Awards and Honors (2)
| 1994 : The Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star on Hollywood Boulevard was originally set to be unveiled in January, but an earthquake struck Los Angeles three days before the scheduled ceremony. The Pointers are the first African-American female music group to receive the honor. |
| 1997 : The Clinton White House awards Don Henley a National Medal of the Humanities. |
Band Dynamics (4)
| 1966 : Jimi Hendrix meets the final member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, bassist Noel Redding, when Redding unsuccessfully auditions for Eric Burdon's new Animals lineup at the Birdland club in London. |
| 1967 : The Rolling Stones formally split from longtime manager Andrew Loog Oldham. |
| 1967 : Mickey Hart joins Grateful Dead as its new drummer. |
| 1977 : In the middle of a tour, James Brown's backup band, the JBs, walk out before a gig in Hallendale, Florida, complaining of being underpaid. Most of the band would return to complete the tour. |
Births (11)
| 1935 : Jerry Lee Lewis |
| 1942 : Jean-Luc Ponty |
| 1944 : Tommy Boyce (Boyce & Hart) |
| 1944 : Mike Post |
| 1944 : Tommy Tate |
| 1944 : Anne Briggs |
| 1947 : Peter Hope-Evans (Medicine Head) |
| 1948 : Mike Pinera (Iron Butterfly) |
| 1948 : Mark Farner (Grand Funk) |
| 1963 : Les Claypool (Primus, Sausage) |
| 1968 : Brad Smith (Blind Melon) |
Certifications and Milestones (1)
| 1956 : RCA Victor Co. announces that it has received over 856,327 advance orders for Elvis Presley's next single, "Love Me Tender". |
Charts (4)
| 1958 : Tommy Edwards' It's All In The Game hits #1 |
| 1973 : Grand Funk score their first number one record when "We're An American Band" hit the top of Billboard's Hot 100. |
| 1977 : #1 on the Hot 100 is Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band by Meco. It's a 15-minute song made up of Star Wars music set to a disco beat. There's even an R2-D2 bleeping solo. |
| 1987 : No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: Didn't We Almost Have It All by Whitney Houston. |
Concerts and Festivals (5)
| 1947 : Dizzy Gillespie makes his Carnegie Hall debut. |
| 1963 : The Rolling Stones began their first tour of the United Kingdom. They played 32 dates, opening for acts like The Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley and Little Richard. |
| 1963 : The Rolling Stones open their first British tour supporting the Everly Brothers and Bo Diddley at the New Victoria Theatre in London. |
| 1989 : Bruce Springsteen drops in at Matt's Saloon in Prescott, Arizona and jams with the local act The Mile High Band for about an hour. A few weeks later, Matt's bartender Brenda receives a $100,000 check from Springsteen to help cover her medical bills. |
| 1996 : Alanis Morissette finishes her first U.S. tour in Houston, Texas. |
Deaths (3)
| 2002 : Ellis Larkins dies of pneumonia. |
| 2003 : Wesley Tuttle dies of heart failure. |
| 2011 : Sylvia Robinson, a singer and rap impresario who brought us "Rapper's Delight," dies at age 75. |
Debuts (1)
| 1956 : The The Gale Storm Show, starring the singer as a cruise ship director who makes lots of musical interludes, debuts on CBS. |
Good Deeds (1)
| 1977 : David Bowie sets up a trust fund for Rolan Bolan, the son of the recently deceased Marc Bolan, Bowie's close friend and frontman of glam rock band, T-Rex. |
Incidents (3)
| 1976 : At his 41st birthday party, a drunk Jerry Lee Lewis attempts to shoot a soda bottle with his .357 Magnum and instead hits his bass player, Norman Owens, twice in the chest. Owens makes a full recovery. |
| 1997 : Epic's Sons of the Desert are caught in a hotel fire during the group's first trip to New York City. The group's bassist Doug Virden sees smoke and flames and reports the blaze at the front desk. |
| 2009 : After playing a gig at Club Academy in Manchester, England tens of thousands of pounds worth of Noah and the Whale’s equipment is stolen from a locked trailer in a car park near the venue. In December, police recover most of the gear, including items of great sentimental value to the band, nearly 100 miles away in a barn where the perpetrators had been storing it. |
Legal Issues (2)
| 1997 : Blues Traveler bassist Bobby Sheehan is arrested for cocaine possession in Winnipeg. He is later released on $5,000 bond. |
| 1998 : The family of Frank Sinatra files suit against Newark, Calif.-based discount clothing company Ross Stores Inc. for copyright infringement. The suit alleges that an album of 75 songs, The Sinatra Collection which the chain sells at its 500 Ross Dress For Less stores nationwide, is unauthorized. |
Marriages and Breakups (1)
| 1930 : Bing Crosby marries his first wife, Dixie Lee. The couple had 4 sons together before her death in 1952. |
Miscellaneous (3)
| 1954 : The original musical version of A Star Is Born, featuring Judy Garland, opens in Hollywood. |
| 1962 : After a wildly successful six-and-a-half-year run, the musical My Fair Lady closes on Broadway. |
| 1967 : John Lennon flips on the radio while working on I Am The Walrus and hears a BBC broadcast of the Shakespeare play King Lear, which he decides to mix into the song. |
Recordings (5)
| 1957 : Buddy Holly and the Crickets, Maybe Baby |
| 1959 : Little Anthony & The Imperials, "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop" (Anthony is quoted as saying the song is "stupid") |
| 1964 : The Beatles, Every Little Thing, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party, What You're Doing |
| 1966 : Elvis Presley, "She's A Machine," "The Love Machine," "Yoga Is As Yoga Does," "You Gotta Stop" |
| 1967 : The Beatles, I Am The Walrus, Your Mother Should Know |
Releases (4)
| 1967 : Gladys Knight and the Pips, I Heard It Through The Grapevine |
| 1969 : Merle Haggard's single "Okie From Muskogee", a song that protests Vietnam war protesters. The single goes on to reach #1 on the Hot Country Singles Charts, and #43 on the Billboard hit 100. |
| 1997 : The Verve's critically acclaimed album Urban Hymns was released on this day in 1997. |
| 2003 : "Stacy's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne is released. The song will go on to peak at #21 in the US and #11 in the UK. It will also be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Vocal Pop Performance. The song's infamous music video stars model/actress, Rachel Hunter, who plays Stacy's mom and the obsession of her teenage daughter's friend. |
TV, Radio, Press (1)
| 2003 : DMX guest stars on an episode of the UPN sitcom Eve. Starring fellow rapper Eve, the series is set in Miami, where DMX's character plays "the best tattoo artist in Miami." |
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