April 25 Born –
Guglielmo Marconi (1874) – inventor of the radio.
Earl Bostic (1913) – Jazz saxophonist.
Ella Fitzgerald (1917) – Jazz singer.
Albert King (1923) – Blues guitarist/singer.
Vassar Clements (1928) – Jazz/swing/bluegrass fiddler.
Willis "Gator" Jackson (1932) – Jazz saxophonist.
Jerry Leiber (1933) – songwriter (“Stand By Me”).
Tony Christie (1943) – British singer.
Björn Ulvaeus (1945) – ABBA.
Mike Kogel (1945) – Los Bravos.
Stu Cook (1945) – bassist for Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Ronnie Gilbert (1946) – bassist for The Blues Magoos.
Michael Brown (aka Mike Lookofsky, 1949) – keyboardist for The Left
Banke.
Steve Ferrone (1950) – drummer for The Average White Band.
David Sikes (1955) – bassist for Boston and Giuffria.
Fish (aka Derek Dick, 1958) – Scottish singer, Marillion.
Andy Bell (1964) – vocalist for Erasure.
Maya Gilder (1964) – keyboardist for Furniture.
Eric Avery (1965) – former bassist for Jane's Addiction.
Simon Fowler (1965) – singer for Ocean Colour Scene.
April 25 R.I.P. –
Carolyn Franklin (1988) – breast cancer. Age 43. Songwriter ("(Sweet
Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone").
Dexter Gordon (1990) – kidney failure. Age 67. Jazz saxophonist.
Brian "Too Loud" MacLeod (1992) – bone cancer. Age 39. Chilliwack.
Ginger Rogers (1995) – heart attack. Age 83. Actress/dancer/singer
("Let's Call The Whole Thing Off").
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (2002) – car accident. Age 30. TLC.
Janette Davis (2005) – Age 87. Singer on Arthur Godfrey Time.
Bobby "Boris" Pickett (2007) – leukemia. Age 69.
Poly Styrene (2011) – cancer. Age 53. X-Ray Spex.
April 25 album releases –
The Moody Blues – On The Threshold Of A Dream (1969)
The Doobie Brothers – Stampede (1975)
Donna Summer – Bad Girls (1979)
Black Sabbath – Heaven And Hell (1980)
Exodus – Bonded By Blood (1985)
Soul Asylum – Hang Time (1988)
Blur – Parklife (1994)
Little Feat – Ain’t Had Enough Fun (1995)
Green Day – Foot In Mouth (1996)
Parliament – Live 1976-93 (1996)
Toni Braxton – The Heat (2000)
Donovan – Summer Day Reflection Songs (2000)
Bruce Springsteen – Devils & Dust (2005)
Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006)
Tommy Bolin – Whips And Roses (2006)
April 25 events –
1949 – An article in Look magazine predicts that radio is doomed and
that within three years TV will overshadow radio completely.
1955 – The U.N.'s Commission on Narcotics releases a report stating
that there is a "definite connection between increased marijuana
smoking and that form of entertainment known as bebop and rebop."
1956 – Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" hits the #1 spot on the
singles chart.
1958 – Alan Freed's Big Beat Show plays the Municipal Auditorium in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, featuring Buddy Holly, Danny and The Juniors,
The Pastels, Chuck Berry, The Diamonds, Dickie Doo and The Don’ts, Jo
Ann Campbell, Ed Townsend, Jerry Lee Lewis and others.
1960 – Eddie Cochran is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in
California.
1965 – The Rolling Stones perform in front of 16,000 at the Maple Leaf
Gardens in Toronto.
1965 – Freddie and The Dreamers perform “I’m Telling You Now,” “You
Were Made For Me” and “Do The Freddie” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also
on the show are Eydie Gormé, Charo, and Leon Bibb.
1967 – With their new album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
still more than a month away from release, The Beatles begin their
next project, recording the song "Magical Mystery Tour."
1968 – The Beatles decline to perform for the Queen of England at a
British Olympic Appeal Fund show, explaining, "We don't do benefits."
1969 – Jr. Walker and The All-Stars release their fourth single, “What
Does It Take (To Win Your Love)” b/w “Brainwasher (Part 1).”
