1967 - Ronnie Caldwell (Bar-Kays) - Plane crash (29)
1967 - Phalon Jones (Bar-Kays) - Plane crash (28)
1967 - Carl Cunningham (Bar-Kays) - Plane crash (28)
1982 - Jimmie Riddle (Smokey Mountain Boys) (64)
1986 - Kate Wolf - Leukemia (44)
1988 - Bill Harris (Clovers) - Cancer (63)
1995 - Darren Robinson (Fat Boys) - Heart attack (28)
1996 - Faron Young - Suicide (64)
1996 - John Duffey (Country Gentlemen, Seldon Scene) (62)
1999 - Rick Danko (Band) - Drug-related heart failure (56)
2005 - Richard Pryor - Heart attack (65)
On This Day
1927 - The WSM Bard Dance was renamed The Grand Ole Opry, which had its first broadcast under the new name.
1959 - The members of the Platters were acquitted of prostitution and lewdness charges going back to an August 10, 1959 incident in Cincinnati. Unfortunately, there career would not fully recover.
1961 - The Cliff Richard film The Young Ones premiered in London.
1963 - Donny Osmond made his debut with the Osmonds on the Andy Williams Show.
1965 - The Warlocks become the Grateful Dead. The newly named version of the band played their first show at the Fillmore in San Francisco.
1967 - Steve Miller signed with Capitol Records for $750,000, an unheard of amount at the time for an untested talent.
1971 - Frank Zappa received a broken leg and fractured skull when he was pushed off of a London stage by a jealous boyfriend.
1972 - Roberta Flack was injured in a car accident and forced to cancel a European tour.
1973 - CBGB opened in New York.
1976 - Generation X, with member Billy Idol, played their first live show in London.
1980 - John Lennon's body was cremated in New York.
1991 - Alan Freed received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 - Bruce Springsteen won a court decision banning a former manager from releasing an album of early music.
1998 - An Amnesty International benefit in Paris included performances by Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Alanis Morissette, Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, Tracy Chapman, Shania Twain and others.
1999 - The battle was on between Cliff Richard and George Michael when Michael called Richard's hit Millennium Prayer “vile.”
2002 - The Oakwood Postal Office in Los Angeles was named after Nat King Cole.
2003 - Bobby Brown was charged with three counts of batter over an incident three days earlier with his wife, Whitney Houston.
2004 - James Brown announced that he had prostate cancer.
2005 - Stevie Wonder is honored at the “Grammy Jam” in Los Angeles. Appearing are India.Arie, Eric Benet, Herbie Hancock, Heather Headley, Slash, Chris Brown, Angie Stone, Tamia, Aaron Neville and others.
2007 - Led Zeppelin played a full show for the first time in 19 years at the London O2 Arena.
2008 - DMX was arrested and sent to jail for missing a court appearance in Phoenix, AZ.
2010 - Lady Gaga was named Billboard's Artist of the Year.
2010 - Jim Morrison was pardoned in the state of Florida by Governor Charlie Christ for his arrest and conviction of public lewdness during a 1969 concert in Miami.
Marriages
1947 - Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown
1983 - Keith Richards and Patty Hansen
2005 - Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood
2005 - Brad Wilk (Audioslave) and Selene Vigil (Seven Years Bitch)
Recorded
1949 - The Fat Man - Fats Domino (first recording session for Imperial Records)
Released
1966 - I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night - Electric Prunes (single)
Birthdays
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