Births
1925: Hugo
Montenegro (Orchestra Leader & Composer)
1939: Sam
Gooden (Singer in The Impressions)
1943: Joe
Simon (R&B Singer)
1943:
Rosalind Ashford (Singer in Martha and the Vandellas)
1946: Billy Preston (Singer & Keyboard
player)
1951: Mik
Kaminski (Violin for Electric Light Orchestra)
1953: John Zorn (Avant-Garde Musician)
1957: Steve
Porcaro (Keyboards for Toto)
1958: Jerry Augustyniak (Drummer for 10,000
Maniacs )
1964: Randy Bennett (DJ)
1969: Cedric Hailey (K-Ci) (Vocals for Jodeci
& K-Ci & Jojo)
1977: Sam Rivers (Bass for Limp Bizkit)
1987: Spencer Smith (Drummer for Panic at the
Disco)
Events
1931: CBS
radio makes Bing Crosby a star overnight when it debuts his new show,
accurately titled 15 Minutes With Bing Crosby.
1963: The Angels become the first white all-female
group to have a No.1 record. The song was "My Boyfriend's Back."
1964: The
Beatles are shocked to find their audience of 13,000 at Philadelphia's
Convention Hall is completely white, management's response to the race riots
the city had suffered days earlier.
1965: The Doors recorded their first demo’s at
World Pacific Jazz Studios in Los Angeles, California, where they cut six Jim
Morrison songs.
1970: An
unknown art-rock band named Genesis runs an ad in Britain's Melody Maker
magazine looking for a drummer, an audition 19-year-old Phil Collins will pass
by mentioning that he played percussion on George Harrison's All Things Must
Pass.
1971: The
Rolling Stones sue former manager Andrew Loog Oldham for back royalties; on the
same day, the Grateful Dead have their former manager, Lenny Hart, arrested for
embezzling $70,000 from the group's coffers.
1975: Sixty
people are arrested when over 500 attempt to crash the Great American Music
Fair in Syracuse, NY, in order to see Jefferson Starship and the Doobie
Brothers for free.
1978: Teddy
Pendergrass promotes his latest album, Life Is A Song Worth Singing, by
staging a "Ladies Only" concert at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. The
crowd, which is indeed restricted to females, receives white chocolate
lollipops shaped like teddy bears; the gimmick is so successful Pendergrass
repeats it often during his solo career.
1978: George Harrison married Olivia Trinidad
Arias. She was a secretary at his Dark Horse record company.
1982:
Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down.
1989: Ozzy Osbourne was charged with threatening
to kill his wife Sharon. Ozzy was released on the condition that he immediately
went into detox, the case was later dropped when the couple decide to
reconcile.
1989: Ric Ocasek of the Cars married Paulina
Porizkova.
1995: Michael Jackson went to
No.1 on the US singles chart with a song written by R. Kelly 'You Are Not
Alone'. It holds a Guinness World Record as the first song in the 37 year
history of the Billboard Hot 100 to debut at No.1.
2006: Lead singer of the Isley
Brothers, Ronald Isley was sentenced to three years in a US prison for multiple
counts of tax fraud. The 64-year-old, was also ordered to pay more than $3.1m
to the US tax service for "pathological" evasion. The court heard he
cashed royalty checks belonging to his brother O'Kelly, who died in 1996 and
also spent millions of dollars made from undeclared performances on a yacht and
two homes.
2010: Brooks & Dunn play their final concert at
Nashville's Bridgestone Arena with proceeds earmarked for the Country Music
Hall of Fame. Reba McEntire guests on "Cowgirls Don't Cry." Their
last song: "Brand New Man".
