Births
1919:
Tennessee Ernie Ford (Country Singer)
1942: Peter
Tork (Keyboards & Bass for The Monkees)
1945: King
Floyd (R&B Singer)
1950: Peter
Gabriel (Lead Singer for Genesis & Solo)
1950: Bob Daisley (Bass for
Ozzy Osbourne & Rainbow)
1951: David
Naughton (Singer)
1952: Ed
Gagliardi (Bass for Foreigner)
1956: Peter Hook (Bass for Joy Division & New
Order)
1961: Henry Rollins (Singer for Black Flag & Rollins
Band)
1961: Les Warner (Drummer for The Cult)
1966: Freedom Williams (Lead Vocals for C+C Music
Factory)
1974: Robbie Williams (Singer in Take That &
Solo)
1976: Feist (Leslie
Feist ) (Singer / Songwriter)
1978: Hamish Glencross (Guitar for My Dying
Bride)
Events
1961: Frank Sinatra launched his own record
label, Reprise Records, in order to allow more artistic freedom for his own
recordings. Hence, he garnered the nickname “The Chairman of the Board.”
1970: On this day, Friday the 13th, Black Sabbath
released their debut self-titled studio album on Vertigo records. Peaking at #8
on the charts, the album has been recognized as the first main album to be
credited with the development of the heavy metal genre.
1972: Led
Zeppelin is forced to cancel a gig in Singapore when local officials, seeing
their long hair, refuse to let them off the plane.
1974, David Bowie turned down an offer from the
Gay Liberation group to compose 'the world's first Gay National Anthem.'
1978: Los
Angeles mayor Tom Bradley officially declares today "Al Green Day."
1980: Police raided the home of former Sex Pistol
John Lydon who greeted them waving a ceremonial sword, the only illegal item
they found was a canister of tear gas, claimed to be for defense against
intruders.
1981: Pink
Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
becomes first the rock album to spend the most consecutive weeks on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart -- 402
weeks from March 1973. It would eventually leave the charts April 23, 1988,
after 724 weeks.
1982: The
300-pound gravestone of Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zant is stolen
from the cemetery in Orange Park, CA. Police find it two weeks later in a dry
river bed.
1988: Michael
Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, CA, which he renames
"Neverland."
1997: Michael
Jackson and wife Debbie Rowe become the proud parents of their first child,
Prince.
1998: Police at Manchester
Airport arrested former Stone Roses singer, Ian Brown after an incident during
a flight from Paris. Brown was found guilty in August the same year and jailed
for four months; British Airways also banned him from flying with the airline.
2002: Country
artist Waylon Jennings died in his sleep of diabetic complications.
2007: Robbie Williams checked into rehab on his
birthday to deal with an addiction to prescription drugs.
