Births
1941: Chad
Stuart (Singer in Chad and Jeremy)
1946: Ace
Kefford (Bass for The Move)
1952: Susan
Dey (The Partridge Family)
1957: Paul Hardcastle (Producer &
Keyboardist)
1965: J Mascis (Vocals & Guitar for Dinosaur
Jr. & Solo)
1966: Timothy Christian Riley (Singer in
Tony, Toni, Tone !)
1971: Scot Alexander (Bass for
Dishwalla)
1972: Brian Molko (Guitar & Lead Vocal for
Placebo)
1972: Donavon
Frankenreiter (Singer / Songwriter)
1974: Meg White (Drums for The White Stripes)
Events
1927:
Although the radio show known as the WSM Barn Dance had been broadcasting out
of Nashville, TN, for some time, this is the first day on which the show is
announced as "The Grand Ole Opry."
1949: Fats Domino cut eight tracks during his first
recording session at Cosimo Matassa’s J&M Studios in New Orleans.
1959: The
Platters' four male members are acquitted of charges made on August 10th in
Cincinnati, OH, of "aiding and abetting prostitution, lewdness and
assignation."
1963: Donny
Osmond makes his debut with the Osmonds on NBC's The Andy Williams Show.
1965: The
Grateful Dead perform their first concert in San Francisco's Fillmore
Auditorium (and only their second overall).
1967: The
previously unknown San Francisco group The Steve Miller Blues Band signs to
Capitol for an unprecedented $750,000, dropping "Blues" from their
name in the process.
1967: Otis
Redding and four members of his band, the Bar-Kays, are killed when their tour
plane crashes into a frozen near Madison, WI. Three days earlier, Redding had
recorded what was to be his breakthough pop hit, "Sittin' On The Dock Of
The Bay." Otis was 26 years old.
1971: During
a concert in London, Frank Zappa is thrown into the orchestra pit by a fan's
jealous boyfriend, breaking his leg and ankle and fracturing his skull. Zappa
takes months to recover.
1972: Roberta
Flack and two members of her backup band are injured when her bass player
totals her new Citroen near Manhattan.
1973: The CBGB (Country, BlueGrass, and Blues)
Club opened in the lower eastside of New York City; it became the home of new
bands such as Blondie, Television, Patti Smith and The Ramones.
1976: Billy Idol's new band Generation X made
their live debut at The Central College Of Art, London.
1980: The
body of John Lennon is cremated.
1995: Darren Robinson (The Human Beatbox) of The
Fat Boys died of a heart attack, weighing 450 lb at the time. He was 28 years old.
2003: Coldplay singer Chris Martin married
actress Gwyneth Paltrow in Santa Barbara, California. The couple also announced
that Paltrow was pregnant and the baby was due next summer.
2003: Bobby Brown was charged with battery three
days after he allegedly hit his wife Whitney Houston.
2005: Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood marry at
their home in Owasso, Oklahoma.
2007: Led Zeppelin played their first concert in
19 years, at London's 02 arena. Original band members Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
and John Paul Jones were joined on stage by Jason Bonham, the son of their late
drummer John Bonham. More than one million people had taken part in a ballot
for the 20,000 tickets available for the show.
2008: DMX was back behind bars in Miami after he
was arrested for allegedly missing a court appearance in Phoenix, Arizona. The
rapper was arrested on a warrant issued by a judge after he failed to show in
where he faced charges of drug possession, identity theft and animal cruelty.
