Births
1928: Fred “Mr.” Rogers
1936: Lee
"Scratch" Perry (Reggae Artist)
1937: Jerry
Reed (Country Singer)
1949: Marcia Ball (Blues Singer & Pianist)
1950: Carl
Palmer (Drummer for Emerson, Lake and Palmer & Asia)
1951: Jimmie Vaughan (Guitar & Vocals for
Fabulous Thunderbirds)
1953: Poison Ivy (Kristy Wallace) (guitar for The
Cramps)
1956: Fonso Martin (Percussion for Steel Pulse)
1957: Spike Lee
1972: Alex Kapranos (Vocals & Guitar for
Franz Ferdinand)
1976: Chester Bennington (Vocals for Linkin Park)
1982: Nick Wheeler (Guitarist for All-American
Rejects)
Events
1959: Dick
Clark protege and teen idol Bobby Rydell makes his first television appearance,
naturally enough, on ABC-TV's American Bandstand.
1960: Elvis Presley started his first recordings
since being discharged from the US Army. A 12 hour session in a Nashville
recording studio produced his next No.1 single, ‘Stuck On You’. Scotty Moore
and Bill Black, who had quit Presley's touring band in 1957, were in the studio
with him for the last time.
1964: The
Beatles make their first appearance on the British television show Ready
Steady Go!, miming along, as was the custom, to "Can't Buy Me
Love," "It Won't Be Long," and "You Can't Do That."
They were also presented with a special award from US magazine Billboard, in
recognition of The Beatles having the top three singles on the chart
simultaneously.
1965: After a
celebratory formal street parade, Motown's first UK package tour begins at
Finsbury Park Astoria, in London, featuring The Supremes, The Temptations,
Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and Martha & the
Vandellas.
1968: In Los
Angeles, Eric Clapton and three members of Buffalo Springfield -- Neil Young,
Jim Messina, and Richie Furay -- are arrested for suspicion of marijuana use.
The band members are eventually found guilty and fined, while Clapton beats the
charges.
1969: After
days of looking for a suitable and legal place, John Lennon finally gets to
marry Yoko Ono at the Rock of Gibraltar in Spain, a piece of land still owned
by the English and described by Lennon as being necessarily "quiet,
friendly, and British." Later, in the Beatles song "The Ballad Of
John And Yoko," he describes the site as "Gibraltar, near
Spain," unintentionally setting off an international furor, as England and
Spain were currently at odds over ownership of the area.
1971: Janis Joplin started a two week run at No.1
on the singles chart with the Kris Kristofferson's 'Me And Bobby McGee'. Joplin
died the year before on 4th October aged 27.
1971: At
their own expense, The Rolling Stones placed full page advertisements in all
the UK's music papers disclaiming any connection with the release of the Decca
album 'Stone Age' saying 'in our opinion the content is below the standard we
try to keep.'
1976: Alice
Cooper marries his first and only wife, Sheryl Goddard, a 19-year-old dancer on
his Welcome To My Nightmare tour.
1977: T. Rex
plays what is to be their last concert before the untimely death of leader Marc
Bolan in a car accident, a gig at Portsmouth, England club The Locarno.
1980: Joseph
Riviera, 28, a truck driver from New York, breaks into the offices of record
label Asylum, takes the office manager hostage, and demands to see label
artists Jackson Browne and/or The Eagles so that they can help finance his
trucking business. After he realizes the artists in question aren't actually in
the building, he surrenders to police.
1982: Joan Jett And The Blackhearts started a
seven week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll'.
1984: Slim Jim Phantom (Drummer for The Stray
Cats) married actress Britt Ekland.
1989: After
37 years on the air, Dick Clark announces he will discontinue hosting his
creation, ABC-TV's highly influential American Bandstand. The show
continues with another host, but folds for good soon after.
1990: Gloria Estefan’s tour bus was rammed by a
tractor-trailer on the way to a concert. Emilio Estefan and their son Nayib were
injured; Gloria suffered a serious back injury, which required an operation two
days later.
1991: Eric
Clapton's son Conor, all of four years old, dies after falling from the 53rd
story window of his mother's apartment in New York. (The guitarist was staying
at a hotel not far away, having taken Conor to the circus the night before.) A
shaken Clapton later writes the hit song "Tears In Heaven" as a way
to help him through the grief.
2004: The
University of Washington presents Quincy Jones with an honorary doctorate in
Music.
