Births
1921: Mario
Lanza (Italian Singer)
1923: Carol
Channing (Broadway Singer)
1944: Charlie
Musselwhite (Blues Harmonica Player)
1946: Terry
Kath (Guitar for Chicago)
1951: KC
(Harry Wayne Casey) (Vocals & Keyboards in KC and the Sunshine Band)
1951: Phil Manzanera (Lead Guitar in Roxy Music)
1954: Vandenberg (Adrian Vandenberg) (Guitarist
for Vanderberg & Whitesnake)
1956: Johnny Rotten (John Lydon) (Lead Vocals for
Sex Pistols & Public Image Lmt.)
1961: Lloyd Cole (Singer / Songwriter)
1964: Jeff Hanneman (Guitar for Slayer)
1967: Fat Mike (Michael John Burkett) (Lead Vocals & Bass for NoFX & Me First and
the Gimme Gimmes)
1967: Jason Cooper
(Drums for The Cure)
1981: Justin Timberlake (Singer for N’Sync &
Solo, Pimp)
Events
1959: Just
three days before their death in a plane crash, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and
the Big Bopper play the Armory in Duluth, MN. In attendance: a
seventeen-year-old Robert Zimmerman, who would be inspired to become a musician
by this performance. We now know him as Bob Dylan.
1961: NBC
airs the Bobby Darin And Friends television special, originally meant as
a pilot for a weekly variety series.
1963: A
seventeen-year-old Neil Young makes his stage debut at a country club in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1967: While
in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, John Lennon visits an antique shop and purchases a
circus poster from 1843. It is this poster which inspires most of the lyrics to
the Beatles' "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite."
1969: Billy
Preston signs with Apple Records.
1970: Blues musician Slim Harpo died of a heart
attack while recording in London at age 46.
1970: The Jackson Five went to No.1 on the US
singles chart with 'I Want You Back'. The song was originally written for
Gladys Knight & The Pips and was the first of four No.1's for the group.
1970: In New
Orleans, the Grateful Dead are arrested for possession of LSD and barbituates,
an incident which would inspire one of their most famous songs,
"Truckin'." (Apparently the band had fun afoul of mob interests in
Texas, and the mob alerted the NOPD. This explains lines like "Houston,
too close to New Orleans" and "Set up, like a bowling pin.")
1971: The
Jackson 5 are given the key to their hometown of Gary, IN, by Mayor Robert
Pastrick.
1972: Mahalia
Jackson's funeral is held at Chicago's Great Salem Baptist Church. Over 40,000
mourners attend the open-casket service, which features a closing version of
"Precious Lord, Take My Hand" performed by Aretha Franklin.
1978: Greg Herbert saxophone player with Blood
Sweat & Tears died of an accidental drug overdose in Amsterdam, Holland at
age 30.
1979: Bo
Diddley opens up for punk band The Clash at the beginning of their first US
tour.
1985:
Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty gives his first live performance in
fourteen years at the Chaplin Stage in Hollywood, CA.
1998: The
Bruce Springsteen "Come Together" benefit concert, organized for the
family of a New Jersey police officer killed in the line of duty, turns into an
impromptu E Street Band reunion that also features Southside Johnny and other
Jersey musicians.
2001: It was announced that Peter Criss was leaving
KISS and that he would be replaced by Eric Singer for the remainder of dates of
the farewell tour. Criss' last show was on October 7, 2000.
2010: Beyoncé set a Grammy record for females when
she won six. The six awards were Song Of The Year, Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best Traditional R&B
Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best Contemporary R&B Album.
