Births
1920: Charlie
"Bird" Parker (Jazz Sax Player)
1924: Dinah
Washington (Blues & Jazz Singer)
1953: Rick
Downey (Drummer & Vocalist for Blue Oyster Cult)
1955:
Diamanda Galas (Performance Artist)
1956: GG Allin (Punk Rocker)
1958: Michael
Jackson (Singer)
1958: Elizabeth Fraser (Vocals for Cocteau Twins)
1960: Tony
MacAlpine (Guitarist)
1968: Me'Shell NdegéOcello (Singer & Rapper)
1975: Kyle Cook (Guitarist for Matchbox 20)
1980: David Desrosiers (Bass for Simple Plan)
1986: Lea Michele (Glee Singer)
Events
1958: The
first of Alan Freed's Big Beat revues is held at Brooklyn, New York's
Fox Theatre, featuring Chuck Berry, Billy Haley and his Comets, Frankie Avalon,
The Elegants, Bobby Freeman, and Jimmy Clanton.
1964: In a
clear case of rock and roll being saved by the British Invasion, Billboard
magazine notes that guitar sales are the highest they've been since the advent
of Elvis Presley.
1966: The
last episode of ABC-TV's musical variety show Hullabaloo airs, featuring
guest stars Lesley Gore, Paul Anka, Peter and Gordon, and The Cyrkle.
1966: The
Beatles play the last live gig for a paying audience, winding up their last
world tour at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The show, which ends with a
cover of Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally," is filmed by Beatles
press officer Tony Barrow. Afterwards George Harrison is heard half-joking,
"Well, that's it. I'm not a Beatle anymore."
1969: Bob
Seger divorces his first wife after only ten months of marriage.
1976: Jimmy Reed died in San Francisco following
an epileptic seizure just before his 51st birthday. Reed was a major influence
on The Rolling Stones, he had the 1957 hit ‘Honest I Do’ in 1957 and ‘Baby What
You Want Me To Do’ in 1960.
1977: Three
men are arrested in Memphis after attempting to steal Elvis Presley's
recently-deceased body from a Memphis mausoleum, causing the Presley family to
move his body to its present location in the "meditation garden" at
Graceland.
1986: The American
Bandstand studio located at 4548 Market Street in Philadelphia, PA is
entered into the US National Register of Historic Places.
1987: Rick Astley's debut hit 'Never Gonna Give You
Up', started a five-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart. It became the
biggest selling single of 1987 and the song won Best British Single at the 1988
Brit Awards.
1990: Elton
John enters rehab in Chicago to combat his bulimia and his various drug and
alcohol addictions.
1992: U2 became only the second act ever (Billy
Joel was the first) to play at The Yankee Stadium in New York City, during
their sold out Zoo TV tour.
1995: The US
Internal Revenue Service places a lien on Aretha Franklin's home for $600,000
in back taxes.
1995: K.T. Oslin undergoes quadruple-bypass heart
surgery at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital.
2002: Alan Jackson collects a whopping 10
nominations for the 36th annual Country Music Association awards, breaking a
32-year-old record held by Merle Haggard.
1996: Isaac Hayes, who co-wrote the Stax classic
"Soul Man," sent a protest letter to presidential candidate Bob Dole
requesting Dole to stop using his song, which his supporters had changed to
"I'm A Dole Man."
2005: Fats Domino,
now 77, is rescued from his Ninth Ward home in New Orleans after the
devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
2008: US rapper DMX pleaded
guilty to trying to buy cocaine and cannabis in Miami. The 37-year-old singer,
real name Earl Simmons, entered the plea in a Florida court and was sentenced
to time served. Simmons was still in custody awaiting extradition to the state
of Arizona on outstanding drug and animal cruelty charges.
