Births
1933: Nina
Simone (Jazz Singer)
1943: David
Geffen (Record Executive)
1949: Jerry Harrison (Keyboards & Guitar for
The Talking Heads & The Modern Lovers)
1958: Mary Chapin Carpenter (Country Singer)
1961: Ranking Roger (Roger Charlery) (Singer for
The English Beat & General Public)
1967: Michael Ward (Guitar for The Wallflowers)
1970: Eric Wilson (Bass for Sublime)
1975: Wish Bone (Charles C. Scruggs ) (Rapper
with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1986: Charlotte Church (Singer)
Events
1952: A
17-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis marries his first wife, preacher's daughter Dorothy
Barton, in what is rumored to be a shotgun wedding.
1958: The first Flying V, a guitar by Gibson, was
shipped from a factory in Kalamazoo, MI.
1964: A young
pianist named Billy Joel joins his first rock band, a New York outfit called
The Echoes, which specializes in covering the new "British Invasion"
bands.
1970: The
Jackson 5 made their television debut on ABC's American Bandstand.
1976: The
Four Seasons finally score a UK #1 -- their first and last -- with their latest
single, "December '63 (Oh What A Night)."
1981: Dolly Parton started a two week run at No.1
on the US charts with '9 to 5', the singers first No.1.
1981: Prince appeared on "Saturday Night
Live" and performed "Party Up." It was his first appearance on
the show.
1986: Pat
Boone is the guest star (as himself) on tonight's "Beach Blanket
Bounty" episode of NBC-TV's The Fall Guy.
1987: 26
years after becoming a hit in America, Ben E. King's "Stand By Me"
becomes a #1 in the UK, following its release in the movie of the same name.
1987: Sly Stone was jailed on drug charges.
2001: Johnny
Cash, recovering from pneumonia, is judged fit for release from a Nashville
hospital so that he can attend this evening's Grammy ceremonies and pick up his
statuette for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
2001: Robbie Williams was attacked and thrown
from the stage during a concert in Stuttgart, Germany after a man got onto the
stage and pushed Williams into the security pit. The attacker was arrested and
taken to a secure psychiatric clinic.
2008: In what
is reported as one of eBay's most expensive sales yet, the online auction house
brokers a deal between an unnamed US music collector and an unnamed Irish
collector for three million albums and singles in various formats, for a grand
total of about one dollar per item.
2008: Crystal
Gayle is inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame.
2008: A computer expert was
jailed for two years for electronically stalking Linkin Park singer Chester
Bennington. Devon Townsend worked at a US national security laboratory in New
Mexico, where she used a computer to track Bennington, she admitted to
obtaining family photos, accessing e-mail and voicemail, and threatening his
wife Talinda.
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