Birthdays:
John Rzeznick (The Goo Goo Dolls-1965)
Little Richard ("Lucille") turns 76.
Andy Kim ("Be My Baby"-1946)
Jim Messina (member of Buffalo Springfield, Poco and Loggins & Messina) is 61.
Reclusive guitar picker J.J. Cale was born in Oklahoma City in 1938.
They Are Missed:
Born on this day in 1899, Sonny Boy Williamson, US blues singer. Van Morrison, The Who, The Animals, Yardbirds and Moody Blues all covered his songs. He died on May 25, 1965.
Billy Maybray, bassist / drummer / vocalist for The Jaggerz, died of cancer at the age of 60 in 2004. Billy played drums on the band's 1970, Billboard #2 hit, "The Rapper" and wrote and sang their debut single, "Baby I Love You.”
Jazz musician Rahsaan Roland Kirk died in 1977.
In 1993, Doug Hopkins from Gin Blossoms died of self-inflicted bullet wounds (age 32).
History:
Alan Freed's "Rock Rock Rock" film (with Connie Francis dubbing in the singing for Tuesday Weld) was released in 1956.
Rocker Gene Vincent ("Be-Bop-A-Lula") met TV producer Jack Good upon his arrival in England in 1959. Good convinced Vincent to adopt an outlaw image and dresses him completely in black leather, creating an enduring rock 'n' roll icon.
1968- The Rolling Stones' launch party at London's Queensgate Hotel for the now classic album, “Beggars Banquet,” soon degenerated into a near-riot. Waitresses served food dressed as medieval wenches. During the dessert course, a custard pie fight began, with most of the pastries aimed at record label execs who had vetoed the Stones' toilet cover art. Brian Jones, about to be fired by the band, delivered a few well-placed pies directly into Mick Jagger's face.
In 1980, John Lennon gave his final Rolling Stone interview to Jonathan Cott. Mark David Chapman leaves Honolulu to fly to New York, where he will shoot John Lennon three days later.
In 1964, Lorne Green became the second Canadian (after Paul Anka) to have a #1 hit on the Billboard singles chart, when his spoken word recording about a Western gun fighter named Ringo reached the top. The star of NBC-TV's hit show Bonanza would record seven albums for RCA.
In 1964, RCA announced that "Elvis' Christmas Album" had sold over 800,000 copies since being released in 1957.
Elvis Presley started a ten-week run at No.1 on the US album chart in 1960 with “G.I. Blues.”
The Beatles played their last ever show in their hometown of Liverpool in 1965, when they appeared at The Liverpool Empire during the group's final UK tour. Only 5,100 tickets were available, but there were 40,000 applications for tickets.
Beatles lyrics handwritten by Sir Paul McCartney (an early version of Maxwell's Silver Hammer) sold for $192,000 at an auction in New York in 2006. A guitar owned by Jimi Hendrix fetched $168,000, a notebook containing lyrics written by Bob Marley sold for $72,000 and a poem penned by the Doors Jim Morrison made $49,000 at the Christie's sale.
Graham Nash quits the Hollies (later forms Crosby, Stills & Nash) in 1968.
1975- Fleetwood Mac's tenth album goes gold and will eventually reach platinum status. This is the first album by the regrouped band, including founders Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, veteran Christine McVie and newcomers Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. The album contains the tunes "Rhiannon", "Say You Love Me" and "Over My Head".
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