1970 - George Harrison released "All Things Must Pass." The triple album included a number of songs that were left over from Beatles sessions and the set would go on to be certified 6x Platinum by the RIAA, making it the best selling album by a solo Beatle performer.
1973 - Hank Snow's guitarist Jimmy Widener was shot and killed.
1995 - "One Sweet Day," Mariah Carey's duet with Boyz II Men entered the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart at No. 1. Carey became the first recording artist in history to have two consecutive singles debut at No. 1 following "Fantasy," also from her No. 1 album "Daydream."
1999 - Influential independent rock icons Pavement announced that they had broken up. During their show at London's Brixton Academy, band member Steve Malkmus told the crowd that the show would be the band's last.
2000 - Having been found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Sandra Rosas, the wife of Los Lobos’ Cesar Rosas, Gabriel Gomez, the victim’s half-brother, led police to a shallow grave in a nearby canyon. Dental records were used to ID Rosas body.
2000 - Fugitive Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's luck ran out in Philadelphia, after police arrested him at an area McDonald's. ODB had been on the lam since October, 2000, when he fled a court-ordered stint at a drug treatment facility in Pasadena, Calif. The rapper also faced outstanding cases in three New York counties for unrelated offenses, including possession of crack cocaine and illegally wearing a bulletproof vest.
2001 - Elvis Presley was inducted into The Gospel Association Hall Of Fame.
2005 - Multi-millionaire defense contractor David H. Brooks booked New York’s Rainbow Rooms and his daughter Elizabeth’s favorite acts for her bat mitzvah celebration. The stars who appeared included 50 Cent, Tom Petty, Aerosmith, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Stevie Nicks. 50 Cent, who was paid $500,000 to appear performed only four songs but he did manage to work in the lyric, "Go shorty, it's your bat miztvah, we gonna party like it's your bat mitzvah". The party cost an estimated $10 million, including the price of corporate jets to ferry the performers to and from the venue.
Birthdays:
1935 Al Jackson Jr of Booker T & The MGs
1942 Jimi Hendrix
1944 Eddie Rabbitt
1945 Randy Brecker of Blood Sweat & Tears
1948 Dave Winthrop of Supertramp
1951 Kevin Kavanaugh of The Asbury Jukes
1959 Charlie Burchill of Simple Minds
1962 Calvin Hayes of Johnny Hates Jazz
1962 Charlie Benante of Anthrax
1962 Mike "Puffy" Bordin of Faith No More
1965 Fiachna O'Braonain of Hothouse Flowers
1965 Wallis Buchannan of Jamiroquai
1971 Terry Corso of Alien Ant Farm
1973 Twista
Lyric Of The Day:
"I got rhythm, I can't miss a beat.
I got-a new skank so reet.
Got something. I'm winking at you,
Gonna make you, make you notice.
Gonna use my arms,
Gonna use my legs,
Gonna use style,
Gonna use my sidestep
Gonna use my fingers, gon' use my my my imagination."
-- The Pretenders, Brass In Pocket
Quote Of The Day:
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-- Jimi Hendrix
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