Births
1944: Mick
Avory (Drummer for The Kinks)
1945: John
Helliwell (Sax for Supertramp)
1950: David
Brown (Bass for Santana)
1951: Melissa
Manchester (Singer)
1957: Jake E. Lee (Jakey Lou Williams) (Guitar for Ozzy Osbourne & Badlands)
1959: Ali Campbell (Singer in UB40)
1964: Chris Farley (Comedian)
1967: Jane Child (Pop Singer / Songwriter)
1969: Birdman (Bryan Williams) (Rapper)
1976: Brandon Boyd (Singer in Incubus)
1976: Ronnie Vannucci Jr (Drummer in The Killers)
1977: Brooks Wackerman (Drummer for Bad Religion)
1980: Conor
Oberst (Singer / Songwriter for Bright Eyes, Monsters Of Folk & The Faint)
Events
1941: Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded
"Take the "A" Train" for the first time.
1954: Big Joe Turner recorded the original
"Shake, Rattle & Roll".
1958: Due to
the amazing daytime success of Dick Clark's American Bandstand, ABC
debuts a new prime-time variety show called The Dick Clark Show. Guests
on the first episode include Connie Francis, Pat Boone, Chuck Willis, Jerry Lee
Lewis, The Royal Teens, and Johnnie Ray.
1961: Singer Jackie Wilson was left with a
stomach wound after Juanita Jones, a female fan, went to his New York apartment
demanding to see him. Jones' gun went off as he tried to disarm her.
1964: The Beatles scored their first US No.1
album with 'Meet The Beatles!' The album stayed at No.1 for eleven weeks.
1965: Nat
"King" Cole died of lung cancer at age 45. In 1956 he became the
first black American to host a television variety show.
1967: Music
students at Chicago's DePaul University form a seven-piece rock ensemble called
The Big Thing. Later, they would change their name to Chicago Transit
Authority, and then, simply, Chicago.
1968: Beatles
John Lennon and George Harrison, along with their wives, travel to Rishikesh,
India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The other two band members would
soon follow.
1968: US blues harmonica player Little Walter
died from injuries incurred in a fight while taking a break from a performance
at a nightclub in Chicago.
1969: Florida
hairstylist Vickie Jones is arrested for impersonating Aretha Franklin at a
club in Fort Myers, FL. Incredibly, her performance is so believable that no
patrons demand a refund.
1970: After a
Sly and the Family Stone concert runs hours late and causes over a thousand
dollars in damages, the Daughters of the American Revolution impose a ban
against any further rock concerts at the venue, Washington D.C.'s Constitution
Hall.
1975: Capitol
Records rushes to release John Lennon's Rock and Roll album after a much
shabbier version, called Roots, had begun to be marketed on late-night
television. Roots was music exec Morris Levy's version of the
"oldies" sessions, which Lennon was court-ordered to undertake as
payment for a Chuck Berry line John used in the Beatles' "Come
Together." (Levy's copyright was judged to have been infringed by the line
"Here come old flat-top, he come groovin' up slowly.")
1976: Bette
Midler bails out no less than seven members of her entourage from jail after their
arrest on drug possession charges.
1977: Sid Vicious joined the Sex Pistols replacing
bassist Glen Matlock.
1981: American guitarist Mike Bloomfield was
found dead in his car in San Francisco from an accidental heroin overdose. He
was a member of the Paul Butterfield band and Electric Flag and had played on
Bob Dylan's album 'Highway 61 Revisited'.
1991: Rod
Stewart's ex-girlfriend, supermodel Kelly Emberg, files a $25 million palimony
suit against the singer in Los Angeles Superior Court.
1999: Minnesota
Governor Jesse Ventura -- a former Rolling Stones concert bodyguard &
professional wrestler -- declares today "Rolling Stones Day."
1999: Rapper Big L (Lamont Coleman) was killed after
being shot nine times in the face and chest by a childhood friend.
