April 5 Born –
Lord Buckley (aka Richard Buckley, 1906) – stage performer, poet,
recording artist.
Goddard Lieberson (1911) – composer, president of Columbia Records.
Gale Storm (aka Josephine Cottel, 1922) – actress/singer ("I Hear You
Knockin'").
Stan Levey (1926) – Jazz drummer with Stan Kenton and Charlie Parker.
Tony Williams (1928) – lead singer for The Platters.
Joe Meek (1929) – British record producer.
Billy Bland (1932) – R&B singer/songwriter ("Let The Little Girl
Dance").
Stanley Turrentine (1934) – Jazz saxophonist with Bob James and George
Benson.
Peter Grant (1935) – manager for The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin.
Ronnie White (1939) – founder of The Miracles.
Crispian St. Peters (1939) – British singer ("The Pied Piper").
Dave Swarbrick (1941) – violinist for Fairport Convention.
Allan Clarke (1942) – The Hollies.
Nicholas Caldwell (1944) – The Whispers.
Dave Holland (1948) – drummer for Judas Priest.
Agnetha Åse Fältskog (1950) – ABBA.
Everett Morton (1951) – drummer for The Beat.
Lenny Mayes (1951) – The Dramatics.
Stan Ridgway (1954) – lead singer for Wall Of Voodoo.
Mike McCready (1966) – lead guitarist for Pearl Jam.
Paula Cole (1968) – singer/songwriter.April 5 R.I.P. – Vincent Youmans (1946) – tuberculosis. Age 47. Composer, Broadway producer (“No No Nanette”). Phil King (1972) – murdered while gambling. Age 24. Blue Öyster Cult tour manager. Bob "The Bear" Hite (1981) – heart attack. Age 38. Canned Heat. Danny Rapp (1983) – suicide. Age 41. Danny and The Juniors. Kurt Cobain (1994) – suicide. Age 27. Nirvana. Cozy Powell (1998) – car crash. Age 50. Drummer for The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, and Whitesnake. Layne Staley (2002) – speedball overdose. Age 34. Vocalist for Alice In Chains. Gene Pitney (2006) – heart disease. Age 65. Singer. Mark St. John (2007) – cerebral hemorrhage. Age 51. Guitarist for KISS and White Tiger. Gil Robbins (2011) – prostate cancer. Age 80. Folk singer, The Highwaymen. Jim Marshall (2012) – Age 88. Founder of Marshall Amplification. April 5 album releases – Graham Nash and David Crosby – Graham Nash/David Crosby (1972) Johnny Cash – Ragged Old Flag (1974) Journey – Evolution (1979) The Motels – All Four One (1982) Tracy Chapman – Tracy Chapman (1988) David Bowie – Black Tie White Noise (1993) Milla Jovovich – The Divine Comedy (1994) Boz Scaggs – Some Change (1994) Blind Guardian – Imaginations From The Other Side (1995) April 5 events – 1955 – Ray Charles marries his second wife, Della Robinson. 1956 – Frank Sinatra, along with Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra, records “(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know” at Capitol Studios in Hollywood. 1957 – Andy Williams and Peggy Powers record "I Like Your Kind Of Love." 1958 – Johnny Mathis' Greatest Hits, the first ever greatest hits album, is released and stays on the charts for 490 weeks: a record that will finally be broken in 1982 by Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon. 1959 – The Fleetwoods perform “Come Softly To Me” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show are The Billy Williams Quartet and Domenico Modugno. 1961 – Barbra Streisand makes her television debut on The Tonight Show, hosted by Jack Paar, singing "A Sleepin’ Bee" and “When The Sun Comes Out.” 1962 – The Beatles appear at the Cavern club with opening act The Four Jays in a special show sponsored by their Liverpool fan club. The group plays the first half of the show in their leather gear, then change into their suits for the second half. 1964 – The Beatles film the opening sequence of their movie, A Hard Day's Night, at London's Marylebone Station. 1964 – The Searchers make their U.S. television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing "Needles And Pins" and "Ain't That Just Like Me." 1965 – The Beach Boys release their single, "Help Me, Rhonda" b/w "Kiss Me, Baby." 1965 – Ahmet Ertegun signs Sonny and Cher to Atco Records. 