Births
1932: Tiny Tim (Singer?)
1940: Herbie
Hancock (Jazz Pianist)
1944: John Kay (Guitar & Vocals for
Steppenwolf)
1947: Alex
Briley (G.I. in The Village People)
1947: David Letterman
1950: David Cassidy (Singer)
1953: Tony James (Bass for Generation X &
Sigue Sigue Sputnik)
1954: Pat Travers (Guitarist)
1957: Vince Gill (Country Singer)
1958: Will Sergeant (Guitarist for Echo And The
Bunnymen)
1961: D.D. Verni (Bass for Overkill)
1962: Art Alexakis (Guitar & Vocals for
Everclear)
1964: Amy Ray (Guitar & vocals for The Indigo
Girls)
1967: Sarah Cracknell (Singer for Saint Etienne)
1967: Mellow Man Ace (Rapper)
1970: Nicholas Lofton Hexum (Vocalist &
guitarist for 311)
1978: Guy Berryman (Bass for Coldplay)
1987: Brendon Urie (Singer for Panic! at the
Disco)
Events
1939: Woody
Herman recorded "Woodchopper’s Ball".
1954, Bill Haley
recorded 'Rock Around The Clock' at Pythian Temple studios in New York City.
Considered by many to be the song that put rock and roll on the map around the
world. The song was used over the opening titles for the film 'Blackboard
Jungle', and went on to be a world-wide No.1 and the biggest selling pop single
with sales over 25 million. Written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers,
'Rock Around The Clock' was first recorded by Italian-American band Sonny Dae
and His Knights.
1961: At
tonight's Grammy ceremonies, Ray Charles takes home four awards, including a
Best Male Vocal for "Georgia On My Mind."
1963: Bob
Dylan performs a spectacular concert at Town Hall in New York, which is
recorded for a never-released live album on Columbia.
1964: Chubby
Checker marries Miss World 1962, Catharina Johanna Lodders of the Netherlands.
1966: Tom
Jones enters a hospital to have his tonsils removed, though some who claim to
have seen his tonsils since claim his real visit was for a nose job.
1966: In an
eerie recreation of the duo's single from the year before, Jan Berry of Jan and
Dean crashes his Corvette into a parked truck on Beverly Hills' Whittier Drive,
near a stretch of road in Los Angeles known as "Dead Man's Curve."
Berry will require four years of rehabilitation to be able to talk and a full
decade in order to perform live again.
1967: Mick Jagger was punched in the face by an
airport official during a fight at Le Bourget Airport in France. Jagger lost
his temper after The Stones were being searched for drugs resulting in them
missing their flight.
1968: Frank
Zappa and the Mothers of Invention perform at a New York dinner for the
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences dinner in New York. Zappa calls
the event "a load of pompous hokum" and yells from the stage:
"All year long you people have manufactured this crap, now for one night
you're gonna have to listen to it!"
1973: Stevie
Wonder becomes one of the first rock stars to appear on PBS-TV's Sesame
Street.
1973: The movie
musical That'll Be The Day, starring Ringo Starr and David Essex,
premieres in London.
1975: David Bowie announced his second career
retirement, saying, 'I've rocked my roll. It's a boring dead end, there will be
no more rock 'n' roll records from me.'
1975:
Josephine Baker was found lying peacefully in her bed surrounded by newspapers
with glowing reviews of her performance at
the Bobino in Paris—Joséphine à Bobino 1975, celebrating her 50 years in
show business. She was in a coma after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. She was
taken to Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, where she died.
1979: Mickey
Thomas, vocalist on the Elvin Bishop Band's 1975 hit "Fooled Around And
Fell In Love," becomes the new lead vocalist for Jefferson Starship.
1985: USA for Africa's "We Are The
World" album was released.
1986:
Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go’s married Morgan Mason.
1988: Sonny
Bono succeeds in his bid to become mayor of his hometown, Palm Springs, CA.
1989: Garth
Brooks' self-titled debut album was released.
1990: The
Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, located at the Lowell Observatory in
Flagstaff, AZ, announces that four newly discovered asteroids, 4147-4150, will
be named Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, and Starr.
1990: James
Brown was released from a South Carolina jail on work furlough after serving 15
months of a six-year sentence for aggravated assault.
1992: The
Eagles' Don Henley leads 6,000 fans through Walden Woods in Massachusetts as
part of a benefit walk to save the literally significant woods popularized by
Henry Thoreau's work.
1992:
Actress Lisa Bonet (The Cosby Show) files for divorce from singer Lenny Kravitz.
1995: Two weeks after her death, George W. Bush,
(then the governor of Texas), declared "Selena Day" in Texas. The
Mexican American singer Selena was murdered aged 23 by the president of her fan
club Yolanda Saldívar on 31st March 1995.
1997: While on tour in the UK, Fun Lovin'
Criminals drummer Stephen Borovini received a police caution after he was
arrested on suspicion of making obscene phone calls to women working in gyms in
the Leeds area.
1997: Travis Tritt marries model Theresa Nelson
at his home in Paulding County, Georgia, with Marty Stuart serving as best man.
1999: Country
singer Boxcar Willie Died of leukemia.
1999: Shania Twain became the only female artist
in music history to sell at least 10 million units with back to back releases.
2000: Metallica filed a suit against Napster,
Yale University, The University of Southern California and Indiana University
for copyright infringement.
2000: Bo Diddley filed suit against Nike for
using his name and image without permission. Nike is accused of continuing to
use his image after a contract expired in 1991.
2001: Gladys
Knight marries her fourth husband, longtime friend William McDowell.
2002: Ozzy Osbourne received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2005: Mariah Carey released ‘The Emancipation of
Mimi’, the album entered the US chart at number one, going six times platinum
in less than a year, and subsequently became the most successful album of 2005.
2008: With
her latest single, "4 Minutes," Madonna beats Elvis as the artist
with the most all-time Top Ten Hits on the Billboard charts (37).
2008: Lou
Reed marries his second wife, conceptual artist Laurie Anderson.
2010: In San Antonio, TX, Bret Michaels, of Poison,
had an emergency appendectomy. He had gone to the hospital while preparing for
a show the previous night.
