Births
1937: Bill Cosby
1943:
Christine McVie (Keyboards & Vocals for Fleetwood Mac)
1949: Eric
Carr (Paul Charles Caravell) (Drummer
for KISS)
1952: Philip
Taylor Kramer (Bass for Iron Butterfly)
1962: Dan Murphy (Guitar for Soul Asylum)
1964: Tim Gane (Guitar & Keyboards for
Stereolab)
1965: Robin
Wilson (Singer for The Gin Blossoms)
1967: John Petrucci (Guitar for Dream Theater)
1969: Jesse Pintado (Guitar for Napalm Death)
1972: Brett Reed (Drums for Rancid)
1983: Kimberly Perry (Singer in The Band
Perry)
Events
1954: A
nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley officially quits his job as a truck driver for
Crown Electric in Memphis after signing a one-year contract with Sun Records
(and a similar management contract with his bassist, Scotty Moore).
1959:
Legendary DJ Alan Freed attempts to capture the magic of Dick Clark's American
Bandstand on ABC by staging his own weekly rock and roll show on the same
network, The Big Beat (named after a Fats Domino song). Frankie Lymon,
the Everly Brothers and Connie Francis guest star on this first show, but the
series is canceled after 13 weeks.
1962: The
Rolling Stones make their live debut at the Marquee Club in London (a group
name founder Brian Jones picked at random from a Muddy Waters album he spotted
while on the phone with the promoter). The band at this point features Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards and Jones, with Dick Taylor, later of the Pretty Things,
on bass and Mick Avory, later of the Kinks, on drums. They were paid $40.
1962: Ray Charles was at No.1 on the UK singles
chart with the Don Gibson penned country ballad 'I Can't Stop Loving You', his
only UK No.1.
1964: George
Harrison crashes his E-Type Jaguar on New Kings Road in London while en route
to a Beatles concert in Brighton, suffering minor injuries. Fans pick up shards
of broken glass from the crime scene as souvenirs.
1968: The
Monkees' Micky Dolenz marries Samantha Juste, a model known as the "disc
girl" on the BBC's longtime series Top Of The Pops. Dolenz, who met
her on the show & wrote the British smash "Randy Scouse Git" in
part about her. The couple would divorce in 1975.
1969: The
Temptations Show, a Motown special featuring the group, airs in
syndication. The group performs, among other hits, "Get Ready,"
"Cloud Nine," and "Runaway Child, Running Wild."
1979: Gerry
Meier and Steve Dahl, DJs at Chicago's WLUP radio stage a "disco
demolition" night at Comiskey Park, with a public bonfire of disco vinyl
records taking place between games of a White Sox / Detroit Tigers
doubleheader. Unfortunately, fans begin tossing the records around like frisbees
during the first game, and by the time of the bonfire, mini-riots (and other
fires) had broken out around the stadium, forcing the Sox to forfeit the second
game. (Dahl had been fired from a rival station, WDAI, after it switched to an
all-disco format.)
1979: Minnie
Riperton died from cancer at age 51.
1983: Former Traffic sax player Chris Wood died
of liver failure after a lengthy illness. Also played with Jimi Hendrix in
1968, appearing on the Electric Ladyland album and worked with both John Martyn
and the Small Faces. He was 39 Years
old.
1986: Boy George and singer Marilyn were arrested
in London, England for possession of drugs.
1992: Axl Rose (singer for Guns N' Roses) was
arrested at New York's JFK airport on a warrant from St. Louis, MO. Rose was
wanted on charges stemming from a 1991 Guns N' Roses concert.
1996: Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin
was charged with drug possession after the death of the bands keyboard player
Jonathan Melvoin in his New York Hotel room.
1997: Anthony Keidis (Singer for Red Hot Chili
Peppers) suffered a broken wrist in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles, CA.
1999: DMX was arrested in Trinidad in mid-concert
for using obscene language.
1999: Fred Durst (Singer for Limp Bizkit) was
arrested in St. Paul, MN, for allegedly kicking a local security guard in the
head during the band's performance.
2000: Cat
Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) publicly denies any financial involvement with the
terrorist group Hamas after Israel denies him entry into the country, alleging
he gave money to the organization.
2000:
London's Trafalgar Square unveils a sculpture of John Lennon, created by
Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersward, which also features a handgun twisted
into an unusable shape.
2001: New
Orleans' Moisant Airport, named for an early 20th-century flying daredevil, is
renamed Armstrong International in honor of native jazz trumpeter Louis
Armstrong.
2003: Saxophonist, composer and arranger Benny
Carter died aged 95. He worked with Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles
and composed many TV theme's including Ironside and M-Squad.
2005: Lost Highway releases Willie Nelson's
reggae album, "Countryman." The cover features a drawing of a
marijuana plant, except in Wal-Mart stores, where the artwork is a palm tree.
2005: The soundtrack album to “Hustle and Flow”
was released featuring the Three 6 Mafia song “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp”
which won an academy award for best original song.
2008: Rolling Stone Ron Wood left his wife of 23
years and moved in with an 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress. The 61
year-old dad-of-four had met the teenager while out drinking and had taken her
away to his luxury pad in Ireland.
2011: Nick Oliveri, the former bassist for Queens
of the Stone Age and currently with Kyuss Lives! was arrested after a five-hour
standoff with a S.W.A.T. team at his Hollywood home.
The incident began with an argument Oliveri and
his girlfriend had during which the rocker struck her. She left but
returned to gather her belongings and
move out when the two started arguing again. A neighbor called 911 to report a
disturbance and the 39-year-old Oliveri locked himself and his girlfriend
inside the apartment. When police
arrived, Oliveri wouldn't let his girlfriend leave. A S.W.A.T. Team was called
and a standoff ensued until Oliveri released his girlfriend and later gave
himself up without incident. The police found a loaded rifle inside the house. Oliveri was booked on felony domestic
violence charges. He was released after posting $100,000 bail.