1967 – Monkees fans in London march from London's Marble Arch to the U.S. Embassy in Grosvenor Square to protest the announcement that Davy Jones has been drafted into the U.S. Army. Jones is soon exempted from duty due to being his family's main provider. 1967 – Elvis Presley's 24th movie, Double Trouble, premieres in theaters. 1967 – Paul McCartney and Mal Evans fly to Denver, Colorado for Jane Asher’s 21st birthday, who is touring the U.S. with the Old Vic theatre company in a production of Romeo And Juliet. 1967 – Al Martino records the Johnny Cymbal/Michael Lendell song “Mary In The Morning.” 1968 – Set to begin in Nashville, the first five days of an eight-day tour featuring The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Strawberry Alarm Clock is canceled because of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 14 shows were scheduled for the eight day tour, with 10 being canceled. 1968 – Amen Corner, Gene Pitney, Status Quo, Simon Dupree and The Big Sound, and Don Partridge begin a UK tour at the Odeon Theatre in Lewisham, London, performing two shows a night. 1970 – The Temptations perform “Psychedelic Shack” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Other musical guests on the show include George Hamilton, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Marilyn Maye, and Buddy Rich and His Orchestra. 1971 – Chicago becomes the first rock act to appear at Carnegie Hall, playing the first of six sold-out shows at the venue: all of which are recorded for a live album release. 1972 – Elvis Presley begins a 15 date tour - his first full-scale tour in 15 years - at Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York: much of which will be filmed for the concert documentary Elvis On Tour. 1974 – The Guess Who host a celebrity tennis tournament in Toronto to benefit the Ballet of Canada. 1977 – Jackson Browne, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Country Joe McDonald and J.D. Souther raise $150,000 at an environmental charity concert in Tokyo, Japan. 1978 – Duran Duran makes their stage debut at the Lecture Theatre at Birmingham Polytechnic. 1980 – R.E.M. plays their first ever gig at St Mary's Episcopal Church in Athens, Georgia. 1982 – Record World magazine discontinues publication after 36 years. 1983 – Secretary of Interior James Watt bans The Beach Boys from performing at this year’s Fourth of July celebration on the National Mall in Washington DC, calling the group “the wrong element.” 1984 – Marvin Gaye's star-studded funeral is held at Forest Lawn in Los Angeles, with over 10,000 mourners in attendance. 1987 – Buddy Rich's funeral is held in Los Angeles, with Frank Sinatra giving the eulogy. 1990 – After serving 15 months in jail for aggravated assault, James Brown is moved to a work release program where he provides counseling for drug addicts, earning $4 an hour. 1996 – Former girlfriend of Jimi Hendrix, Monika Dannemann, commits suicide after losing a court case against another of Hendrix's girlfriends, Kathy Etchingham. 1998 – The Spice Girls appear in Glasgow, Scotland on their Spiceworld tour. 1999 – Three of Tammy Wynette's daughters file a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit in Nashville, blaming the singer's death on negligence by her husband and her doctor. 2003 – Paul McCartney kicks off the UK leg of his Back In The World Tour at the Hallam FM Arena in Sheffield. 2003 – Santana appears at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne, Australia. 2006 – Suge Knight files for bankruptcy to stave off losing Death Row Records after being court ordered to pay more than $100 million to a former associate. 2008 – Toto plays their final show together in Seoul, Korea. 2008 – Apple iTunes becomes the largest music retailer in the U.S., beating out Wal-Mart. 2011 – On the 17th anniversary of his death, a statue of Kurt Cobain is unveiled in his hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. 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