fort Zumwalt High School Marching Band
is not allowed, as per the ruling of the superintendent of schools, to include
Jefferson Airplane's pro-drug hit "White Rabbit" in its repertoire as
part of a "Sixties medley."
2002: Kanye West was involved in a car crash
after he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home from a recording studio in
West Hollywood. No other cars were involved in the incident which left West
with his jaw fractured in three places.
2007: The
first trial of legendary producer Phil Spector -- accused of murdering actress
Lana Clarkson in 2003 -- ends in a mistrial, with ten jurors voting him guilty
and two not guilty.
2007: Rapper Foxy Brown was
given 11 weeks in solitary confinement after fighting with another inmate in
prison. She was also said to have been abusive to guards and refused to take a
random drug test. Brown was serving a year in jail for violating her probation
after a fight she had in a New York nail salon.
