... and more August 5 birthdays –
Jeri Southern (aka Genevieve Hering, 1926) – Jazz pianist/singer
("Fire Down Below").
Damita Jo DeBlanc (1930) – American singer/lounge performer ("I'll Be
There").
Vern Gosdin (1934) – Country music singer ("I'm Still Crazy").
Thomas "Tam" Paton (1938) – manager of The Bay City Rollers.
Greg Leskiw (1947) – guitarist for The Guess Who.
Louis Walsh (1952) – Irish music act manager.
Samantha Sang (1951) – Australian singer ("Emotion").
Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda (1955) – guitarist for Twisted Sister.
Pat Smear (aka Georg Ruthenberg, 1959) – guitarist for Foo Fighters,
Nirvana and The Germs.
Pete Burns (1959) – singer for Dead Or Alive.
Stuart Neale (1960) – keyboardist for Kajagoogoo.
MCA (aka Adam Yauch, 1964) – The Beastie Boys.
Jeff Coffin (1965) – saxophonist for The Dave Matthews Band and Béla
Fleck and The Flecktones.
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Birthday correction --
Airto Moreira was born in 1941.
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August 5 R.I.P. –
Luther Perkins (1968) – fire. Age 40. Country music guitarist with The
Tennessee Three.
Jeff Porcaro (1992) – hardening of the arteries from cocaine use. Age
38. Toto.
Michael Rudetsky (1986) – heroin overdose. Age 27. Keyboardist for
Culture Club.
Randy Jo Hobbs (1993) – heart failure/drug overdose. Age 45. Bassist
for Johnny Winter.
Robert Hazard (2008) – pancreatic cancer. Age 59. Songwriter ("Girls
Just Wanna Have Fun").
August 5 album releases –
The Beatles – Revolver (1966) UK
The Stooges – The Stooges (1969)
Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Punch The Clock (1983)
August 5 events –
1943 – Frank Sinatra records "Oh, What A Beautiful Morning" and
"People Will Say We're In Love."
1955 – Bob Neal's eighth annual Country Music Jamboree takes places at
the Overton Park Shell in Memphis, featuring Elvis Presley, Webb
Pierce, Sonny James, Johnny Cash and others.
1957 – Philadelphia television show, Bandstand, goes national and
becomes American Bandstand.
1957 – Specialty Records hires Sonny Bono as their new A&R man.
1959 – The Isley Brothers record "Shout" at RCA Victor's Music Center
of the World in New York.
1961 – Themetta Suggs gives birth to Charles Edward Anderson Berry,
Jr.; Chuck's second child.
1964 – The Beach Boys record the backing track for "When I Grow Up (To
Be A Man)."
1965 – On the first day of filming the Jan and Dean movie, Easy Come,
Easy Go, Jan Berry breaks his leg and 17 others are injured in a
camera car accident. Paramount Pictures cancels the film.
1966 – The Beatles release their single, "Eleanor Rigby" b/w "Yellow
Submarine" in the UK.
1967 – Bobby Gentry's "Ode To Billy Joe" debuts on Billboard's Hot
100.
1972 – Clive Davis catches Aerosmith's show at Max's Kansas City in
New York, and immediately signs them to Columbia Records.
1972 – The London Rock and Roll Show takes place at Wembley, featuring
Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis
and others. Roy Wood's Wizzard makes their stage debut.
1972 – The Moody Blues re-release their single, "Nights In White
Satin" b/w "Cities."
1975 – Stevie Wonder signs a new contract with Motown for $13 million.
1975 – Kim Fowley forms the first all-female hard rock band, The
Runaways.
1976 – NBC airs The Beach Boys' primetime special, It's OK.
1977 – The Mont de Marsan Punk Festival takes place in France,
featuring The Clash, The Police, The Damned, The Boys, The Rich Kids
and others.
1979 – Def Leppard signs with Phonogram Records.
1980 – The Osmonds officially disband.
1981 – Olivia Newton-John receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame.
1983 – David Crosby is sentenced to five years in jail for cocaine
possession.
1984 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band play the first of 10
sold out nights at the Meadowlands in New Jersey.
1986 – Culture Club keyboardist, Michael Rudetsky, is found dead in
Boy George's apartment from a heroin overdose.
1994 – Billy Idol is hospitalized for a drug overdose.
1996 – Wilson Pickett checks into court-ordered rehab for cocaine
addiction.
1997 – DJ, The Real Don Steele, one of the original L.A. "Boss Jocks,"
dies from lung cancer at 61.
2007 – DNA tests confirm that two of the twelve people tested claiming
to be the "children" of James Brown are indeed his children, and will
be added to the six already listed in Brown's will.
2007 – Proctor & Gamble debuts its Luvs Diapers commercial, using The
Beatles' song "All You Need Is Love."
2009 – 53-year old Mark McLeod is charged with stalking 17-year old
television star and singer, Miley Cyrus.
2009 – Aerosmith's Steven Tyler falls off the stage at the Sturgis
Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, and is airlifted to a hospital in
Rapid City.
2009 – Woodstock promoter Michael Lang cancels plans for a 40th
anniversary Woodstock concert due to no money or sponsors.
