October 30 Born –
Patsy Montana (aka Ruby Blevins, 1908) – Country music singer/
songwriter ("I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart").
Ray Smith (1934) – Rockabilly artist (“Rockin’ Little Angel”).
Hamilton Camp (1934) – singer/songwriter/actor (“Pride Of Man”).
Eddie Holland (1939) – songwriter for Motown.
Grace Slick (aka Grace Wing, 1939) – Jefferson Airplane and Starship.
Otis “Big Daddy” Williams (1941) – The Temptations.
Chris Slade (aka Christopher Rees, 1946) – drummer for Manfred Mann’s
Earth Band and AC/DC.
Timothy B. Schmit (1947) – bassist for Poco and The Eagles.
David Green (1949) – Australian bassist for Air Supply.
Joey Belladonna (aka Joesph Bellardini, 1960) – vocalist for Anthrax.
Gavin Rossdale (1965) – guitarist/vocalist for Bush.
Tommy Walter (1970) – bassist for Eels, and Abandoned Pools.October 30 R.I.P. – Malcolm Hale (1968) – carbon monoxide poisoning. Age 27. Spanky and Our Gang. Kirby Grant (1985) – car crash. Age 73. Child prodigy violinist, singer/bandleader/actor (Sky King). Jam Master Jay (2002) – murdered. Age 37. Run-D.M.C. Robert Goulet (2007) – idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Age 73. Canadian singer/actor. Linda Stein (2007) – murdered. Age 62. Manager of The Ramones. Andrew “Mike” Terry (2008) – Age 68. Saxophonist with Motown’s Funk Brothers. Norton Buffalo (2009) – lung and brain cancer. Age 58. Singer/ songwriter/harmonica player, The Steve Miller Band. October 30 album releases – Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield Again (1967) Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection (1970) The Who – Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy (1971) Pink Floyd – Meddle (1971) George Michael – Faith (1987) Billy Joel – Storm Front (1989) U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) Lenny Kravitz – Lenny (2001) Michael Jackson – Invincible (2001) The Who – Endless Wire (2006) The Eagles – Long Road Out Of Eden (2007) October 30 events – 1937 – 18-year old Kitty Wells marries country singer Johnnie Wright. They remain married for 74 years, until Johnnie’s death in 2011. 1957 – Billy Myles appears on American Bandstand. 1958 – Neil Sedaka records “The Diary” at RCA Studios in New York City. 1960 – During sessions for the His Hand In Mine gospel album, Elvis Presley records “Surrender” and “Crying In The Chapel.” 1961 – Two days after Beatles fan Raymond Jones asks for The Beatles' German single “My Bonnie” at Brian Epstein's NEMS record store in Liverpool, two girls ask for the same record. Epstein's difficulty in locating the record is due to the fact that the record was released by Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers. 1961 – The Crystals release their single, “Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby” b/w “There’s No Other (Like My Baby)” on Philles Records. 1963 – On the final day of their Swedish tour, The Beatles record an appearance at Narren-teatern for the Sverige Television program Drop In in Stockholm. They perform “She Loves You,” “Twist And Shout,” “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Long Tall Sally.” 1965 – Billy Preston, The Wellingtons, Bobby Sherman, Jackie and Gayle, Jim Doval and The Gauchos all appear on the Halloween edition of Shindig!, with co-hosts Boris Karloff and Adams Family’s Lurch, Ted Cassidy. 1965 – Country artist Ronnie Milsap marries Joyce Reeves. They’re still married. 1966 – James Brown sings a medley of his hits, and Nancy Sinatra sings “Sugar Town” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show is Mrs. Miller. 1967 – Rolling Stone Brian Jones pleads guilty in a London court to possession of marijuana, and not guilty to possession of cocaine and methedrine. He is sentenced to nine months in jail, and spends the night in Wormwood Scrubs prison. 1967 – Unsigned group Tyrannosaurus Rex records a session for the UK Radio 1 show Top Gear at the urging of Top Gear DJ John Peel. 1968 – The MC5 plays the first of two nights at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, and record both shows for their first album. 1968 – Marvin Gaye releases his single “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” b/w "You're What's Happening (In The World Today)" on the Tamla label. 1970 – Hotlegs makes their stage debut opening for The Moody Blues at the Royal Festival Hall in London. 1970 – Jim Morrison is sentenced to six months in prison and fined $500 in a Miami courtroom for allegedly exposing himself during a concert there the previous year. The case is still on appeal when Morrison dies the following July. 1970 – Davy Jones appears as himself on "The Teen Idol" episode of ABC- TV's Make Room For Granddaddy. 1972 – Elton John becomes only the second rock act - after The Beatles - to perform for Queen Elizabeth II at her annual Royal Command Variety Performance in London. 1973 – On their first visit to the UK, The Osmonds are mobbed by 10,000 fans at London's Heathrow Airport. 1974 – Kathy Silvia files for divorce from her husband Sly Stone. 1975 – Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour opens at War Memorial Auditorium in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with Joan Baez as part of the tour. 1979 – Bianca Jagger’s divorce from Mick becomes final. 1984 – Barry Manilow plays the first of ten sold-out nights at Radio City Music Hall. The concert series will set a box office record and beat Diana Ross' old Radio City Music Hall record of $1.8 million. 1984 – Linda Ronstadt makes her grand opera debut in a production of La Boheme at New York's Public Theatre. 1988 – Nirvana plays at a dorm party at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, in room K 208. 1990 – Guns ‘N Roses singer Axl Rose is arrested for hitting his neighbor over the head with a wine bottle when the neighbor complains about loud music coming from the singer’s house. Rose is released on $10,000 bail. 1997 – The Bee Gees walk off the set of Clive Anderson's BBC-TV talk show All Talk after Anderson disparages their disco era and refers to them as "tossers." 1998 – KISS appears in make-up and without in the “…Thirteen Years Later” episode of Fox’s television show, Millennium. 1998 – As a Halloween treat, Black Sabbath reunites to play “Paranoid” on The Late Show With David Letterman. 1998 – Bon Jovi kicks off a 232-date world tour with a performance at the RDS Arena in Dublin, Ireland. 2002 – The post office in the Hancock Park suburb of Los Angeles is re- named the Nat King Cole Post Office after the singer and one-time resident. 2003 – Pink Floyd’s manager, Steve O’Rourke, suffers a massive stroke in Miami, Florida and passes away at age 63. 2003 – Beatrice Milly McCartney is born to Paul and Heather Mills. 2004 – An arrest warrant is issued for Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil after he knocks a soundman unconscious during a concert at Gilley's nightclub in Dallas. Neil punched Michael Talbert in the face after asking him for more guitar volume in his monitor, and attacked Talbert as he adjusted it. 2005 – Nine days before tickets go on sale, hundreds of people line up outside the Sheffield Arena to make sure they get tickets to see Sir Cliff Richard in concert a year later, on November 22, 2006. 2006 – The 17th annual Q Magazine Awards ceremony is held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, honoring the top British acts in popular music. Winners include The Arctic Monkeys for best album and the people's choice awards; U2 for innovation; Smokey Robinson - with his first ever UK award - for his outstanding contribution to music, and Boy George for the song “Karma Chameleon.” Muse won best live act, The Who received the Q Legend Award, and Primal Scream won the Q Groundbreaker Award. 2009 – Elton John is hospitalized with the flu and an E. coli infection.
