... and a couple more December 1 birthdays – Matt Munro (1930) – nightclub singer. Dianne Lennon (1939) – The Lennon Sisters. Charlie Grima (1944) – drummer for Wizzard. Eric Bloom (1944) – guitarist for Blue Öyster Cult. Steve Jansen (1959) – drummer for Japan. Sam Reid (1963) – keyboardist for Glass Tiger. Brad Delson (1977) – guitarist for Linkin Park.
December 1 R.I.P. – Fred Rose (1954) – Age 56. Songwriter, publisher, Acuff-Rose Music. Samuel "Magic Sam" Maghett (1969) – heart attack. Age 32. Chicago blues musician. Horace Heidt (1986) – Age 85. Big band leader, radio/television personality. Billy Lyall (1989) – AIDS. Age 36. Pilot and Bay City Rollers. Irving Gordon (1996) – cancer. Age 81. Songwriter (“Unforgettable”). Stéphane Grappelli (1997) – complications from a hernia operation. Age 89. Jazz violinist with Django Reinhardt. December 1 album releases – The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love (1967) UK The Monkees – Head (1968) Gentle Giant – Octopus (1972) Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) Styx – Equinox (1975) AC/DC – T.N.T. (1975) Australia Aerosmith – Draw The Line (1977) The Doobie Brothers – Minute By Minute (1978) Queen – Live Magic (1986) The Ramones – Acid Eaters (1993) December 1 events – 1931 – Gene Autry debuts his first radio show on station WLS in Chicago. 1944 – Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, along with Joya Sherrill, records “I’m Beginning To See The Light” for RCA Victor. 1945 – Singer Burl Ives makes his concert debut at the Town Hall in New York. 1956 – The musical comedy, The Girl Can’t Help It, premieres in theaters. The film features musical performances by Little Richard and Fats Domino. 1957 – Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Sam Cooke, and The Rays all make their national television debuts on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show is Bobby Helms. 1958 – Neil Sedaka signs with RCA Records. 1958 – Ricky Nelson appears on the cover of Look magazine. 1960 – Bobby Darin, 24, marries 16-year old actress Sandra Dee in music publisher Don Kirshner’s apartment in New York City. 1961 – The Beatles headline a six-act concert entitled The Big Beat Session at the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton, Wallasey. 1961 – Mike Douglas, former big band singer with Kay Kaiser, begins his 20-year career as a television talk show host on KYW-TV in Cleveland. The show will move to Philadelphia in 1965. 1964 – Buck Owens records his classic hits “Cryin' Time” and “I've Got A Tiger By The Tail” in an afternoon recording session at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. 1964 – The Who plays the first of a 22-night Tuesday residency at the Marquee Club in London. 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Move, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Outer Limits and Amen Corner play two shows at Central Hall in Cheltham. 1968 – Janis Joplin plays her last gig with Big Brother and The Holding Company at a Family Dog benefit at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco. 1968 – Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass, Engelbert Humperdinck and Tiny Tim all appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1969 – Bee Gee Barry Gibb announces that he’s "fed up, miserable and completely disillusioned" and is quitting the group. 1971 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their single, “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” b/w “Listen, The Snow Is Falling.” 1975 – Bette Midler undergoes emergency appendectomy surgery on her 30th birthday. 1976 – The Sex Pistols appear on ITV's Today show in place of Queen who pull out at the last minute. When program interviewer Bill Grundy asks the band to say something outrageous, guitarist Steve Jones says, “You dirty bastard...you dirty fucker...what a fucking rotter!” 1977 – Queen appears at Madison Square Garden on their News Of The World Tour. 1980 – The Talking Heads appear at the Hammersmith Odeon in London with opening act U2. 1983 – Neil Young is sued by Geffen Records because his new music for the label is “not commercial in nature and musically uncharacteristic of his previous albums.” 1987 – A Kentucky school teacher loses her appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court over her sacking after showing Pink Floyd's film The Wall to her class. The court decides that the film is not suitable for minors with its bad language and sexual content. 1989 – Sly Stone is sentenced to 55 days in jail after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of cocaine. 1990 – Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille is arrested for public drunkenness in Louisville and spends six hours in jail. 1995 – Christie’s auction house in New York auctions off $2 million worth of the singer’s memorabilia. 2006 – Oasis fan Ben Hayes enjoys "the best day of his life" when Noel Gallagher pops round to his house in Poynton, Cheshire to play an intimate gig. Hayes won a BBC Radio 1 competition to have the star play in his front room as part of a week of gigs hosted by DJ Jo Whiley. 15 people pack into his living room for the gig, with his mother on hand making cups of tea for the crew.
