Pick a Day

2 AUGUST

In Music History

1971 Now down to a trio and driven by infighting, Creedence Clearwater Revival embark on their last US tour with a gig at Tulsa, Oklahoma's Assembly Center.

1970 Zelma Davis (of C and C Music Factory) is born in Monrovia, Liberia in West Africa.

1969 Bob Dylan makes a rare return to his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, to attend his 10-year high school reunion. Accompanied by his wife, Sara, he joins classmates at the local Moose lodge before the event, and it proves awkward. He never makes it to the reunion itself, and makes no more public visits to the town.

1961 Pete De Freitas (drummer for Echo And The Bunnymen) is born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

1955 Butch Vig is born in Viroqua, Wisconsin. He produces Nirvana's 1991 album Nevermind and forms the band Garbage in 1993.

1953 Skeeter Davis, still a member of the Davis Sisters, breaks both her arms and legs in a car crash near Cincinnati, Ohio, a crash which also kills fellow Davis "sister" Betty Jack Davis.

1951 Andrew Gold, known for the hits "Lonely Boy" and "Thank You for Being a Friend," is born in Burbank, California.

1950 Ted Turner (guitarist for Wishbone Ash) is born in Sheldon, Birmingham, England.

1944 Jim Capaldi (drummer for Traffic) is born Nicola James Capaldi in Evesham, Worcestershire, England.

1944 Jazz bassist Albert Stinson is born in Cleveland, Ohio.

1943 Kathy Lennon (of The Lennon Sisters) is born in Los Angeles, California. Had hits with "Tonight You Belong to Me" and "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)."

1941 Andrew Steele (drummer for The Herd) is born in Hendon, North West London, England.

1941 Doris Kenner-Jackson (of the The Shirelles) is born Doris Coley in Goldsboro, North Carolina.

1939 Edward Patten (of Gladys Knight and the Pips) is born in Atlanta, Georgia.

1937 Garth Hudson (of The Band) is born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.