Births
1948: John Evans
(Keyboardist for Jethro Tull)
1948: Milan Williams
(Keyboardist for The Commodores)
1955: Reba
McEntire (Country Singer)
1965: Steve
Turner (Guitar for Mudhoney)
1966: Cheryl
James (Salt from Salt-n-Pepa)
1969: James
Atkin (Vocals for EMF)
1969: Rodney
Atkins (Country Artist)
1976: Dave
Keuning (Guitarist for The Killers)
1986: Lady
Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) (Singer)
Events
1958: Blues
musician and composer W.C. Handy died of bronchial pneumonia at Sydenham Hospital
in New York City.
1958: Alan Freed's Big
Beat Show tour kicks off the first of its 43 shows at the Brooklyn Paramount
Theater with Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Danny and the Juniors,
Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Chantels, The Diamonds, Screaming Jay
Hawkins, and more.
1964: Madame Tussaud's
famous Wax Museum in London unveils its four new statues of the Beatles -- the
first of any rock star to be created and displayed there. The figures will
eventually become even more famous when the Beatles decide to use them on the
cover of their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
1967: Van Morrison’s
song "Brown Eyed Girl" is recorded.
1969: Joe
Cocker played his first American concert.
1973: Pink Floyd's LP Dark Side Of The Moon hits #1.
1974: Delta-Blues
artist Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup died of a heart attack in the
Nassawadox hospital in Northampton County, Virginia.
1974: Rock group The Raspberries break up.
1975: Barbra Streisand
attends tonight's Elvis Presley show in Vegas and meets the King backstage to
discuss offering him the lead role in her latest film project: a remake of the
classic A Star Is Born. Despite the fact that Streisand's boyfriend, stylist Jon
Peters, is slated to produce and direct, Presley is said to be ecstatic about
the project.
1976:
Genesis began their first North American tour since Peter Gabriel left the
band, appearing in Buffalo, New York, with Phil Collins taking over as lead
singer.
1982: After driving
erratically due to a toxic shock from drug abuse, David Crosby is arrested in
San Diego for driving under the influence and possession of Quaaludes, cocaine,
drug paraphernalia, and an unlicensed .45 pistol. When cops ask why Crosby is
carrying the gun, he says two words: "John Lennon."
1984: Mick Fleetwood,
whose band, Fleetwood Mac, had the biggest-selling album of all time just seven
years earlier, files for bankruptcy.
1985: At 10:15 am EST,
6,000 North American radio stations begin playing the all-star benefit single,
"We Are The World," written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and
performed by a cast of 45 of music's biggest stars, including Ray Charles, Bob
Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Diana Ross, Billy Joel,
Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, and Daryl Hall. Proceeds from the
sale of the single and related items -- some $38 million -- go to benefit
victims of the recent Ethiopian famine.
1987: After hearing
that Arizona Governor Evan Mecham would not honor the new national holiday
Martin Luther King Day, the racially integrated Doobie Brothers move their
upcoming show from Phoenix to Las Vegas.
1991: Eric Clapton
quietly lays his son Conor, 4, to rest in England. The child, who had fallen from
an apartment window a few days earlier, would later be the subject of Clapton's
song "Tears In Heaven."
1992: over
a $100,000 worth of damage was caused at The Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre,
California, when Ozzy Osbourne invited the first two rows of the audience on
stage. Several others took up the offer and the band was forced to exit the
stage.
1995:
Country singer Lyle Lovett and actress Julia Roberts announced they were
separating after 21 months of marriage.
1996: Twenty years to
the day after first appearing with them on stage as their new lead singer,
Genesis front man Phil Collins announces he is leaving the group.
1999:
Freaky Tah (Lost Boyz) was killed by a ski-masked gunman who came up behind him
and fired a single gunshot into his head. Freaky Tah was 27 years old.
2001: The
artist formerly known as both Puffy and Puff Daddy said in an interview on MTV
he now wanted to be known as P. Diddy. In August 2005, he changed his stage
name to simply "Diddy."
2005: On Rev. Jesse
Jackson's internet radio show, Michael Jackson claims that his recent
child-molestation charges are a racist conspiracy.
2005: After
playing a warm-up date the night before at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, U2
kicked off their Vertigo tour at the iPay One Center in San Diego, California.
The 131 date world tour would see the band playing in North America, Europe,
South America and Japan. By the time it finished, the Vertigo Tour had sold
4,619,021 tickets, grossing $389 million; the second-highest figure ever for a
world tour.
2006: Tina
Brown the sister-in-law of Whitney Houston sold pictures taken in her bathroom
to the National Enquirer claiming Whitney Houston had been taking crack
cocaine. The pictures showed drug paraphernalia including a crack-smoking pipe,
rolling papers, cocaine-caked spoons and cigarette ends strewn across the
surface tops of the bathroom.
2011: Rapper
Rick Ross was arrested after police responded to a complaint about the smell of
marijuana at a Hilton Hotel.
Upon checking, police confiscated 1 gram of what investigators believed
to be marijuana. He was issued a
misdemeanor summons and released after the arrest.
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