Births
1925: Oscar
Peterson (Jazz Pianist)
1925: Bill
Pinkney (Singer in The Drifters)
1933: Bobby
Helms (Country Singer)
1948: Tom
Johnston (Guitar & Vocals for The Doobie Brothers)
1950: Tommy Aldridge (Drums for Whitesnake, Ozzy
& Thin Lizzy)
1951: Bobby
Caldwell (Singer)
1952: Johnny
Thunders (Guitar for The New York Dolls & The Heartbreakers)
1961: Matt Johnson (Singer for The The)
1978: Tim Foreman (Bass for Switchfoot)
1984: Dave Welsh (Guitarist for The Fray)
1989: Joe Jonas (Singer for The Jonas Brothers)
Events
1939: After
five directors, several script drafts, and endless casting changes, The movie
musical The Wizard Of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in
Hollywood.
1956:
"Colonel" Tom Parker, actually a Dutch immigrant who merely played at
being a Southern aristocrat, becomes "special adviser" to Elvis
Presley, effectively taking over management duties from Bob Neal, who knew
managing the King was about to become a full-time job.
1958: Buddy
Holly marries Maria Elena Santiago, a former receptionist at his music
publishing company, in a private ceremony held at Holly's boyhood home in
Lubbock, TX.
1964: After
the massive success of the Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night,
United Artists rushes to sign up-and-comers The Dave Clark Five to a film
project entitled Catch Us If You Can (which was released in the US as Having
A Wild Weekend).
1965: At 8 pm
EST, the Beatles take the stage at Shea Stadium in New York City, marking the
very first time a rock band would headline a stadium concert and a major
victory for promoter Sid Bernstein, who had arranged the gig after his gamble
of booking the then-unknown group at Carnegie Hall had paid off. Tickets for
the show, sold merely by word of mouth created by kids who asked Bernstein about
the next Beatles show while he strolled in Central Park, sold out in just three
weeks, beating the stadium's old seating record with 56,000 seats sold.
1969:
Promising "three days of peace, love, and music," The Woodstock Music
and Art Fair begins on Max Yasgur's sixty-acre farm in Bethel, NY (nearby
Woodstock being the original location). Featuring two dozen of the country's
hottest bands, the festival draws over 450,000 hippies to the tiny town,
causing unimaginable traffic and logistics problems but nevertheless impressing
the ordinary citizens. Three deaths, two births, four miscarriages, and a
wedding are all reported before Jimi Hendrix ends the festivities with his
legendary rendition of the US national anthem. Also appearing were (in part)
Joe Cocker, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence
Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan
Baez, Santana, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny
Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood Sweat
and Tears, and Arlo Guthrie. Among those who elected not to attend were Tommy
James and the Shondells, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds,
Jethro Tull, and The Moody Blues.
1973:
Baltimore, MD, declares today "Cass Elliot Day" in honor of the
native singer for The Mamas and the Papas.
1980: John
Lennon enters the Record Plant Studios in New York to record his
"comeback" album, Double Fantasy.
1983:
Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in a fight-undergoes brain surgery.
1996: A New
York women's shelter refuses to take money raised by a recent benefit concert
when they learn that one of the performers was James Brown, often accused of
emotional and physical abuse of women.
2000: David
Bowie and his wife, supermodel Iman, become the proud parents of their first
child, Alexandria Zahra Jones.
2004: Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts was
being treated for throat cancer after being diagnosed with the disease in June.
2005: Sly Stone
comes out of a long seclusion to visit the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles,
where his little sister Vet headlines with the latest version of the Family
Stone.
2011: Singer/actress Hilary
Duff, 23, announced that she is expecting her first child with husband Mike
Comrie, 30.
