September 8

Births:

1897: Jimmie Rodgers (Country Singer / Songwriter)

1932: Patsy Cline (Virginia Hensley) (Country Singer)

1947: Benjamin Orr (Bass & Vocals for The Cars)

1960: David Steele (Bass for The English Beat & Fine Young Cannibals)

1960: Aimee Mann (Bass & Vocals for Til Tuesday & Solo)

1970: Neko Case (Singer / Songwriter)

1975: Richard Hughes (Drums for Keane)

1979: Pink (Alicia Moore) (Pop Singer)

1980: Slim Thug (Stayve Jerome Thomas)(Rapper)

1987: Wiz Khalifa (Cameron Jibril Thomaz) (Rapper)

Events

1952: After Atlantic Records bought Ray Charles' contract from Swingtime, Charles recorded his first session for Atlantic, cutting four songs.

1968: The Beatles performed 'Hey Jude' on the UK television show 'Frost On Sunday' in front of an invited audience.

1972: In San Francisco, Neil Young is the proud parent of his first son, Zeke, by actress Carrie Snodgress. Zeke is born with cerebral palsy, which will lead young to later found the Bridge School for children with disabilities.

1973: The Allman Brothers started a five week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Brothers And Sisters', the group's only US No.1.

1977: Guitarist Jimmy McCulloch left Wings to help re-form The Small Faces. McCulloch had played with Paul McCartney’s band on the Venus and Mars and Wings At the Speed of Sound albums, as well as on the Wings Over America tour. He died two years later at the age of 26. Drummer Joe English also left Wings at this time, joining Sea Level.

1984: Stevie Wonder had his first UK No.1 with 'I Just Called To Say I Love You'. Taken from the film 'Lady In Red', it was 18 years after Wonder's chart debut in 1966. The song stayed at No.1 for six weeks.

1989: Robert Wiggins from Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five died of a heart attack.

1999: Sean “Puffy” Combs and his bodyguard Paul Offered both pleaded guilty to harassment in a New York Court. The pair faced charges of assaulting record company executive Steve Stoute with a champagne bottle a chair and a telephone.

2002: Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson started his new job as an airline pilot. The heavy metal singer qualified as a $70,000 - a year first officer with Gatwick based airline Astraeus who took holidaymakers to Portugal and Egypt.

2003: David Bowie performed the first interactive concert when his performance was beamed live into 21 cinemas from Warsaw to Edinburgh. Members of the audience talked to Bowie via microphones linked to ISDN lines and took requests for songs from fans.

2004: The Honorable Oscar B. Goodman, Mayor of the City of Las Vegas proclaimed this day as Queen Day after the British group.

2005: Rod Stewart was ordered to pay a Las Vegas casino $2m for missing a New Year concert in 2000. Stewart had said he was unable to play at the Rio hotel and casino because his voice disappeared after an operation to remove a cancerous thyroid tumor. The singer said his voice only recovered in time to begin a world tour in June 2001 and he had since performed 150 shows.

2006: Whitney Houston filed for a divorce from Bobby Brown. The couple had married in 1992.

2007: Foxy Brown was sent to jail for a year in New York for violating her probation terms after she travelled outside New York without the court's permission and had missed anger management classes. The rapper (real name Inga Marchand), was arrested for allegedly assaulting a neighbor and in October 2006 she was put on probation for allegedly assaulting two nail salon workers in August 2004.