Births
1911: Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye ) (Country Singer)
1931: Ike Turner (Singer, Guitarist & Producer)
1941: Art Garfunkel (Singer)
1946: Gram Parsons (Singer / Songwriter in Byrds, The Flying
Burrito Brothers & Solo)
1947: Peter Noone (Singer / Songwriter in Herman's Hermits)
1947: Donnie McDougall (Guitar for The Guess Who)
1950: Dennis Provisor (Singer for The Grass Roots)
1956: Rob Fisher (Keyboards for Naked Eyes)
1957: Mike Score (Lead Vocals & Keyboards for A
Flock Of Seagulls)
1959: Bryan Adams (Singer /
Songwriter & Guitarist)
1960: Ken Coomer (Drummer for
Uncle Tupelo & Wilco)
1961: David
Bryson (Guitar for Counting Crows)
1963: Brian Wheat (Bass for
Tesla)
1971: Jonny Greenwood (Guitar
& Keyboards for Radiohead & Solo)
1974: Ryan Adams (Singer /
Songwriter for Whiskeytown & Solo)
1987: Kevin Jonas (Singer &
Guitar for The Jonas Brothers)
Events
1966, The Monkees were top of
the Billboard singles chart with ‘Last Train To Clarksville’, the group’s first
No. 1. It was later revealed that due to filming commitments on their TV
series, none of the group had played on this or most of the group’s early
recordings.
1967: Kenny Rogers and his group The First Edition make their
television debut on CBS' Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
1968: Peter Noone, lead singer of Herman's Hermits, marries
Mireille Strasser at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mayfair,
London; the couple are still married.
1970: Long since retired from touring with his group, Brian
Wilson joins the Beach Boys on stage at the Whisky A Go-Go in Los Angeles only
to suffer inner ear damage in his good ear from an excessively loud sound
system. After losing his balance a few times, he is helped backstage.
1971: Two firsts at tonight's Elvis Presley show at the
Metropolitan Sports Center in Minneapolis, MI: comic Jackie Kahane begins his
lifelong stint as opening act, and Elvis ends the show with cape outstretched
in a bizarrely Christlike pose -- another gimmick that will become a staple of
Elvis' live act.
1973: Who guitarist Pete Townshend storms off the stage at
tonight's gig in Newcastle, England, after discovering that the backing track
the band plays along to is running 15 seconds behind.
1977: Ozzy Osbourne quit Black
Sabbath only to rejoin a few weeks later. He later quit again to pursue a solo
career.
1982: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys part ways on the orders
of Wilson's new psychiatrist and caretaker, Dr. Eugene Landy.
1983: Drummer Topper Headon of
The Clash was arrested for walking his dog while drunk on London's Fulham Road.
1988: Kylie Minogue's version of "The Loco-Motion"
hits #1 in the US, making it the first song to ever take the top spot three
separate times in three different versions (the 1962 Little Eva original and
the 1974 Grand Funk Railroad cover).
1992: Tom Jones guest stars on tonight's "Marge Gets a
Job" episode of FOX-TV's The Simpsons, a move that revived his dormant
career.
1998:Rapper ODB, of Wu Tang Klan,
was arrested for threatening to kill his former girlfriend. He was stopped
while climbing over a security gate at the woman's place of employment.
2000: The Who guest star on tonight's "A Tale of Two
Springfields" episode of FOX-TV's The Simpsons.
2003: Bobby Hatfield of The
Righteous Brothers was found dead in hotel room in Michigan 30 minutes before
he was due on stage, aged 63. The autopsy report from the Kalamazoo County
Medical Examiner gave the opinion that Hatfield suffered a sudden, unexpected
death due to acute cocaine toxicity.
2005: Beach Boys singer Mike Love sues former leader Brian
Wilson for using his likeness and the band trademark in his promotion of the
SMiLE project, a reconstructed release of the band's legendary "lost"
1967 album.
2005: Guitarist Link Wray died of heart failure at age 76.
