Births
1918: Jimmy
Lewis (R&B Singer)
1955: Neville Staples (Singer for The Specials)
1957: Jim Lauderdale (Country Singer /
Songwriter)
1958: Stuart Adamson (Guitar & Vocals for Big
Country)
1961: Doug Hopkins (Guitar for Gin Blossoms)
1963: Nigel Pulsford (Guitar for Bush)
1966: Lisa Stansfield (Pop Singer)
1971: Oliver "Ollie” Riedel (Bass for
Rammstein)
1977: Tom Thacker (Guitar for Sum 41)
1979: Chris Gaylor (Drummer for All-American
Rejects)
1987: Joss Stone (Pop Singer)
Events
1956: Elvis
Presley's tour plane develops engine trouble while flying the singer from
Amarillo, TX to Nashville, forcing an emergency landing in Arkansas. When he
calls his mother Gladys to tell her, she begs him to never fly again,
instilling a fear of flying in Elvis which will take him years to get over.
1956: James Brown debuts on the R&B charts with
"Please, Please, Please."
1966: Frank
Sinatra recorded "Strangers In The Night".
1966: Buffalo Springfield (Feat. Stephen Stills & Neil
Young) made their live debut at The Troubadour in Hollywood, California.
1967: Flying
back to England after participating in the Beach Boys' aborted Smile
sessions, Paul McCartney comes up with the idea for the Beatles film and album Magical
Mystery Tour.
1968: Janis
Joplin makes her television debut when Big Brother and the Holding Company
perform on ABC-TV's variety show Hollywood Palace.
1976:
Relaxing in his hotel after a record-breaking 40,000 person Sydney show, Alice
Cooper is placed under house arrest for alleged breach of contract after
refusing to pay another promoter $59,000 for an Australian tour the year
before. When it is discovered that the promoter's fallen short on his end of
the deal as well, Cooper is released to fly back to the States.
1983: R.E.M.'s first album, "Murmur", was
released.
1988: Cher
wins Best Actress for the romantic comedy Moonstruck at tonight's Oscar
Awards in New York.
1990: Elton
John performs at the Indianapolis, IN funeral of Ryan White, the hemophiliac
18-year-old who'd contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion and been shunned
for it. Michael Jackson also attends the service.
1991: Ringo Starr was a guest on Fox TV's "The
Simpsons."
1997: Grand
Funk Railroad reforms for their first tour in years to benefit the
Bosnian-American Relief Fund, which helps victims of the recent genocide in
Bosnia.
2002: Aretha
Franklin and seven other Motown stars are honored with street names in
Detroit's new low-income housing project.
2002: Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson got engaged.
2006: Paul
Anka guest-stars as himself in tonight's "The Real Paul Anka" episode
of WB-TV's Gilmore Girls.
2006: June
Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) died. She
had a troubled history of drug and alcohol abuse, and suffered a stroke on
February 27, 2006. While in the hospital, June was also diagnosed with cancer
which had metastasized in her breast, colon, liver and bone.
2006: A member of Eminem's rap collective D12 was
killed in a nightclub shooting in Detroit after an argument broke out at the
CCC nightclub. Proof (real name Deshaun Holton) was shot at a club on Eight
Mile Road, made famous in Eminem's autobiographical film 8 Mile. Holton was a
longtime friend of Eminem and was the rappers best man at his wedding in
January of this year.
