Births
1922: Doris
Day (Singer)
1928: Don
Gibson (Country Artist)
1941: Jan
Berry (Jan and Dean)
1941:
Phillippe Wynne (Singer in The Spinners)
1942: Wayne
Newton (Singer)
1943: Richard
Manuel (Piano in The Band)
1944: Tony
Orlando (Singer)
1946: Dee Murray (Bass for Elton John)
1949: Richard
Thompson (Singer / Songwriter & Guitarist for Fairport Convention &
Solo)
1951: Mel
Schacher (Bass for Grand Funk Railroad)
1961: Eddie Murphy (Comedian & Singer (Yes,
he had an album he sang on)
1962: Simon Raymonde (Bass for Cocteau Twins)
1962: Mike Ness (Guitar & Vocals for Social
Distortion & Solo)
1968: Sebastian Bach (Singer for Skid Row)
1985: Leona Lewis (Pop Singer)
Events
1955:
Fred Astaire appeared on television for the first time on "The Toast of
the Town," with host, Ed Sullivan.
1956: Elvis
Presley makes the first of what would be two appearances on NBC-TV's Milton
Berle Show, performing "Heartbreak Hotel," "Money
Honey" and "Blue Suede Shoes" via live remote on the flight deck
of the USS Hancock docked in San Diego. The show is seen by 40 million
people around the US, approximately one-fourth of all TV sets. (Later in the
show, Elvis plays "Blue Suede Shoes" again, this time with
"Uncle Miltie" joining in as the King's "brother Melvin."
1960: During recording sessions at RCA studios in
Nashville, Tennessee, Elvis Presley recorded ‘It's Now Or Never’, ‘Fever’ and
‘Are You Lonesome Tonight?
1961: Paul
Anka guest stars as himself on tonight's "" episode of CBS-TV's Make
Room For Daddy.
1964: Bob Dylan
has his first chart hit as "The Times They Are A-Changin'" enters the
UK charts. One year later to the day, the single "Subterranean Homesick
Blues" is his first to dent the US Top 40.
1965: Sam the
Sham and the Pharaohs released "Wooly Bully”.
1968: Roy Clark makes the first of several guest
appearances on "The Beverly Hillbillies," playing Cousin Roy and
Mother Myrtle.
1969: Having
technically become a fugitive due to leaving Florida after his infamous stage
antics in Miami, the Doors' Jim Morrison turns himself into the FBI in Los
Angeles. He's released on $2000 bail, but not before being charged with six
counts of lewd behavior and one of interstate flight. The case is eventually
reduced to two misdemeanors and still pending appeal when Morrison dies in 1971
apparently by a hemorrhage after snorting heroin.
1971: The Temptations scored their second US No.1
with 'Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)'.
1975: At his
home, Steve Miller is arrested for an altercation with his party guest, Benita
Diorio, when the veteran rocker sets fire to her clothes and personal effects.
When the cops arrive Miller digs himself deeper by resisting arrest. Charges
are dropped the next day.
1978: Cher's
first solo TV special, appropriately titled Cher... Special, airs on
CBS, featuring guest stars Dolly Parton, Rod Stewart, and The Tubes.
1979: Kate Bush kicked off the 28-date 'Tour Of
Life' trek making her concert debut at Liverpool's Empire Theatre, England.
Bush never set out on another tour again.
1984:
Producer Jack Douglas is awarded $3 million in royalties owed him by the John
Lennon estate for his work on the Lennon/Ono album Double Fantasy.
1987: While
playing the opening night of their latest tour, onstage in Arizona, U2's
"Bono introduces a version of "Helter Skelter" by announcing
"This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We're stealing it
back."
1988: After
working on each other's solo projects, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty,
and Roy Orbison gather in Malibu, FL, to record an all-star single called
"Handle With Care." The session goes so well that the group, calling
itself the Traveling Wilburys, goes on to record two whole albums together.
1989: 23 people were arrested after several
thousand fans without tickets tried to gate-crash a Grateful Dead concert at
the Pittsburgh Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1989: Pepsi dismissed Madonna as a spokesperson
after her "Like a Prayer" video was called "blasphemous" by
the Vatican.
1990: Sarah
Vaughan died of lung cancer at age 66.
1991: Paul
McCartney tapes his episode of MTV's acoustic showcase Unplugged.
1993: When
his version of Leon Russell's "A Song For You" enters the Billboard
singles chart, Ray Charles becomes the first performer to chart in six decades.
He'd first made the R&B charts in 1949 with the Maxin Trio's
"Confession Blues."
1994: A forthcoming tour by Nirvana and Hole was
cancelled amid continuing speculation about Kurt Cobain's drug problems.
1996: MC Hammer filed for bankruptcy.
1998: Guitarist Dave Navarro left the Red Hot
Chili Peppers.
1998: Michael
Jackson and someone are the proud parents of Jackson's second child, daughter
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson.
2000: Mariah Carey was admitted to Massachusetts
General Hospital suffering from dehydration and complications from food
poisoning after eating raw oysters.
2006: Founding member and original drummer for
The Wonder Stuff, Martin Gilks died aged 41, after losing control of his
motorbike in London. Gilks was voted the best drummer on the planet in an NME
poll in 1989.
2007: Keith
Richards of the Rolling Stones denies to MTV his own earlier claim, made in an
interview with the New Musical Express, that he once snorted the ashes
of his late father.
2008: Mariah
Carey's latest single, "Touch My Body," goes to #1, beating Elvis
Presley's old record of 17 chart toppers. Only the Beatles have more with 20.
