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1926, Miles Dewey Davis is born
in Alton, Illinois ... he will go on to become one of the most influential
figures in 20th-century American music presiding over major developments in
jazz and fusion... 1951, "Sixty Minute Man," a risqué song by the Dominoes, becomes one of the first up-tempo R&B singles to cross over to the pop chart when it lands at #17... 1956, upon his return to England following a US tour, bandleader Ted Heath observes: "Rock 'n' roll is mainly performed by colored people for colored people and is therefore unlikely to prove popular in Britain"... 1958, a doo-wop group dubbed The Chesters record the chestnut "Tears on My Pillow" ... they emerge from the studio renamed The Imperials ... when DJ Alan Freed begins airing the 45 he refers to the group as "Little Anthony & the Imperials" ... their record label, End, goes along with the program and later pressings of the record bear that name... 1959, Johnny Horton's "Battle of New Orleans" rides the top of the Billboard pop chart ... the song celebrates Andrew Jackson's defeat of the British during the War of 1812 ... the tune proves to be a durable one with covers by Vaughn Monroe, Harpers Bizarre, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band all charting in later years ... the original also spawns a comedic spinoff by Homer & Jethro called "Battle of Kookamonga"... 1961, ever the astute businessman, Chuck Berry opens an amusement park near St. Louis dubbed Berry Park... 1963, Del Shannon's version of the Lennon-McCartney song "From Me to You" becomes the first Beatles song to make an appearance on the US pop chart... 1965, Dave Davies of The Kinks knocks himself out after crashing into drummer Mick Avory's cymbals ... the band has to scratch the rest of its tour... 1966, Bob Dylan, accompanied by members of what will later become The Band, rocks Royal Albert Hall ... the show later turns up on white-jacketed bootleg LPs and becomes a hot item among Dylan fans... 1973, record mogul Clive Davis is canned by Columbia Records for misusing company money for personal expenses... 1974, more than a thousand people receive medical care and a 14-year-old girl dies when fans run amok at a London concert starring teen idol David Cassidy... 1975, "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is released ... its signature guitar riff becomes an essential repertoire item for garage-band pickers worldwide... 1976, the Allman Brothers Band calls it quits ... the breakup occurs in the wake of Gregg Allman's testimony at the drug trial of a former band road manager ... the band reforms two years later ... The Who make the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest rock band ever when their show at the Charlton Athletic Grounds in England employs a 76,000-watt PA and is measured at a tympanic-membrane-destroying 120 decibels... 1977, Virgin Records releases the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen on the occasion of the monarch's Silver Jubilee ... though the song receives no British airplay, it becomes a UK #1 hit... 1986, viewers of Dick Clark's America Picks the #1 Songs select Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" as the top three greatest hits of the rock era... 1987, U2's massive PA sets off earthquake alarms during a show at Rome's Flaminio Stadio... 1989, the late Roy Orbison's estate is sued by his music publisher for failing to produce songs under a 1985 contract... 1990, Aussie band Midnight Oil shuts down New York's 6th Avenue when they play a street concert in front of Exxon corporate headquarters protesting the environmental havoc wreaked by the grounding of the company's tanker, the Exxon Valdez... 1992, tour manager for Boyz II Men Khalil Rountree is shot and killed in a Chicago hotel... 1993, eccentric avant-garde bandleader, composer, and keyboardist Sun Ra dies following a stroke ... the large band he ran for decades named The Arkestra featured brilliant soloists and played a repertoire that ranged from oblique space music to Fletcher Henderson-style swing tunes ... his colorful shows often included elaborate costuming, plate-twirlers, and fire-eaters... 1994, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley are secretly married in the Dominican Republic ... she sues for divorce 20 months later citing irreconcilable differences... 1997, two rock icons are forced to scratch pending European tours when health problems arise ... Bob Dylan is admitted to a New York hospital complaining of chest pains and Neil Young cancels his trip after slicing a finger while making a ham sandwich ... charismatic singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley drowns after jumping into the Mississippi River in Memphis for an impromptu late-night swim ... country singer Lee Ann Womack, suffering from a big-time case of stage fright, makes her Grand Ole Opry debut ... she remains largely rooted in one spot at center stage during her set ... commenting later on her performance, the singer confesses, "If I'd moved, I would have peed in my pants"... 1999, British punk band Manic Street Preachers turns down an opportunity to play a concert commemorating the opening of Wales' parliament when they learn that Queen Elizabeth II will be on hand ... the band has sworn to never play for the monarchy, considering it an anachronism... 1999, the remains of Philip Kramer, formerly of Iron Butterfly, are found in a remote Malibu, California, canyon ... he had been missing since 1995 ... after a kinetic 40-minute New Jersey performance wearing a heavy fur coat, Lenny Kravitz collapses in the wings from heat exhaustion... 2000, Tito Puente AKA The King of the Mambo succumbs to heart disease and heads off to that big salsa ballroom in the sky ... the bandleader and masterful percussionist was a major force behind the Latin jazz movement... 