Births
1942: Alan Price
(Keyboards in The Animals)
1944: Bernie Worrell
(Keyboards for Parliament & Funkadelic)
1946: Tim Curry (Rocky
Horror Picture Show)
1947: Mark Volman
(Vocals for The Turtles)
1966: Suge
Knight (C.E.O. for Death Row Records)
Events
1924: The first
national country radio show in the US, The Chicago Barn Dance, debuts on
WLS radio. (Nashville's famed Grand Ole Opry wouldn't hit the airwaves
for another year.)
1956: Drifters singer
Clyde McPhatter receives his discharge from the US Army, leading him to
immediately leave the group for a solo career.
1962: In another big
step forward for soul, Jackie Wilson begins a headlining stint at New York's
famous Copacabana Club.
1967: The Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years.
1968: With Ringo having
left much earlier due to the vegetarian diet, and Paul having left to supervise
the launch of Apple, John and George are the last two Beatles to leave the
Maharishi Maheshi Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh, India, where they had been studying
his practices of meditation and yoga. Lennon in particular believes the stories
of band associate Alex Mardas, who claims the Maharishi is only interested in
the Beatles' money and, although claiming to be celibate, has been making
sexual advances at the group's traveling companion, actress Mia Farrow. When
the guru asks why everyone is leaving, John shoots back "You're the cosmic
one, you should know." When back in London, he writes a song about the
incident, entitled "Maharishi" but later changed to "Sexy
Sadie."
1979 :
David Lee Roth collapsed from exhaustion during a Van Halen show in Spokane,
WA.
1980: 32
year old English singer Brian Johnson joined Australian group AC/DC, replacing
Bon Scott who died after a drinking binge.
1980:
R.E.M. played their first gig as R.E.M. at the 11:11 Koffee Club, Athens,
Georgia to 150 people. The show ended at 2am when police closed it down due to
the venue being unlicensed.
1982: Flush from the
success of their recent Central Park concert, Simon and Garfunkel mount their
first tour since their breakup, a swing through Europe that sadly falls apart
before it can get to the US. The split is so dramatic this time around that
Simon wipes all of Garfunkel's contributions to the pair's latest album, Hearts
And Bones, and releases it as a solo album instead.
1986:
Prince started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Kiss.'
Prince also had the No.2 song 'Manic Monday', by The Bangles, which he wrote
under the pseudonym 'Christopher.'
1988: Sonny Bono is
inaugurated as mayor of Palm Springs, CA.
1995: The
Stone Roses played their first gig in five years when the appeared at The
Rockerfella Club, Oslo, Norway.
1998: Andrea Bocelli performed for Bill and Hillary
Clinton with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in
Washington, DC.
2002:
Police were investigating how tracks from the forthcoming Oasis album 'Heathen
Chemistry' had been illegally circulated on the Internet. They thought the
person responsible had access to their private recording sessions.
2002: Layne
Staley's accountants contacted Staley's mother Nancy McCallum and informed her
that no money had been withdrawn from the singer's bank account in two weeks.
McCallum then placed a call with 911 to say "she hadn't heard from Layne
in about two weeks." The police
went with McCallum and her husband to Staley's home, where Staley was found
dead. As reported by Rick Anderson of the
Seattle Weekly, his body was surrounded, needle in arm, by various drug
possessions and paraphernalia:
2003: Alt-rock heroes
The White Stripes join Loretta Lynn during a concert in New York to join her on
her hits "Fist City," ""Rated X," and "Louisiana
Woman, Mississippi Man."
2005: Elvis Presley
Enterprises announces that for the first time it will air TV commercials to
lure visitors to the refurbished Graceland mansion where he spent his days.
2010: Ringo Starr
comments on the Vatican's recent "apology" for its part in the 1966
"Bigger Than Jesus" scandal, saying, "Didn't the Vatican say we
were Satanic or possibly Satanic? And they've still forgiven us? I think the
Vatican, they've got more to talk about than the Beatles."
2010: Rapper Guru (Keith Elam) lost his battle
with cancer at the age of 43.
