Births
1933: Yoko
Ono (Musician)
1934: Skip Battin (Bass for The Byrds)
1941: Irma
Thomas (R&B Singer)
1947: Dennis
DeYoung (Singer & Keyboards for Styx)
1952: Juice Newton (Country Singer / Songwriter)
1952: Randy Crawford (Jazz Singer)
1953: Robbie
Bachman (Drums for Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
1954: John
Travolta (Singer, yes he had a album)
1955: Brian James (Guitar for The Damned &
Lords Of The New Church)
1965: Dr Dre (Andre
Romelle Young) (Rapper)
1977: Sean
Watkins (Singer & Guitarist for Nickel Creek)
1980: Regina
Spektor (Singer / Songwriter)
1982: Juelz
Santana (LaRon Louis James) (Rapper)
Events
1966: Beach Boy Brian Wilson recorded the future
classic song 'Good Vibrations', which went on to become the band's third U.S.
number-one hit. As a child, his mother told him that dogs could pick up
"vibrations" from people, so that the dog would bark at "bad
vibrations" Wilson turned this into the general idea for the song.
1968: David
Gilmour joins Pink Floyd as the replacement for founding member and guitarist
Syd Barrett, who had already checked into a psychiatric hospital due to
declining mental health.
1968: Ringo
Starr and Paul McCartney, along with their female companions, head to
Rishikesh, India to join the other two members of the Beatles in studying under
the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
1969: The Bee
Gees' Maurice Gibb marries Lulu at St. James' Church, Gerrards Cross,
Buckinghamshire, England. Three thousand fans turn out to see the nuptials.
1973: Four
men climb on stage during Elvis Presley's show in Las Vegas, ostensibly to
shake his hand. Fearing a threat to his life, Elvis and bassist Jerry Scheff
immobilize the men using karate moves. No charges are filed. Elvis tells the
audience: "I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sorry I didn't break his
goddamned neck, is what I'm sorry about."
1973: The
nationally syndicated radio concert series The King Biscuit Flower Hour
premieres, featuring Blood Sweat and Tears, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Bruce
Springsteen and the E Street Band.
1974: KISS release their self-titled debut album.
1980: Bill
Wyman announces his intention to leave his group, the Rolling Stones, by 1983.
The bassist is convinced to stay on, which he does until 1992.
1980: Filming
begins on Ringo Starr's new comedy, Caveman.
1992: Vince Neil quit as lead singer of Motley
Crue. After 11 years with the group he says he wants to spend more time on his
career as a race car driver. The band reunited on the "American Music
Awards" 5 years later.
1995: American guitarist Bob Stinson from The
Replacements died from a drug overdose, his body was found in his Uptown,
Minneapolis apartment.
2001: James
Taylor marries his second wife, Caroline.
2005: Britney Spears attacked a
US magazine after it published photographs of her honeymoon without permission.
Weekly publication Us printed five pages of pictures of Spears and husband
Kevin Federline on holiday in Fiji. A statement from US said: "Britney
should start her own magazine if she'd like to dictate her own coverage."
2006: In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil,
the Rolling Stones gave a free concert before a crowd of over 1 million people
at Copacabana Beach.
