Births
1947: Glen
Buxton (Guitar for Alice Cooper)
1947: Greg
Lake (Vocals & Bass for King Crimson & Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
1966: Steve Mackey (Bass for Pulp)
1967: Mushroom (Andrew Vowles) (Massive Attack)
1968: Chris Cagle (Country Artist)
1970: Warren G (Warren Griffin) (Rapper)
1972: DJ Ashba (Lead Guitar for Guns ‘N’
Roses)
1975: Jim Adkins (Lead Singer and Guitarist with
Jimmy Eat World)
1978: Eve
(Eve Jihan Jeffers) Rapper
1979: Chris Joannou (Bass for
Silverchair)
1983: Miranda Lambert (Country Artist)
Events
1955: In his
Nashville hotel room, songwriter Mae Axton plays Elvis Presley a demo of a song
she's co-written called "Heartbreak Hotel."
1958: Sam
Cooke and Lou Rawls, then a member of Cooke's backup band, are badly injured in
a car crash in Marion, AR, while touring with the gospel group the Pilgrim
Travellers. Rawls is hurt so badly he is actually pronounced dead at the scene;
chauffeur Edward Cunningham, however, is the only actual casualty.
1966: British
newspapers break the news that the Beatles will indeed refuse all future offers
to tour.
1967: The
Beatles film three separate videos for their new single, "Hello
Goodbye," at London's Saville Theatre. The three are eventually edited
together to form one video, but the BBC, which has just given in to a
Musician's Union ban on lip-syncing, refuses to air the clip.
1970: Martha
Reeves of the Vandellas gives birth to her first and only son, Eric.
1984: Former Rufus singer Chaka Khan was at No.1
on the singles chart with 'I Feel For You.' Written by Prince, the song
featured Stevie Wonder on harmonica and the Rap was by Grandmaster Melle Mel.
The repetition of Khan's name by rapper Melle Mel at the beginning of the song
was originally a mistake made by producer Arif Mardin, who then decided to keep
it.
1990: Vanilla Ice started a 16-week run at No.1
on the US album chart with 'To The Extreme.'
1994: Led
Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant perform an all-acoustic version of
"Stairway To Heaven" while visiting a Japanese talk show.
1997: American session guitarist Tommy Tedesco
died of lung cancer aged 67. Described by "Guitar Player" magazine as
the most recorded guitarist in history recording with The Beach Boys, Everly
Brothers, The Supremes, The Monkees, The Association, Barbra Streisand, Elvis
Presley, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Zappa, Sam Cooke, Cher, and Nancy and Frank
Sinatra. And played on many TV themes including Bonanza, The Twilight Zone,
M*A*S*H and Batman.
2002: On
tonight's "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation" episode of FOX-TV's The Simpsons, guest stars Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Lenny Kravitz, and Brian
Setzer operate a rock and roll fantasy camp.
2003: David
Bowie is forced to cancel the remainder of his concert in Nice, France, when
laryngitis causes his voice to go out completely in the middle of "Ziggy
Stardust."