2001, country diva Loretta Lynn opens her Coal Miner's Daughter Museum in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee ... it's packed with 18,000 square feet of memorabilia gathered by the singer during her four-decade career... 2004, after copping a plea to being under the influence of a controlled substance, Courtney Love is ordered to enter a drug-rehab program...singer Cyndi Lauper suffers the indignity of having a gob of bird poop land in her wide-open mouth while singing during a Mansfield, Massachusetts, show ... 2005, Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor backs out of performing at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards after the network KOs the band's plans to perform in front of an image of Dubya...says Reznor, "Nine Inch Nails will not be performing at the MTV Movie Awards as previously announced. We were set to perform 'The Hand That Feeds' with an unmolested straightforward image of George W. Bush as the backdrop. Apparently the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me. See you on tour this fall when we return to play in America"... 2005, rocker-activist Bob Geldof confirmed that the charity concert Live 8 will happen on July 6 to raise awareness of, and money for, the extreme poverty that most Africans live in...Geldof says, "What started 20 years ago is coming to a political point in a few weeks. There's more than a chance that the boys and girls with guitars will finally get to turn the world on its axis"...Live 8 will consist of five concerts in Hyde Park, London; Palais de Versailles, Paris; Brandenberg Gate, Berlin; Circus Maximus, Rome; and the Museum of Art in Philadelphia...over 100 artists are scheduled to perform... 1954, Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" is released but will not be successful until 1955 when it is featured on the soundtrack of the movie Blackboard Jungle... 1955, Ruth Brown's signature song "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean" is banned in Britain by the BBC on the grounds that it might encourage wife beaters... 1955, Chuck Berry records his first single, "Ida Red" ... during the session Leonard Chess, who is producing, wants a name change ... the new name is "Maybellene," inspired by a Chess secretary's makeup case... 1958, upon arrival in London for a British tour, Jerry Lee Lewis announces his marriage to 14-year-old second cousin Myra ... the resulting uproar causes all but three of the dates on the 37-stop schedule to be canceled ... it takes years for The Killer's career to recover... 1963, The Beatles begin their first tour as a headliner at the Grenada Theatre in Slough, England... 1964, a new teen dance called "The Swim," spawned in San Francisco's Galaxy Club, begins to spread throughout California... 1964, a Shreveport, LA, radio station proclaims Elvis Presley Week ... they feature a Presley song every hour and give away Presley albums and singles ... it is all part of a hopeless attempt to counter all the attention being given to The Beatles... 1965, FBI agents drop in on Wand Records ... they are investigating the song "Louie Louie" as recorded by The Kingsmen to determine just what the lyrics really are ... the FBI's ultimate report concludes that no obscene lyrics can be distinguished and that much of the song is unintelligible gibberish... 1967, Jimi Hendrix signs with Reprise Records, his first recording deal with an American company... 1968, John Lennon and Yoko Ono make a home tape that is later released as Two Virgins ... the album has the two of them sans clothing on the cover ... adding to the air of scandal, John's wife Cynthia returns home this same day to find the pair in bed, Yoko wearing her nightshirt ... John and Yoko flee to Montreal where they will begin their infamous 10-day "bed-in" two days later... 1970, The Grateful Dead play at the Hollywood Rock Festival in England ... it is their first concert outside of the United States... 1979, Eric Clapton and Patti Boyd are married ... Boyd's marriage to Clapton's friend George Harrison ended in 1977...often painted as a muse to both musicians, Boyd inspired Clapton to write "Layla" about his unrequited love for Boyd, and later "Wonderful Tonight" once they were together ... three of The Beatles—Paul, Ringo, and George—are joined by Mick Jagger for a performance at the reception ... it is the first time since their '69 breakup that the three have played together... 1979, Tom Petty files for bankruptcy over a dispute with his record label... 1981, George Harrison's "All Those Years Ago," a tribute to John Lennon who died a year before, charts for the first time ... Ringo Starr and Paul and Linda McCartney are also on the recording... 1990, Elton John plays at the Taj Mahal ... that is, the Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City ... the occasion is the Donald Trump-owned casino's grand opening... 1998, Elton John ditches his manager of 28 years, John Reid ... Sir Elton forms his own management company, Elton John Management, Ltd... 2000, Chuck D testifies before the U.S. Congress in support of Napster and online music distribution... 2003, Les Miserables closes on Broadway after 16 years and 6,680 shows... 2004, a 320-year-old, $3.5 million cello made by Antonio Stradivari is recovered days after being stolen from principal cellist Peter Stumpf of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ... the cello was discovered by a nurse near a trash bin on her way to see a patient ... the nurse had asked her husband, a cabinetmaker, to fashion the instrument into a CD case ... fortunately she saw a news report on the instrument before he got started... 2004, in Fairless, Pennsylvania, Pennsbury High School's graduating class is blown away when rocker John Mayer shows up to play a three-song concert at the senior class prom ... the appearance was the result of a two-year lobbying effort by the class president... 