Births
1904: Fats Waller (Jazz Pianist)
1941: Ronald Isley (The Isley Brothers)
1943: Hilton Valentine (Guitarist for The Animals)
1943: John Dalton (Bass for The Kinks)
1947: Bill Champlin (Vocals, Keyboard & Guitar for
Chicago)
1948: Leo Sayer (Singer / Songwriter)
1950: Roger Hodgson (Vocals & Keyboards for
Supertramp & Solo)
1952: Mr. T (Laurence
Tureaud)
1954: Marc Ribot (Guitarist)
1955: Stan Lynch (Drums for Tom
Petty & The Heartbreakers)
1958: Mike Barson (Keyboards for
Madness)
1963: Kevin Shields (Vocals
& Guitar for My Bloody Valentine)
1964: Martin Blunt (Bass for The
Charlatans)
1972: The Notorious B.I.G. (aka
Biggie Smalls, aka Christopher G. Wallace)
1974: Havoc (Kejuan Muchita) (Rapper in Mobb Deep)
1980: Gotye (Wouter "Wally" De Backer) (Singer /
Songwriter)
Events
1956: 2,500 fans storm the stage at the Municipal Auditorium
in Topeka, KS during Elvis Presley's show there.
1960: Fabian is reported to be working on two upcoming
movies: High Time, starring Bing Crosby, and North To Alaska, starring John
Wayne.
1964: After performing in England, Bob Dylan takes a vacation
in Paris, where he would meet German model Nico, for whom he would later pen
the classic "I'll Keep It With Mine."
1966: The Castiles, a band made up of five school kids from
Freehold Regional High in New Jersey, perform at their own senior prom. Lead
singer: future superstar Bruce Springsteen.
1968: Police raid the London flat of the Rolling Stones'
Brian Jones and find marijuana, which Jones claims was left behind by a friend;
although already on probation, he is merely fined $300 by a sympathetic judge.
1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono began a ten-day
"bed-in" in Montreal's Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
1970: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young recorded
"Ohio."
1971: Free announce their breakup; two of the band members
would go on to form Bad Company.
1974: Two would-be concert
promoters were arrested by police on fraud charges in connection with selling
mail order tickets for a forthcoming Elten John show. (Elten with an E and not
an O). Police took away over $12,000 in checks.
1979: Elton John plays the first of eight historic concerts
in Moscow, making him the first rock star to perform there.
1980: After poor ticket sales cause him to cancel his second
concert there, Bob Dylan his last "gospel" show in Dayton, OH,
eventually returning to secular music.
1980: A thief brook into
Electric Lady Studios in New York City, the recording studio built by Jimi
Hendrix and stole five Hendrix gold records for the albums ‘Are You
Experienced?’, ‘Axis: Bold as Love’, ‘Cry of Love’, ‘Rainbow Bridge’ and ‘Live
at Monterey’.
1980: Joe Strummer of The Clash
was arrested at a much-troubled gig in Hamburg, Germany, after smashing his
guitar over the head of a member of the audience; he was released after an
alcohol test proved negative.
1981: Bob Marley is laid to rest, with full state honors, in
St. Ann's, Jamaica.
1983: Ex-Doobie Brother Michael McDonald marries his first
wife, singer Amy Holland.
1985: Marvin Gaye's "Dream of a Lifetime" was
released. It was his last album.
1994:
Country singer Trisha Yearwood weds Robert Reynolds.
2001: Producer, arranger and
keyboardist Tommy Eyre died of cancer aged 51. Worked with George Harrison,
Wham! Dusty Springfield, and BB King. Played and arranged Joe Cocker's hit
'With A Little Help From My Friends' and Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street'.
2003: Paul McCartney is awarded an honorary doctorate in
music from the conservatory of Russia's St. Petersburg University.
2003: Mariah Carey hit back at
Eminem's threats to sample the slushy voicemail messages she left on his
mobile. Carey described the rapper as "a little girl" saying it's
"like dealing with a girlfriend in 7th grade, and he shouldn't do it
because it'll get him in a bit of trouble with her lawyers."
2007: Creed Singer Scott Stapp
was arrested at his Florida home and charged with assault. The 33-year-old was
held without bail following the charges, which related to a domestic assault.
2008: Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, well-known for having
overcome drug addiction decades earlier, shocks the rock world by checking into
a rehab facility in Pasadena, CA.
2008: Lou Pearlman, the music
mogul who created the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced to 25 years in
federal prison over a decades-long scam that swindled thousands of investors
out of their life savings. Many victims were Pearlman's relatives, friends and
retirees in their 70s or 80s who lost everything.
2009: Natalie Cole was
recovering after undergoing a kidney transplant. The 59-year-old daughter of
Nat King Cole had decided to postpone her summer tour, set to begin in June, as
she recovered.
2010: U2's lead singer Bono had
emergency spinal surgery after suffering an injury while preparing for tour
dates. The 50-year-old singer was treated at a specialist neurosurgery clinic
in Munich and was expected to stay there for a number of days.
2011: Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart
(Eurythmics), Joss Stone, Damian Marley and A.R. Rahman teamed up for a new
supergroup called Super Heavy.
