Births
1924: Chet
Atkins (Country Singer & Guitarist)
1942: Brian
Wilson (Singer in The Beach Boys)
1945: Anne
Murray (Pop Singer)
1949: Lionel
Richie (R&B Singer)
1954: Michael
Anthony (Bass for Van Halen)
1960: John Taylor (Bass for Duran Duran)
1966: Stone Gossard (Lead Guitar for Pearl Jam)
1967: Murphy Karges (Bass for Sugar Ray)
1967: Jerome Fontamillas (Guitar & Keyboards
for Switchfoot)
1967: Dan Tyminski (Bluegrass Singer /
Songwriter in Alison Krauss & Union Station and Soggy Bottom Boys)
1971: Twiggy Ramirez (Jeordie Osborne White)
(Bass for Marilyn Manson)
1973: Chino Moreno (Vocals for The Deftones)
1979: Chuck Wicks (Country Singer /
Songwriter)
1983: Grace Potter (Singer for Grace Potter &
The Nocturnals)
Events
1948: CBS-TV
debuts its new variety show, entitled Toast Of The Town, featuring
performances by Martin & Lewis and Rodgers & Hammerstein, and hosted by
a New York Daily News entertainment columnist and critic named Ed
Sullivan. It would go on to become The Ed Sullivan Show and become the
longest-running variety show in US history at 23 years.
1959: In
Paris, The management of the Lido Club calls Elvis Presley's hotel and demands
that his entire female chorus line be returned in time for tonight's show.
1965: Ira
Louvin (Singer & Mandolin Player in The Louvin Brothers) was hit and killed
by a drunk driver at 41 years old.
1966: Capitol
executives, reeling from the Beatles' latest scandal, replace the original
"Butcher Cover" of the US album Yesterday and Today -- which
featured the band posing with decapitated dolls and raw meat, to the horror of
fans and record retailers -- with a more sedate, traditional band pose. The
label decides to glue the new cover over the old one, resulting in one of the
band's most prized collectibles. An unpeeled original "Butcher"
fetches about $800.
1969:
Northridge, CA hosts the Newport Rock festival, featuring Creedence Clearwater
Revival, The Rascals, Ike and Tina Turner, Steppenwolf, Joe Cocker, Jethro Tull,
and Jimi Hendrix, whose $125,000 fee is the highest ever paid to a rock act for
one show. A three day ticket cost $15.
1972: The
Tallahatchie bridge in Sidon, MS, made famous by Bobbie Gentry's hit "Ode
To Billie Joe," collapses. Today motorists use the newer bridge on County
Road 512 to cross the river.
1973:
American Bandstand airs its 20th anniversary special on ABC-TV, featuring
Little Richard, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Three Dog Night, Johnny Mathis,
Annette Funicello, and Cheech and Chong. It also features the first appearance
of his many huge "all-star" rock jams.
1980: "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me"
became Billy Joel's first #1 hit.
1981: A disco
medley of oldies hits called "Stars On 45" hits #1 in the US,
becoming a national phenomenon. The medley, which originated in Dutch dance
clubs, begins with re-creations of Shocking Blue's "Venus" and The
Archies' "Sugar Sugar" before segueing into an expert mimic of early
Beatles hits.
1983: Twang
king and guitar god Duane Eddy performs his first concert in fifteen years with
a show in San Francisco.
1985: Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr married Angela
Brown in San Francisco, California.
1987: Teddy
Pendergrass marries his first and only wife, Karen Still.
1995: A Los
Angeles judge rules that the Kingsmen and not their label, Scepter, are owners
of the 1963 smash "Louie, Louie" and are entitled to back royalties.
1996:
Westinghouse Electric becomes the first entity to cash in on the new 1996
Telecommunications Act by purchasing Infinity Broadcasting for 3.9 billion
dollars. The act relaxed restrictions on how many radio and TV stations one
company could own in a single market.
1997: Lawrence Payton of The Four Tops died from
liver cancer aged 59.
2000: The Ronettes were awarded $2.6 million in
“back earnings” from Phil Spector. New York judge Paula Omansky ruled that the
legendary producer had cheated them out of royalties.
2004: Organisers at a Paul McCartney gig hired
three jets to spray dry ice into the clouds so it wouldn’t rain during the concert.
The gig in Petersburg, Russia, was McCartney’s 3,000 concert appearance. He had
performed 2,535 gigs with the Quarrymen and the Beatles, 140 gigs with Wings
and 325 solo shows.
2006: The BBC
cancels its landmark weekly pop music show Top Of The Pops after a
record 42 years on the air.
2008: Surrey
University in England awarded Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page an honorary Doctorate
in Music.
2008: American singer songwriter
Jimmy Buffett announced that his Margaritaville Holdings has partnered with New
York gambling company Coastal Marina to buy the Trump Marina Hotel Casino for
$316 million. His vast business empire also included tequila, beer, frozen
food, footwear, restaurants, a resort, a record label and a recording studio.
In 2006, Rolling Stone magazine estimated Buffett's earnings at $44 million.
