Births
1947: Greg
Leskiw (Guitar for The Guess Who)
1947: Rick Derringer (Guitar for Edgar Winter
& Solo)
1951:
Samantha Sang (70’s Singer)
1955: Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda (Guitar for
Twisted Sister)
1959: Pat Smear (Guitar for The Germs, Nirvana
(fourth member) & Foo Fighters)
1959: Pete Burns (Singer for Dead Or Alive)
1964: MCA (Adam
Nathaniel Yauch) (Rapper & Bass Guitar in The Beastie Boys)
1966: Jennifer Finch (Bass & Vocals for L7)
1968: Terri Clark (Country Artist)
1972: Christian Olde (Guitar for Fear Factory)
1983: Dawn Richard (Singer in Danity Kane)
Events
1957: WFIL-TV
in Philadelphia's popular afternoon dance show, Bandstand, goes
national, broadcast on ABC as American Bandstand (though interrupted for
half an hour in the middle by The Mickey Mouse Club). Host Dick Clark's
first guest was the Chordettes; the first record danced to on the show was
Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day." It would run for thirty years
straight until MTV hastened its demise in 1987.
1961:
Themetta Suggs gives birth to Chuck Berry's second child, Chuck Berry Jr.
1962: Marilyn
Monroe was found dead in her home at age 36.
1965: Jan and
Dean's upcoming debut movie, Easy Come, Easy Go, is canceled after an
on-set railroad accident which injures seventeen crew members, along with
breaking the leg of Jan Berry.
1968: Country guitarist Luther Perkins died at
the age of 40 as a result of severe burns and smoke inhalation. Perkins fell
asleep at home in his den with a cigarette in his hand. He was dragged from the
fire unconscious with severe second and third degree burns. Perkins never
regained consciousness. He worked with Johnny Cash and The Carter Family and
featured on the live album Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison.
1972: Music
mogul Clive Davis catches Aerosmith's act at Max's Kansas City in New York and
immediately signs them for $125,000.
1975: Stevie
Wonder signs the largest contract for a single artist in history: $13 million
over seven years for seven albums with Tamla/Motown.
1975: Kim
Fowley forms the first all-female hard-rock band, The Runaways, featuring Joan
Jett, future Bangle Michael Steele, and Lita Ford.
1976: NBC-TV
airs the 15th anniversary Beach Boys special It's OK, featuring cameos
by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.
1979: Def Leppard signed to Phonogram records
with an advance of $180,000, giving them a 10% royalty on 100% of sales for the
first two years.
1980: The
Osmonds officially disband.
1981: Olivia
Newton-John is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
1983: After
sleeping through much of his trial, David Crosby (The Byrds and Crosby, Stills,
and Nash) is sentenced to eight years for cocaine and firearm possession.
Within a year, however, his conviction will be overturned.
1986: Culture Club keyboard player Michael
Rudetsky is found dead at Boy George’s London home in Hampstead.
1992: Jeff Porcaro drummer from Toto died age 38.
His death has been the subject of controversy: some say the attack was caused
by an allergic reaction to garden pesticide, while others say Porcaro's heart
was weakened by smoking and cocaine use. Porcaro also worked with many other
acts including Sonny and Cher, Roger Waters, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney,
Steely Dan, Paul Simon and Boz Scaggs.
1994: Singer Billy
Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose.
1996: Soul
singer Wilson Pickett checks into a court-ordered rehab for cocaine addiction.
2000:
Legendary glam rocker Gary Glitter, awaiting trial on child pornography
charges, revisits England for business and is harassed by a large crowd outside
his West London home, causing the police to investigate.
2007: DNA
tests prove that at least two of the twelve claimants to the estate and fortune
of recently deceased soul legend James Brown are found to be legitimate. His
will had already named six known children.
2007: Proctor
and Gamble, maker of Luvs brand diapers, upsets Beatles fans around the world
with their licensing of the song "All You Need Is Love" for a new
television ad.
2008: American singer /
songwriter Robert Hazard died after surgery for pancreatic cancer. He wrote
Cyndi Lauper's, ’Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’, and fronted Robert Hazard and the
Heroes in the 80’s.
2009: A 53-year-old who claimed
he was secretly engaged to Miley Cyrus was charged with trying to stalk the US
singer. Mark McLeod was arrested after trying to contact the Hannah Montana
actress on a film set near Savannah, Georgia. McLeod claimed he had met Cyrus
18 months earlier and that she had accepted his marriage proposal. He told
police that Cyrus' father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, approved of their
relationship and that Cyrus had sent him "secret messages" through
her TV show.
