Births
1913: Sammy
Cahn (Songwriter)
1942: Paul
McCartney (Singer & Bass for The Beatles & Wings)
1942: Carl
Radle (Bass for Derek and the Dominoes)
1961: Alison Moyet (Singer for Yaz and Solo)
1963: Dizzy Reed (Keyboards for Guns N' Roses)
1969: Sice Rowbottom (Guitarist & Vocals for
The Boo Radleys)
1971: Nathan Morris (Boyz II Men)
1975: Silkk The Shocker (Vyshonn
King Miller) (Rapper)
1976: Blake Shelton (Country Singer)
Events
1915: A.P.
Carter marries Sara Dougherty in Maces Spring, VA, forming two-thirds of what
would eventually, with the addition of Sara's sister, Maybelle, become country
music's legendary Carter Family.
1948: The
Columbia label becomes the first to mass-manufacture the new
"long-playing" or "LP" record format, to be played at 33
1/3 rpm rather than the standard 78. Unlike 78 rpm discs, which only held three
minutes of music, the LP could hold a full 23 minutes per side.
1967: The
Beatles Apple record label is formed.
1967: After
wresting the coveted closing spot from the Who, Jimi Hendrix goes to wow
concertgoers at the Monterey Pop music festival by setting his guitar on fire
during his set.
1974: Rare
Earth drummer Peter Hoorelbeke is arrested for throwing his drumsticks into the
crowd at the end of the band's concert.
1975: Elvis
Presley enters Memphis' Mid-South Hospital, ostensibly to have "an
extensive eye examination"; reports persist, however, that the King is
actually having his crows' feet removed from his aging face.
1976: After
eleven years with the group, guitarist Phil May leaves the Pretty Things.
1977: The
night before their royal wedding, Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia
Sommerlath are serenaded in a Stockholm performance by the nation's biggest
export, ABBA.
1977: Fleetwood Mac went to No.1 on the US
singles chart with 'Dreams', the group's first and only US No.1.
1977: Johnny Rotten and Paul Cook of The Sex
Pistols were stabbed and beaten when they were attacked in a car park outside a
London pub.
1984: Dolly
Parton releases the unfortunate career misstep Rhinestone in US movie
theaters, featuring Parton as a country crooner who teaches Sylvester Stallone
how to sing in the style.
1993: Having
sold their label to Polygram three years earlier for half a billion dollars,
A&M label founders Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss announce their intention to
leave the company entirely. Begun in 1962, A&M was one of the first
artist-owned labels, and the first successful independent label.
1995: Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) was arrested
in Camden, NJ, on robbery and aggravated assault charges.
2000: It was reported that sales of pirate music
CDs had now exceeded more than 500 million a year and accounted for one in
every five sold. The Phonographic Industry estimated it was costing the music
industry $5.1 billion in lost sales.
2000: Rapper Nate Dogg was arrested for allegedly
kidnapping his girlfriend from her mother's house, holding her against her
will, assaulting her and setting a car on fire. All charges were later
dismissed.
2002: Billy
Joel is admitted to Connecticut's Silver Hill Hospital for ten days in order to
get his drinking under control.
2004: Ray
Charles' funeral is held in Los Angeles at the First AME Church, featuring
performances by Stevie Wonder, Glen Campbell, B.B. King, Wynton Marsalis, and
Willie Nelson. Non-performing attendees include Little Richard, Clint Eastwood,
and Berry Gordy, Jr.
2007: Singer
Hank Medress (The Tokens) Died of lung cancer at age 68.
2008: A Los Angeles hotel filed a lawsuit against
Phil Spector for failing to pay more than $100,000 in outstanding bills for
lawyers and expert witnesses in his murder trial. The Westin Bonaventure Hotel
claimed that by the time Spector's trial ended with a hung jury, the defendants
owed the hotel more than $104,000.
2011: Clarence Clemons, legendary saxophonist in
the E Street Band who played alongside Bruce Springsteen for 40 years, died of
complications from a stroke. He was 69.
2011:
Black Veil Brides singer Andy "Andy Six" Biersack fractured
three ribs after falling from a balcony at the hard rock group's show in
Hollywood.
2011: Tim McGraw stops his show at the Gorge
Amphitheatre near George, Washington, to boot a male audience member for
mistreating a woman.