1970 – The inter-racial band, Pacific Gas And Electric, are heckled
off the stage by racists at a show in North Carolina. Shots are fired
at the group's van when they drive away.
1970 – Freda Payne releases her single, “Band Of Gold” b/w “The
Easiest Way To Fall” on Invictus Records. Session musicians included
Ray Parker Jr. on guitar, Vinnie Bell on electric sitar, and Joyce
Wilson and Telma Hopkins (soon to be members of Dawn) on backing
vocals.
1970 – Melanie’s single “Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)” enters the
Billboard Hot 100 at #89.
1974 – Rolling Stone magazine reports that streaking has become so
popular at Yes and Gregg Allman concerts that the shows have to be
stopped while people run around naked.
1974 – Jim Morrison's long-time girlfriend, Pam Courson, dies of a
heroin overdose in her Hollywood apartment.
1977 – Elvis Presley makes his final recordings in concert at the
Civic Center in Saginaw, Michigan: three songs of which will appear on
Elvis' final album, Moody Blue.
1977 – The television special, Paul Anka - Music My Way, airs on ABC-
TV, featuring Natalie Cole, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and
others.
1978 – Bob Dylan records “Changing Of The Guards” at Rundown Studios
Music Touring Co. in Santa Monica, California.
1978 – Willie Nelson performs for President and Mrs. Carter at the
White House.
1979 – The Police make their debut on Top Of The Pops, performing
"Roxanne."
1980 – Stranglers' guitarist Hugh Cornwell is released from London's
Pentonville Prison after serving six months for heroin possession.
1981 – Denny Laine quits Wings, and McCartney disbands the group.
1985 – Roger Miller provides the score to the Broadway play Big River:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which opens at the Eugene O'Neil
Theatre.
1988 – Aretha Franklin's younger sister and collaborator, Carolyn,
passes away from breast cancer.
1988 – Bon Jovi's manager, Doc Mcgee, is convicted on drug offenses
arising from the 1982 seizure of 40,000 lbs. of marijuana smuggled
into North Carolina from Colombia.
1990 – The white Fender Stratocaster guitar Jimi Hendrix played the
National Anthem on at Woodstock is sold by a London auction house for
$295,000.
1993 – Grateful Dead album cover artist, Stanley "Mouse" Miller has
his future liver transplant paid for by the band.
1993 – The musical, Blood Brothers, starring Petula Clark and David
and Shaun Cassidy, opens at the Music Box Theatre on Broadway.
1994 – Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz is sentenced to 200 hours of
community service for attacking a cameraman at River Phoenix's
memorial service.
1994 – The Eagles reunite over a two-day period - April 25 and 26 -
for an MTV special, which will later be released as Hell Freezes Over.
1994 – Michael Bolton is found guilty of plagiarizing The Isley
Brothers' 1966 song "Love Is A Wonderful Thing" with his song of the
same name.
1994 – Yankee Stadium holds its first "Joe DiMaggio Day," and features
Paul Simon singing "Mrs. Robinson," with the place going crazy when he
gets to the part, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?"
1997 – U2 begins their Pop Mart World Tour at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las
Vegas in front of 35,000 fans.
2003 – Jim Morrison's parents sue the remaining members of The Doors
for touring with a new singer as The Doors 21st Century and using the
group’s original logo..
2003 – Nina Simone is buried in Carry-Le-Rouet, France.
2004 – For the third time in two years, Billy Joel is involved in a
traffic accident when he drives his car into an unoccupied house.
2005 – On the day of the album’s release, Bruce Springsteen plays the
opening night of his Devils & Dust Tour at the Fox Theatre in Detroit,
Michigan.
2008 – Phil Collins announces his retirement from music.
2008 – Amy Winehouse turns herself in for questioning and is arrested
and jailed for injuring several people on April 23.
2008 – The Empire State Building is lit in pastel colors for three
days in celebration of Mariah Carey’s new hit album E=MC2: a first for
this type of event.
2009 – Richard Monroe, suing rapper Snoop Dogg for $22 million for a
beating he received from Dogg's security crew when he tried to jump on
stage at a concert, tells a Seattle courtroom he received a “brutal
beating,” and that the rapper hit him with a microphone after he
climbed on stage at the White River Amphitheatre. Court proceedings
will continue for two more weeks.
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