2004, during a humanitarian African tour, Canadian band Sum 41 is overrun by the Congo's ongoing civil war ... the rockers are forced to hide out in a hotel bathroom near the Rwandan border ... after seven hours they make their escape in a tank... 2004, officials in South Carolina grant Godfather of Soul James Brown a pardon for several crimes ... Brown had argued his case before the state's Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services... 2004, in a bizzare appearance at a New Hampshire casino, singer-songwriter Jewel frequently interrupts her set with long diatribes dissing the audience, her fat fans, and ramblings about the drugs Zoloft and Paxil ... after the show angry fans scream obscenities as the tour bus departs the venue ... the show was later described by Jewel's management as "a unique combination of music and conversation"... 2005, rapper 50 Cent agrees to take anger-management classes and stay drug- and crime-free in a plea bargain over charges that he stomped on two female fans and punched a third during a 2004 show in Massachusetts... 2005, sporting a giant Afro, Phil Spector appears in L.A. Superior Court for a pretrial hearing regarding the murder of actress Lana Clarkson ... the judge rules that four alleged earlier incidents in which the producer had pointed guns at women could be admitted into evidence... 1933, knowing he will soon die
of tuberculosis and wanting to provide for his family, Jimmy Rodgers, widely
known as The Singing Brakeman, begins his final Peer Records recording
sessions ... Rodgers is accompanied by a nurse and rests on a cot between
songs ... he dies two days after laying down his last tracks... 1824, one of the world's best-loved pieces of music,
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, is performed for the first time... 1967, Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, of course ... little Lisa Marie will join the family nine months later... 1969, Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest Jimi Hendrix at Toronto International Airport for possession of heroin ... Hendrix is released on $10,000 bail and claims that the drugs were planted ... the charges will later be dropped... 1974, the #1 Billboard Pop Hit is "Loco-Motion" by Grand Funk Railroad ... the original 1962 version by Little Eva had also hit the top of the pops ... the song will hit pay dirt one more time when Kylie Minogue rides it to #3 in 1988... 1976, Bruce Springsteen is given the bum's rush by security guards when he's caught trying to scale the fence at Graceland... 1976, Paul McCartney returns to the stage in the U.S. for the first time in a decade as the Wings Over America tour takes flight in Ft. Worth, Texas... 1981, Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach ... the two met and fell in love the year before while filming Caveman... 1984, Mick Fleetwood files for bankruptcy... 1994, the historic San Francisco Fillmore reopens after 27 years ... performers at the show include American Music Club, Ry Cooder and David Lindley, and headliners Smashing Pumpkins ... promoters originally hoped to secure Neil Young or Bruce Springsteen for the opening, but settled on the Pumpkins as a last resort... 1995, Tupac Shakur marries girlfriend Keisha Morris while incarcerated at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York ... the rapper is in jail on a felony sexual abuse conviction... 1998, somewhere between doing the splits and a back flip while onstage in Anchorage, Alaska, Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler injures his knee ... luckily for the Alaskan fans, the injury occurred during the last encore ... fans in other cities aren't as lucky, as the band must cancel the remaining 14 dates of its North American tour so Tyler can have surgery and recover... 1999, citing the lack of a strong enough lineup, organizers say Lollapalooza will not happen for the second consecutive year... 1999, at a Des Moines, Iowa, show, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson stalks off the stage upon noticing that someone has slapped a big yellow smiley face sticker on one of his props ... in the resulting melee, 23 are arrested... 1999, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame... 2002, Suicidal Tendencies guitarist Mike Clark dislocates his shoulder in a motor-cross accident ... he will make a full recovery... 2002, Metallica resumes work on their eighth full-length studio album, St. Anger ... the rocky sessions, interrupted by guitarist-vocalist James Hetfield entering rehab and group therapy sessions with the band, are filmed by a documentary crew for the film Some Kind of Monster... 2002, Sharon Osborne announces that her family will return for another season of their hit reality show The Osborne's on MTV ... the show, which chronicles the daily lives of Sharon, Ozzy, Jack, and Kelly, is the most successful for MTV in its 21-year history... 2003, on his official website, KISS bassist Gene Simmons blasts musicians and actors who have spoken out recently against the U.S. war in Iraq ... says Gene, "I don't think celebs make very much impact with the masses at all" ... this despite the fact that Simmons has used his site twice before to voice his support for the operation, going so far as to say," ...everyone who is marching today in a war protest can line up to my left to suck my b***s"... 2004, to celebrate the first anniversary of iTunes, Apple announces that the online music store will soon be featuring music videos and movie trailers ... users will also be able to play purchased songs on up to five different machines instead of the original limit of three ... the service sold over 70 million songs in its debut year... 2005, 37 years after Cream played its farewell concert, the revived '60s super group performs the first of four sold-out concerts ... the two-hour set encompasses all of Cream's biggest hits including: "Sunshine of Your Love," "Spoonful," and "White Room," triggering countless acid flashbacks among veteran concertgoers... |
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