May 13

Births

1912: Gil Evans (Jazz Pianist)

1933: Mike Stoller (Composer)

1941: Ritchie Valens (Guitarist & Singer)

1943: Mary Wells (R&B Singer)

1945: Magic Dick (Harmonica for J. Geils Band)

1947: Overend Watts (Bass for Mott The Hoople)

1950: Danny Kirwan (Guitarist & Vocals for Fleetwood Mac)

1950: Stevie Wonder (R&B Singer & Piano Player)

1951: Paul Thompson (Drummer for Roxy Music)

1966: Darius Rucker (Singer & Guitar for Hootie & The Blowfish & Solo)

1966: Goldfrapp (Alison Goldfrapp) (Singer)

1969: Buckethead (Brian Carroll) (Guitarist)

1979: Michael Madden (Bass for Maroon 5)

Events

1938: Louis Armstrong recorded "When The Saints Go Marching In".

1955: At tonight's show in Jacksonville, FL, Elvis Presley tells the girls who make up the majority of the 14,000-plus crowd that he'll "see (them) backstage." The crowd proceeds to do just that, ripping the King's clothes, causing Elvis' first-ever riot and, reportedly, convincing Tom Parker about Elvis' popularity once and for all.

1957: Elvis begins filming his third movie, Jailhouse Rock, in Hollywood.

1966: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band gives its first performance at The Paradox in Orange, California.

1967: The Supremes scored their 10th US No.1 single with 'The Happening'.  It was the last single to be released as the Supremes, from now on they were known as Diana Ross and the Supremes.

1969: The Beatles meet at EMI House in London to replicate the cover of their first LP, Please Please Me, now with beards and long hair, for the cover of their next project, Get Back. When that project morphs into Let It Be, the photo is eventually used for the cover of their "blue album," The Beatles 1967-1970.

1970: The Beatles' last film, the misbegotten documentary Let It Be, premieres in New York.

1970: Badfinger recorded "No Matter What".

1971: Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick accidentally wrecks her Mercedes on a wall near the Golden Gate Bridge, forcing the band to put off recording its new album until the singer recovers from her injuries.

1971: Motown child prodigy Stevie Wonder turns 21, and is by law released from his recording contract and given $1 million of the $30 million he has earned while at the label. Nevertheless, after gaining complete artistic control, Wonder resigns to Tamla.

1974: An unlikely riot occurs at tonight's Jackson 5 concert at RFK Stadium in Washington DC when impatient fans begin smashing bottles in the parking lot. Fifty fans are injured; forty-three are brought to jail.

1975: Bob Wills (Country Artist) died of pneumonia.

1977: Linda Ronstadt indirectly declines an offer placed in Hustler magazine, promising a million dollars to any of ten female celebrities (including Ronstadt) willing to pose for a nude photo shoot.

1978: With Yvonne Elliman's version of "If I Can't Have You" reaching the top of Billboard's pop chart, the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb becomes the first songwriter in history to have written four consecutive Number One US singles.

1985: Bruce Springsteen marries his first wife, model and actress Julianne Phillips, in Lake Oswego, OR, with Little Richard officiating and Percy Sledge singing "When A Man Loves A Woman." The couple would divorce in 1989.

1988: Chet Baker was found dead on Prins Hendrikkade, near Zeedijk, on the street below his second-story room (Room 210) of Hotel Prins Hendrik in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with serious wounds to his head. Heroin and cocaine were found in his hotel room, and an autopsy also found these drugs in his body. There was no evidence of a struggle, and the death was ruled an accident.

1993: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bette Midler and Barry White were guest voices on the season finale of the "The Simpsons." The episode was entitled "Krusty Gets Kancelled."

2000: Happy Monday’s singer Shaun Ryder's Volkswagen Corrado was found abandoned after being used as the getaway car. It was used in an armed robbery on Harry Ramsden's fish and chip restaurant in Manchester. $13,000 cash was taken in the robbery.

2003: Michael Jackson sues Motown records for alleged nonpayment of Jackson 5 royalties and unauthorized usage of the group's music in TV commercials.

2004: In an Australian radio interview, Gene Simmons of KISS states of Islam: "This is a vile culture, and if you think for a second that it's willing to just live in the sands of God's armpit you've got another thing coming... they want to come and live right where you live and they think that you're evil." After a flood of angry calls from Muslims, Simmons claims he was speaking only of extremists.

2007: Queen's Brian May is put on a round-the-clock watch after a schizophrenic leaves a letter at the guitarist's home blaming him for his mental illness, claiming himself as the real Brian May, and marking the guitarist for death.

2007: After complaining of not feeling well during a gig in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the day before, and after becoming notably disoriented at the airport the next day, Bo Diddley is found to have suffered a mild stroke and is hospitalized at Crieghton University Medical Center in nearby Omaha, NE.

2008: The Turtles' Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, better known as "Flo and Eddie," sue Capitol Records for allowing the Ice Cube to sample the group's 1972 song "Buzzsaw" for Cube's 1992 hit "Jackin' For Beats."

2008: The US Postal Service issued a 42-cent postage stamp in honor of Frank Sinatra. The design showed a 1950s-vintage image of Sinatra, wearing a hat.  It was also the first “Frank Sinatra Day” to celebrate the day before his death in 1998.

2011:  The surviving members of Pink Floyd reunited at London's O2 Arena for a rare collaboration, after swearing that they would never tour again upon breaking up in the mid-80s. David Gilmour joined Roger Waters and Nick Mason for renditions of "Comfortably Numb" and "Outside the Wall."

2011:  Lloyd Knibb, an influential Jamaican drummer who played with the Skatalites and helped develop the ska beat, died from liver cancer.