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Music and Politics
1985 : The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) agrees to some demands made by another initialed organization, the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). As a result, any album deemed to contain offensive lyrics must be issued with a warning label, or the lyrics must be printed on the sleeve. Most record companies go with the labels, which don't seem to hurt sales. |
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Awards and Honors (4)
| 1998 : Madonna presents director Alan Parker with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Director's Guild of Great Britain. The ceremony takes place aboard a boat on the river Thames in London. |
| 1999 : Celine Dion is inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame during the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Gold Ribbon Awards gala in Montreal. Dion joins Bryan Adams and Anne Murray for the accolade. |
| 2004 : EMI pays tribute to Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who celebrates 50 years recording for the company. In a rare appearance at a private party at EMI's London headquarters, Rostropovich is presented with a golden Neumann microphone and a plaque commemorating the 100 recordings he has made with the company since 1954. |
| 2005 : Black Sabbath is inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame by Brian May of Queen. The band played "Paranoid" at the ceremony and Ozzy mooned the crowd, feeling that they weren't rocking hard enough. |
Band Dynamics (1)
| 2000 : Ben Folds Five announces they're breakup. Folds continues as a solo artist. |
Births (15)
Certifications and Milestones (1)
| 1966 : Elvis Presley's LPs Elvis Presley, Elvis' Golden Records, Vol. 2, and Elvis' Golden Records, Vol. 3 is certified gold. |
Charts (6)
Concerts and Festivals (4)
| 1963 : The Beatles make their first appearance as a tour headliner at a show in Gloucestershire, England. On the set list: I Saw Her Standing There, From Me To You and All My Loving. |
| 1964 : The Beach Boys begin their first UK tour in London. |
| 1970 : ABBA, then known as the Festfolk Quartet, play their first-ever concert at a Gothenburg, Sweden restaurant. |
| 1979 : Bob Dylan debuts the songs from his new album, a Christian polemic called Slow Train Coming, on the first night of his new tour in San Francisco, CA. A shocked audience boos the new material throughout the set. |
Deaths (6)
| 1995 : Florence Greenberg |
| 2004 : Terry Knight |
| 2008 : Jimmy Carl Black |
| 2008 : Nathaniel Mayer |
| 2008 : Yma Sumac |
| 2008 : Shakir Stewart |
Health Issues (2)
| 1975 : Due to lead singer Karen Carpenter's struggle with anorexia, The Carpenters are forced to cancel their upcoming European tour. |
| 1991 : After having a cancerous lung removed, former Temptation Eddie Kendricks is released from an Atlanta hospital. |
Incidents (1)
| 1965 : The Rolling Stones' concert in Rochester, NY, ends abruptly when 3,000 rabid fans storm the stage after just seven minutes. After three more attempts to resume the show, it's canceled by police, with only six songs having been played. |
Legal Issues (4)
| 1993 : Rapper Flavor Flav of the group Public Enemy is arrested for allegedly trying to shoot another man in a dispute over a woman. Police charge the rapper, whose real name is William Drayton, with attempted murder, possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. |
| 2002 : T.I. is arrested and convicted in Georgia for carrying a 10mm pistol. This is is second arrrest for gun possession charges in one year. |
| 2002 : T.I. is arrested and convicted in Georgia for carrying a 10mm pistol. This is the rapper's second arrest for gun possession charges in less than a year. |
| 2002 : T.I. is arrested and convicted in Georgia for carrying a 10mm pistol. This is the rapper's second arrest for gun possession charges in less than a year. |
Miscellaneous (4)
| 1959 : Ray Charles leaves his old label, Atlantic, for ABC-Paramount Records. |
| 1999 : With getting music over the internet still a novel concept and technical challenge, Third Eye Blind offers their single "Anything" exclusively online. It's free, but can only be played for 3 weeks. |
| 2003 : After a dozen years as a successful country singer, Tracy Byrd's career finally gets cooking, as he serves his fans in a whole new way. Byrd launches a line of spices, rubs and marinades bearing his name and likeness. The products, which will be sold under the brand name Tracy Byrd's Tiny Town Products are available in 1,350 Wal-Mart stores. |
| 2006 : Apple Computer launches a new mini-store within the U.S. version of the iTunes Music Store dedicated to Latin music and entertainment. iTunes Latino features top Latin music, music videos, television shows, audiobooks and podcasts. |
Music and Politics (1)
| 1985 : The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) agrees to some demands made by another initialed organization, the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). As a result, any album deemed to contain offensive lyrics must be issued with a warning label, or the lyrics must be printed on the sleeve. Most record companies go with the labels, which don't seem to hurt sales. |
Recordings (4)
| 1955 : Macon, GA R&B favorites The Famous Flames enter local radio station WIBB to record a demo of their first song, Please Please Please. The primitive scorcher, featuring lead singer James Brown pleading into a single microphone while standing on a Coca-Cola carton, would be rejected by several record labels before finally being picked up by Federal Records in Cincinnati. |
| 1960 : The Everly Brothers, "Temptation" |
| 1963 : Lorne Greene, "Ringo" |
| 1968 : The Beatles, Hello Goodbye |
Releases (3)
| 1968 : George Harrison releases Wonderwall Music, becoming the first member of The Beatles to release a solo album. |
| 1972 : The Rolling Stones, More Hot Rocks |
| 1994 : Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York. Two tracks not aired on the MTV Broadcast appear on the album. |
TV, Radio, Press (2)
| 1894 : Billboard Advertising, a trade publication dealing with all manner of billboard advertising and selling for a dime, begins publication. Within a few years, it will begin focusing on the entertainment shows advertised by billboards, and by the 1930s Billboard, as it has come to be known, is covering radio and sales of the new medium, juke box records. |
| 1964 : British Invasion band The Dave Clark Five makes its US television debut on CBS' Ed Sullivan Show. The clean-cut image of the group members visibly relieves the host, who is still suffering from the Stones riot of a few days' earlier. After the band plays Glad All Over, Ed goes out of his way to tag them as "nice, neat boys." |
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