April 2 Born –
Herbert Mills (1912) – The Mills Brothers.
Lou Monte (aka Louis Scaglione, 1917) – novelty records singer
("Pepino, The Italian Mouse").
David Mason (1926) – British trumpeter, piccolo trumpet on "Penny
Lane."
Serge Gainsbourg (aka Lucien Ginsburg, 1928) – French singer/
songwriter
Warner Mack (1938) – Country music singer/songwriter ("The Bridge
Washed Out").
Marvin Gaye (1939) – singer/songwriter.
Kent Morrill (1941) – keyboardist for The Wailers.
Leon Russell (aka Claude Bridges, 1942) – singer/songwriter, session
pianist.
Phil "Parrot" Castrodale (1942) – The Reflections.
Larry Coryell (1943) – Jazz guitarist.
Glen Dale (1943) – The Fortunes.
Kurt Winter (1946) – guitarist for The Guess Who.
Emmylou Harris (1947) – singer/songwriter.
Dave Bronze (1952) – British session bassist.
Leon Wilkeson (1952) – bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
David Robinson (1949) – drummer for The Cars.
Gregory Abbott (1954) – Soul singer.
Keren Woodward (1961) – Bananarama.
Tony Franklin (1962) – bassist for The Firm.
Garnett Silk (1966) – Jamaican reggae singer/musician.
Greg Camp (1967) – guitarist for Smash Mouth.
Jesse Carmichael (1979) – keyboardist for Maroon 5.April 2 R.I.P. – Buddy Rich (1987) – heart failure after surgery. Age 69. Jazz drummer/ bandleader. Paula Kelly (1992) – Age 72. Big band singer, The Modernaires. Roosevelt “Booba” Barnes (1996) – cancer. Age 59. Delta blues singer/ guitarist. Guitar Gabriel (1996) – Age 70. Blues musician (“Welfare Blues”). Rob Pilatus (1998) – overdose. Age 33. Milli Vanilli. Cor van der Beek (1998) – Age 49. Drummer for Shocking Blue. Edwin Starr (2003) – heart attack. Age 61. R&B/soul singer. Clifford “Bud” Shank (2009) – pulmonary embolism. Age 82. Jazz saxophonist, flute solo on “California Dreamin’.” April 2 album releases – Elvis Presley – Kissin’ Cousins (1964) Donny Hathaway – Donny Hathaway (1971) The Beatles – 1962-1966 (red album) (1973) The Beatles – 1967-1970 (blue album) (1973) Bad Company – Straight Shooter (1975) Phyllis Hyman – Phyllis Hyman (1977) Jefferson Starship – Modern Times (1981) Lenny Kravitz – Mama Said (1991) Eric Clapton – Crossroads 2: Live In The Seventies (1996) (box set) Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – No More Shall We Part (2001) Genesis – Genesis 1976-1982 (2007) (box set) Europe April 2 events – 1942 – Glenn Miller and His Orchestra record "American Patrol" at RCA Victor Studios in Hollywood. 1946 – Perry Como records “Surrender” at RCA Studios in New York City. 1955 – The Louisiana Hayride does a live television remote broadcast from City Auditorium in Houston, featuring Elvis Presley, Slim Whitman, Johnny Horton, Hoot and Curly, Tibby Edwards and Floyd Cramer. 1956 – Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two record "I Walk The Line" at Sun Studios. 1957 – Elvis Presley performs at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens: the first of only five concerts that Presley will perform outside of the U.S. 1964 – The Beach Boys record the backing track for "I Get Around." 1964 – Jerry Wallace records “In The Misty Moonlight” in Hollywood. 1965 – Ready, Steady, Go! changes its lip-synching format for Ready Steady Goes Live! featuring Tom Jones, The Yardbirds, Dionne Warwick, Manfred Mann, The Roulettes, The Kinks, The Artwoods, and Cliff Bennett and The Rebel Rousers. 1965 – Freddie and The Dreamers record “Do The Freddie.” 1965 – The Who make their BBC radio debut on The Joe Loss Pop Show. 1966 – Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass put four albums in the Billboard Top 10 and make history. No other act has done it before or since. 1966 – The Sonny & Cher Appreciation Concert, a benefit for the Braille Institute of America sponsored by KHJ-AM radio, is held at the Hollywood Bowl, featuring Jan and Dean, Sonny and Cher, The Mamas and The Papas, The Turtles, Otis Redding, Donovan, The Righteous Brothers and others. 