Births
1945: Don
McLean (Singer / Songwriter)
1948: Chris LeDoux (Country Artist)
1949: Richard Hell (Singer for the Voivods)
1950: Mike
Rutherford (Bass for Genesis & Mike & The Mechanics)
1951: Sting (Gordon Sumner) (Singer / Songwriter
& Bass for The Police & Solo)
1955: Phil Oakey (Vocals for The Human League)
1956: Freddie Jackson (R&B Singer)
1967: Bud Gaugh (Drummer for Sublime & Long
Beach Dub Allstars)
1969: Badly Drawn Boy (Damon Gough) (Singer /
Songwriter)
1971: Tiffany (Tiffany Renee Darwish) (Singer)
1971: #4 (James Root) (Guitar for Slipknot)
Events
1928: The
first professional recordings in Nashville take place as DeFord Bailey lays
down eight tracks in Victor Records (later RCA) Studios.
1945: Elvis
Presley, then just ten years old, makes his first public appearance at the
Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show singing "Old Shep" in a
talent contest. He comes in second.
1954: Elvis
Presley bombs at the Grand Ole Opry, which does not approve of his take on
traditional country music. The Opry's talent director, Jim Denny, famously
tells Presley he should go back to driving a truck. Elvis swears never to
return.
1959: 'Stay' by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs
entered the US chart on its way to No.1. At just 1:37, it becomes the shortest
US chart topper in Rock and Roll history.
1965: The Who made their debut on U.S. TV on the
show "Shindig!"
1967: The
entire Grateful Dead are arrested for marijuana possession at the
groups' 710 Ashbury Street House in San Francisco, California.
1968: Motown
sues their most prolific songwriting team, Holland-Dozier-Holland, for their
refusal to write more songs until their royalty rate is increased. The trio are
eventually released from the label and go on to start their own Invictus and
Hot Wax labels.
1971: The
syndicated half-hour dance show Soul Train, sort of an American
Bandstand of R&B, premieres, with special guests Gladys Knight and the
Pips, Eddie Kendricks, and the Honey Cone.
1971: Rod Stewart started a five week run at No.1
on the singles chart with 'Maggie May / Reason To Believe', his first solo
No.1. Stewarts album 'Every Picture Tells A Story' also started a four-week run
on this day at No.1 on the chart.
1976: In
response to John Belushi's popular caricature of himself on Saturday Night
Live, Joe Cocker appears on the show, singing a dual-Cocker duet with
Belushi on "Feelin' Alright."
1977: After a
plot is uncovered to steal it, Elvis Presley's body is moved from its Memphis
mausoleum to its final resting place in the Meditation Garden at Graceland.
1980: Leaveil Degree from the soul group The
Whispers started a two-year prison sentence in Boron California for his part in
diamond robbery.
1981: Terry Hall, Neville Staples and Lynval
Golding all left The Specials to form Fun Boy Three.
1982: John Cougar started a four week run at No.1
on the singles chart with 'Jack and Diane', his first US No.1.
1982: Musical Youth were at No.1 on the UK
singles chart with 'Pass The Dutchie'. The group were made up of Birmingham
school boys, aged 11-16. The song was a cover of The Mighty Diamonds song
called 'Pass The Kutchie', a slang term for a cannabis smoking pipe, but the
word was changed to avoid the song being banned for it's drug reference.
1983: Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler was at No.1 on
the US singles chart with the Jim Steinman written and produced track 'Total
Eclipse Of The Heart'. It made her the only Welsh artist to score a US No.1.
1983: ABBA's
Agnetha Faltskog is involved in a car crash in Skane, Sweden, and suffers a
concussion, but soon recovers.
1986: The
Everly Brothers are awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000
Hollywood Blvd.
1999: Matchbox 20 singer Rob Thomas married model
Marisol Maldonado. Marisol appeared in the Santana video ‘Smooth’ with Thomas.
2000: Paul
Anka files papers to end his 37-year marriage to former fashion model Anne de
Zogheb.
2002: Adam Ant escaped a prison sentence after a
judge ruled that an incident in which he threatened drinkers with a replica
pistol in a London pub was a result of mental illness. The 1980's pop star had
been voluntarily having psychiatric treatment since the incident.
2003: Police were called to a suspected burglary
at the Los Angeles house of Courtney Love's former boyfriend and ex-manager Jim
Barber in the early hours. Ms Love was picked up in the street outside and
detained - with officers noting "Miss Love's behavior was consistent with
being under the influence of a controlled substance". Shortly after her
arrest, Ms Love was taken to hospital with a suspected drug overdose.
2004:
55-year-old Billy Joel causes a stir by marrying his third wife, the
22-year-old cooking student Katie Lee, at his Long Island home.
2007: Britney Spears was ordered
to hand over her two young children to her former husband Kevin Federline by a
judge in Los Angeles. The court ruled that Federline would be given custody of
Sean Preston, two, and one-year-old Jayden James, until further notice. Last
month Judge Scott Gordon had said Ms Spears showed "a habitual, frequent
and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol." The singer was
ordered to undergo random drug and alcohol tests twice a week as part of her
child custody dispute with Mr Federline.
