Births
1946: Thelma Houston
(Disco Singer)
1946: Bill Kreutzmann
(Drummer for The Grateful Dead)
1946: Jerry Nolan
(Drummer for The New York Dolls)
1950: Prairie Prince (Charles Lempriere Prince) (Drummer for The Tubes & Journey)
1961: Phil
Campbell (Lead Guitar for Motorhead)
1969: Eagle
Eye Cherry (Singer/ Songwriter)
1986: Matt
Helders (Drummer for Arctic Monkeys)
Events
1941: Glenn Miller and his Orchestra recorded the song
"Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1955: Ray Charles
breaks through with his first R&B #1, a revamped version of a gospel
standard called "It Must Be Jesus" called "I Got A Woman."
1955: "Rock Around The Clock" was
released by Bill Haley & His Comets.
1958: The Champs appear
on ABC-TV's American Bandstand to perform their hit instrumental
"Tequila."
1965: At London's
Twickenham Studios, the Beatles film the scene in Help! entitled
"The Exciting Adventures of Paul On The Floor," where a suddenly
shrunken Paul McCartney tries to hide his newly-naked body.
1966: The
Mamas and the Papas started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart
with 'Monday Monday', it made No.3 in the UK. The group was reported, as saying
they all hated the song except for its writer John Phillips.
1967: During Moscow's
May Day celebrations, several Soviet teens dance the twist in outright
violation of the Ministry of Culture's orders against Western decadence.
1967: Breaking his
self-imposed exile after a motorcylce accident the previous year, Bob Dylan
gives his first post-crash interview to the New York Daily News.
1968: Singer-songwriter
Reginald Dwight changes his name legally to Elton Hercules John, the first and
last names taken from his former bandmates in Bluesology, Elton Dean and Long
John Baldry.
1971 :The Rolling Stones released "Brown
Sugar"in the U.S. It was the first record on their own label, Rolling
Stones Records.
1972: Tom Jones' Special
London Bridge Special, featuring the Carpenters and Engelbert Humperdinck
but also celebrities from Kirk Douglas to Charlton Heston, airs on the BBC.
1972: The
Rolling Stones released the second album on their own label, 'Exile on Main
Street' featuring two hit singles, 'Tumbling Dice' and 'Happy'. In 2003, the
album was ranked No. 7 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest
albums of all time, the highest of any Stones album on the list.
1977: Eric Clapton
records "Wonderful Tonight".
1978: Bob Dylan's
upcoming series of concerts at London's Wembley Empire sell out all 90,000
tickets in just eight hours.
1982: Diana Ross is
awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
1983: Paul
Weller unveiled his new group Style Council at an anti nuclear benefit gig in
London.
1989: Ron Wilson
(Drummer for The Surfaris) died of a brain
aneurysm.
1991: In his hometown
of Englewood, NJ, Wilson Pickett is arrested for insisting on driving over the
lawn of his neighbor, Donald Aronson, who just happens to be the town's Mayor.
After finding a knife and baseball bat in his vehicle, attempted murder is
added to the charges. Pickett is inexplicably let off with a charity concert
and a one-year probation.
1991: A judge in Macon, Georgia dismissed a
wrongful death suit against Ozzy Osbourne. A local couple failed to prove their
son was inspired to attempt suicide by Ozzy's music.
1991: Rolling Stones
bassist Bill Wyman, 54, ends his two-year marriage to model Mandy Smith, 21,
whom he had begun dating at 13. Despite only spending two months total with
Wyman during their marriage, she receives a settlement of $6.5 million.
1992: Nigel
Preston drummer with The Cult died in London, England aged 32. Was a founding
member of The Death Cult, he also played and recorded with Sex Gang Children,
Theatre of Hate and The Gun Club.
1994: BTO's Randy
Bachman acts as conductor in Vancouver for a 1,322-guitar orchestra, performing
the band's hit "Takin' Care Of Business" for over an hour and, in the
process, setting a new world record.
1997: Eddie Rabbitt
(Country Singer) died of lung cancer.
1998: Steve Perry left Journey.
2002: London
authorities wrap up their four-month investigation of Who guitarist Pete Townshend,
charged with downloading child pornography in 1999. Townshend, who claimed he
was researching a book he was writing about his own childhood sexual abuse, was
not jailed but was placed on a national sex offender registry.
2003: Carole King
appears as music store owner Sophie Bloom on tonight's "Help Wanted"
episode of WB-TV's Gilmore Girls (King's re-recording of her hit
"Where You Lead" is the show's theme song).
2003: A Los
Angeles federal jury recommended a $1.5 million award to a British record company
that sued rapper-producer Dr Dre for song plagiarism. London-based Minder Music
Ltd. sued Dre in 2000, claiming his 1999 song, ‘Let's Get High,’ used the bass
line of The Fatback's 1980 song, ‘Backstroking’ which was featured on Dre's
successful ‘2001’ album, which sold 9 million copies worldwide.
2003: A US
surgeon sued 50 Cent over an unpaid medical bill. The doctor claimed 50 Cent
and his friend turned up at a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds in 2000,
but said the rapper never paid the $20,000 he owed for treatment despite being
asked several times.
2009: Dolly Parton is
awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville.
2009: Trina
Johnson-Finn was in custody awaiting her trial in Suriname, South America,
after being accused of trying to pass herself as singer Toni Braxton at a
concert. The singer was booed off stage in Paramaribo in March and pelted with
rubbish when a huge crowd realised she was not the award-winning artist. Ms
Johnson-Finn's husband, Raymond Finn made a statement saying his wife had been
duped by the promoter who had booked her and had advertised her as the real
Braxton.