1967 – A concert goer throws a smoke bomb on stage at a Rolling Stones concert in Vienna, causing a riot. 154 people are arrested. 1967 – Steve and Muff Winwood quit The Spencer Davis Group. 1968 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience appears at the Paul Suavé Arena in Montreal, Canada. 1969 – Bruce Springsteen's new group Child makes their stage debut at the Pandemonium Club in Wanamassa, New Jersey. 1969 – Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and The Vogues appear on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. 1970 – Phil Spector completes his work on the Let It Be album, 15 months after the sessions ended. 1970 – Janis Joplin gets tattoos on her wrist and chest at Lyle Tuttle’s shop in San Francisco. 1981 – CBS Records launches their "Nice Price" series of back catalog albums in the UK. 1987 – U2 begins their 29-date North American Joshua Tree tour at Arizona State’s Activity Center in Tempe. 1987 – Singer k.d. lang makes her Los Angeles debut at the Roxy. 1990 – Eric Clapton is fined £300 with £10 costs and is banned from driving for three months by Walton-on-Thames Magistrates court, after being booked for speeding at 105mph. 1990 – Nirvana enters Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin for four days of demo sessions with Butch Vig producing. Songs demoed include “In Bloom,” “Dive,” “Lithium,” “Pay To Play,” “Imodium,” “Sappy” and “Polly.” 1991 – LL Cool J gives a pair of sneakers to every student and teacher at Thompson Middle School in Dorchester, Massachusetts to celebrate them winning the Foot Locker Cool School video contest. 1992 – Country music singer Wynonna Judd begins her first solo tour in Midland, Texas. 1993 – Roberta Flack appears as herself on the ABC-TV soap opera, Loving. 1997 – Joni Mitchell reunites with her daughter, Kilauren Gibb, who she adopted out at the beginning of her career, after 32 years. 1998 – Metallica kicks off their 61-date Poor Re-Touring Me Tour at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre in Newcastle, Australia. 1999 – The Black Crowes perform in Knoxville, Tennessee. In the second row is teenager Joshua Harmon, who will sue the band a year later for $5,000 claiming hearing loss. 2001 – Mariah Carey signs with Virgin Records for $82 million. 2004 – Coldplay singer Chris Martin is accused of attacking photographer Alessandro Copetti after leaving a London restaurant with his wife Gwyneth Paltrow. Copetti claims he was taking pictures of the singer and his wife outside a restaurant when Martin kicked him from behind. 2005 – Thousands show up for an autograph signing with Kanye West in Fresno, California when a fight breaks out between a fan and a security guard. West leaves before even getting started, while the shop owners lock all the doors and clear the fans from the stores’ parking area. 2006 – A schoolbook belonging to 12-year old John Lennon containing drawing of Lewis Carroll's poem The Walrus And The Carpenter is sold at an auction for £126,500. The poem inspired Lennon to write The Beatles' 1967 song “I Am The Walrus.” Also sold for £12,000 is a ship's log book written by Lennon during a stormy trip to Bermuda in 1980. A letter from Paul McCartney to his band mates Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr failed to reach its £50,000 reserve price. 2010 – Three men are hurt - one with a broken leg - when a section of staging collapses at the Chichen Itza ruins in Mexico while setting up for an Elton John concert. 2011 – Elton John hosts Saturday Night Live, with musical guest Leon Russell. The two perform “Hey Ahab” together. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
