Awards and Honors (1)
2008 : Prog rock band The Mars Volta releases their album The Bedlam in Goliath. As a promotion, the band also gives away a CD-vinyl single, a special format with an optical side readable in CD players and a vinyl side that plays on a turntable for about three minutes. Both sides contain a cover of Pink Floyd's "Candy and a Currant Bun.
The Bedlam in Goliath debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. |
Band Dynamics (2)
Births (8)
| 1862 : Frederick Delius |
| 1923 : Ivo Robic |
| 1947 : David Byron (Uriah Heep) |
1952 : Tamas Erdelyi (Tommy Ramone) - (Ramones) in Budapest, Hungary;
raised in Queens, New York.
Drummer/producer. Original member of Ramones.
Ramones SongFacts
Ramones ArtistFacts |
| 1953 : Louis Perez (Los Lobos) |
| 1961 : Eddie Jackson (Queensryche) |
| 1964 : Marcus Verre (Living In A Box) |
| 1981 : Jonny Lang |
Charts (1)
Concerts and Festivals (2)
| 1959 : According to Troy Shondell, Buddy Holly sees Troy's performance in Davenport, Iowa, four days before "the day the music dies". |
| 1967 : Jimi Hendrix and The Who headline a London concert honoring Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles. |
Deaths (4)
| 1981 : Cozy Cole |
| 1994 : Mary Wilson (The Supremes) is injured and her son is killed in a California auto accident. |
| 1995 : Ken Jensen (D.O.A.) |
| 2005 : Eric Griffiths (The Quarry Men) |
Debuts (1)
| 1728 : The Beggar's Opera by John Gay premieres in London. |
Incidents (1)
| 1979 : 16-year-old Brenda Spencer shoots at an elementary school, killing 2 adults and injuring 9 kids. When asked why she did it, she replied, I don't like Mondays, which the Boomtown Rats used as the title for a song. |
Miscellaneous (3)
Recordings (3)
| 1964 : The Beatles record "Sie Liebt Dich" (the German version of "She Loves You") |
| 1969 : Peggy Lee records "Is That All There Is" |
| 1974 : Grand Funk records "The Loco-Motion" after Mark Farner comes in singing the song. |
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