Happy Birthday Nels!
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On Friday, January 4, 2013 4:05:02 PM UTC, Eidem wrote:
> January 4 Born –
> Don Arden (aka Harry Levy, 1926) – British music manager for Small
> Faces and ELO.
> Jimmy Arnold (1932) – The Four Lads.
> Ray Starling (1933) – British jazz trumpeter.
> John Gorman (1936) – The Scaffold (“Lily The Pink”).
> John McLaughlin (1942) – Mahavishnu Orchestra.
> Volker Hombach (1944) – Tangerine Dream.
> Arthur Conley (1946) – R&B singer ("Sweet Soul Music").
> Clive Gregson (1955) – British singer/songwriter.
> Bernard Sumner (1956) – guitarist for Joy Division.
> Nels Cline (1956) – songwriter/guitarist for Wilco.
> Patty Loveless (1957)
> Marcel King (1958) – Sweet Sensation.
> Michael Stipe (1960) – R.E.M.
> Martin McAloon (1962) – bassist for Prefab Sprout.
> Peter Steele (1962) – bassist for Type O Negative.
> Robin Guthrie (1962) – The Cocteau Twins.
> Till Lindemann (1963) – vocalist for Rammstein.
> Beth Gibbons (1965) – singer for Portishead.
> Cait O’Riordan (1965) – bassist for The Pogues.
> Son of Dave (aka Benjamin Darvill, 1967) – Crash Test Dummies.
>
> January 4 R.I.P. –
> Phil Lynott (1986) – pneumonia and multiple organ failure due to
> sepsis. Age 36. Thin Lizzy.
> John Gary (1998) – cancer. Age 65. Singer.
> Les Brown (2001) – lung cancer. Age 88. Les Brown and The Band of
> Renown.
> Bill “Little Bo” Savich (2002) – cancer. Age 62. Drummer for Johnny
> and The Hurricanes.
> Gerry Rafferty (2011) – liver failure. Age 63.
>
> January 4 album releases –
> The Doors – The Doors (1967)
> Grace Slick – Manhole (1974)
> The Romantics – The Romantics (1980)
> The Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (1983) UK
> Judas Priest – Defenders Of The Faith (1984)
> Marillion – B’Sides Themselves (1988)
> L.A. Guns – L.A. Guns (1988)
> L.A. Guns – Lack Of Charisma (1993)
>
> January 4 events –
> 1932 – NBC Red begins airing the music program, The Carnation
> Contented Hour.
> 1950 – Two years after Columbia Records introduces the long-playing
> record, RCA announces its intention to follow suit.
> 1953 – The funeral for Hank Williams takes place at the City
> Auditorium in Montgomery, Alabama.
> 1954 – Elvis Presley makes his second visit to the Memphis Recording
> Service. For the price of $4, Presley cuts two songs onto a 10 inch
> acetate, "Casual Love Affair" and "I'll Never Stand In Your Way."
> Studio boss, Sam Phillips, asks Presley to leave his phone number.
> 1955 – Perry Como records “Ko-Ko-Mo (I Love You So)” at Webster Hall
> in New York City.
> 1957 – Solomon Burke is introduced by boxer Joe Louis and makes his
> television debut on The Steve Allen Show.
> 1957 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “Too Much” b/w “Playing For
> Keeps.” As his new record hits the shelves, Elvis reports to the
> Kennedy Veterans Hospital for his pre-Army induction physical.
> 1957 – Louis Jordan records “Nobody Knows You When You're Down and
> Out.”
> 1960 – Bobby Rydell records “Wild One” for Cameo Records.
> 1962 – The Beatles top a popularity poll by Mersey Beat, and are
> featured heavily in the issue for the first time.
> 1962 – Gene McDaniels records "Point Of No Return."
> 1963 – Roy Orbison records “In Dreams,” “Falling,” “Shahdaroba” and
> “Distant Drums” in Nashville.
> 1965 – Leo Fender sells his Fender Guitar Company to CBS for $13
> million.
> 1965 – Tony Bennett records “If I Ruled The World.”
> 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience appears at the Bromel Club inside
> the Bromley Court Hotel in Kent.
> 1969 – UK music weekly Disc and Music Echo reports that The Beatles
> are to release five new albums. One will be their first ever live
> album, plus four separate LPs.
> 1969 – Country artists George Jones and Dolly Parton join the Grand
> Ole Opry.
> 1970 – Keith Moon accidently runs over and kills his driver/bodyguard,
> Neil Boland, when Boland exits the car to move some unruly fans. With
> Boland outside the car, Moon panics and gets behind the wheel and
> steps on the gas, running over Boland.
> 1970 – Oliver performs “Jean” and “Good Morning Starshine” on The Ed
> Sullivan Show. Also on the show are Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
> 1971 – The Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg film, Performance,
> premieres in London.
> 1972 – Yes releases their single, “Roundabout” b/w “Long Distance
> Runaround.”
> 1973 – The Allman Brothers Band announces that Lamar Williams will be
> replacing the recently deceased Berry Oakley on bass.
> 1974 – Bruce Springsteen plays the first of three nights at Joe’s
> Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with opening act Peter Johnson &
> The Manic Depressives.
> 1977 – The Sex Pistols shock passengers and airline staff at Heathrow
> Airport when they spit and vomit boarding a plane to Amsterdam. This
> proves to be the last straw for their EMI record label.
> 1978 – Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green marries Jane Samuel
> in Los Angeles.
> 1979 – The Star Club re-opens in Hamburg, Germany.
> 2001 – Courtney Love files a lawsuit against the ex-wife of her
> current boyfriend Jim Barber, accusing Lesley Barber of stalking her
> and driving over her foot and forcing her to forfeit a role in a
> forthcoming film.
> 2001 – Rapper Vanilla Ice (aka Bob Van Winkle) is arrested and jailed
> in Broward County in Fort Lauderdale after ripping out some of his
> wife's hair, telling police he pulled out some of her hair to prevent
> her from jumping out of their truck's window. Ice is released the
> following morning on $3,500 bail.
> 2004 – The Kinks’ Ray Davies is shot in the leg while chasing two
> muggers who stole a ladies purse in New Orleans.
> 2004 – Britney Spears marries childhood friend Jason Alexander at the
> Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. The marriage will be
> annulled less than 55 hours later, with Spears’ lawyers saying she
> “lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was
> incapable of agreeing to the marriage.”
> 2005 – A.J. Abdallah, the owner of the Detroit recording studio where
> Eminem recorded his Slim Shady album, is found shot dead by a business
> colleague. It is thought that he’s been dead for at least two days,
> and police suggest that a robbery may also have taken place.
> 2006 – Bee Gee Barry Gibb buys Johnny Cash’s longtime Hendersonville,
> Tennessee home for $2.9 million.
> 2007 – Nikki Bacharach, the only child of songwriter Burt Bacharach
> and actress Angie Dickinson, commits suicide by suffocation using a
> plastic bag and helium at 40-years old.
> 2008 – Beyonce wins a long-running copyright dispute against her over
> her hit song “Baby Boy” when an appeals court in Houston, Texas
> upholds a 2006 decision which dismissed musician Jennifer Armour's
> claims that the song’s lyrics were based on her work.
> 2008 – Britney Spears is carried out of her home on a stretcher and
> taken into custody after police are called in a custodial dispute
> involving her children. After nearly three hours, Spears eventually
> hands over her children to her ex-husband Kevin Federline, and is then
> taken away.
> 2012 – Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry, 66, marries his second wife, 29-year
> old Amanda Sheppard.
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