April 16 Born –
Henry Mancini (aka Enrico Mancini, 1924) – composer/conductor.
Rudy Pompilli (1924) – Bill Haley and His Comets.
Ed Townsend (1929) – songwriter/producer ("Let's Get It On").
Roy Hamilton (1929) – American singer ("Unchained Melody").
Herbie Mann (1930) – Jazz flutist.
Bobby Vinton (1935) – singer.
Judy Lynn (1936) – Country music singer.
Dusty Springfield (1939) – singer/songwriter.
"Lonesome" Dave Peverett (1943) – Foghat.
Stefan Grossman (1945) – producer and co-founder of Kicking Mule
Records.
Gerry Rafferty (1947) – singer/songwriter, Steelers Wheel.
Lee Kerslake (1947) – drummer for Uriah Heep and Ozzy Osbourne.
John Bentley (1951) – bassist for Squeeze.
Paul Buchanan (1956) – vocalist/guitarist for The Blue Nile.
Stephen Singleton (1959) – saxophonist for ABC.
Ian MacKaye (1962) – singer/songwriter for Fugazi, co-founder of
Dischord Records.
Jimmy Osmond (1963) – The Osmonds.
Dave Pirner (1964) – lead vocalist/guitarist for Soul Asylum.
Sean Cook (1969) – bassist for Spiritualized.
Selena (aka Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, 1971) – Tejano singer.
April 16 R.I.P. –
Morris Stoloff (1980) – Age 81. Film composer (Song Without End).
Andy Russell (1992) – stroke. Age 72. Singer ("Bésame Mucho").
Skip Spence (1999) – lung cancer. Age 52. Jefferson Airplane and Moby
Grape.
Teddy Charles (2012) – Age 83. Jazz vibraphonist, The Prestige Jazz
Quartet.
April 16 album releases –
The Rolling Stones – The Rolling Stones (1964) UK
Bert Jansch – Bert Jansch (1965)
Donovan – A Gift From A Flower To A Garden (1968) UK
Minnie Ripperton – Come To My Garden (1970)
Klaus Schulze – Moondawn (1976)
Poco – Inamorata (1984)
Scorpions – Savage Amusement (1988)
Bathory – Hammerheart (1990)
Brooks & Dunn – Borderline (1996)
Voice Of The Beehive – Sex & Misery (1996) U.S.
Echo & The Bunnymen – What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (1999)
April 16 events –
1943 – Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman discovers LSD-25, and accidently
takes the first acid trip when a small amount absorbs into his skin.
1955 – Elvis Presley makes his debut appearance at The Big D Jamboree
as the headliner at the Sportatorium in Dallas. Also on the bill are
Sonny James, Hank Locklin, Charline Arthur and others. 18-year old Roy
Orbison is in the audience.
1956 – Buddy Holly releases his first single, "Blue Days, Black
Nights" b/w "Love Me."
1956 – Chuck Berry records “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Brown Eyed Handsome
Man” and "Too Much Monkey Business" at Chess Records in Chicago.
1963 – Miles Davis records “Joshua,” “So Near, So Far,” “Baby, Won’t
You Please Come Home?” and “Basin Street Blues” at Columbia Studios in
Hollywood.
1963 – The New Christy Minstrels record “Green Green” at Columbia
Studios in New York City.
1964 – Dean Martin records "Everybody Loves Somebody" at United in
Hollywood.
1964 – The Beatles record "A Hard Day's Night" at Abbey Road studios.
1965 – The Hollies make their U.S. stage debut at the Paramount
Theater in New York.
1966 – Percy Sledge releases his single, "When A Man Loves A Woman" b/
w "Love Me Like You Mean It."
1967 – Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazelwood, Tony Bennett, The Count Basie
Orchestra, Alan Kogosowski and Los Indio Trabajaras all perform on The
Ed Sullivan Show.
1967 – The Daily Express Record Star Show takes place at the Empire
Pool in Wembley, featuring Cream, The Move, The Alan Price Set, Lulu,
Gene Pitney, The Kinks, Cliff Bennett, Dave Berry, The Troggs, The
Tremeloes and others.
