Births
1938: Gordon
Lightfoot (Singer / Songwriter)
1942: Bob
Gaudio (Keyboards for The Four Seasons)
1944: Gene
Clark (Guitar & Vocals for The Byrds)
1946: Martin
Barre (Guitar for Jethro Tull)
1957: Jim Babjak (Guitar for The Smithereens)
1960: RuPaul (Singer)
1966: Jeff Buckley (Singer / Songwriter)
1967: Ronald DeVoe (Singer in New Edition &
Bell-Biv-DeVoe)
1967: Ben Wilson (Keyboards for Blues
Traveler)
1970: Paul Allender (Lead Guitar for Cradle Of
Filth)
1980: Isaac Hanson (Singer / Songwriter in
Hanson)
1987: Kat DeLuna (R&B Singer)
1988: Reid Perry (Bass for The Band
Perry)
Events
1963:
Headmaster John Weightman of Surrey Grammar School in Guildford, England, bans
the popular Beatle "moptop" haircuts, explaining that "this
ridiculous style brings out the worst in boys physically. It makes them look
like morons."
1963: Singer
Tommy Sands joins his wife, Nancy Sinatra, to perform "Old Straw Hat"
and "Hey Good Lookin'" on CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show.
1963:
Backstage at the British ITV music program Thank Your Lucky Stars, the
Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards present Gene Pitney with one of
their first songs, "My Only Girl." Retitled "That Girl Belongs
To Yesterday," it would be a hit for Pitney on both sides of the ocean,
the first Jagger/Richards composition to make the US charts, and the first UK
hit for the pair. Later, the Stones themselves record the song, but their
version is never released.
1967: Davy
Jones of the Monkees opens a boutique called Zilch I, named after a Monkees
song, in New York's Greenwich Village.
1976:
Olivia-Newton John's first TV special, A Very Special Olivia Newton-John,
is broadcast on ABC.
1978: During
Bob Dylan's show at the San Diego Sports Arena, an audience member throws a
silver Christian cross onstage, which the singer picks up and pockets. Perhaps
coincidentally, Dylan enters his "Christian period" the next year.
1979: The Guinness
Book of World Records verifies ABBA as the biggest-selling recording group
in history.
1979: Jethro Tull bass player John Glascock died
at the age of 28 as a result of a congenital heart defect.
1980: The
annual "Royal Command Performance" in London features Aretha Franklin
and Sammy Davis Jr. singing for England's Queen Elizabeth II.
1990: While
speeding without a helmet, David Crosby crashes his Harley-Davidson motorcycle
in Los Angeles, breaking his shoulder, left leg, and ankle.
1992: Former
members of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers Jimmy Merchant and Herman Santiago,
are awarded four million dollars in back royalties from a music publisher for
their 1956 hit "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?"
1999: Mariah Carey was forced to abandon a
performance on Rome's historic Spanish Steps after crowds of tourists swamped
her. She took shelter in a local shop before being given a police escort to
safety.
2000: Cher
makes her first appearance on NBC-TV's sitcom Will and Grace, in the
episode "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed."
2000: ABC-TV
airs the documentary The Beatles: Revolution.
2003: After
collapsing on stage during a concert in London, Meat Loaf is rushed to a nearby
hospital with what a publicist terms "exhaustion due to a prolonged viral
infection" but what is actually an irregular heartbeat requiring emergency
surgery.
2003: 21 year-old Britney Spears
became the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The
only other performer to get a Hollywood star at her age was Little House on the
Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert.
