Births
1941:
Ann-Margret (Ann-Margret Olsson) (Singer
& Actress)
1945: John
Wolters (Drummer for Dr. Hook)
1953: Kim Gordon (Bass for Sonic Youth)
1955: Eddie
Jobson (Keyboards & Violin for Curved Air & Roxy Music)
1966: Too Short (Rapper)
1968: Daisy Berkowitz (Scott Mitchell Putesky) (Lead
Guitar in Marilyn Manson)
1973: Bigg Gipp (Cameron Gipp) Rapper in Goodie
Mob
Events
1940: Glenn
Miller recorded "Pennsylvania 6-5000".
1963: London
hustler and PR man Andrew Loog Oldham gets his first glimpse of the Rolling
Stones onstage at the Crawdaddy Club; the very next day, he becomes their
manager.
1964: The Beatles recorded the TV special ‘Around
The Beatles’ at Wembley studios England. As well as performing songs they
played Act V Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ with John
playing the female role of Thisbe, Paul as Pyramus, George as Moonshine and
Ringo as Lion. Paul later named his cat Thisbe.
1965: Barbra
Streisand's first television special, My Name Is Barbra, airs on CBS.
1968: The
musical Hair opens on Broadway, running for 1,729 performances, spinning
off several hit covers of its soundtrack songs (Three Dog Night's "Easy To
Be Hard," The Cowsills' "Hair," Oliver's "Good Morning
Starshine" and 5th Dimension's "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In")
and inspiring a major motion picture.
1968: The
Seeds guest star as "The Warts" on tonight's "How Not To Manage
A Rock Group" episode of the NBC-TV sitcom The Mothers-In-Law.
1973: Pink Floyd's album 'Dark Side Of The Moon'
went to No.1 on the US chart, it went on to enjoy a record breaking 741 weeks,
selling over 20 million copies world-wide.
1975: John
Lennon is the guest on tonight's episode of NBC-TV's Tonight Show, while
Ringo Starr appears on NBC's Smothers Brothers Show to sing his latest
hit, "No No Song."
1979: Blondie scored their first US No.1 single
with “Heart Of Glass”.
1980: Tommy
Caldwell died from injuries suffered in a Jeep crash. He was bassist and original frontman for The
Marshall Tucker Band between 1973 and 1980.
1981: Steve
Currie (Bass for T. Rex) died in a car crash while returning to his home near
Vale de Parra, Algarve, Portugal. He was 33 years old, and his death came less
than four years after T.Rex lead singer Marc Bolan had died in a car crash.
1982: The California State Assembly
consumer-protection-committee heard testimony from "experts" who
claimed that when ‘Stairway To Heaven’ was played backward, contained the
words: "I sing because I live with Satan. The Lord turns me off, there's
no escaping it. Here's to my sweet Satan, whose power is Satan. He will give
you 666. I live for Satan."
1987: Ray
Charles appears before Congress to urge more funding for hearing research,
stating "My eyes are my handicap, but my ears are my opportunity."
1987: The
Art Of Excellence by Tony Bennett becomes the first album to be initially
released on CD instead of the traditional vinyl format.
1987: On a plane that was returning to Boston, from
Miami, Ozzy Osbourne bought three rounds of drinks and sang "Crazy
Train" over the PA system.
1988: Country
Pop singer B.W. Stevenson died undergoing heart valve surgery at the age of 38.
1989: Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley were
married. They had been high school sweethearts.
1991: Bonnie
Raitt marries her first husband, actor Michael O'Keefe, in New York. The couple
would divorce in 1999.
1994: Lisa
Marie Presley separated from Danny Keough.
1999: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers received a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999: Marilyn Manson walked off stage during a
concert in Des Moines, Iowa, when he realized that someone had put a large
yellow "smiley face" on a stage prop. 23 arrests were made in the
aftermath.
2000: James
Brown Enterprises, which handles tours for the Godfather of Soul, has its
offices destroyed by fire, destroying music and memorabilia. An employee is
later charged with arson in connection with the incident.
2000: Paul Atkinson was jailed for three years
after being found guilty of stealing more than $40,000 from Rolling Stone
Charlie Watts. Atkinson had been the manager of an Arabian stud farm owned by
Watts.
2002: Vince Neil allegedly attacked a record
producer outside the Rainbow Room in West Hollywood. Neil pled guilty to the
misdemeanor charge of battery on September 27, 2002.
2003: Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack went into rehab.
The 17 year old was a patient at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California.
2006: ABBA
member Bjorn Ulvaeus is accused by the Swedish government of $12 million in
delinquency of back taxes.
2009: A TV commercial for
insurance featuring Iggy Pop was ruled as misleading by the Advertising
Standards Authority. In the advert, the singer was seen exclaiming that he had
an insurance policy with Swiftcover but the company did not cover musicians at
the time of the ad being shown. Swiftcover had since started to offer policies
to musicians, and stated that Mr Pop would continue to endorse the company.
2011: Richie Sambora leaves Bon
Jovi tour to enter rehab.
