82 years ago (1942) | Graeme Edge, drummer with the Moody Blues, is born. |
79 years ago (1945) | Eric Clapton, guitarist and vocalist with Cream, Derek & the Dominoes, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Blind Faith, and the Yardbirds, is born. |
64 years ago (1960) | Representative Thomas O'Neill (of Massachusetts) wants the Federal Communications Commission to investigate all radio station employees involved in payola and report them to Congress. |
61 years ago (1963) | M. C. Hammer is born. |
60 years ago (1964) | Singer/songwriter Tracy Chapman is born. |
58 years ago (1966) | At the Rolling Stones' concert at the Olympia in Paris, 85 audience members are arrested after the crowd's heated reaction to the Stones gets out of hand. |
56 years ago (1968) | The Yardbirds perform and record what will become Live Yardbirds at the Anderson Theater. |
48 years ago (1976) | The British punk group the Sex Pistols play their first show at London's 100 club, attracting only a reported 50 people to the venue where they would begin a weekly residency in June. |
47 years ago (1977) | The Eagles' Hotel California sits atop the Billboard LP Chart. |
46 years ago (1978) | Paul Simonon and Topper Headon of the Clash are arrested in London for shooting pigeons from the roof of a rehearsal hall. |
44 years ago (1980) | Genesis' England By The Pound is released. |
35 years ago (1989) | Gladys Knight performs solo for the first time since grammar school without The Pips during a gig at Bally's in Las Vegas. |
19 years ago (2005) | New Orleans rapper Master P pleads innocent in Los Angeles to a felony charge of carrying unregistered loaded guns after his arrest two months previously while riding in a car driven by his brother Vyshonn King Miller, a 20-year-old singer known as “Silkk the Shocker.” Meanwhile, a third brother, Corey Miller, a.k.a. C-Murder, is appealing a 2003 second degree murder conviction and mandatory life sentence for shooting a 16-year-old boy at a New Orleans area nightclub. |
17 years ago (2007) | Entertainment Tonight reports Marie Osmond and husband Brian Blosil are getting divorced. The couple says, "Though our marriage is ending, we continue to have a very amicable relationship." Osmond and Blosil married in October 1986 and have eight children. They were briefly separated in 2000 after Osmond suffered a bout of post-partum depression. She later wrote a book about her experience, Behind the Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression. |