Births
1944: Booker
T. Jones (Piano for Booker T. and the MGs)
1945: Neil
Young (Singer / Songwriter & Guitarist)
1947: Buck
Dharma (Lead Vocals & Guitar for Blue Oyster Cult)
1964: David Ellefson (Bass for Megadeth)
1976: Tevin Campbell (R&B Singer)
1984: Omarion (Omari Ishmael Grandberry) (R&B
Singer in B2K and Solo)
Events
1931: Abbey
Road recording studios open in London's pricey St. John's Wood.
1955: Billboard
begins its "Top 100" chart, with the first Number One listed as
"Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing" by the Four Aces. The magazine
wouldn't resolve all its pop charts into one until 1959.
1955: Hill
Valley, CA native Marty McFly travels back to this date from 1985 to make sure
his parents get together; while in 1955, he plays "Johnny B. Goode"
at a local sock hop, inspiring Chuck Berry's "new sound." (Not
really.)
1966: Teens
on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip protesting a recent curfew are beaten by police,
inspiring Stephen Stills to write the Buffalo Springfield hit "For What
It's Worth."
1966: The
Grateful Dead are the house band at a dance put on by the Hell's Angels biker
gang at San Francisco's Sokol Hall.
1966: The Monkees debut album started a 13-week
run at No.1 on the US album chart, selling over 3 million copies in three
months.
1968: Jimi
Hendrix' third album, Electric Ladyland, causes a controversy in England
over the cover, which features the singer/guitarist surrounded by a bevy of
naked women. A major British chain refuses to stock it; the American version is
released with an alternate cover.
1969: The Supremes
and the Temptations' second joint TV special, G.I.T. On Broadway, airs
on NBC. (The title stands for "Gettin' It Together"; the show
consisted of both groups performing show tunes.)
1970: The Doors made their last appearance with Jim
Morrison in New Orleans.
1979: Kenny
Rogers begins filming the CBS-TV movie The Gambler, based on his 1978
smash tune of the same name. It will spawn four sequels.
1987: Sly
Stone arrives one hour late for a major comeback concert in Santa Monica, CA,
only to be arrested at the gig for failure to pay child support.
1990: Ron
Wood, formerly of the Faces and currently of the Rolling Stones, is badly
injured when hit by a car in London, breaking both legs.
1997:
Keyboardist and Singer Billy Preston is sentenced to four years in prison in
California's Avenal State Prison for cocaine use and fraud when he arranged a
fake burglary of his home in 1994. He will serve a year and a half.
1997: Carly
Simon is hospitalized with breast cancer, undergoing both chemo and a
mastectomy.
1999: Glam
legend Gary Glitter is acquitted in England's Bristol Crown Court of sexual
assault of a minor stemming from an incident with a fan in the Eighties;
however, that same day, Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) is sentenced to four
months in jail for four counts of possessing child pornography found in 1997.
2002: The city of Atlanta declared this day as
TLC day to remember Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes who was killed in a car crash on 26th
April 2002 aged 30.
2003; Drummer Tony Thompson, who had played drums
with Led Zeppelin at Live Aid in 1985, died of cancer. He was most famous as
the drummer with Chic, whose single 'Le Freak' hit No.1 in the US. He also played
on David Bowie's hit single 'Let's Dance'.
2004: The
funeral of longtime (and highly influential) British DJ John Peel is held in
Suffolk, England, with attendees including Robert Plant, The White Stripes, and
members of Underworld, Pulp, and the Undertones.
2005:
Vietnamese authorities visit Gary Glitter's home in Ba Ring Vung Tau and find
his live-in companion, a fifteen-year-old girl. The singer, however, has
vanished.
2007: Former Culture Club
frontman, Boy George was charged with the false imprisonment of a 28-year-old
man. Police said the offence was alleged to have taken place at the
47-year-old's home in Hackney, in London on 28 April of this year.
2008: Mitch Mitchell, the
British drummer with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was found dead in his US
hotel room at age 61.
