Jeez forgot Norton passed a few years back. Steve Miller Band played
Scotland for the first time in almost 30 years last week, good review!
http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/steve-miller-band-glasgow-royal-concert-hall.19213602
On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:20:18 PM UTC, Eidem wrote:
> 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.
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