April 2

Birthdays

1917: Lou Monte (Italian Singer)

1928: Serge Gainsbourg (Jazz Musician)

1938: Warner Mack (Country Singer)

1939: Marvin Gaye (Singer)

1942: Leon Russell (Singer & Piano Player)

1946: Kurt Winter (Guitarist for The Guess Who)

1946: Leon Wilkerson (Bass for Lynryd Skynyrd)

1947: Emmylou Harris (Country Singer)

1953: David Robinson (Drummer for The Cars)

1956: Gregory Abbott (R&B Singer)

1963: Keren Woodward (Bananarama)

1967: Greg Camp (Guitar for Smash Mouth)

1979: Jesse Carmichael (Keyboards for Maroon 5)

1983: Yung Joc (Jasiel A. Robinson) (Rapper)

Events

1942: Glenn Miller recorded "American Patrol".

1956: Johnny Cash recorded "I Walk The Line".

1964: The Beach Boys recorded "I Get Around" which became their first US No.1 in the summer of this year.

1965: The first edition of new music show 'Ready Steady Goes Live!' was shown on UK TV.

1966: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass set a chart record when four of their albums make the Top 10 of the Billboard album chart at the same time.

1967: An overzealous audience member throws a smoke bomb onto the stage at the Rolling Stones concert at the Town Hall in Vienna, Austria, leading to a riot and the arrest of 154 fans.

1967: Steve Winwood forms Traffic with Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.

1969: Frank Sinatra's "My Way" enters the charts.

1969: Bruce Springsteen’s new group Child made their live debut at the Pandemonium Club in Wanamassa, New Jersey.

1970: The Magistrate's Court in London convenes to decide the fate of John Lennon's recent "Bag One" drawings -- some of which feature genitalia, masturbation, and sex acts -- are, in fact, obscene.

1970: Janis Joplin get tattoos on her wrist and heart, the one on her chest reading "One For The Boys."

1971: Janis Joplin's LP Pearl hits #1.

1977: Stevie Wonder releases "Sir Duke".

1977: Fleetwood Mac's LP Rumours hits #1. As of 2011, it is the 10th best-selling album in US history selling over 40 Million copies.

1977: Frank Sinatra scored his first ever UK No.1 album with 'Portrait Of Sinatra', his 46th album release.

1987: Drummer Buddy Rich died of heart failure following surgery for a malignant brain tumor at the age of 69.

1990: Eric Clapton was fined $500 with $15 costs by Walton-on- Thames Magistrates court, after being booked for speeding at 105mph; Clapton was also banned from driving for three months.

1990: Nirvana went into Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin and started work on demo versions of ‘In Bloom’, ‘Dive’, ‘Lithium’, ‘Pay To Play’, ‘Imodium’, ‘Sappy’ and ‘Polly’ with Butch Vig producing.

1991: LL Cool J gave a pair of sneakers to every student and teacher at The Thompson Middle School in Dorchester, England to celebrate them winning the 'foot locker cool school video' contest.

1993: Robert Flack guest stars as herself on today's episode of ABC-TV's Loving.

1993: The London tabloids break the news that Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman's son Stephen is engaged to 46-year-old Patsy Smith, mother of Wyman's ex-wife, 22-year-old Mandy Smith.

1997: After 32 years, Joni Mitchell is reunited with her first daughter, Kilauren Gibb. Joni gave the child up for adoption at the start of her career.

1998: Cor Van Beek (Shocking Blue) died at the age of 49.

1998: Rob Pilatus, one half of pop duo Milli Vanilli was found dead in a Frankfurt Hotel room after taking a lethal combination of drugs and alcohol. Milli Vanilli won the 1989 best new artist Grammy after hits like 'Blame it on the Rain' and 'Girl, You Know It's True,' selling 30 million singles and 14 million albums. But in late 1990, the performers were stripped of the award after it was revealed that neither actually sang on the Milli Vanilli album.

1999: The Black Crowes played a concert in Knoxville, Tennessee. Joshua Harmon, a teenager sitting in the second row sued the band, a year later for $5,000 claiming significant hearing loss.

2001: Mariah Carey signed the richest recording deal in history. The 31-year old singer signed a deal with Virgin for three albums worth $100. The singer had sold over 120 million records worldwide, scoring 14 US No.1 singles.

2004: Coldplay singer Chris Martin was accused of attacking a photographer after leaving a London restaurant with his wife Gwyneth Paltrow. A Coldplay spokesman said photographer Alessandro Copetti had been running after Paltrow's taxi and tripped. Mr Copetti said he had been taking pictures of the singer and his wife outside a restaurant when Martin kicked him from behind.

2005: Kanye West had to abandon a signing appearance in Fresno, California, after a fight broke out between a fan and a security guard. West was taken out of the back door of the new FTK urban boutique, while the owners locked all the doors and cleared around 1,000 fans from the store's parking area.

2006: Gnarls Barkley started an eight-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Crazy.' The American duo made chart history by becoming the first act ever to reach No.1 through computer downloads only. The single was not available to buy in shops until the following week.