Births
1888:
Leadbelly (Blues Musician)
1922: Ray
Anthony (Big Band Leader)
1924: Slim Whitman (Country Singer)
1951: Ian
Hill (Bass for Judas Priest)
1952: Paul Stanley (Vocals & Guitar for KISS)
1955: Michael
Anthony (Bass for Van Halen)
1965: John Michael Montgomery (Country Artist)
1965: Greg Kriesel (Bass for The Offspring)
1966: Tracii Guns (Guitar for
L.A. Guns & Guns N’ Roses first Guitarist)
1971: ?uestlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) (Drummer for The Roots)
1971: Gary
Barlow (Singer for Take That and Solo)
1979: Rob Bourdon (Drummer for Linkin Park)
1980: Matthew Tuck (Lead Vocals & Rhythm
Guitar for Bullet For My Valentine)
1981: Nathan Connolly (Lead Guitar for Snow
Patrol)
1985: Brantley
Gilbert (Country Artist)
Events
1958: Elvis
Presley receives his draft notice in Memphis, TN. It allows a sixty-day
deferment for the King to finish his film King Creole.
1964: The Beatles album “Meet The Beatles” is
released in the US. The whole album was
27:00 minutes long.
1965: The
Rolling Stones and the Kinks both make their debut on ABC's Shindig! along with guests Dave Clark
Five, Petula Clark, Bobby Vee, Bobby Sherman and Gerry and the Pacemakers.
1968: In his
first public appearance since his motorcycle accident two years earlier, Bob
Dylan joins Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Odetta, Richie Havens,
Ramblin' Jack Elliot and the Band at a Carnegie Hall tribute concert for Woody
Guthrie.
1969: Elvis Presley recorded "In the
Ghetto" and "Suspicious Minds." It was the first time he had
recorded in Memphis since 1956.
1971: Diana
Ross marries Bob Silberstein.
1973:
Following his newfound success as a country and western artist, Jerry Lee Lewis
finally takes the stage at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. Although officials
instruct him to play only country and to keep his comments clean, Lewis
eventually breaks both rules, playing his classic rock and roll hits and
declaring himself "the rock & rollin', country and western, rhythm and
blues singin' motherf-----."
1974: After
only five months of recovery from a near-fatal car crash, Stevie Wonder returns
to performance with a show at London's Rainbow Theatre.
1982: During an Ozzy Osbourne concert in Des
Moines, Iowa, a member of the audience threw a bat onto the stage. Stunned by
the light, the bat lay motionless, and thinking it was a rubber fake, the
singer picked it up and attempted to bite its head off. As he did this, the bat
started to flap its wings and Ozzy soon realized it wasn't fake but in fact a
living thing. After the show Ozzy was immediately rushed to the nearest
hospital for rabies shots.
1988: The
Third Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies are held in New
York City. Inductees include The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob
Dylan, and The Supremes. Beach Boy Mike Love raises eyebrows with his
acceptance speech, which methodically insults most of the honorees (among
others).
1999: Scott Weiland (Stone Temple
Pilots), while on probation for a 1997 heroin case, was arrested for failing to
provide a urine sample to his live-in drug treatment center.
