Births
1947: Jim Fielder (Bass for Buffalo Springfield, Mothers of Invention
& Blood, Sweat and Tears)
1952: Jody
Stephens (Drummer for Big Star)
1957: Russell Simmons (Co-Founder of Def Jam)
1959: Chris Lowe (Keyboards for The
Pet Shop Boys)
1962: Jon Secada (Singer)
1989: Lil Mama (Niatia Jessica Kirkland) (Rapper)
Events
1961: Bob Dylan debuts at Carnegie Hall, playing for a grand total of
53 fans.
1961: Popular "recording" group Alvin and the Chipmunks get
their own TV show when The Alvin Show
debuts on CBS.
1963: A 17-year-old Eric Clapton joins the Yardbirds for tonight's
gig at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond, England, replacing original guitarist
Anthony "Top" Topham.
1964: Dusty Springfield interviews the Beatles on this, their first
appearance on England's ITV television program Ready Steady Go!
1968: Cream begins their announced farewell tour with a performance
at Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, CA.
1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival
started a four week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Green River', the
group's first US chart topper.
1970: Singer Janis Joplin was found
dead at the Landmark Hotel Hollywood after an accidental heroin overdose at age
27.
1974: Thin Lizzy debut their new twin-guitar attack with new
additions Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson at tonight's concert in Wales.
1975: Willie Nelson picks up his
first #1 single as an artist with "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain".
1978: Country singer Tammy Wynette is allegedly kidnapped at a
Nashville shopping center by an unknown man in a ski mask, beaten, and forced
at gunpoint to drive roughly 90 miles. Doubt still exists as to whether this
incident took place, due to a puzzling lack of physical evidence.
1980: For their work on the recent Fleetwood Mac single
"Tusk," the University of Southern California Country marching band
is presented with a platinum version of the album of the same name by three
members of the rock band.
1980: On stage during a concert in Pittburgh, PA, Carly Simon
collapses from "nervous exhaustion."
1982: The Smiths made their live
debut at the Ritz in Manchester England, supporting Blue Rondo A La Turk.
1982: The group Squeeze broke up.
1988: Determined to finally clean his system of the alcohol and drugs
he's been abusing for years, Ringo Starr, along with wife Barbara Bach, flies
to Tucson, AZ to enter the Sierra Tucson Rehabilitation Clinic. He will stay
six weeks.
1994: Singer Glenn Frey's stomach surgery causes the Eagles to
postpone their much-anticipated reunion tour, puckishly titled Hell Freezes Over.
1994:
Guitarist Danny Gatton locked himself in his garage in Newburg, Maryland and
shot himself.
1996: Van Halen announced that Gary Cherone,
formerly of Extreme, would be the singer that would replace Sammy Hagar.
1999: Jimi Hendrix's half-sister Janie announces her plans to exhume
the body of her famous brother and move it to a mausoleum where curious
onlookers can view it for a price. The public outcry forces her to shelve the
idea.
2006: Former R.
Kelly employee (who claimed to have been a “mentor and guide” to Kelly since he
was a teenager) Henry Vaughn filed a lawsuit against the singer accusing him of
assault, false imprisonment, and a breach of contract that defrauded him of
songwriting royalties. Vaughn also claimed that Kelly and his associates
dragged him to the basement at Kelly’s Olympia Fields home and “repeatedly
struck him about the face and body with his fists”.
2008: Dierks and Cassidy Bentley have a daughter, Evalyn Day
Bentley, at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville.
