Births
1945: John
Lodge (Bass for The Moody Blues)
1945: Kim
Carnes (Singer / Songwriter)
1947: Carlos
Santana (Guitarist)
1952: Jay Jay French (Guitar for Twisted Sister)
1956: Paul Cook (Drums for The Sex Pistols)
1958: Mick MacNeil (Keyboards for Simple Minds)
1964: Chris Cornell (Vocals & Guitar for
Soundgarden & Audioslave)
1965: Stone
Gossard (Rhythm & Lead Guitar for Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone & Temple
Of The Dog)
1968: Kool G Rap (Nathaniel Thomas Wilson) (Rapper)
1969: Tobi Vail (Drums for Bikini Kill)
1976: Andrew Stockdale (Lead Vocals & Guitar
for Wolfmother)
1980: Mike Kennerty (Guitar for All-American
rejects)
1988: Julianne Hough (Country Singer)
Events
1940: Billboard
magazine publishes their first combined record sales chart, ranking the hits of
all major labels. Sitting atop the ten entries is Tommy Dorsey's "I'll
Never Smile Again," lead vocals by Frank Sinatra.
1954: Taking
their name from their local hit recording of "Blue Moon of Kentucky,"
Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black perform a concert as The Blue Moon
Boys on a flatbed truck outside the grand opening of a Memphis drugstore.
1963: Jan and Dean started a two week run at No.1
on the US singles chart with 'Surf City', written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson,
with the Beach Boys on backing vocals. The single peaked at No.26 in the UK.
1965: Bob Dylan
released the single “Like A Rolling Stone”.
1965: Frank
Sinatra leaves his handprints in cement outside Hollywood landmark Grauman's
Chinese Theatre at 6925 Hollywood Blvd.
1968: Aware
of Paul McCartney's various affairs, his fiancee, Jane Asher, announces on the
BBC TV program Dee Time that she has broken off her engagement with the
Beatle: "I haven't broken it off, but it is broken off, finished... I know
it sounds corny, but we still see each other, and love each other, but it
hasn't worked out. Perhaps we'll be childhood sweethearts and meet again, and
get married when we're about seventy." Paul, watching at home, is
reportedly surprised, but rumors had been swirling for months, so perhaps not.
1968: Iron Butterfly’s second album,
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, entered the US album chart for the first time. The album
contained the 17-minute title track that filled the second side of the LP,
which went on sell over four million copies in the US alone.
1970: The
Carpenters appear as guest bachelor and bachelorette on ABC's Dating Game
TV show.
1974: Joey Ramone became the lead vocalist for the
Ramones.
1975: Steven
Van Zandt makes his first appearance in concert with Bruce Springsteen and the
E Street Band.
1976: Buzzcocks made their live debut supporting
The Sex Pistols and Slaughter & The Dogs at The Lesser Free Trade Hall,
Manchester. In the audience was, Morrissey (The Smiths), Bernard Sumner &
Peter Hook (soon to form Joy Division), Mark E Smith (The Fall) and Mick
Hucknall.
1979: In
trade ads announcing their newest single, "Don't Bring Me Down," the
Electric Light Orchestra puckishly dedicate the song to Skylab, the first US
space station, which was about to prematurely re-enter Earth's atmosphere in
bits and pieces.
1986: Carlos
Santana celebrates his 39th birthday, as well as the 20th anniversary of his
band, by playing a concert in San Francisco featuring all living members of
Santana -- 17, to be exact.
1991: EMF went to No.1 on the US singles chart
with 'Unbelievable' it spent 14 weeks on the chart before reaching the top.
1995: Public Enemy member Flavor Flav broke both his arms
when he was involved in a motorcycle accident in Milan.
1996: Kim Thayil (Guitar for
Soundgarden) was arrested for assault and then later released after playing on
the Lollapalooza '96 tour in North Carolina.
1999: Church group's in middle
America claimed that pictures of Britney Spears printed in Rolling Stone
magazine encouraged child pornography. The shots showed Britney with not many
clothes on in her bedroom. She was 17 years old.
2008: Rapper DMX was arrested on
suspicion he gave a false name to get out of paying for hospital medical
expenses. County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the star told Mayo Clinic in Arizona
that his name was Troy Jones and failed to pay a $7,500 bill in April. The rapper,
whose real name is Earl Simmons, was arrested at a shopping center in Phoenix.
2008: John Lydon denied claims
by Kele Okereke from Bloc Party that he was racially abused and attacked by a
member of the Sex Pistols' entourage at a music festival in Barcelona. Okereke
claimed he had been attacked by several men after approaching Lydon backstage
at the Summercase festival. He said the 'unprovoked' attack left him with a
split lip and bruises. Lydon said: ‘I feel very sorry for a man that needs to
lie about what was a perfect evening.’
2011: R&B star R. Kelly had
been hospitalized after emergency throat surgery in Chicago, forcing him to
give up performing for an unknown period while he recuperated. He had complained of throat pain and was
rushed to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where surgeons the same day drained
an abscess on one of his tonsils.
