Births
1918: Eddy
Arnold (Country Artist)
1932: Baba Oje (Singer in Arrested Development)
1942: K.T. Oslin (Country Singer /
Songwriter)
1947: Graham
Goble (Guitar & Vocals for The Little River Band)
1948: Gary
Thain (Bass for Uriah Heep)
1948: Brian
Eno (Producer and Keyboardist for Roxy Music)
1951: Dennis Frederiksen (Vocals for Toto)
1953: Mike
Oldfield (Keyboardist)
1959: Andrew Eldritch (Vocals for The Sisters Of
Mercy)
1961: Melle Mel (Rapper in Grandmaster Flash
& The Furious Five)
1966: Pete Wiggs (DJ in Saint Etienne)
1970: Prince Be (Singer / Rapper in P.N. Dawn)
1981: Jamie-Lynn
Sigler (Meadow Soprano)
1982: Jessica
Sutta (Singer in Pussycat Dolls & Solo)
1983: Devin Bronson (Guitarist with Avril
Lavigne)
Events
1954: A
Memphis truck driver named Elvis Presley auditions with the house band at
Memphis' Hi Hat Club and is told he'll never make it as a singer.
1961: Brenda
Lee guest stars as struggling singer "Tina Davis" on tonight's
"Teenage Thrush" episode of CBS-TV's Make Room For Daddy.
1963: The
Rolling Stones sign to Decca Records.
1963: At the
5th Annual Grammy Awards, most of the big prizes go to Henry Mancini for his
instrumental movie theme "The Days Of Wine And Roses." Best Album and
Best Female Vocal go to The Barbra Streisand Album, while Nino Tempo and
April Stevens inexplicably win Best Rock and Roll Recording for "Deep
Purple." However, Ray Charles does win the top R&B award for
"Busted."
1967: While
attending a concert by Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames at London's ultra-hip
Bag O'Nails club, Paul McCartney meets a young photographer named Linda
Eastman. They will meet again one year later to the day when Paul appears with
John on NBC-TV's Tonight Show to talk about their upcoming venture,
Apple Records.
1969: John Lennon’s 'Life With The Lions' was
released on Apple’s avant-garde imprint Zapple. One side of the album was
recorded on a cassette player at London’s Queen Charlotte Hospital during Yoko
Ono’s pregnancy which ended in a miscarriage.
1970: The
Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US.
1971: Pink
Floyd play London's Crystal Palace Bowl, situated in front of a large lake in
which, thanks to the band's volume, most of the fish will die.
1972: The
Temptations recorded the single "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone".
1973: Former
Boz Scaggs and Elvin Bishop backup singers the Pointer Sisters make their stage
debut as an act of their own, singing at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
1974: Bill Wyman (Bass for Rolling Stones)
released his first solo album, "Monkey Grip." It was the first solo
effort by a member of the Rolling Stones.
1974: Frank Zappa and his wife announced the
birth of their third child, a boy named Ahmet Rodan, after the Japanese movie
monster that lived of a steady diet of 707 planes.
1975: The
latest and ultimately most famous lineup of Fleetwood Mac -- Mick Fleetwood,
John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, and Stevie Nicks -- play their
first show together in El Paso.
1976: The Sylvers went to No.1 on the US singles
chart with 'Boogie Fever'; the group were made up by nine family sisters and
brothers.
1977: Procol
Harum plays what will prove to be their last live show at the Academy of Music
in New York.
1981: Former Sex Pistol John Lydon's band Public
Image Ltd performed a show at New York's Ritz Club posing behind a video screen
while the music was played from tapes. They were showered with missiles and
eventually booed off stage.
1982: Rock Supergroup Asia (included former
members of veteran progressive rock bands Yes, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake
& Palmer, Uriah Heep, U.K., Roxy Music, Wishbone Ash and The Buggles) went
to No.1 on the US album chart with their self-titled album. It spent a total of
nine weeks at No.1.
1984: Nils Lofgren replaced "Miami"
Steve Van Zandt in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
1986: Bob
Dylan signs for his first true acting gig, the disastrous love triangle Hearts
Of Fire, also starring Rupert Everett and future pop-metal afterthought
Fiona.
1991: Manic Street Preacher guitarist Richey
Edwards carved '4 real' into his arm with a razor blade while being interviewed
by music paper The NME.
1992: Barbara Lee of the Chiffons died from a
heart attack the day before her 45th birthday. She had the 1963 US No.1 single
'He's So Fine.'
1994: Sting and Nancy Wilson received honorary
doctorates from the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
1995: Scott Weiland (Singer for Stone Temple
Pilots) was arrested for trying to buy drugs in a motel parking lot in
Pasadena, CA.
1997: Courtney Love sold the Seattle mansion she
shared with Kurt Cobain. A local family purchased the house in the salubrious
Denny Blaine area for $3m.
1998: Sony and Cher received a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999: Rob Gretton, manager of The Joy Division
and New Order, died from a heart attack at age 46. He was also a partner in
Factory Records, proprietor of the Rob's Records label and a co-founder along
with Tony Wilson of The Hacienda nightclub in Manchester, England.
2001: Brian Pendleton of The Pretty Things died
of cancer aged 57, (1964 UK No.10 single 'Don't Bring Me Down'). The bands 1974
album Silk Torpedo was the first album release on Led Zeppelin's own label Swan
Song.
2002: Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay claimed he was
assaulted at the premiere of 'Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones' in
London. The singer suffered facial injuries after an incident with a
photographer after the star-studded event.
2003: June
Carter Cash died in Nashville, Tennessee of complications following heart valve
replacement.
2008: Neil Diamond reached the top of the US
Billboard album chart for the first time in his career with ‘Home Before Dark’
the 67-year-old's 29th studio album. His previous highest chart position was in
1973 when the soundtrack to the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull peaked at
No.2. At the age of 67, Diamond became the oldest artist to have a US number
one, the record was previously held by Bob Dylan in 2006 with ‘Modern Times’
released when he was 65.
2009: Randy
Bachman of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive is presented with
Canada's highest civilian honor, an officer of the Order of Canada.
