Births
1923: Sam
Phillips (Founder & Producer of Sun Studios)
1950: Chris Stein (Guitar for Blondie)
1951: Biff Byford (Vocals for Saxon)
1966: Kate Schellenbach (Vocals for Luscious
Jackson & former Drummer in The Beastie Boys)
1969: Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner) (Singer)
1970: Troy Van Leeuwen (Guitar for Queens Of The
Stone Age & A Perfect Circle)
1976: Matthew Wachter (Bass for Angels &
Airwaves & 30 Seconds To Mars)
1978: January Jones (Actress in Mad Men)
Events
1963: Leonard
Chess, co-founder of Chess records, tells Billboard magazine, "As
it stands today, there's virtually no difference between rock and roll, pop and
rhythm and blues. The music has completely overlapped."
1968: Jimi Hendrix was jailed for one day in
Stockholm, Sweden on drunk charges after going berserk and destroying
everything in his room at the Goteberg Hotel.
1973: Bruce Springsteen released his debut album
'Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.' Recorded in a single week the album only
sold about 25,000 copies in the first year of its release.
1979: The
double-album soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever reaches sales
of 25 million worldwide, making it the best-selling LP in history so far.
1979: Prince made his live debut at the Capri
Theatre, Minneapolis.
1980: “Rappers Delight” by The Sugarhill Gang
became the first rap song to hit the top 40.
1983: Everything But The Girl made their live
debut at the ICA in London. (They took their name from a second-hand furniture
store in Hull).
1998: Sonny
Bono of
injuries sustained when he hit a tree while skiing on the Nevada side of
Heavenly Ski Resort near South Lake Tahoe, California.
2003: Little
Richard guest-stars on the "Special Edna" episode of Fox's The
Simpsons.
2003: Green Day's lead singer
Billie Joe Armstrong was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after being
stopped in California speeding in a black BMW convertible. He failed a breath
test and was taken to Berkeley county jail and was later released on $1,053
bail.
2004: Kinks singer Ray Davies
was shot in the leg while on vacation in New Orleans. The 59-year-old
singer-songwriter was shot when running after two men who stole his
girlfriend's purse at gunpoint.
