Births (17)
Certifications and Milestones (1)
| 1972 : Chicago's Chicago V LP is certified gold |
Charts (3)
Concerts and Festivals (3)
| 1964 : A brand new group called "The Steampacket," featuring lead vocals by one Rod Stewart, opens for the Rolling Stones at the London Palladium. |
| 1980 : Def Leppard perform their first U.S. live gig, opening for AC/DC in New York City. |
| 2009 : Green Day wrap up their two-month tour to support 21st Century Breakdown with a concert at the Forum in Los Angeles, CA. |
Deaths (2)
| 1964 : Johnny Burnette |
| 1996 : Bill Buchanan (Buchanan and Goodman) |
Debuts (1)
| 1963 : Beatles Monthly magazine debuts. It will continue for six years. |
Good Deeds (1)
Health Issues (1)
| 1965 : Marianne Faithfull collapses during a performance in Lancashire, England, and is taken to a hospital, canceling the remainder of her tour. |
Incidents (1)
| 2006 : 30-year-old Andy Richardson dies after he is beaten in the mosh pit during The Deftones' set at the Family Values tour in Atlanta. |
Legal Issues (1)
| 1969 : Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys is indicted in Los Angeles for failing to perform his required community service hours, which were imposed upon him after he refused to be drafted as a conscientious objector; rather than the janitorial duty he was sentenced to at LA County Hospital, Wilson taught music classes there instead. |
Marriages and Breakups (1)
| 1994 : Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley announce their marriage in the Dominican Republic 11 weeks earlier. |
Miscellaneous (4)
| 1942 : In response to what it sees as a threat from the new fad, phonograph records, the American Federation of Musicians goes on strike (but only for recording, not live, gigs). |
| 1958 : His contract up at Sun Records, Johnny Cash leaves Memphis, moves to Los Angeles, and signs with Columbia Records. |
| 1977 : Elvis: What Happened? a tell-all book written by his closest confidantes Red West and Sonny West, hit the bookshelves and made no impact until Presley's death two weeks later, when it confirmed what many had suspected: that Elvis had been abusing prescription drugs. Some say the revelatory book hurt Elvis and indirectly hastened his demise. |
| 1987 : Guns N' Roses head to Park Plaza and 450 South La Brea in Hollywood and shoot their first video, for Welcome To The Jungle. |
Movies (3)
| 1970 : After two years of sitting on the shelf (namely due to shocking sex and violence scenes), the gangster movie Performance, featuring the acting debut of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, premieres in London. |
| 1973 : The first big oldies revival kicks off in earnest as George Lucas' new film, American Graffiti, premieres in Los Angeles. Portraying a night in the life of several California teenagers in 1961, it made stars out of Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips and more, and also inspired the ABC-TV smash Happy Days. |
| 1980 : George Harrison forms a movie production company called Handmade Films, which would go on to produce films like Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Long Good Friday, Time Bandits, and Shanghai Surprise. |
Music and Politics (1)
| 1994 : The Rolling Stones politely refuse an invitation to play at the Clinton White House, though they would go on to play his 60th birthday party in 2006. |
Recordings (4)
| 1942 : Jimmy Dorsey, "Charleston Alley" |
| 1960 : Aretha Franklin begins her first non-gospel recording session, an abortive attempt at jazz-pop with the Columbia label. |
| 1969 : The Beatles: Because |
| 1985 : Tom Waits releases Rain Dogs, widely considered one of Waits's most important and innovative works. Synthesizers and samples--very common in the 1980's--are deliberately absent as Waits develops the unique approach he began on Swordfishtrombones. |
Releases (3)
| 1960 : Chubby Checker, The Twist |
| 1972 : Elvis Presley, Burning Love |
| 1989 : The Rolling Stones, Steel Wheels |
TV, Radio, Press (8)
| 1960 : For his embodiment of decadent American culture, Elvis Presley is named "Public Enemy Number One" by the East Berlin newspaper Young World. |
| 1964 : It's the heyday of the harmonica, as the industry publication Billboard points out that The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Stevie Wonder have all had hits with the instrument. |
| 1971 : The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour premieres on CBS television. |
| 1981 : On this date in 1981, MTV launched in America. The first video they played was Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles. |
| 1981 : Just after midnight, MTV initiates programming, with the legendary opening, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Rock & Roll,” followed by the network’s power-chord-fueled guitar riff theme that would soon become so familiar. Created to showcase music videos featuring primarily new wave artists just coming out as well as older, established rock acts, that’s just what the network did initially, allowing audiences the opportunity to commune with their music heroes in a different way than ever before. As the network gained popularity, it began to diversify programming a bit, introducing a stable of music-themed shows before gradually moving away from music programming in favor of content geared toward reality TV and celebrity/pop culture. |
| 1984 : Jermaine Jackson appears on an episode of CBS' long-running soap opera, As The World Turns. |
| 1987 : On 1 August 1987 MTV Europe launched it's broadcasting, the first video shown was Dire Straits' Money for Nothing, with the tongue-in-cheek repitition of the line I want my MTV sung by Sting. |
| 1988 : Cincinnati AM radio station WCVG changes its format, becoming the first US all-Elvis radio station. The concept died out within the year. |
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