Births
1939: Billy
"Crash" Craddock (Rockabilly Singer)
1941: Lamont
Dozier (R&B Singer, Songwriter & Producer)
1942: Eddie
Levert (Vocals for The O'Jays)
1946: Iain
Matthews (Singer for Fairport Convention)
1952: Gino
Vannelli (Singer)
1953: Ian Mosley (Drums for Marillion)
1958: Patrick Waite (Bass & Vocals for Musical
Youth)
1962: Femi Kuti (Afrobeat Musician)
1969: MC Ren (Lorenzo
Jerald Patterson ) (Rapper for NWA)
1971: 2Pac (Tupac Amaru Shakur) (born Lesane
Parish Crooks) (Rapper)
1981: Ben Kweller (Singer / Songwriter)
1982: Matt Costa (Singer / Songwriter)
Events
1962: A young
David Bowie makes his stage debut when his band, the Konrads, performs at
Bromley Technical in Kent, England.
1965: Bob Dylan recorded ‘Like A Rolling Stone’
at Columbia Recording Studios in New York City.
1966: The Beatles made a surprise live appearance
on the UK television program Top of the Pops, performing ‘Paperback Writer’ and
‘Rain’. It became The Beatles' last live musical television appearance, with
the sole exception of the June 1967 worldwide transmission of ‘All You Need Is
Love’.
1967: The
first of the major rock festivals, Monterey Pop, is held in California,
featuring established acts such as The Mamas and The Papas, Eric Burdon and the
Animals, The Association, Booker T. and the MGs, The Who, and the Byrds, and
also making superstars of several relatively new acts such as Otis Redding,
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Simon and Garfunkel, Canned Heat, The Grateful
Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and The Steve Miller Band. 50,000 attendees paid
between $3.50 and $6.50 to see more than two dozen acts, all of whom agreed to
play for free so all proceeds could go to charity. The event kicked off the
famous "Summer of Love," in which thousands of college-age rock fans
visited San Francisco, and also inspired John Phillips of the Mamas and the
Papas to write "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your
Hair)," later a hit for Scott McKenzie. Filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker's
acclaimed 1969 documentary Monterey Pop was filmed during the festival.
1970: The
organizers of the Woodstock music festival report that they have lost over $1.2
million on the event (money which they will later make up through movie and
soundtrack rights).
1975: John
Lennon sues US Attorneys General John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst for
alleged harassment during his recent deportation investigation.
1976: No
longer just five, The Jacksons -- all six sons and three daughters -- get their
own summer replacement variety show on CBS-TV.
1979: The Electric Light Orchestra started a
five-week run at No.1 on the album chart with 'Discovery' their first No.1 LP, featuring
the tracks 'Shine A Little Love', 'Don't Bring Me Down' and 'The Diary Of
Horace Wimp'.
1980: The
movie The Blues Brothers, adapted from John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd's
classic SNL skit, premieres in Chicago. A love letter of sorts to Sixties
R&B and soul, it will help re-establish the careers of its musical
co-stars, including James Brown, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin.
1982: Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott
died following sustained cocaine and heroin addiction.
1982: Donny Van Zant of .38 Special was arrested
on stage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, (a dry town) for drinking alcohol in a public
place.
1987: Jerry
Garcia of the Grateful Dead officially gives permission for Ben and Jerry's Ice
Cream to name a new flavor after him.
1988: Vince Neil of Motley Crue married mud
wrestler Sharisse Rudell.
1989: Smokey
Robinson launches his own perfume for women, entitled simply "Smoke."
1990: The
Rolling Stones' "Paint, It Black," re-released in the Netherlands as
a single, climbs to the top of the charts 24 years after its initial release.
1994: Kristen Pfaff (Bass for Hole) died of a
heroin overdose at the age of 26.
1997: The Radiohead album "OK Computer"
was released.
1999: Phil Collins received a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame.
2000: On the first night of his 'Up in Smoke'
tour in Chula Vista, Snoop Dogg's tour bus was stopped at the Temecula border
checkpoint in San Diego after the border patrol smelled marijuana wafting from
the tour bus. One member of the crew was arrested.
2001: Four-year-old Daniel Karven-Veres drowned
in Tommy Lee's swimming pool while attending a birthday party for Lee's
5-year-old son, Brandon. His parents, James Veres and Ursula Karven, sued Lee
for negligence, claiming they should have been told that a swimming pool was
involved, (their son could not swim). Lee was cleared by a jury in April 2003.
2002: A
remixed version of Elvis Presley's 1967 single "A Little Less
Conversation" hits #1 in the UK, released as part of a plan by his estate
to regain the UK record for Number Ones from the Beatles.
2004: The
original members of the New York Dolls reunite on stage after nearly 30 years,
in a concert arranged by their #1 fan, Morrissey of the Smiths.
2007:
61-year-old Rod Stewart marries his third wife, 35-year-old model Penny
Lancaster, on board the yacht Lady Ann Magee in Portofino, Italy.
