September 10

Births

1898: Waldo Semon (Invented vinyl that made LP’s & 45’s)

1937: Tommy Overstreet (Country Singer)

1945: Jose Feliciano (Puerto Rican Singer & Guitarist)

1946: Danny Hutton (Vocals in Three Dog Night)

1949: Barriemore Barlow (Drums for Jethro Tull)

1950: Joe Perry (Lead Guitar for Aerosmith)

1950: Don Powell (Drums for Slade)

1951: Pete Tolson (Pretty Things)

1957: Siobhan Fahey (Vocals for Bananarama & Shakespear Sister)

1966: Robin Goodridge (Drums for Bush)

1984: Matthew Followill (Lead Guitarist for Kings of Leon)

Events

1962: The BBC bans Bobby "Boris" Pickett's Halloween novelty single "Monster Mash," finding it in poor taste. However, in 1973 the radio giant lifts the ban, sending a re-release of the holiday favorite to #3.

1964: Rod Stewart makes his first recording, a cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl" done with Rod's group the Hoochie Coochie Men. It fails to chart.

1964: The Kinks third single 'You Really Got Me', was at No.1 on the UK singles chart. Future Led Zeppelin founder and guitarist Jimmy Page played tambourine on the track.

1965: Beatles manager Brian Epstein begins negotiating for a cartoon series on ABC-TV bearing the name and likenesses of the group.

1969: As part of their latest exhibition, celebrating the anonymity of "Bagism," John Lennon and Yoko Ono sit onstage for five hours in a white bag at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.

1973: The Rolling Stones' single "Star Star" is banned by the BBC for its real lyrics, which feature the word "starf*****" sung a dozen times.

1974: After poor album sales and infighting caused by drug addiction, The New York Dolls break up for the first time.

1977: Bing Crosby invites David Bowie to appear on what would be his last annual Christmas TV special, suggesting they sing a duet. Bowie agrees.

1979: Having waited five years in vein for two #1 American singles in a row, ABBA finally begin their first US tour.

1979: Pattie Smith announced that she was performing her last show in front of 85,000 people in Florence, Italy. She returned to performing a decade later.

1988: Guns N' Roses started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Sweet Child O' Mine', the group's first US No.1, a No.24 hit in the UK.

1990: Will Smith made his debut in "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."

1991: Nirvana’s single ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was released in the US.

1992: Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash married actress and model Renee Suran.

1998: Gary Glitter appeared in court on child pornography charges.

2007: Pamela Anderson's ex-husband Kid Rock was involved in an alleged assault on drummer Tommy Lee, (who was also married to the actress up until 1998). Police interviewed witnesses to a tussle involving the pair at the MTV Music Video Awards in Las Vegas. Lee was removed from the ceremony while Rock was allowed to stay.

September 9

Births

1926: Jake Carey (The Flamingos)

1940: Joe Negroni (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers)

1941: Otis Redding (R&B Singer)

1942: Luther Simmons (Vocals in The Main Ingredient)

1945: Dee Dee Sharp (R&B Singer)

1946: Doug Ingle (Organ for Iron Butterfly)

1946: Bruce Palmer (Bass for Buffalo Springfield)

1947: Freddy Weller (Guitar for Paul Revere and the Raiders)

1952: Dave Stewart (Guitarist, Songwriter & producer for Eurythmics)

1953: John McFee (Guitar for The Doobie Brothers)

1975: Michael Bublé (Pop Singer)

Events

1954: Rising young star Elvis Presley performs at the opening of Memphis' Lamar-Airways shopping mall, and, afterward, meets audience member Johnny Cash for the first time.

1955: Seeburg introduces their latest jukebox, which not only holds a record 100 singles but is also capable of playing the same number of EPs.

