Births
1912: Woody
Guthrie (Folk Singer)
1952: Chris Cross (Bass for Ultravox)
1952: Bob Casale (Guitar & Keyboards for
Devo)
1962: Jeff Olson (Drummer for
TROUBLE)
1966: Ellen Reid (Keyboards for Crash Test
Dummies)
1966: Tanya
Donelly (Guitar for Belly & Throwing Muses)
1971: Nick McCabe (Lead Guitar for The Verve)
1975: Taboo (Jaime
Luis Gómez) (Rapper & Singer in The Black Eyed Peas)
Events
1964: The
Rolling Stones score their first #1 hit in the UK with their cover of Bobby
Womack's "It's All Over Now."
1967: The Who
begin their first large-scale American tour, playing the first of 55 dates opening
for... Herman's Hermits.
1973:
Glam-rocker Gary Glitter makes his live stage debut in Mecksham, England.
1973: A drunk driver killed guitarist Clarence White
of The Byrds while he was loading equipment after a gig in Palmdale,
California.
1977: Elvis Costello and The Attractions made their
live debut supporting Wayne County at The Garden, Penzance, Cornwall, England.
1980: In
France, Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry contracts a kidney infection and is flown to
London after collapsing in his hotel room.
1980: Former
Beatles and Rolling Stones manager Allen Klein begins a two-month jail term for
income tax evasion.
1980: Malcolm Owen, singer with The Ruts, died
from a heroin overdose at the age of 26.
1984: Phillippe Wynne lead singer with The
Detroit Spinners died of a heart attack while performing at Ivey's nightclub in
Oakland, California, aged 43.
1986: Motley
Crue's Vince Neil begins 30-day sentence for vehicular homicide.
1987: Steve
Miller receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
1988: Michael Jackson gave himself a place in the
Guinness Book of World Records for setting a new attendance record, when he
played the first of seven nights at Wembley Stadium in London. The shows on his
Bad World Tour were attended by a total of 504,000 fans beating the record
previously held by Genesis, with four sold out nights.
1988: At the
height of "Elvis is Alive" mania, Nashville radio station WYHY offers
a million dollars to anyone who shows up at the studios with the King.
1989:
"Judge Judy" Sheindlin, not yet a TV star and still a Family Court
Judge in New York, orders singer Tom Jones to pay $200 weekly in child support
to model Katherine Berkery.
1992: Aretha
Franklin opens the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York by singing
the national anthem.
1992: Olivia
Newton-John makes public her bout with breast cancer, which she will eventually
beat.
2000: It was announced that the Go-Go's had
gotten back together again for a tour, new album, a book and a movie.
2006: Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie had
his nose broken when he was attacked in a hotel bar in Madrid in Spain. The
singer had to postpone a Top Of The Pops recording due to the injuries.
2011: Country-pop band Rilo Kiley
officially broke up. Guitarist Blake Sennett said that he "felt like
there was a lot of deception, disloyalty, greed," and the band had reached
a point where it could no longer exist under such toxic circumstances.
