Births
1938: Troy
Seals (Singer for Seals & Croft)
1958: Harry Rushakoff (Drummer for Concrete
Blonde)
1962: Gary 'Mani' Mounfield (Bass for The Stone
Roses)
1962: Josh Silver (Keyboards for Type O Negative)
1964: Diana Krall (Singer / Songwriter &
Pianist)
1966: Dave Kushner (Rhythm Guitar for Velvet
Revolver)
1969: Bryan Abrams (Singer in Color Me Badd)
Events
1955: Johnny
Cash made his 1st chart appearance with "Cry, Cry, Cry".
1965: CBS-TV
airs the Frank Sinatra documentary Sinatra: An American Original, hosted
by Walter Cronkite.
1968: Led Zeppelin played their first ever show
in the north of England when they appeared at Manchester College of Science
& Technology.
1974: John Lennon was at No.1 in the US singles
chart with 'Whatever Gets You Through The Night.' Elton John played on the
session and made a deal with Lennon that if the song reached No.1, Lennon would
have to appear on stage live with Elton. Lennon kept his side of the deal and
appeared live with Elton. They played three songs together: ‘I Saw Her Standing
There,’ ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ and ‘Whatever Gets You Through the
Night.’ Backstage after the concert, Lennon got back with Yoko Ono after a
temporary split.
1976:
Resident genius of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, comes out of an eight-year
seclusion to give an interview to BBC 2's music show Old Grey Whistle Test.
1978: A
musical tribute to the songs of the Beatles starring the Bee Gees, Peter
Frampton and dozens of others, the infamous fantasy film Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band opens in Us theaters. A notorious flop that was
widely panned by critics, the musical does quite a bit of damage to the careers
of all who appear in it, including co-stars Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, and
Stargard. Comedian Steve Martin, George Burns, and Earth Wind and Fire,
however, emerge from the disaster relatively unscathed.
1978:
Replicating their infamous promo stunt for the single, Queen are joined onstage
at Madison Square Garden by several dozen nude, semi-overweight women during
their performance of "Bicycle Race." (Overweight because the single
mentions "fat bottomed girls," the title of the other half of the
A-side.)
1985: U2 launched their own record label 'Mother
Records.'
1987: Former Clash drummer Topper Headon was
jailed for 15 months at Maidstone Crown Court, England for supplying heroin to
a man who later died.
1987:
Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz. They separated in 1990 and divorced in 1993.
1988: Stan
Love, brother and manager of Beach Boy Mike Love, is sentenced to five years'
suspended sentence after being found guilty of embezzling over $300,000 from
the group.
1996: The
Beatles become the first artists to score three Number One albums in the same
year when their Anthology 3 hits the top of the American charts.
1998: Having
suffered a seizure while performing in Hollywood a few weeks earlier, Roland
Alphonso of the Skatalites slips into a coma.
2000: American rapper Joseph (Joe C.) Calleja
died of chronic intestinal disorder. Calleja had celiac disease, an autoimmune
disorder that can cause stunted growth, as a result, he reached a maximum
height of 3 feet, 9 inches by adulthood. He was a member of Kid Rock's band.
2001: The
city of Palm Springs, CA unveils a statue in its downtown area honoring the
late Sonny Bono, half of Sonny and Cher and mayor of the city for a time in the
Eighties.
2006: Queen's
Greatest Hits is declared the most popular album of all time in Britain,
with more than five-and-a-half million units sold. At Number Two: the Beatles' Sgt.
Pepper.
2006: The
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sends 417 more letters to
sixteen college administrators threatening mass lawsuits if file-sharing is found
happening on university servers.
