... and more July 20 birthdays –
Buddy Knox (1933) – American singer/songwriter ("Party Doll").
T. G. Sheppard (aka Billy Browder, 1944) – Country music singer
("Devil In The Bottle").
John Almond (1946) – The Alan Price, Set, Mark-Almond.
Tony Thorpe (1947) – guitarist for The Rubettes.
Jay Jay French (aka John Segall, 1952) – guitarist for Twisted Sister.
Paul Cook (1956) – drummer for The Sex Pistols.
Michael McNeil (1958) – keyboardist for Simple Minds.
Chris Cornell (1964) – vocalist for Soundgarden and Audio Slave.
Stone Gossard (1966) – guitarist for Pearl Jam.July 20 R.I.P. – Guglielmo Marconi (1937) – heart attack. Age 63. Inventor of the radio. Roy Hamilton (1969) – stroke. Age 40. American singer. Gary Kellgren (1977) – drowned. Age 38. Co-founder of The Record Plant recording studios. July 20 album releases – The Beatles – Something New (1964) U.S. Jefferson Airplane – Long John Silver (1972) Mott The Hoople – Mott (1973) Santana and John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender (1973) REO Speedwagon – Nine Lives (1979) The Ramones – Pleasant Dreams (1981) July 20 events – 1940 – Billboard magazine publishes its first Music Popularity Chart, combining record sales charts and ranking the hits of all major labels. 1954 – Elvis Presley and The Blue Moon Boys (Scotty Moore and Bill Black) perform on a flatbed truck at the opening of a new Memphis drugstore. 1961 – The Mersey Beat music trade paper announces that The Beat Brothers (aka The Beatles) have signed their first recording contract with famed German producer, Bert Kaempfert. 1963 – Lesley Gore releases her second single, "Judy's Turn To Cry" b/ w "Just Let Me Cry" on Mercury Records. 1964 – Capitol Records releases The Beatles single, "And I Love Her" b/ w "If I Fell." 1965 – Frank Sinatra puts his hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Chineses Theatre in L.A. 1965 – Bob Dylan releases his single, "Like A Rolling Stone" b/w "Gates Of Eden" on Columbia. 1968 – Jane Asher announces that her engagement to Paul McCartney is off and that they've split up on the BBC TV show Dee Time. 1968 – Joe Tex and Steppenwolf appear on American Bandstand. 1971 – The Carpenters' summer variety series, Make Your Own Kind Of Music, begins airing on NBC, and runs for seven weeks. 1973 – Joan Baez hosts The Midnight Special, with guests Wilson Pickett, The Pointer Sisters, Black Oak Arkansas, Bloodstone, Steve Goodman, and Baez's sister, Mimi Fariña. 1974 – Billed as "Bucolic Frolic," Tim Buckley, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Van Morrison, The Doobie Brothers and The Allman Brothers Band all appear at Knebworth. 1975 – Steve Van Zandt begins his first tour with Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band in Providence, Rhode Island. 1976 – The Buzzcocks make their live debut supporting The Sex Pistols and Slaughter & The Dogs at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester. 1979 – The Electric Light Orchestra takes out ads dedicating the release of their single, "Don't Bring Me Down," to the Skylab space station, which is about to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in bits and pieces. 1986 – Santana celebrates his 39th birthday and the 20th anniversary of his band with a concert in San Francisco, re-uniting all 17 past and present members on stage. 1986 – Sid And Nancy, a film biography of Sid Vicious and The Sex Pistols, premieres in London. 1995 – Public Enemy's Flavor Flav breaks both of his arms in a motorcycle accident in Milan. 2000 – The historic Evergreen Ballroom in Lacey, Washington - host to innumerable concerts throughout the '50s, '60s and '70s - is burned to the ground by an arsonist. 2008 – Rapper DMX is arrested at a Phoenix mall for giving a false name and Social Security number at a Mayo Clinic in an attempt to avoid the medical bills. 2009 – Jackson Browne settles his lawsuit against U.S. Senator John McCain and the Republican Party for using his 1977 hit "Running On Empty" without permission in a 2008 McCain presidential campaign ad that aired on TV and the Internet. 2010 – Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi settle their long-running dispute over who owns the rights to the name Black Sabbath. 2011 – Rare and unseen pictures of The Beatles' first U.S. concert in Washington DC, taken by a then 18-year-old Mike Mitchell, sell at Christie's auction house for $361,938. ____________________ Events correction -- 1965 – The Lovin' Spoonful releases their first single, "Do You Believe In Magic" b/w "On The Road Again" on the Kama Sutra label.