1969 – Robert Goulet makes a cameo appearance, joining Nancy Sinatra,
Al Martino and John Hartford on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
1969 – Elektra Records drops Detroit's MC5 from their roster after the
group takes out an ad in a local music magazine, replete with Elektra
logo, advising buyers to "Stay alive with the MC5 -- and fuck
Hudson's." (Hudson's was a Michigan record chain that refused to stock
the band's latest album, Kick Out The Jams, due to the lyric, "Kick
out the jams, motherfucker!")
1969 – The Beatles begin recording George Harrison's "Old Brown Shoe."
1970 – Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" is certified gold after
selling over a million copies in the U.S.
1971 – The Rolling Stones release their single, "Brown Sugar" b/w
"Bitch" and "Let It Rock" in the UK.
1971 – Ringo Starr releases his single, “It Don’t Come Easy” b/w
“Early 1970” in the U.S.
1972 – The Electric Light Orchestra makes their live debut at the Fox
and Greyhound pub in Croydon, London.
1972 – Pink Floyd appears at the Township Auditorium in Columbia,
South Carolina on their Dark Side Of The Moon tour.
1972 – Elvis Presley performs two shows at Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum
in Jacksonville, Florida.
1973 – Paul McCartney's first television special, James Paul
McCartney, airs on ABC-TV.
1973 – David Bowie appears at the Kobe Kokusai Kaikan in Japan on his
Ziggy Stardust world tour.
1974 – Queen makes their U.S. stage debut at Regis College in Denver,
Colorado.
1976 – Boz Scaggs goes backstage to visit friend Bobby "Blue" Bland
after his show at Antone's in Austin, Texas, and is beaten unconscious
by two bouncers who don’t know who he is.
1976 – Aerosmith begins their 76-date Rocks tour at Kiel Auditorium in
St. Louis, Missouri.
1985 – U2 plays the first of three nights at The Centrum in Worcester,
Massachusetts on of their Unforgettable Fire tour.
1990 – Wembley Stadium hosts the Nelson Mandella: An International
Tribute for a Free South Africa concert, featuring Neil Young, Jackson
Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Chrissie Hynde, Natalie
Cole, Anita Baker, Tracy Chapman and Simple Minds.
1993 – David Lee Roth is arrested in New York for buying a $10 bag of
marijuana in Washington Square Park.
1993 – Paul McCartney headlines an Earth Day concert at the Hollywood
Bowl, featuring Ringo Starr, The Steve Miller Band, Don Henley, Kenny
Loggins, Bruce Cockburn, 10,000 Maniacs and others.
1993 – Billy Burnette announces that he is leaving Fleetwood Mac to
concentrate on a country music career.
1996 – After living together for 18 years, Judy Collins marries her
second husband, designer Louis Nelson.
1996 – The four original members of KISS, now back in make-up, appear
at the 38thGrammy Awards in New York and announce a full-scale reunion
tour: their first together in over 15 years.
1997 – UK singer Mark Morrison is convicted in Marylebone Magistrates'
Court of threatening a police officer with a 23,000 volt stun gun.
Morrison leaves the court in tears after being told he will likely go
to prison.
1997 – Elton John is awarded an honorary membership to his alma mater,
Britain's Royal Academy of Music.
1998 – Janet Jackson begins her Velvet Rope Tour, playing the first of
two nights at The Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
1999 – Shania Twain becomes the first woman to be named Songwriter/
Artist of the Year by the Nashville Songwriters Association
International.
2002 – Sony Music Entertainment files a complaint against The Dixie
Chicks for breach of contract after the group “walks out” on Sony when
they learn that they’ve been underpaid $4 million in royalties. The
group soon sue Sony for the $4 million.
2003 – Jerry Lee Lewis files for divorce from his sixth wife, former
Jerry Lee Lewis Fan Club president Kerrie McCarver.
2003 – Luther Vandross suffers a near fatal stroke in his Manhattan
apartment and is hospitalized.
2005 – Radiohead’s album OK Computer is voted the best album of all
time in a poll done by UK television station Channel 4.
2008 – Barbara Streisand donates $5 million to establish a womens
heart education and research program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in
L.A.
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