May 29

Births

1903: Bob Hope

1953: Danny Elfman (Singer for Oingo Boingo & Composer)

1956: Larry Blackmon (Singer in Cameo)

1956: La Toya Jackson (Singer)

1960: Jesse Johnson (Lead Guitar for The Time)

1961: Melissa Etheridge (Singer / Songwriter)

1963: Blaze Bayley (Lead vocalist for Iron Maiden from 1994 to 1999)

1967: Noel Gallagher (Guitarist & singer for Oasis)

1975: Mel B (Melanie Brown) (Scary Spice for The Spice Girls)

1978: Pelle Almqvist (Lead Singer for The Hives)

Events

1942: Bing Crosby recorded the song "White Christmas".  It went on to become the biggest-selling single of all time with sales of over 30 million. (It was overtaken by the 1997 Elton John version of ‘Candle In The Wind’.)

1952: Hank Williams and his wife, Audrey, were divorced.

1959: Herndon Stadium in Atlanta holds one of the first outdoor rock concerts, featuring Ray Charles, Jimmy Reed, and B.B. King. Nine thousand people attend.

1969: The debut album "Crosby, Stills and Nash" was released.

1971: Three dozen audience members attending today's Grateful Dead show at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom are treated for hallucinations after drinking apple juice purposefully spiked with LSD (some say by the band themselves).

1973: The Byrds officially disband for good (or so it seems) when founder and leader Roger McGuinn performs his first solo concert at New York's Academy of Music.

1973: Mike Oldfield released the Album ‘Tubular Bells’.

1977: Manchester band Warsaw (later to become Joy Division) made their live debut supporting The Buzzcocks at The Electric Circus, Manchester, England.

1977: Elvis leaves his show in Baltimore, MD for a full half-hour, angering and bewildering fans.

1982: The Clash's "Combat Rock" LP was released.

1983: KISS play their last concert in their traditional makeup (although, reformed with all original members, they would return to the painted faces in 1996).

1989: Elvis Presley's first grandchild, Danielle Riley Keough, is born to Lisa Marie Presley.

1989: John Cipollina (Lead Guitar for Quicksilver Messenger Service) died from chronic emphysema at the age of 45.

1991: After just completing the recording of the 'Nevermind' album, Nirvana played a last-minute show at the Jabberjaw in Los Angeles. In the audience was Iggy Pop, Dave Grohl’s girlfriend and L7 bassist Jennifer Finch who brought along her best friend Courtney Love.

1992: After the recent AIDS-related death of lead singer Freddie Mercury, the Queen song "We Are The Champions" is banned from the graduation ceremony at Sacred Heart private school in Clifton, NJ.

1997: Singer songwriter Jeff Buckley disappeared after talking a swim in the Mississippi River, his body was found on 4th June 1997 after being spotted by a passenger on a tourist riverboat.

1999: Photographers taking shots of old cars wrecked at the bottom of Malibu's Decker Canyon discover the body of Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Kramer, who had gone missing on February 12, 1995. His death is ruled a suicide.

2007: A piano used by John Lennon on the night he died was put up for sale for $375,000 on The Moments in Time memorabilia website. The upright grand piano was part of the Record Plant Recording Studios in New York where the former Beatle recorded his 1971 Imagine album. Lennon was said to be so fond of the instrument that he had it moved to whichever studio he was working in and had used the piano hours before being shot on 8 December 1980.

2009: Phil Spector was jailed for at least 19 years for murdering an actress in 2003. The producer, 69, famed for his Wall of Sound recording technique, was last month found guilty of shooting Lana Clarkson at his California home. Spector had pleaded not guilty to the second-degree murder during the five-month retrial in Los Angeles. His lawyers said he would appeal. Spector was given a sentence of 15 years to life for second-degree murder and an additional four years for personal use of a gun.

2011: Sean Kingston was in the trauma ward of a Miami hospital following an injury reportedly suffered in a jet ski accident.