Happy Birthday Elizabeth!
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On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:07:47 PM UTC+1, Eidem wrote:
> August 29 Born –
> Charlie "Bird" Parker (1920) – Jazz saxophonist.
> Dinah Washington (aka Ruth Jones, 1924) – R&B/jazz singer ("Baby Get
> Lost").
> Johnny Paris (aka John Pocisk, 1940) – Johnny and The Hurricanes.
> Dick Halligan (1943) – keyboardist for Blood, Sweat & Tears.
> Chris Copping (1945) – keyboardist for The Paramounts and Procol
> Harum.
> Rick Downey (1953) – drummer for Blue Öyster Cult.
> Kevin "GG" Allin (1956) – vocalist for The Jabbers.
> Michael Jackson (1958)
> Jeff Fehily (1963) – drummer for Hothouse Flowers.
> Elizabeth Fraser (1963) – Cocteau Twins.
> Pebbles (aka Perri McKissack, 1964) – TLC.
> Kyle Cook (1975) – guitarist for Matchbox 20.
>
> August 29 R.I.P. –
> Jimmy Reed (1976) – respiratory failure. Age 50. Blues guitarist/
> songwriter ("Big Boss Man").
> Guy Stevens (1981) – overdose. Age 38. British producer, manager.
> Charlie Feathers (1998) – stroke. Age 66. Rockabilly artist.
> "Jumpin'" Gene Simmons (2006) – Age 73. Rockabilly singer ("Haunted
> House").
> Simon Dee (2009) – bone cancer. Age 74. British radio DJ, and TV host
> of Dee Time.
> David “Honeyboy” Edwards (2011) – congestive heart failure. Age 96.
> Delta blues singer/guitarist.
>
> August 29 album releases –
> Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour (1969)
> Warren Zevon – Sentimental Hygiene (1987)
> The Rolling Stones – Steel Wheels (1989)
> Lenny Kravitz – Black And White America (2011)
>
> August 29 events –
> 1946 – Ella Fitzgerald and The Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's A Pity
> To Say Goodnight.”
> 1958 – The first of Alan Freed's Big Beat revues is held at Brooklyn’s
> Fox Theatre in New York, featuring Chuck Berry, Billy Haley and His
> Comets, Frankie Avalon, The Elegants, Bobby Freeman, and Jimmy
> Clanton.
> 1959 – The Quarrymen play on opening night of Mona Best’s Casbah Club.
> George Harrison joins the group on stage.
> 1962 – Elvis Presley’s 10th movie, Kid Galahad, opens in theaters
> nationwide.
> 1964 – The Beatles play their second concert at the Forest Hills
> Tennis Stadium in New York, concluding their first U.S. tour.
> 1964 – With the British Invasion in full swing, Billboard magazine
> notes that guitar sales are the highest they've been since the advent
> of Elvis Presley.
> 1964 – Roy Orbison releases his single, “Oh Pretty Woman” b/w “Yo Te
> Amo Maria.”
> 1965 – The Beatles play the first of two nights at the Hollywood Bowl.
> 1966 – The last episode of Hullaballoo airs on NBC.
> 1966 – The Beatles play the last date of their last U.S. tour at the
> Cow Palace in San Francisco.
> 1970 – The Man Pop Festival takes place at Winnipeg Stadium in
> Manitoba, featuring Led Zeppelin, The Youngbloods, Iron Butterfly and
> The Ides Of March.
> 1976 – The Sex Pistols appear at Screen On The Green, with The Clash
> and The Buzzcocks as opening acts.
> 1977 – Three men are arrested near the Forest Hill Cemetery mausoleum
> in Memphis for attempting to steal the body of Elvis Presley, where he
> is entombed in a 900-pound copper coffin. The incident prompts the
> family to move Elvis’ coffin back to Graceland.
> 1981 – The two-day Rock On The Tyne festival begins in Gateshead,
> featuring U2, Lindisfarne, Elvis Costello, Rory Gallagher, Ian Dury,
> Wang Chung and others.
> 1986 – The original American Bandstand studio, located at 4548 Market
> Street in Philadelphia, is entered into the U.S. National Register of
> Historic Places.
> 1992 – U2 plays Yankee Stadium: the second act to ever do so (after
> Billy Joel).
> 1995 – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service places a lien on Aretha
> Franklin's home for $661,456 in back taxes.
> 1995 – Two members of Meat Loaf's music video film crew, filming the
> video for “I’d Lie For You,” are killed when their helicopter strikes
> some power lines and crashes in Sequoia National Park.
> 1999 – HBO airs Cher: Live From Las Vegas.
> 2005 – Fats Domino is rescued from his flooded home in New Orleans'
> Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina.
> 2008 – Organizers of the Rock En Seine festival in Paris threaten
> legal action against Amy Winehouse when she cancels her appearance as
> concert headliner two hours before show time.
> 2008 – Rapper DMX (aka Earl Simmons) pleads guilty to trying to buy
> cocaine and cannabis in Miami, and is sentenced to time served.
> However, Simmons is kept in custody awaiting extradition to the state
> of Arizona on outstanding drug and animal cruelty charges.
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