Births
1934: Johnny
Burnette (Rockabilly Artist)
1938: Hoyt
Axton (Singer)
1942: Aretha
Franklin (Singer)
1947: Elton
John (Singer)
1951: Maizie
Williams (Singer in Boney M)
1964: King Buzzo (Buzz Osborne) (Vocals &
Guitar for Melvins)
1966: Jeff Healey (Singer & Guitarist)
1969: Cathy Dennis (Pop Singer)
1971: Michael McKeegan (Bass for Therapy?)
1973: Anders Fridén (Singer for In Flames)
1975: Juvenile (Terry Gray) (Rapper)
1984: Katharine McPhee (Pop Singer)
1988: Big Sean (Sean Michael Anderson) (Rapper)
Events
1958:
Reporting to Ft. Chaffee, AK by bus for his induction into the service, Elvis
Presley has his famous hair shorn off by an Army barber. The media follows
close behind. The pop icon is assigned to Second Medium Tank Battalion, Second
Armored Division, the "Hell On Wheels" division once led by General
George S. Patton. Elvis, however, receives an assignment as a jeep driver.
Within days, manager "Colonel" Tom Parker receives 5,000 pieces of
mail addressed to the singer at Fort Chaffee.
1960: Ray
Charles recorded "Georgia On My Mind".
1960: Roy
Orbison recorded "Only The Lonely".
1961: Elvis
Presley holds an afternoon press conference and, in the evening, performs the USS
Arizona concert at Pearl Harbor's Bloch Arena, raising $62,000 for the
memorial dedicated to the 1,177 US servicemen killed when the ship went down on
December 7, 1941. This would be Presley's last live performance for seven
years.
1963: Johnny Cash recorded “Ring Of Fire”. It went on to Number 1 for 7 weeks.
1964: The Beatles made their debut on UK TV show
'Top Of The Pops' singing 'Can't Buy Me Love' and ‘You Can’t Do That.’ The show
had been recorded on March 19th.
1965: London
session guitarist Jeff Beck joins the Yardbirds after being recommended by the
group's first choice, another session man named Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin).
1966: At a photo session with Bob Whitaker’s
studio in London, The Beatles posed in white coats using sides of meat with
mutilated and butchered dolls for the cover of their next American album,
‘Yesterday and Today’. After a public outcry, the L.P. was pulled from stores
and re-issued with a new cover.
1967: The Who and Cream made their U.S. concert
debut at RKO 58th Street Theatre, New York City as part of a rock & roll
extravaganza promoted by DJ Murray the K.
1968: Roy
Orbison marries his second wife, Barbara Wellhonen, in Nashville. They would
remain married until Orbison's death twenty years later.
1968:
"The Frodis Caper," the 58th and last episode of The Monkees,
directed by Micky Dolenz and featuring the lone band song "Zor and
Zam," airs on NBC-TV.
1969: A
just-married John Lennon and Yoko Ono decide to use the press circus of their
honeymoon to promote an end to the Vietnam war, and wars in general. The duo
stay, fully clothed, in their bed at the Amsterdam Hilton for the next four
days, talking about peace to a cadre of largely skeptical reporters from around
the world.
1971: New
York's flagship radio station WNBC becomes the first to ban Brewer and
Shipley's hit "One Toke Over The Line" due to alleged marijuana
references.
1972: America started a three week run at No.1 on
the singles chart with their debut hit 'Horse With No Name'.
1976: Jackson
Browne's wife, Phyllis Major, commits suicide with sleeping pills just months
after their marriage, leading the singer-songwriter to spend much of his next
record, The Pretender, dealing with the tragedy.
1977: Elvis Costello released his debut single
'Less Than Zero', it didn't make the Top 40.
1983: Motown
tapes an all-star concert at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California
in order to celebrate the label's anniversary. Performers include Stevie
Wonder, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, The Commodores, Martha
Reeves, and Jr. Walker. Also appearing, in what would be his last TV
performance, is Marvin Gaye. A very brief Supremes reunion and a Jackson 5
performance top off the night, but when the show is broadcast on May 16, 1983,
it is Michael Jackson's solo performance of his new single "Billie
Jean" -- complete with moonwalk -- that would steal the show, kicking off
the Thriller juggernaut and turning Michael from a superstar to a
megastar overnight.
1985: Stevie
Wonder wins his first Oscar for his theme to the film The Woman In Red,
entitled "I Just Called To Say I Love You." Sixteen years later to the
day, Bob Dylan will win his first Oscar for his Wonder Boys song
"Things Have Changed."
1985: Prince
won an Oscar for Best Original Score for the soundtrack for the movie
"Purple Rain."
1986: Guns N' Roses signed a world-wide deal with
Geffen Records.
1989: The
recording studio at Chuck Berry's ranch in Wentzville, MO is destroyed by a
fire, taking with it 13 of Berry's unreleased songs.
1990: Motley Crue's Tommy Lee was arrested for
mooning at the audience during a gig in Augusta. Lee was charged with indecent
exposure.
1995: Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder was rescued
after a riptide carried him 250 feet offshore in New Zealand.
2000: Former Bay City Rollers drummer Derek
Longmuir was given 300 hours community service after being caught with a hoard
of child pornography including 150 videos and 73 floppy disks.
2000: N’SYNC set a new world record after selling
a million tickets in one day for the group’s forthcoming tour, netting them
over 42.5 million.
2001: The first Britney Spears Pepsi TV commercial
was aired on US television. Spears had signed a multi-million dollar deal with
Pepsi for her forthcoming world tour.
2002: Joe
Schermie (Three Dog Night) died of a heart attack at age 52.
2002: Bono from U2 made a appearance at the air
rage trial of R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, telling the court 'I came to court
because Peter is actually famously know for being a peaceable person. I once
had to twist his arm to get him to a boxing match'. Buck was later cleared of
all charges. He had been accused of attacking two cabin staff and covering them
in yoghurt, knocking over a trolley and trying to steal a knife.
2002: The seven-year mystery of missing Manic
Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards took a grisly twist when human feet
were found near where he vanished in 1995.
2003: Liv Tyler the daughter of Aerosmith singer
Steven married Royston Langdon from Spacehog.
2004: In Georgia, the House of Representatives
voted 134-0 to name a stretch of Interstate 85 for country music star Alan
Jackson. The honor had already passed the Senate.
2005: Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne were forced to
flee their Buckinghamshire mansion after a blaze broke out as they slept. Ozzy
and his wife were roused by a fire alarm and ran to safety in the garden,
rescuing their pets as they escaped.
2006: Country
singer Buck Owens died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack only hours
after performing at his Crystal Palace restaurant, club and museum in
Bakersfield.
2008: Richie Sambora was arrested in California
on suspicion of drink driving. The 48 year-old Bon Jovi guitarist was arrested
after a police officer noticed his black Hummer weaving in traffic lanes in
Laguna Beach. He was ordered to appear in court on one count of driving under
the influence.
2009: Dan
Seals (England Dan and John Ford Coley) dies of complications from a stem
cell transplant he had the previous December.
