September 10

Births

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

1945: Jose Feliciano (Puerto Rican Singer & Guitarist)

1946: Danny Hutton (Vocals in Three Dog Night)

1950: Joe Perry (Lead Guitar for Aerosmith)

1956: Johnny Hickman (Lead Guitar for Cracker)

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

1960: David Lowery (Vocals & Guitar for Camper Van Beethoven & Cracker)

1966: Robin Goodridge (Drums for Bush)

1968: Big Daddy Kane (Antonio Hardy) (Rapper)

1980: Mikey Way (Bass for My Chemical Romance)

1984: Cameron 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 School Girl" 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.

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.

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.

1992: Howard Stern appeared as Fartman on the MTV Video Music Awards.

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

September 9

Births

1941: Otis Redding (R&B Singer)

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

1953: John McFee (Guitar for The Doobie Brothers)

1965: MC Shan (Rapper)

1966: Adam Sandler (Comedian)

1970: Dray (Andre Weston) (Rapper in Das EFX)

1975: Michael Bublé (Pop Singer)

1977: Soulja Slim (James Tapp) (Rapper)

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.

1969: Jimi Hendrix made his U.S. television debut on "The Dick Cavett Show."

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."

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.

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 (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.

September 6

Births

1925: Jimmy Reed (Blues Singer & Guitarist)

1939: David Allan Coe (Country Singer / Songwriter)

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

1947: Sylvester (Sylvester James) (Disco & Dance Music Singer)

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

1958: Buster Bloodvessel (Singer for Bad Manners)

1958: Jeff Foxworthy (Comedian)

1960: Perry Bamonte (Keyboards & Lead Guitar for The Cure)

1961: Paul Waaktaam-Savoy (Guitar for A-Ha)

1961: Scott Travis (Drummer for Judas Priest & Racer X)

1963: Mark Chesnutt (Country Singer)

1967: William DuVall (current Singer for Alice In Chains)

1968: Paddy Boom (Patrick Seacor) (Drums for Scissor Sisters)

1969: Ce Ce Peniston (Singer)

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

1974: Nina Persson (Vocals for The Cardigans)

1976: N.O.R.E. (Victor Santiago, Jr.) (Rapper)

1978: Foxy Brown (Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand) (Rapper)

Events

1955: So many Elvis Presley fans crowd into the high school gym in Bono, AR, that the floor collapses under their weight. Fortunately, there are no injuries.

1968: Working at Abbey Road studio’s in London, The Beatles recorded 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.

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.

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 in the UK.

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.