Births
1942: Marty
Balin (Lead Vocals for Jefferson Airplane/Starship)
1947: Steve
Marriott (Vocals & Guitar for Humble Pie & Small Faces)
1951: Phil
Collins (Drummer & Vocals for Genesis & Solo)
1959: Jody Watley (Singer for Shalamar &
Solo)
1961: Angie Stone (R&B Singer)
1967: Jay Gordon (Lead Vocals for Orgy)
1967: Bill Leverty (Guitar for Firehouse)
1980: Josh Kelley (Singer / Songwriter)
1984: Kid Cudi (Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi) (Rapper)
Events
1969: The
Beatles give their last public live performance on the roof of their own Apple
Studios, 3 Savile Row, London. The band had come up with the idea of a rooftop
performance a few days earlier, but the roof had to be shored up first in order
to handle the weight of the group's equipment. Filmed for the movie that
eventually became Let It Be, the set performed was as follows: "Get
Back" (take 1), "Get Back" (take 2), "Don't Let Me
Down," "I've Got A Feeling" (take 1), "One After 909,"
"Dig A Pony," "I've Got A Feeling" (take 2), "Don't
Let Me Down" (take 2), "Get Back" (take 3). (The band also does
a version of "God Save The Queen" that is not recorded.) The concert,
which lasts 42 minutes, comes to an abrupt end when police, tipped off by the
complaints of a nearby shop owner, shut the concert down.
1973: KISS
play their first concert, at the Coventry Club in Queens, New York. They wear
makeup onstage, but not the look they would become known for. The band
performed 2 sets at the club that night for a crowd of under 10 people.
1974: Greg
Lake of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer is arrested for swimming nude in a hotel pool
in Salt Lake City, NV. The pool was clearly visible from the street.
1988: INXS had their first US No.1 hit single
with 'Need You Tonight'.
1990:
France's Culture Ministry honors Bob Dylan by naming him a commander in the
Order of Arts and Letters.
2007: R&B Singer Brandy (Brandy Norwood) was
sued for wrongful-death by the parents of a woman that was killed in a car
crash involving Brandy on Decenber 30, 2006.
