Births
1903: Bob
Hope
1953: Danny Elfman (Singer for Oingo Boingo &
Composer)
1956: Larry Blackmon (Singer in Cameo)
1956: La Toya Jackson (Singer)
1960: Jesse Johnson (Lead Guitar for The
Time)
1961: Melissa Etheridge (Singer / Songwriter)
1963: Blaze Bayley (Lead vocalist for Iron Maiden
from 1994 to 1999)
1967: Noel Gallagher (Guitarist & singer for
Oasis)
1975: Mel B (Melanie Brown) (Scary Spice for The
Spice Girls)
1978: Pelle Almqvist (Lead Singer for The Hives)
Events
1942: Bing
Crosby recorded the song "White Christmas". It went on to become the biggest-selling
single of all time with sales of over 30 million. (It was overtaken by the 1997
Elton John version of ‘Candle In The Wind’.)
1952: Hank Williams and his wife, Audrey, were
divorced.
1959: Herndon
Stadium in Atlanta holds one of the first outdoor rock concerts, featuring Ray
Charles, Jimmy Reed, and B.B. King. Nine thousand people attend.
1969: The debut album "Crosby, Stills and
Nash" was released.
1971: Three
dozen audience members attending today's Grateful Dead show at San Francisco's
Winterland Ballroom are treated for hallucinations after drinking apple juice
purposefully spiked with LSD (some say by the band themselves).
1973: The
Byrds officially disband for good (or so it seems) when founder and leader
Roger McGuinn performs his first solo concert at New York's Academy of Music.
1973: Mike
Oldfield released the Album ‘Tubular Bells’.
1977: Manchester band Warsaw (later to become Joy
Division) made their live debut supporting The Buzzcocks at The Electric
Circus, Manchester, England.
1977: Elvis
leaves his show in Baltimore, MD for a full half-hour, angering and bewildering
fans.
1982: The Clash's "Combat Rock" LP was
released.
1983: KISS
play their last concert in their traditional makeup (although, reformed with
all original members, they would return to the painted faces in 1996).
1989: Elvis
Presley's first grandchild, Danielle Riley Keough, is born to Lisa Marie
Presley.
1989: John
Cipollina (Lead Guitar for Quicksilver Messenger Service) died from chronic
emphysema at the age of 45.
1991: After just completing the recording of the
'Nevermind' album, Nirvana played a last-minute show at the Jabberjaw in Los
Angeles. In the audience was Iggy Pop, Dave Grohl’s girlfriend and L7 bassist
Jennifer Finch who brought along her best friend Courtney Love.
1992: After
the recent AIDS-related death of lead singer Freddie Mercury, the Queen song
"We Are The Champions" is banned from the graduation ceremony at
Sacred Heart private school in Clifton, NJ.
1997: Singer songwriter Jeff Buckley disappeared
after talking a swim in the Mississippi River, his body was found on 4th June
1997 after being spotted by a passenger on a tourist riverboat.
1999:
Photographers taking shots of old cars wrecked at the bottom of Malibu's Decker
Canyon discover the body of Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Kramer, who had gone
missing on February 12, 1995. His death is ruled a suicide.
2007: A piano used by John Lennon on the night he
died was put up for sale for $375,000 on The Moments in Time memorabilia
website. The upright grand piano was part of the Record Plant Recording Studios
in New York where the former Beatle recorded his 1971 Imagine album. Lennon was
said to be so fond of the instrument that he had it moved to whichever studio
he was working in and had used the piano hours before being shot on 8 December
1980.
2009: Phil Spector was jailed for at least 19
years for murdering an actress in 2003. The producer, 69, famed for his Wall of
Sound recording technique, was last month found guilty of shooting Lana
Clarkson at his California home. Spector had pleaded not guilty to the
second-degree murder during the five-month retrial in Los Angeles. His lawyers
said he would appeal. Spector was given a sentence of 15 years to life for
second-degree murder and an additional four years for personal use of a gun.
2011: Sean Kingston was in the trauma ward of a
Miami hospital following an injury reportedly suffered in a jet ski accident.