1956: Elvis Presley makes the first of three contracted appearances on Ed Sullivan's CBS show. (Sullivan had previously announced he would never have such an act on, but ratings prevailed and Sullivan offered Elvis a record $50,000 for the three shows.) Charles Laughton hosts, filling in for an ailing Sullivan. Elvis performs "Don't Be Cruel," "Love Me Tender," "Ready Teddy," and "Hound Dog," but is shot from the waist up only, due to a scandalous swivel-hipped performance on NBC-TV's Milton Berle Show a few months earlier. A record 54 million viewers -- nearly 83 percent of the nation's sets! -- are tuned in to the event; the next day, pre-orders for "Love Me Tender" begin rolling in, forcing the release of the single to be bumped up by weeks.

1971: John Lennon's LP "Imagine" was released in US.

1975: Paul McCartney and Wings begin their historic 13-month world tour, US dates of which will be captured on record as the double LP Wings Over America. The group plays to over two million fans total during the course of the tour.

1977: David Bowie appeared on Marc Bolan’s ITV show, Marc, singing ‘Heroes’ as well as a duet with Bolan, ‘Standing Next To You’, which is prematurely terminated when Bolan fell from the stage, much to Bowie’s amusement. After the show the pair recorded demos together which were never finished because Bolan is killed in a car crash a week later.

1981: Sting and Phil Collins both played their first solo sets at Amnesty's International's "The Secret Policeman's Other Ball."

1982: Al Green and Patti Labelle add impressive new entries to their resume when they star in the debut production of the gospel musical Your Arms Too Short To Box With God at the Alvin Theatre in New York.

1991: Tracy Byrd marries Michelle Hilton in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

1992: Nirvana's Chris Novoselic knocked himself unconscious during the MTV music and video awards after being hit on the head with his guitar after throwing it 'up in the air'.

1995: Coolio featuring L.V. scored his first US No.1 single with 'Gangsta's Paradise'. The song sampled the chorus of the 1976 Stevie Wonder song 'Pastime Paradise' and featured in the 1995 movie Dangerous Minds (starring Michelle Pfeiffer). Coolio was awarded a Grammy Award for the song.

1996: Bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe died from a stoke 4 days before his 85^th birthday.

1996: Tom Petty's wife, Jane, filed for divorce after 22 years.

1998: An episode of "Judge Judy" aired in which Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten appeared as the defendant in a case involving a drummer who sued Rotten for allegedly head-butting him during a contract dispute.

2003: Simon and Garfunkel announce plans for a reunion tour, the first in 20 years and the first onstage reunion of any kind in a decade.

2004: US guitar maker Ernie Ball died after a long illness. In the late 50’s Ball opened the first music store in the USA in Tarzana, California to sell guitars exclusively. He developed the guitar strings called ‘Slinkys’ specifically designed for rock and roll electric guitar.

2005: Despite numerous fan protests, the City of Liverpool, England declares its intention to go ahead and demolish Ringo Starr's birthplace on Madryn Street, which the famous drummer lived in until the age of five.

2005: Former Ray Charles employee and engineer Terry Howard is exonerated in a Los Angeles court for allegedly stealing dozens of recordings of the singer.

2007: Country Singer Joe Nichols marries Heather Singleton at Whitfield Chapel in Savannah, Georgia.

2008: Former Raspberries lead and solo star Eric Carmen is arrested in his hometown of Cleveland on DUI charges. He will be sentenced to six months in jail, but only serve 30 days.

2008: A man was charged with assault after an attack on Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher during the band's set at the V Festival in Canada. Gallagher was admitted to hospital after a man ran on stage and pushed him over while he played guitar. Toronto police said Daniel Sullivan, 47, had been charged over the incident. A band statement said the guitarist "fell heavily on to his monitor speakers".

September 8

Births:

1897: Jimmie Rodgers (Country Singer / Songwriter)

1932: Patsy Cline (Country Singer)

1939: Guitar Shorty (David William Kearney) (Blues Guitarist & Singer)

1942: Brian Cole (Bass & Vocals for The Association)

1942: Sal Spampinato (Singer for The Beau Brummels)

1945: Kelly Groucutt (Bass for Electric Light Orchestra)

1945: Ron Mckernan (Organ for The Grateful Dead)

1958: David Lewis (Lead Singer for Atlantic Starr)

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

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

1975: Richard Hughes (Drums for Keane)

1979: Pink, (Alicia Moore) (Pop Singer)

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

Events

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

1956: Eddie Cochran signed a one year contract with Liberty Records, Cochran went on to give Liberty three top 40 hits over the next several years including ‘Summertime Blues,’ ‘Twenty Flight Rock’ and ‘C’mon Everybody’.

