Births
1928: Vince
Guaraldi (Jazz Pianist)
1939: Spencer
Davis (Multi-Instrumentalist for Spencer Davis Group)
1947:
Wolfgang Flur (Percussion & Keyboards for Kraftwerk)
1947: Mick
Tucker (Drums for Sweet)
1948: Ron
Asheton (Guitar for The Stooges)
1949: Terence
"Geezer" Butler (Bass for Black Sabbath)
1949: Mike
Vale (Bass for Tommy James and the Shondells)
1950: Phoebe
Snow (Singer / Songwriter & Guitarist)
1952:
Nicolette Larson (Singer)
1952: David Hasselhoff (Singer ?)
1957: Bruce
Crump (Drummer for Molly Hatchet)
1963: Regina Belle (R&B Singer)
1964: Craig Morgan (Country Artist)
1966: Lou Barlow (Bass for Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh
& Folk Implosion)
1975: Paul Hinojos (Bass for At The Drive-In
& Mars Volta)
1976: Luke Bryan (Country Artist)
Events
1954: The
Newport Jazz Festival, the world's first such event, debuts on the tennis
courts of the Newport Casino in Rhode Island.
1955: Walt
Disney opens his amusement park, Disneyland, in Anaheim, CA, and on the live
ABC television special he introduces his new teen and pre-teen sensations, the
Mousketeers, including future star Annette Funicello.
1959: Billie Holiday died in a New York City
hospital from cirrhosis of the liver after years of alcohol abuse, aged 43.
(While under arrest for heroin possession, with Police officers stationed at
the door to her room.) In the final years of her life, she had been
progressively swindled out of her earnings, and she died with $0.70 in the
bank.
1967: After
only seven dates as opening act for the Monkees, Jimi Hendrix flips off the
audience at New York's Forest Hills Stadium, which won't stop screaming for
Davy Jones, and leaves the tour. Australian journalist Lillian Roxon, on tour
in an official capacity, invents a fictional story claiming that the Daughters
of the American Revolution had Hendrix kicked off the tour for "corrupting
the morals of America's youth." Jimi is replaced on the tour by the
equally unlikely band Vanilla Fudge.
1967: Jazz Saxophone
legend John Coltrane died of liver cancer at age 40.
1968: The
Beatles' fourth film, the animated fantasy Yellow Submarine, premiers in
London. Although the four "Beatles" in the picture are voiced by
professional actors, the band itself makes a cameo in the finale, leading movie
audiences through the song "All Together Now."
1972: On tour
in Montreal, a bomb explodes under one of the Rolling Stones' trucks, blowing
out 30 speakers but fortunately causing no injuries. Although the guilty party
is never found (French separatists are suspected), the show goes on anyway.
However, a small riot breaks out when three thousand of the fans discover the
"tickets" they are holding are phonies.
1974: The
Moody Blues open their own 32-track, state-of-the-art recording studio in
London, the first in the whole country that can record in the new
"Quadrophonic" process.
1974: John
Lennon's appeal for US citizenship is denied by the government and he is given
sixty days to leave the country.
1975: The
divorce between Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox is finalized in London. Starr would
marry current wife Barbara Bach in 1981.
1975: Bob
Marley and the Wailers play a historic concert at London's Lyceum Theater which
would feature the acclaimed Legend version of "No Woman, No
Cry."
1979: Gary Moore left Thin Lizzy during a US tour
and was replaced by ex Slick & Rich Kids guitarist Midge Ure.
1987: With
the fate of his band up in the air, Virgin Records signs the Rolling Stones'
Keith Richards to a three-album solo deal.
1987: The Ozzy Osbourne Band started a 16-week
tour of US prisons.
1991: Picking
up at the exact same spot in the tour where they left off, Lynyrd Skynyrd
reunite after the horrible plane crash in 1974 that took the lives of three
members. Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, killed in the crash, is now replaced by
his brother Johnny.
1995: Robbie Williams left Take That. The group
had scored six UK No.1 singles and two No.1 albums with Robbie in the group.
1996: Bassist
Chas Chandler (The Animals) died of heart failure at age 58.
1996: The Smashing Pumpkins fired Jimmy Chamberlin
less than a week after Chambelin was arrested on a drug charge and Jonathan
Melvoin died of a heroin overdose.
1999: Kevin Wilkinson, drummer with Howard Jones
hung himself at home aged 41. Also worked with China Crisis, Holly and the
Italians, Squeeze and The Waterboys.
2004: At the
end of her show at the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas, Linda Ronstadt dedicates her
encore, a cover of the Eagles' "Desperado," to filmmaker Michael
Moore, urging fans to go see his current movie, Fahrenheit 9/11. A
shocked audience reacts mostly with boos; approximately half walk out on the
spot.
2005: Jamaican musician &
Singer Laurel Aitken died from a heart attack. Dubbed as 'the Godfather of
Ska', his 1958 'Boogie In My Bones' became the first release on the Island
Record label and was No.1 on the Jamaican charts for 11 weeks.
