Births
1927: Stan
Getz (Jazz Sax Player)
1942: Graham
Nash (Singer / Songwriter in The Hollies & Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young)
1947: Farrah Fawcett (Just Because)
1949: Ross
Valory (Bass for Journey & Steve Miller Band)
1963: Eva Cassidy (Singer)
1965: Steve Firth (Bass for Embrace)
1966: Robert Deleo (Bass for Stone Temple Pilots)
1977: Shakira (Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll)
(Singer)
1980: Gucci Mane (Radric Davis) (Rapper)
Events
1957: Fats
Domino makes an appearance on 's The Perry Como Show singing his hits
"Blue Monday" and "Blueberry Hill."
1959: Buddy
Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper play their last show as part of the
"Winter Dance Party" tour, stopping this night at the Surf Ballroom
in Clear Lake, IA. Admission: $1.25. The last song of the night: The Big
Bopper's "Chantilly Lace."
1969:
"Carl Perkins Day" is declared in Jackson, TN, where the singer moved
with his family at 18.
1969: Yoko Ono divorced her husband Tony Cox,
Yoko was granted custody of their daughter Kyoko. John Lennon and married Yoko
the following month on 30th March.
1973:
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer keyboard player Keith Emerson injures his hands when
a rigged piano explodes prematurely during a San Francisco gig, leaving him with
minor cuts and a broken fingernail.
1973: Elvis
Presley meets boxer Muhammed Ali in Las Vegas, presenting him with a robe
emblazoned with the words "The People's Champion." Ali responds by
giving Elvis boxing gloves inscribed "You're the greatest" (left) and
"To Elvis, my main man, from Muhammad Ali" (right). Ali recollects
later: "I felt sorry for him because he didn't enjoy life the way he
should. He stayed indoors all the time. I told him he should go out and see
people."
1973: NBC
debuts The Midnight Special rock variety show, its response to ABC's
popular In Concert series. The first host: Helen Reddy.
1976: Genesis released 'A Trick Of The Tail',
their seventh studio album and the first to feature drummer Phil Collins as
full-time lead vocalist following the departure of original vocalist Peter
Gabriel. After auditioning over 400 vocalists, which saw Collins teaching the
potential lead singers the songs, the band decided that Collins should be the
new vocalist.
1979: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious died of a
heroin overdose in New York City at age 21. There had been a party to celebrate
Vicious' release on $50,000 bail pending his trial for the murder of his former
girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, the previous October. Party guests, said that
Vicious had taken heroin at midnight. An autopsy confirmed that Vicious died
from an accumulation of fluid in the lungs that was consistent with heroin
overdose. A syringe, spoon and heroin residue were discovered near the body.
1992: Todd
Rundgren and wife Michele become the proud parents of a son they name
"Rebop."
1993: Willie
Nelson settles his $17 million tax debt with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service
by paying them nine million dollars in cash and assets already seized.
1996: Gene
Kelly died after a stroke he had a year earlier at age 83.
1999: Freddy
Fender is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2007: US keyboardist Joe Hunter,
a veteran session musician as one of the Funk Brothers who helped craft the
distinctive Motown sound, died of natural causes in Detroit, Michigan, at the
age of 79.
2010: Tim McGraw and Gwyneth
Paltrow shoot concert footage for the movie "Country Strong" at
Nashville's Municipal Auditorium. The Lost Trailers entertain extras during the
day.
2011: Zac and Shelly Brown have
a daughter, Joni Mason Brown, at their home in the Atlanta area.
