Births
1917: Leonard
Chess (Founder of Chess records)
1922: Jack Kerouac
(Writer)
1940: Al
Jarreau (Jazz Singer)
1946: Liza
Minnelli (Singer)
1948: James
Taylor (Singer / Songwriter)
1949: Mike
Gibbins (Drums for Badfinger)
1949: Bill
Payne (Vocals & Keyborads for Little Feat)
1956: Steve Harris (Bass for Iron Maiden)
1957: Marlon
Jackson (The Jackson 5)
1977: Ben Kenny (Bass for Incubus)
1978: Claudio Sanchez (Singer for Coheed and
Cambria)
1979: Pete Doherty (Singer for The Libertines)
Events
1955: American
jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker died of a heart attack in New York
City while watching Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra on television. He was 34. The
coroner who performed his autopsy mistakenly estimated Parker's 34-year-old
body to be between 50 and 60 years of age after years of drug and alcohol abuse.
1958: A Philadelphia court sentences Billie Holiday
to one year probation for pleading guilty to heroin possession two years
earlier.
1963: Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill
with a cold.
1966: Love's 1st album is released "Love".
1968: The
Rolling Stones started recording their single ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ with new
producer Jimmy Miller at Olympic studios in London.
1969: Infamous London police officer Det. Sgt.
Norman Pilcher, well-known for singling out and busting rock stars, enters
George Harrison's house in Esher, Surrey, England and arrests the Beatle and
his wife Pattie for possession of marijuana (specifically, cannabis resin).
That same morning, Paul McCartney marries girlfriend Linda Eastman at the
register office in Marylebone, London and again at the Anglican church in St.
John's Wood. No other Beatles attend.
1971: Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca P’rez
Morena de Macias.
1971: The Allman Brothers Band played the first
of two nights at the Fillmore East, New York. Both show's were recorded and
released as The Allman Brothers live double album, which became the groups
breakthrough album.
1974: During his infamous "Lost Weekend,"
John Lennon attends the Smothers Brothers comedy show at the Troubadour in Los
Angeles with singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson. A drunk Nilsson begins to heckle
the brothers, thinking he's helping the show, and a drunken John helps him do
it. Both are thrown out.
1975: The divorce of George Jones and Tammy
Wynette is finalized. Wynette takes custody of their only child, Tamala, and
keeps their home on Franklin Road in Nashville.
1981: Bow Wow Wow were forced to cancel the first
dates of a UK tour after Greater London Council stated that singer Annabella
Lwin aged 15 would be guilty of truancy.
1983: U2 scored their first UK No.1 album with
'War', which went on to spend a total of 147 weeks on the chart. The album
featured the singles 'New Years Day' and 'Two Hearts Beat As One'.
1996: Nancy Sinatra gives her famous white go-go
boots, the ones that were made for walkin', to the Beverly Hills Hard Rock
Cafe.
1998: Ska Artist Judge Dread died due to heart
attack as he walked off stage.
1998: Korn
served a cease-and-desist demand to a Michigan assistant principal, the high
school and the school district who suspended a student for wearing a T-shirt
that had the band's name on it.
2001: Judy
Garland's 'Over The Rainbow' was voted the Song Of The Century in a poll
published in America. Musicians, critics and fans compiled the list by the RIA.
2003: On the eve of the Rolling Stones' first tour
of China, the Chinese government provides the group with a list of provocative
songs the group is prohibited from playing, including "Brown Sugar," “Beast
Of Burden”, "Honky Tonk Women," and "Let's Spend The Night
Together."
2007:
Disappointed with his share of the profits from a cell phone commercial that
was authorized to use the group's famous 1968 hit "The Weight," The
Band's Levon Helm sues Cingular, the commercial's creator.
2008: An
all-Beatles-song episode of FOX-TV's American Idol, seven years in the
making, draws an estimated 31 million viewers.
2009: Hundreds of fans gathered
at the O2 arena in London as Michael Jackson tickets went on sale to the
public. The 50-year-old pop veteran had confirmed he would be playing a 50-date
residency at the venue, beginning on 8 July 2009. Some 360,000 pre-sale tickets
had already sold. Organisers said the This Is It tour had become the
fastest-selling in history, with 33 seats sold each minute.
2010: Over 130 people were
arrested and eight people were hospitalised as fans tried to gatecrash a
Metallica show in Colombia. 1,500 police and four tanks were brought in to
manage the crowds as property was vandalized and destroyed, as thousands of
ticketless fans rioted during Metallica’s first Colombian concert in eleven
years.
