Births
1936: Buddy
Guy (Blues Guitarist & Singer)
1941: Paul
Anka (Pop Singer)
1945: David
Sanborn (Jazz Sax Player)
1946: Jeffrey
Hammond (Bass for Jethro Tull)
1957: Rat Scabies (Chris
Miller) (Drums for The Damned)
1958: Kate Bush (Singer /
Songwriter)
1958: Neal McCoy
(Country Artist)
1971:Brad Hargraves
(Drums for Third Eye Blind)
1977: Ian Watkins (Singer
for Lostprophets)
Events
1942: Frank
Sinatra ends his association with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra, recording the
last two of over 90 songs before moving on to great acclaim as a solo star at
Columbia.
1954: Elvis
Presley makes his first official concert appearance as a solo act, opening for
Slim Whitman at Memphis' Overton Park Shell outdoor auditorium, billed third as
"Ellis Presley" and performing "That's All Right, Mama,"
"Blue Moon Of Kentucky," and "I'll Never Let You Go (Little
Darlin')." In the middle of the first song, a badly stage-frightened Elvis
unconsciously begins to duplicate a move he usually made in the studio, shaking
his leg in time with the music. The crowd of (mostly) girls goes absolutely
wild, confusing Elvis and his band.
1968: The
Beatles' Apple Boutique, a psychedelic clothing store located at 94 Baker
Street in London, closes for business after seven months of bad business
practices and rampant theft. With the group and its intimates having had the
pick of the remaining inventory the night before, Apple Boutique employees are
instructed to simply let people in off the street to take whatever merchandise
they like. The store was closed that evening for good.
1978: Glen Goine, singer
and guitarist with Parliament / Funkadelic died from Hodgkin's Lymphoma aged
24. Had the 1978 US No.16 album 'One Nation Under A Groove'.
1986: Boy George was
fined $500 by a London court for possession of heroin.
1986: Variety
reports that RCA has fired John Denver after learning of his new single,
entitled "What Are We Making Weapons For?" General Electric, which
had just bought out RCA, was one of the country's largest defense contractors.
1991: A police officer
was forced to tear up a traffic ticket given to the limousine that Axl Rose was
travelling in after it made an illegal turn. Rose threatened to pull that
nights Guns N' Roses gig if the ticket was issued.
1993: Founder member and
original bassist for The Wonder Stuff, Rob Jones died in New York aged 29.
2003: In
order to prove that the city is still safe to visit after a recent SARS
outbreak, Toronto, Canada puts on the largest concert in the country's history,
a massive open-air extravagaza featuring The Rolling Stones, The Guess Who,
Rush, The Isley Brothers, The Flaming Lips and Justin Timberlake, among others.
Total attendance is somewhere around 450,000.
2003: Sam Phillips, the
founder of Sun Records and studio, died of respiratory failure at St. Francis
Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. In the 1940s, Phillips worked as a DJ for
Muscle Shoals, Alabama radio station WLAY. Phillips recorded what some consider
to be the first rock and roll record, ‘Rocket 88’ by Jackie Brenston and his
Delta Cats in 1951. He discovered Elvis Presley, worked with Carl Perkins,
Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Ike Turner, B.B. King and Jerry Lee Lewis.
2004: While walking around London,
the Isley Brothers' Ronald Isley suffers a minor stroke and is admitted to a
local hospital. He recovers in a matter of just a few weeks.
2006:
Shakira feat Wyclef Jean started a four week run at No.1 on the UK singles
chart with ‘Hips Don't Lie.’ A remake of Wyclef Jean's 2004 song 'Dance Like
This', the song went on to top the charts in over 50 countries. The song is the
biggest selling single of the 21st century by a female artist worldwide.
