Births
1934: Johnny
Carter (Doo-Wop Singer in The Flamingos & The Dells)
1941: Charlie
Watts (Drummer for The Rolling Stones)
1941: William
Guest (Pip in Gladys Knight and the Pips)
1944: Marvin
Hamlisch (Piano Player & Composer)
1948: Jerry Mathers (The Beaver)
1950: Chubby
Tavares (Lead Singer for Tavares)
1951: Steve
Brookins (Drummer for .38 Special)
1955: Micki Steele (Bass for The
Runaways & The Bangles)
1960: Tony Hadley (Vocals for Spandau Ballet)
1961: Dez Cadena (Singer & Guitar for Black Flag)
1962: Thor Eldon (Guitar for The Sugarcubes)
1970: B- Real (Louis Freeze) (Rapper in Cypress
Hill)
1976: Tim Rice-Oxley (Piano for Keane)
1980: Fabrizio Moretti (Drummer
for The Strokes)
Events
1953: Elvis
Presley graduates from Humes High School in Memphis.
1956: Gene
Vincent and his Blue Caps released "Be-Bop-A-Lula".
1958:
Massively influential DJ Alan Freed joins the staff of New York's WABC, where
he gets his own weeknight spot.
1958: After
wandering the US for a year, 17-year-old Barry Sadler, later of "Ballad of
the Green Berets" fame, joins the Air Force. (He wouldn't become an Army
Green Beret for a few years.)
1962:
"Twist Baby," by Owen Gray, becomes the first 45 issued on the new
Island Records label. The label became home
to Free, Traffic, Jethro Tull, Bob Marley and U2.
1964: The
Rolling Stones play their first US gig at a high school in Lynn, MA; that same
day, they make their American TV debut on WABC's Les Crane Show in New
York.
1965: James
Brown released the single "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag".
1967: The
Beatles released the Album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the U.S.
It was released on June 1st in the UK.
1967: David
Bowie released his debut Album, David Bowie.
1972: For the
first time since 1960, Dion reunites with his old group, the Belmonts, for an
oldies revival show at Madison Square Garden.
1976: Paul
McCartney and Wings set a new indoor stadium attendance record of 67,100 at the
Seattle Kingdome.
1981: Prince made his live British debut at The
Lyceum Ballroom, London, (he will not play the UK again for five years).
1988: James
Brown's wife Adrienne attempts to claim diplomatic immunity on charges of
drugged driving, speeding and criminal trespass, invoking her status as the
wife of the "Ambassador of Soul." Seriously.
1988:
Ex-Temptation David Ruffin is sentenced to two years probation in Detroit for a
cocaine possession rap the previous year.
1989: Rolling
Stones bassist Bill Wyman, 52, marries model Mandy Smith, 19, in a secret
ceremony. Wyman's 28-year-old son was best man. All other four Stones attended.
They would divorce two years later.
1993: Ronald Ray Howard's murder trial began in
Austin, TX. Howard killed a state trooper after listening to Tupac Shakur's
"2Pacalypse Now" album. Howard was convicted and sentenced to death.
1995: Stone Roses guitarist John Squire smashed
his collarbone in a cycling accident causing the band to pull out of major
gigs.
1998: Helen
Carter (The Carter Family) suffered from gastrointestinal problems which led to
heart problems that took her life at age 70.
1999: Junior
Braithwaite (Bob Marley and the Wailers) was murdered in the home of a fellow
musician in Kingston at age 46.
2002: Jimmy
Buffett catches an unexpected gust of wind and crashes his plane into a sign
while landing at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida.
2003: After a
public outcry (and legal protests from Yoko Ono), Paul McCartney agrees to drop
his mission to have certain Beatles songwriting credits reversed to read
"McCartney-Lennon."
2005: Franz Ferdinand's frontman, Alex Kapranos
was detained by Russian police after being suspected of being a spy. Kapranos
was attempting to board a plane in Moscow when the altercation took place.
Travelling under his actual surname, Huntley, Alex was accused of being an MI6
agent who was previously suspected of stealing information on Russian weaponry.
Unlucky for Alex that the surname Huntley was also used by actual former MI6
agent Richard Tomlinson who did steal secrets in the early 90s. The singer was
freed after he pointed out that the Huntley they were so concerned about was
42, 13 years older than him.
2008: Bo
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida at age 79.
2009: Cher
sues Universal Music Group on behalf of herself and her late partner Sonny
Bono, claiming the label owes them five million dollars in unpaid royalties.
2010: Faith Hill and Emmylou Harris perform at
the White House as Paul McCartney receives the Library of Congress' Gershwin
Prize. Also playing for the president: Jack White, Elvis Costello and The Jonas
Brothers.
2011: Pink (Alecia Beth Moore) and
Husband Carey Hard have a baby girl named Willow Sage Hart.
2011: Shania Twain receives a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.
