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Concerts and Festivals
1995 : The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, with opening ceremony performances by Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Al Green, The Allman Brothers Band, Booker T. & the MG's, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, The Pretenders, John Fogerty, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, George Clinton, The Kinks, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, The Animals' Eric Burdon, and Boz Scaggs. |
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Awards and Honors (3)
| 1993 : Stone Temple Pilots win Best New Artist at the MTV Video Music Awards for Plush. |
| 1993 : Pearl Jam's Jeremy video wins four awards, including Video of the Year, at the MTV Video Music Awards. Pearl Jam responds by not making any more videos until 1998. |
| 2007 : This is not "Ike Turner Day" in St. Louis, as the mayor there refuses him the honor. Turner was playing the Big Muddy Blues Festival in the city, which asked the mayor to honor him. |
Band Dynamics (1)
| 1970 : An unknown art-rock band named Genesis runs an ad in Britain's Melody Maker magazine looking for a drummer, an audition 19-year-old Phil Collins will pass by mentioning that he played percussion on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass. |
Births (15)
| 1925 : Hugo Montenegro |
| 1925 : Russ Conway |
| 1939 : Bobby Dickey (James & Bobby Purify) |
| 1939 : Sam Gooden (The Impressions) |
| 1940 : Jimmy Clanton |
| 1943 : Joe Simon |
| 1943 : Rosalind Ashford (Martha and the Vandellas) |
| 1946 : Marty Grebb (The Buckinghams) |
| 1951 : Mik Kaminski (Electric Light Orchestra) |
| 1953 : American composer John Zorn is born in New York City. As a child, he shows a fascination with an eccentric fascination with sound and avant-garde music that prompts his parents to get him psychologically evaluated. |
| 1956 : Fritz McIntyre (Simply Red) |
| 1957 : Steve Porcaro (Toto) |
| 1958 : Jerry Augustyniak (10,000 Maniacs) |
| 1969 : K-Ci Hailey (Jodeci) |
| 1975 : Tony Thompson (Hi-Five) |
Certifications and Milestones (1)
| 1965 : The Beatles' Help! is certified gold. |
Concerts and Festivals (2)
| 1978 : Teddy Pendergrass plays a midnight "For Women Only" concert at Avery Fisher Hall in New York to promote his album, Life Is A Song Worth Singing. It's ladies only in the crowd, and they are treated to white chocolate and lollipops. It proves very popular and more women only shows are held to capitalize on Pendergrass' appeal to the opposite sex. |
| 1995 : The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, with opening ceremony performances by Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Al Green, The Allman Brothers Band, Booker T. & the MG's, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, The Pretenders, John Fogerty, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, George Clinton, The Kinks, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, The Animals' Eric Burdon, and Boz Scaggs. |
Deaths (1)
Debuts (1)
| 1976 : Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five play their first major gig, performing at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. They would introduce various DJ techniques along with rap interplay and choreography. |
Incidents (1)
| 2008 : At the GQ "Men of the Year" Awards, Lily Allen manages to drink herself into oblivion, insults her co-host Sir Elton John and ends the night by leaking news of her brother's recent engagement in London. |
Legal Issues (4)
| 1971 : The Rolling Stones sue former manager Andrew Loog Oldham for back royalties. |
| 1971 : Grateful Dead have their former manager, Lenny Hart, arrested for embezzling $70,000 from the group's coffers. |
| 2011 : T.I. is arrested just days after serving an 11-month sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Arkansas. Under his probation agreement, the rapper was allowed to provide his own transportation from Arkansas to a halfway house in Atlanta. However, prison officials objected to his vehicle of choice - a luxury SUV motorcoach - and took him back into custody for violating his parole. |
| 2011 : T.I. is arrested just days after serving an 11-month sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Arkansas. Under his probation agreement, the rapper was allowed to provide his own transportation from Arkansas to a halfway house in Atlanta. However, prison officials objected to his vehicle of choice - a luxury SUV motor coach - and took him back into custody for violating his parole. |
Marriages and Breakups (2)
| 1978 : George Harrison marries Olivia Arias. |
| 1980 : Karen Carpenter (The Carpenters) marries her first husband, Thomas Burris, a California real-estate developer, in the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel. |
Music and Politics (2)
| 1987 : Sonny Bono announces his run for mayor of Palm Springs, California, after running into problems trying to open a restaurant there. He wins, and later becomes a congressman. |
| 2008 : Rage Against The Machine bring their trademark chaos to the Republican National Convention with a near-riot, an impromptu march and a fierce concert. |
Recordings (3)
| 1927 : Sophie Tucker, "Some Of These Days" |
| 1956 : Elvis Presley, "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again," Long Tall Sally, "Old Shep," "Paralyzed," "Too Much," "Anyplace Is Paradise" |
| 1964 : The Rolling Stones, Little Red Rooster |
Releases (1)
| 1971 : Grateful Dead, Grateful Dead |
TV, Radio, Press (1)
| 1994 : Hootie & the Blowfish make their first of several appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman. They were still well under-the-radar at this point, but took off a few months later. |
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