Births
1943: Robbie Robertson (Guitar & Vocals for The Band
& Solo)
1950: Michael Monarch (Lead Guitar for Steppenwolf)
1950: Huey Lewis (Singer & Harmonica for Huey Lewis and
the News)
1954: Jimmy Crespo (Guitar for Aerosmith)
1959: Marc Cohn (Singer / Songwriter)
1969: Rza (Robert
Fitzgerald Diggs) (Producer and Rapper in Wu-Tang Clan & Solo)
1973: Bengt Lagerburg (Drums for The Cardigans)
1973: Joe (Joseph Lewis
Thomas) (R&B Singer)
1976: Bizarre (Rapper in D12 & Solo)
1980:
Pauly D (Paul DelVecchio) (DJ)
1980: Jason Wade (Guitar & Lead Vocals for Lifehouse)
1982: Dave Haywood (Guitar and Piano for Lady Antebellum)
1985: Nick O'Malley (Bass for Arctic Monkeys)
1986: Adam Young (Keyboards & Vocals for Owl City)
Events
1954: Working together for the first time in a recording
studio with Scotty Moore and Bill Black, Elvis Presley fools around during a
break with an up-tempo version of 'That's All Right.' Producer Sam Phillips has
them repeat the jam and records it. It became Presley's first release on Sun
Records.
1965: Marty Balin and Paul Kantner formed a
Folk-Rock group that would evolve into the Jefferson Airplane, the premier San
Francisco psychedelic band of the late '60s. The Airplane made its debut the
following month at a Haight-Ashbury club, and was signed to RCA later in the
year.
1966: On the recommendation of Rolling Stone Keith Richards'
girlfriend, Chas Chandler from The Animals went to see Jimi Hendrix play at The
Cafe Wha in New York City. Chandler suggests that Hendrix should come to England,
which he does and Chandler became his manager.
1969: The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in London's Hyde
Park before an audience of 250,000, as a tribute to Brian Jones who had died
two days earlier. Mick Jagger read an extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley's
'Adonais' and released 3,500 butterflies; it was also guitarist's Mick Taylor's
debut with the Stones. King Crimson, Family, The Third Ear Band, Screw and
Alexis Korner's New Church also appeared on the day.
1978: The manufacturing of 'Some Girls' the new album by The
Rolling Stones was halted at EMI's pressing plant after complaints from
celebrities including Lucille Ball who were featured in mock advertisements on
the album sleeve.
1980: Bauhaus' farewell concert
took place in London.
1982: Sun records musical director Bill Justis died of cancer
aged 55. He worked with Sam Phillips at Sun Records, worked with also worked
with Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Had the 1957 US No. 2 single 'Raunchy' (the first Rock and Roll instrumental
hit).
1999: The Eurythmics announced their first world tour for
more than 10 years and that all profits would be given to charity. The duo made
the announcement from the Greenpeace boat 'Rainbow Warrior' moored on the River
Thames in London.
2000: Cub Koda (Michael "Cub" Koda), founder member
of Brownsville Station died of complications from kidney failure. Wrote the 2
million selling 1974 hit 'Smokin' In The Boys Room', (which Motley Crue
covered). He took his nickname from Cubby on television's Mickey Mouse Club.
2003: The Daily Star ran a front-page story claiming that the
body of Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards had been found.
Fishermen in an angling contest discovered bones half buried in mud on the
riverbank near Avonmouth. Edwards disappeared in Feb 1995, his car was found at
a service station at the Seven Bridge a well-known suicide spot.
2005: Pink Floyd's David Gilmour said artists who had seen
album sales soar after the Live 8 concerts should donate their profits to
charity, "This is money that should be used to save lives." UK sales
figures released two days after the London concert showed Pink Floyd’s Echoes:
The Best of Pink Floyd had risen by 1343%, The Who’s-Then and Now by 863% and
Annie Lennox-Eurythmics Greatest Hits by 500%.
