Births
1934: Uriel
Jones (Drummer for The Funk Brothers)
1949: Dr.
Hook (Dennis Locorriere)(Singer)
1951: Howard
Leese (Guitar for Heart & Bad Company)
1963: Robbie Merrill (Bassist for Godsmack)
1963: Paul De Lisle (Bass for Smash Mouth)
1968: David Gray (Singer & Songwriter)
1970: Rivers Cuomo (Lead Singer & Guitar for
Weezer)
1975: Jason
Michael Carroll (Country Artist)
Events
1958: A
17-year-old Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in
Lancaster, CA.
1959: US Army
Private Elvis Presley receives a 15-day furlough and uses it to travel to
Paris, ostensibly to meet film sexpot Brigitte Bardot. While there, he and his
entourage take up a suite at the Prince De Galles Hotel (on the Champs Elysees)
and visit the Moulin Rouge and also the Lido club, home of the famous dancers
the Bluebell Girls. Elvis and company take some of the girls back to the hotel
tonight, a practice they would continue throughout his leave.
1964: The
Rolling Stones' first major US television appearance is made on ABC's Hollywood
Palace, a variety show with rotating host spots. This week's host, Dean
Martin, who has made no secret of his dislike for rock in general and the
British Invasion in particular, mocks the Stones at every turn for their long
hair and seeming delinquency; after acrobat Larry Griswold performs several
death-defying trampoline stunts, Martin claims, "That's the father of the
Rolling Stones. He's been trying to kill himself ever since."
1970: Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac) released a
solo album and then announced her retirement from music. She later came out of
retirement.
1971: Frank
Sinatra performs his "retirement" concert at Los Angeles' Music
Center, although he would return to the stage, the studio, and the television
screen just two years later.
1972: R&B
Singer Clyde McPhatter, original lead vocalist with The Drifters, died of a
heart attack in his sleep at the age of 39 from complications of heart, liver,
and kidney disease, brought on by alcohol abuse.
1973: Dolly Parton records "I Will Always
Love You" in a morning session at Nashville's RCA Studio B. In 2004 it is proclaimed the #1 country ballad of all-time
in the premiere of "CMT 100 Greatest Love Songs".
1975: John
Lennon makes what would prove to be his last TV appearance, performing
"Imagine" and a cover of Little Richard's "Slippin' And
Slidin'" on the ABC special A Salute To Sir Lew Grade.
1975: Peter Frampton played the first of two nights
at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California. Recordings from these
two shows were used as part of his #1 double album 'Frampton Comes Alive'.
1980: Charles
Miller (Sax and Flute for War) was murdered in Los Angeles.
1986: Benny
Goodman died from a heart attack in New York City at the age of 77.
1988: Stevie
Wonder and a host of pop stars perform a charity concert at London's Wembley
Stadium for struggling children's charities in apartheid-torn South Africa, as
well as anti-apartheid causes in the UK.
1989: Jerry
Lee Lewis is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 6631 Hollywood
Boulevard.
1992: Billy Ray Cyrus started a 17-week run at
No.1 on the US album chart with 'Some Gave All'.
1992: Law enforcement officials in Texas called for
a ban on Ice-T's Rock Band “Body Count”s "Cop Killer" album.
1995: Alanis Morissette released 'Jagged Little
Pill'. The album went on to sell over 30 million copies world-wide making
Morissette the first female Canadian to score a US No.1 album.
1995: Country Singer Ty Hernodon was arrested by an
undercover officer on drug possession charges.
2000: Singer Bobby Brown admitted he was an
alcoholic, saying, 'I have a disease, I am an addict, I am an alcoholic'. The
singer made the admission while appearing in a Florida court.
2003: Gerry
Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers is awarded an MBE (Member of the British
Empire) in the annual Queen's Birthday Honours. Errol Brown of Hot Chocolate is
similarly honored; Pink Floyd's David Gilmour is awarded the much higher CBE (Commander
of the British Empire).
2004: After Rapper 50 Cent mentioned R. Kelly's
pending child pornography trial during an appearance at the New York Summer Jam
XI concert, chairs were thrown onstage forcing 50 Cent and his G-Unit crew to
leave the stage area.
2005: After a
sensational 16-week trial in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson is found innocent of
child molestation charges.
2006: Heather
Mills, ex-model, activist, and estranged wife of Paul McCartney, announces her
intention to divorce the ex-Beatle.
2008: A Chicago jury acquitted
R. Kelly of all 14 charges of child pornography against him. The US singer was
found not guilty of making an explicit sex video that prosecutors had said
showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13. Both Kelly and the alleged
victim, now 23, denied they were the people shown on the tape, which the jury
saw. The defense argued that the man in the tape did not have a large mole on
his back as does Mr. Kelly, and that the tape could have been doctored.
2011: Clarence Clemons,
saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen's iconic E Street Band, suffered a stroke at
his home in Florida. He died 5 days
later.