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

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 Combes 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 $2mfor 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 tumour. The singer said his voice only recovered in time to begin a world tour in June 2001 and he had since performed 150 shows.

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 neighbour and in October 2006 she was put on probation for allegedly assaulting two nail salon workers in August 2004.

September 7

Births

1920: Al Caiola (Studio Guitarist)

1921: Arthur Ferrante (Piano Player)

1930: Sonny Rollins (Jazz Sax Player)

1934: Little Milton (Blues Singer & Guitarist)

1936: Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) (Guitarist & Singer / Songwriter)

1939: Latimore (R&B Singer)

1949: Gloria Gaynor (Disco Singer)

1951: Chrissie Hynde (Vocals for The Pretenders)

1954: Benmont Tench (Keyboards for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)

1956: Michael Feinstein (Pianist & Singer)

1957: Jermaine Stewart (Singer for Shalamar)

1961: LeRoi Moore (Saxophonist for Dave Matthews Band)

1964: Eazy-E (Eric Lynn Wright) (Rapper for NWA)

1966: Chris Acland (Drummer for Lush)

Events

1957 - Sam Cooke's first single "You Send Me" was released.

1958: Riding the crest of the nation's latest youth craze, Georgia Gibbs performs "The Hula-Hoop Song" on tonight's broadcast of CBS-TV's Ed Sullivan Show.

1963: The Rolling Stones' debut UK single, a cover of Chuck Berry's "Come On," stalls at #21.

1966: Roy Orbison begins filming his one and only starring role, in the unlikely Western comedy The Fastest Guitar Alive, with a cameo by Sam "The Sham" Samudio of "Wooly Bully" fame.

1968: Led Zeppelin take the stage for the first time, still under the Yardbirds name, at Denmark's Teen-Clubs Box 45. On the same night, the Doors make their UK stage debut at London's Roundhouse Club.

1969: After a four-year US run, ABC-TV cancels the Beatles' cartoon series. The show had debuted on September 25, 1965.

1973: Having threatened to clear the label's roster of illegal drug abusers, and after hesitating when Eric Burdon of the Animals requests to have his contract terminated for just that reason, Mike Curb leaves his post as president of MGM Records.

1973: Infamous adult-movie star Linda Lovelace opens Elton John's show at the Hollywood Bowl by introducing Elton as "the biggest, largest, most gigantic and fantastic man" and "the co-star of my next movie."

1975: The Guess Who hold their final concert in Montreal, though leaders Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman have reunited onstage since then.

1976: Abba were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Dancing Queen', the group's fourth UK No.1 single and their only US No.1 chart topper. The song was a No.1 hit in over a dozen countries and stayed at the top of the Swedish charts for 14 weeks.

1978: Keith Moon (drummer for The Who) died of a drug overdose at age 31.  He took 32 tablets of Clomethiazole (Heminevrin) prescribed to combat alcoholism, with only 6 that cause death.  The other 26 were undissolved in his body.

1984: 18 year-old Janet Jackson announced that she had married singer James Debarge. The couple split the following year.

1985: Ringo Starr becomes the proud grandfather of Tatia Jayne by his son Zak -- the first Beatle to be so honored.

1986: Completing the Monkees' unlikely comeback, Michael Nesmith finally relents and joins the group for its first full stage reunion in Los Angeles.

1991: Gloria Estefan was awarded damages of $5 million for the injuries she sustained when her tour bus was involved in an accident.

1991: Brooks & Dunn reach #1 in Billboard for the first time with "Brand New Man".

1991: Motley Crue signed a record deal for which they were guaranteed $22.5 million.

1996: Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres married model Eva Herzigova.

