Births
1933: Floyd
Cramer (Country Pianist)
1942: Lee
Greenwood (Country Singer)
1949: Garry
Tallent (Bass for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band)
1951: K.K. Downing (Guitar for Judas Priest)
1958: Simon Le Bon (Vocals for Duran Duran)
1967: Scott Weiland (Vocals for Stone Temple
Pilots & Solo)
1984: Kelly Osbourne (Singer)
Events
1957: Police
in Oakland, CA inform Elvis Presley that he is not allowed to swivel his hips
onstage in tonight's performance at the Oakland Auditorium; Elvis responds by
sarcastically wiggling only his little finger while singing. The cops film the
show anyway, just in case.
1960: Tina
Turner gives birth to Ronald Renelle Turner, her second child, while touring in
Los Angeles. Husband Ike is not present at the birth.
1960: Singer
Ben E King records his first solo songs "Spanish Harlem" and
"Stand By Me" after leaving The Drifters.
1964:
Singers Sonny (31 years old) and Cher (18 years old) wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms. Their marriage lasted 12 years.
1969: Blues artist Muddy Waters is seriously
injured in a car crash in Champagne, Illinois. Three people were killed in the
accident.
1970: Black Sabbath played their first ever-live
show in the US when they kicked of a 16-date tour at Glassboro State College In
NJ.
1975: Bruce
Springsteen, riding on hype for his latest album, Born To Run, finds
himself the first rocker to make the covers of both Time and Newsweek
in the same week.
1979: Elton John
collapses during his show at Hollywood's Universal Amphitheatre and is
hospitalized for "exhaustion."
1980: John Lennon's
killer Mark David Chapman purchases the .38 revolver (a five-shot Charter Arms
"Off Duty" special for $169) with which he will eventually kill his
idol.
1980: Former T Rex guitarist Steve Took choked to
death on a cherry stone, after some magic mushrooms he had eaten, numbed all
sensation in his throat, he was aged 31.
1989: U2 bass player Adam Clayton was convicted
of a drunk driving offence by a Dublin court after being found driving twice
over the legal limit. He was fined $1,000 and banned from driving for 1 year.
1990: Michael Waite from reggae group Musical
Youth was jailed for four years for his part in a robbery.
1991: Country singer Lorrie Morgan marries Clint
Black's bus driver, Brad Thompson, outside of Nashville. Black serves as best
man.
1992: Bo
Diddley sues the estate of his former manager, the now-deceased Martin
Otelsberg, for $75,000 in misappropriated funds.
1995: Gloria Estefan becomes the
only pop artist to receive a call from the Pope to perform.
2003: Scott Weiland singer with
The Stone Temple Pilots was arrested on his birthday in Hollywood, California,
after being involved in a traffic collision. He was charged with driving under
the influence of drugs and alcohol, but these charges were later dismissed
after the singer successfully completed rehab and underwent subsequent drug
tests.
2005: The distributor of rapper
50 Cent's new film said it would remove posters advertising the film after
complaints they glorify gun violence. Posters for 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'
showed 50 Cent holding a gun in his left hand and a microphone the other. Los
Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich wrote to Paramount Pictures urging
them to take down the posters. The company said it had taken down one poster
near a Los Angeles nursery school, and planned to remove more.
2009: Eric Clapton pulled out of
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York City after he underwent an
operation to remove gallstones. His place at the Madison Square Garden gig was
taken by Jeff Beck.
