Births
1935: Herb
Alpert (Trumpet Player)
1938: Peter
Yarrow (Guitar & Vocals for Peter, Paul and Mary)
1938: Johnny
Paycheck (Donald Eugene Lytle ) (Country
Singer & Guitarist)
1944: Mick
Ralphs (Guitarist for Mott The Hoople & Bad Company)
1948: John
Bonham (Drummer for Led Zeppelin)
1952: Karl
Bartos (Percussion & Keyboards for Kraftwerk)
1954: Vicki
Sue Robinson (Disco Singer)
1962: Corey
Hart (Singer)
1963: Wesley Willis (Singer?)
1964: MC Darryl 'D' McDaniels (Rapper in Run-DMC)
1964: Scotti
Hill (Guitarist for Skid Row)
1980: Andrey Hurley (Drummer for Fall Out Boy)
Events
1917: The first jazz record, "Dark Town
Strutters' Ball," was released.
1956: Elvis
Presley is the featured guest on Roy Orbison and the Teen Kings' weekly KOSA-TV
show in Odessa, TX.
1956: A
still-struggling Buddy Holly catches a showing of John Wayne's new movie, The
Searchers, at the State Theatre in Lubbock, TX. At two points, the star
sarcastically replies "that'll be the day" to another character,
giving Buddy the impetus to write his first hit song.
1958:
Guitarist Dick Dale performs his new song, "Let's Go Trippin'," at
Balboa, California's Rendezvous Ballroom, a moment generally considered the
birth of the surf music genre.
1961: Chuck
Berry opens Berry Park in Wentzville, Missouri, with a public area featuring a
petting zoo, picnic area, miniature golf, Ferris wheel, and swimming pool.
1964: The
Dave Clark Five make their first appearance on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show,
performing "Glad All Over." Ed likes the clean-cut boys so much he
has them on 18 more times over the course of the show's life, more than any
other rock band.
1966: Lulu's
first movie, To Sir With Love, begins filming in London.
1966: Filming
begins on "The Monkees (Here Come The Monkees)," the first filmed
episode of the television series The Monkees (though not the first
shown).
1968: During
his vocal overdub on the Beatles song "Revolution 1," John Lennon
begins to shout and scream "all right" and other wordless nonsense
vocalizations over the long six-minute jam of the original recording, joined by
Yoko Ono (attending her first Beatles session). The screaming and conversation
between he and Yoko would become an integral part of the eventual track
"Revolution 9."
1969: The
Supremes host tonight's episode of ABC-TV's Hollywood Palace, also
featuring The Jackson 5 and Sammy Davis Jr.
1969: The Rolling Stones recorded "Honky Tonk
Women."
1969: John
Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance".
1973: Led
Zeppelin drummer John Bonham celebrates his 25th birthday with a Robert Plant-led
audience sing-a-long of "Happy Birthday" at the band's show in Los
Angeles, then by carousing with friend George Harrison afterward. Harrison
playfully throws the birthday cake at Bonham, who tosses George into the hotel
pool.
1975: Freddy Fender went to No.1 on the US
singles chart with 'Before The Next Teardrop Falls', his only US No.1.
1976: The Who
secures its place as the World's Loudest Rock Band with a 120-decibel,
76,000-watt blast of a performance at Charlton Athletic Grounds in London. The
record would stand for nearly a decade.
1977: The
as-yet-unpublished tell-all book from Elvis Presley's bodyguards Sonny and Red
West, entitled Elvis: What Happened? begins to leak out a chapter at a
time to newspapers in England and Australia.
1982: R.E.M. signed a five-album deal with I.R.S.
Records, an independent label based in California.
1991: Country singer Randy Travis marries manager
Lib Hatcher in Hawaii during a vacation.
1991: Tracy Lawrence is shot in Shoney's parking
lot on Music Row just after completing vocals for his debut album. Lawrence and
a female friend were robbed by three gunmen prior to the shooting.
1998: Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) announced she
had quit The Spice Girls saying "This is because of differences between
us. I am sure the group will continue to be successful and I wish them all the
best.
2000: After a
heart attack following a show in Puerto Rico, Salsa artist Tito Puente had open
heart surgery in New York City from which he never recovered.
2000: Janet Jackson announced that she was getting
a divorce from dancer Rene Elizondo. The marriage had been kept secret for nine
years.
2000: R&B
Singer Johnnie Taylor died of a heart attack at Charlton Methodist Hospital in
Dallas, Texas at the age of 66.
2004: Guitarist Robert Quine was found dead of a
heroin overdose in his New York City home. He worked with Richard Hell And The
Voidoids, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, Lloyd Cole, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Waits and
They Might Be Giants.
2005:
Strawberry Field (no s), the Liverpool orphanage which inspired the Beatles'
famous song, is closed by the Salvation Army after almost seventy years.
2007: Rob
Grill, lead singer of the Grass Roots, is arrested for illegal possession of
prescription painkillers at his home in Mount Dora, FL.