1996: Tupac Shakur and Marion "Suge" Knight are shot while in Las Vegas after a Mike Tyson fight. Shakur died six days later.

2000: Timothy Commerford (Rage Against the Machine) was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. Commerford had climbed a scaffold during the MTV Music Awards delaying the show 20 minutes.

2001: During his 30th Anniversary celebration at Madison Square Garden, Michael Jackson is reunited onstage with the Jackson 5 for the first time since 1984.

2003: Warren Zevon died of cancer.

2010: Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney and wife Tiffany Fallon have a daughter, Raquel Blue Rooney.

September 6

Births

1925: Jimmy Reed (Blues Singer & Guitarist)

1939: David Allan Coe (Country Musician)

1942: Dave Bargerdon (Trombone for Blood Sweat & Tears)

1943: Roger Waters (Bass & Vocals for Pink Floyd)

1947: Sylvester James (Disco & Dance Music Singer)

1948: Claydes Smith (Guitar for  Kool & The Gang)

1954: Banner Thomas (Bass for Molly Hatchet)


1954: Patrick O'Hearn (Bassist for Missing Persons & Solo)

1958: Buster Bloodvessel (Singer for Bad Manners)

1961: Pal Waaktaam (Guitarfor A-Ha)

1961: Scott Travis (Drummer for Judas Priest)

1963: Mark Chesnutt (Country Singer)

1965: Terry Bickers (Lead Guitarist for House Of Love)

1967: William DuVall (Singer for Alice In Chains)

1969: Ce Ce Peniston (Singer)

1969: Paddy Boom, (Patrick Seacor) (Drums for Scissor Sisters)

1970: Cheyne Coates (Singer for Madison Avenue)

1971: Dolores O’Riordan (Singer for The Cranberries)

1974: Nina Persson (Vocals for The Cardigans)

Events

1968: Working at Abbey Road studio’s in London, The Beatles recoded overdubs onto the new George Harrison song ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’. Eric Clapton added the guitar solo and became the first outside musician to play on a Beatles recording and George recorded his lead vocal.

1969: James Brown announced he would retire from live performances in July the following year saying 'I'm tired man'.

1970: Jimi Hendrix made his final live appearance when he appeared at the Isle Of Fehmarn in Germany. The guitarist died on 18th Sept 1970 after choking on his own vomit.

1975: Glen Campbell started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Rhinestone Cowboy', his first No.1 after 13 Top 40 hits. It made No.4 in the UK.

1978: Record producer Tom Wilson died. He worked with various US acts including Bob Dylan, (The Times They Are a-Changin', Another Side of Bob Dylan, and Bringing It All Back Home), Frank Zappa, (Freak Out!), Simon and Garfunkel (Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.) and The Velvet Underground, (White Light/White Heat).

1988: 2,000 items of Elton John’s personal memorabilia including his boa feathers, 'Pinball Wizard' boots and hundreds of pairs of spectacles were auctioned at Sotheby’s in London.

1989: The Pittsburgh Steelers were banned from practicing on their own field, Three Rivers Stadium, because The Rolling Stones were rehearsing for their upcoming concert.

1990: Tom Fogerty guitarist with Creedence Clearwater Revival died aged 49, due to complications from AIDS acquired during a blood transfusion. During 1969 CCR scored three US Top Ten albums and four Top 5 singles. Released several solo albums.

1994: English keyboard player Nicky Hopkins died aged 50, in Nashville, Tennessee, of complications from intestinal surgery. Was a highly respected session musician, worked with The Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Small Faces, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Jerry Garcia Band. The Kinks song ‘Session Man’ from Face to Face is dedicated to (and features) Hopkins.

1997: Elton John recorded a new version of 'Candle In The Wind' after performing the song live at Diana Princess of Wales funeral. A record 31.5 million across the UK watched Elton play the special tribute to Diana. The track went on to become the biggest selling single of all-time.

2001: Earth Wind and Fire announced that Viagra would sponsor their forthcoming 30th anniversary American tour.

