Births
1947:
Buckwheat Zydeco (Zydeco Musician)
1948: James
"JY" Young (Guitar & Vocals in Styx)
1951: Stephen
Bishop (Singer / Songwriter & Guitarist)
1951: Alec John Such (Bass for Bon Jovi)
1951: Frankie Banali (Drummer for Quiet Riot)
1954: Yanni (Yiannis
Hryssomallis) (Keyboardist & Composer)
1964: Joseph 'Run' Simmons (Rapper in Run- DMC)
1968: Brian Yale (Bass for Matchbox Twenty)
1969: Butch Walker (Singer & Guitar in
Marvelous 3 and Solo)
1972: Dougie Payne (Bass for Travis)
1974: Adina Howard (R&B Singer)
1975: Travis Barker (Drummer for Blink 182)
1977: Obie Trice (Rapper)
1979: Tobin Esperance (Bass for Papa Roach)
Events
1951: Hank Williams
makes his first national TV appearance, on CBS-TV's "The Perry Como
Show," performing "Hey, Good Lookin'".
1957: The
Boston stop on Alan Freed's "Biggest Show Of Stars" concert is the
scene of yet another rock and roll "riot" when five audience members
are arrested for fighting during a performance by Fats Domino. One audience
member, a sailor, is stabbed during the fight.
1960: Elvis
Presley's latest single, "It's Now Or Never," sells 780,000 copies in
the UK during its first week of release, making it the fastest-selling song in
the country's history.
1964: At the
start of her first UK tour, Dusty Springfield causes a furor when she tells a
local magazine: "I wish I'd been born colored. When it comes to singing
and feeling, I want to be one of them and not me. Then I see how some of them
are treated and I thank God I'm white."
1964: Them,
the Van Morrison-led band who would later score a hit with the garage-rock
classic "Gloria," backs up legendary bluesman Jimmy Reed during a
British tour.
1967: Pink
Floyd begin their first UK tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London, playing on
a package bill with The Move, Nice, Amen Corner, and the headliner, the Jimi
Hendrix Experience.
1990: This
week's issue of Newsweek hits the stands, featuring what seems like a
stark admission from the Who's Pete Townshend -- he's bisexual. "I know
how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman," he says. "And I
won't be classified as just a man." About his song "Rough Boys,"
which some saw as a gay anthem, he says, "...In a way it was a coming-out.
That it was a real acknowledgment of the fact that I'd been surrounded by
people that I really adored -- and was actually sexually attracted to -- who
were men. And that the side of me that responded to those people was a passive
side, a subordinate side."
1990: Record producer Frank Farin fired Milli
Vanilli singers Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan because they were insisting on singing
on their new album.
1991: Over 1,000 New Kids On The Block fans were
given medical treatment after a minor riot during a concert in Berlin, Germany.
1992: John Cascella, keyboardist of John
Mellencamp's band, was found dead in his car in Indiana. It is believed that he
died of a heart attack.
1996: Michael Jackson married Debbie Rowe in
Sydney Australia. The couple had met when he was diagnosed with vitiligo in the
mid-1980s, and she was working as his dermatologist's assistant. The couple
divorced on October 8, 1999, with Rowe giving full custody rights of the
children to Jackson with Rowe receiving an $8-million settlement.
1997:
Tonight's Bee Gees show at Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena rakes in a record
$1,681,100 -- and yet doesn't sell out entirely.
