Births
1937: Bill
Anderson (Country Singer)
1946: Ric
Grech (Bass for Blind Faith & Traffic)
1949: David Foster (Producer)
1950: Dan
Peek (Guitar and vocals for America)
1957: Lyle Lovett (Country Artist)
1959: Eddie Macdonald (Bass for The Alarm)
1962: Anthony Kiedis (Singer for Red Hot Chili
Peppers)
1962: Mags Furuholmen (Guitar & Keyboards for
A-Ha)
1963: Rick Allen (Drums for Def Leppard)
1963: Big Kenny (Kenny Alphin) (Guitar &
Vocals in Big & Rich)
1966: Willie D (William
James Dennis) (Rapper in Geto Boys)
1967: Sophie B. Hawkins (Singer)
1969: Darren Partington (Keyboards for 808 State)
1972: Jenny McCarthy (Just because)
1975: Bo Bice (Singer)
1981: LaTavia Roberson (Original member of
Destiny's Child)
Events
1955: Macon,
GA R&B favorites The Famous Flames enter local radio station WIBB to record
a demo of their first song, "Please, Please, Please." The primitive
scorcher, featuring lead singer James Brown pleading into a single microphone
while standing on a Coca-Cola carton, would be rejected by several record
labels before finally being picked up by Federal Records in Cincinnati.
1959: Ray
Charles leaves his old label, Atlantic, for ABC-Paramount Records.
1959: Elvis
Presley's current stint in the Army means that for the first time in nearly
five years, no Elvis single resides on the Billboard charts.
1964: Yet
another British Invasion band makes its US television debut on CBS' Ed
Sullivan Show: The Dave Clark Five, whose clean-cut image visibly relieves
the host, who is still suffering from the Stones riot of a few days' earlier.
After the band plays "Glad All Over," Ed goes out of his way to tag
them as "nice, neat boys."
1965: The
Rolling Stones' concert in Rochester, NY, ends abruptly when 3,000 rabid fans
storm the stage after just seven minutes. After three more attempts to resume
the show, it's canceled by police, with only six songs having been played.
1968: George Harrison released his first solo
album, 'Wonderwall Music' on the Apple label. The songs, which were mostly
Harrison instrumentals, featured Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and an unaccredited
banjo contribution by Peter Tork of The Monkees.
1970: ABBA,
then known as the Festfolk Quartet, play their first-ever concert at a
Gothenburg, Sweden restaurant.
1975: Due to
lead singer Karen Carpenter's struggle with anorexia, the Carpenters are forced
to cancel their upcoming European tour.
1979: Bob
Dylan debuts the songs from his new album, a Christian polemic called Slow
Train Coming, on the first night of his new tour in San Francisco, CA. A shocked
audience boos the new material throughout the set.
1980: Bruce Springsteen scored his first No.1 US
album with 'The River', featuring the US No.5 single 'Hungry Heart.'
1991: After
having a cancerous lung removed, former Temptation Eddie Kendricks is released
from an Atlanta hospital.
1993: Flavor Flav (William Drayton) from
Public Enemy was arrested charged with attempted murder of his neighbor. Flav
claimed he had sex with his girlfriend.
