October 23

Births

1947: Greg Ridley (Bass for Humble Pie)

1949: Würzel (Michael Burston) (Guitar for Motorhead)

1956: Dwight Yoakam (Country Artist)

1959: “Weird” Al Yankovic (Comedian)

1964: Roberto Trujillo (Bass for Metallica & Suicidal Tendencies)

1972: Richard McNamara (Guitar for Embrace)

Events

1954: Elvis Presley's second Sun single, "Blue Moon Of Kentucky," breaks out in Nashville and New Orleans, becoming his first chart hit outside of his native Memphis.

1962: 12 year old Little Stevie Wonder recorded his first single for Motown Records, 'Thank You For Loving Me All The Way.'

1966: The Yardbirds, in their first concert featuring Jimmy Page on lead guitar, open at San Francisco's Fillmore West.

1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their first single 'Hey Joe', at De Lane Lea studios in London.

1969: Columbia Records announces its intention to prosecute the purveyors of Great White Way, an unauthorized collection of unreleased Bob Dylan demos that is often considered the first "bootleg" record.

1976: Led Zeppelin make their belated US television debut on an episode of the syndicated Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. They performed ‘Black Dog’ and ‘Dazed And Confused’.

1978: Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious attempted to commit suicide while awaiting trial for killing his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.

1980: On the same day that John Lennon's "comeback" single, "Starting Over," is released, Mark David Chapman ,his future killer, signs out of his detail as a security guard for the last time. Instead of signing "Chappy," as he usually does, the killer tellingly signs out as "John Lennon."

1995: In Houston, TX, a jury convicted Yolanda Saldivar of the murder of Selena.

1995: Tone-Loc was ordered to take an anger management class after fighting with a pizza delivery person.

1998: A St. Louis federal judge rules that the local Fort Zumwalt High School Marching Band is not allowed, as per the ruling of the superintendent of schools, to include Jefferson Airplane's pro-drug hit "White Rabbit" in its repertoire as part of a "Sixties medley."

2002: Kanye West was involved in a car crash after he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home from a recording studio in West Hollywood. No other cars were involved in the incident which left West with his jaw fractured in three places.

2007: The first trial of legendary producer Phil Spector -- accused of murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003 -- ends in a mistrial, with ten jurors voting him guilty and two not guilty.

2007: Rapper Foxy Brown was given 11 weeks in solitary confinement after fighting with another inmate in prison. She was also said to have been abusive to guards and refused to take a random drug test. Brown was serving a year in jail for violating her probation after a fight she had in a New York nail salon.