2004: Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay was banned for six months and fined $1500 after being clocked driving at more than 100mph. His lawyers had argued at Perth Sheriff Court that he needed his license so he could have "respite" from his busy professional life. But Sheriff Robert McCreadie said his conduct was "entirely unacceptable". Jay Kay admitted driving a four-wheel-drive vehicle at 105mph on the A9 in Perthshire in February while overtaking.

2006: Victor Willis, who performed as the policeman in The Village People was given three years probation for drugs offences after pleading no contest to the charges, dating from March 2006. Willis co-wrote some of the group's biggest hits - including ‘YMCA’ and ‘In The Navy.’

2008: US rock band Great White whose pyrotechnics sparked a fire that killed 100 people, agreed to pay $1m to survivors and victims' relatives. The blaze began at The Station nightclub in the US state of Rhode Island in 2003 when the band's tour manager shot off pyrotechnics at the start of the concert. More than 200 people were also injured in the blaze. One band member, guitarist Ty Longley, was killed in the fire. Tour manager Daniel Biechele pleaded guilty in 2006 to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter and was given parole in March after serving less than half of his four-year prison sentence.

2010: Jane's Addiction announced that it had parted ways with bassist Duff McKagan. McKagan had only been working with the band for five months. 

September 5

Births

1735: Johann Christian Bach (Composer)

1912: John Cage (Composer)

1945: Al Stewart (Singer / Songwriter)

1946: Buddy Miles (Drummer for The Electric Flag & Band Of Gypsys)

1946: Freddie Mercury (Vocals & Piano for Queen)

1946: Loudon Wainwright III (Folk Singer)

1949: Dave Clempson (Guitar for Humble Pie)

1963: Terry Ellis (Vocals for En Vogue & Solo)

1968: Brad Wilk (Drums for Rage Against The Machine & Audioslave)

1969: Dweezil Zappa (Guitarist)

Events

1955: Tennessee Ernie Ford sings "Sixteen Tons" on his daytime variety show. Fan mail pours in, and Ford records it two weeks later.

1957: Elvis Presley, flush from his new fame, gives his mother, Gladys, his pink 1955 Cadillac Fleetwood.

1962: The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, visits producer George Martin's London office to listen to the acetate of the group's first recording, "Love Me Do."

1964: The Animals started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'House Of The Rising Sun'. When first released the record company printed the time of the song on the record as three minutes feeling that the real time of four minutes was too long for radio airplay.

1968: Tiny Tim (Herbert Khaury) sues Bouget Records, his first label, for releasing some of his early recordings without permission.

1968: On their first ever visit to the UK, The Doors appeared on Top of The Pops performing ‘Hello I Love You’ live on the TV show.

1968: John Lennon takes a plane to Germany to begin filming his first and only major movie role, appearing as "Pvt. Gripweed" in director Richard Lester's latest movie, the WWI satire How I Won the War. While filming, Lennon is quite taken with the "granny glasses" his character uses, and begins to wear them upon returning home, resulting in a major piece of his visual iconography.

1976: During Jerry Lewis' annual Labor Day Telethon on NBC-TV, musical guest Frank Sinatra announces that he's brought a friend along -- and produces Dean Martin, Lewis' former comedy partner, who has not spoken to him since the duo's dissolution twenty years earlier. The tearful crowd erupts in laughter when Lewis greets Martin with, "So, you working?"

1976: Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington was seriously injured in a car crash in Florida.

1987: After a full three decades on ABC, Dick Clark's American Bandstand is canceled, largely due to MTV's influence on the younger generation. The show will limp along on the USA cable channel and in syndication for another three years, with a different host, before finally throwing in the towel.

1987: Ian Astbury of The Cult was arrested after a show in Vancouver ended in a riot. Staff at the concert claimed they were assaulted by Astbury, who spent the night in the local police cells.

1990: B.B. King received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

1992: John Mellencamp and Elain Irwin get married.

1992: Vince Gill earns his first #1 single in Billboard with "I Still Believe In You"

1993: Dave Navarro, guitarist, joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

1998: Aerosmith scored their first US No.1 single with the Diane Warren written song 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing'.