May 11 Born –
Irving Berlin (1888) – American composer/lyricist.
Salvatore “Tutti” Camarata (1913) – composer/arranger, owner of Sunset
Sound Recorders and The Sound Factory, head of Disneyland Records.
Christopher "Kit" Lambert (1935) – manager of The Who.
Carla Bley (1936) – Jazz keyboardist.
Eric Burdon (1941) – singer for The Animals and War.
Arnie Satin (1943) – The Dovells.
Les Chadwick (1943) – bassist for Gerry and The Pacemakers.
Claude "Butch" Trucks (1947) – drummer for The Allman Brothers Band.
J. J. Jeczalik (1955) – electronics musician for Art Of Noise.
Mark Herndon (1955) – former drummer for Alabama.
Susan Stenger (1955) – bassist/vocalist for Band Of Susans.
Christoph "Doom" Schneider (1966) – drummer for Rammstein.
May 11 R.I.P. –
Johnny Hodges (1970) – heart attack. Age 63. Saxophonist for Duke
Ellington’s orchestra.
Lester Flatt (1979) – heart failure. Age 64. Flatt and Scruggs.
Bob Marley (1981) – melanoma. Age 36.
Ernie Fields (1997) – Age 91. Trombonist/arranger, The Royal
Entertainers.
Noel Redding (2003) – cirrhosis of the liver. Age 57. The Jimi Hendrix
Experience.
John Whitehead (2004) – murdered. Age 54. Singer/songwriter ("Back
Stabbers").
John Rutsey (2008) – heart attack from diabetes. Age 54. Original
drummer for Rush.
Eugene "Snooky" Young (2011) – Age 92. Jazz trumpeter with Doc
Severinson and the NBC Orchestra.
May 11 album releases –
The Small Faces – Small Faces (1966)
Woodstock: Music From The Original Soundtrack And More (1970)
Stevie Wonder – Where I’m Coming From (1971) Japan
The Meters – Cabbage Alley (1972)
Hawkwind – The Space Ritual Alive In Liverpool And London (1973)
Wishbone Ash – Wishbone Four (1973)
The Cure – Three Imaginary Boys (1979)
Grace Jones – Nightclubbing (1981)
Eurythmics – Be Yourself Tonight (1985)
Bathory – Under The Sign Of The Black Mark (1987)
Stevie Nicks – The Other Side Of The Mirror (1989)
Soundgarden – Screaming Life/Fopp (1990)
Terence Trent D'Arby – Symphony Or Damn (1993)
Toto – Kingdom Of Desire (1993) U.S.
Aimee Mann – Whatever (1993)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
(1998) UK
Ash – Nu-Clear Sounds (1999) U.S.
Ricky Martin – Ricky Martin (1999)
May 11 events –
1956 – Elvis Presley buys his first house at 1034 Audubon Drive: a
tree-lined upper-middle class neighborhood where he will live with his
mom and dad.
1957 – The Everly Brothers make their debut performance at the Grand
Ole Opry.
1957 – Buddy Holly and The Crickets audition for Arthur Godfrey's
Talent Scouts and are rejected.
1959 – Annette Funicello sings "Wild Willie" in her fifth and final
appearance as Gina in the "Gina For President" episode of Make Room
For Daddy.
1959 – Ricky Nelson records "Just A Little Too Much" and "Sweeter Than
You" at Master Recorders in Hollywood.
1963 – The Beatles' album Please Please Me reaches #1 on the UK album
chart and stays there for 30 weeks until the group's next album, With
The Beatles, replaces it at #1, staying there for another 22 weeks: a
feat accomplished by no other band ever.
1964 – The Rolling Stones are refused lunch at The Grand Hotel in
Bristol where they're staying because they're not wearing jackets and
ties.
1964 – The Beach Boys release their single, "I Get Around" b/w "All
Summer Long."
1964 – Al Martino releases his single, “Tears And Roses” b/w “A Year
Ago Tonight” on Capitol Records.
1965 – The Byrds make their national television debut on Hullabaloo,
singing "Mr. Tambourine Man." Also on the show are Sam The Sham & The
Pharaohs, Frankie Avalon, Peter and Gordon, Barbara McNair, The
Supremes and Joanie Summers.
1967 – ABC Stage 67: Rodgers And Hart Today airs on television,
featuring the duo's classics re-interpreted by Bobby Darin, The
Supremes, The Mamas and The Papas, and Petula Clark.
1967 – The Beatles record "Baby, You're A Rich Man" at Olympic Studios
in London.
1967 – The Bee Gees make their debut appearance on Top Of The Pops,
performing "New York Mining Disaster 1941."
1967 – Cream records “Tales Of Brave Ulysses” and “Outside Woman
Blues” at Atlantic Studios in New York City.
1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience appears at the Theatre d'Issy-les-
Moulineaux in Paris, France.
1968 – Richard Harris releases his single, "MacArthur Park" b/w
"Didn't We."
1969 – Diana Ross and The Supremes appear on The Ed Sullivan Show,
performing "The Impossible Dream." Other musical guests include Ed
Ames and Lana Cantrell.
1970 – The Beatles release their last single in the U.S., "The Long
And Winding Road" b/w "For You Blue."
1970 – Sammy Davis, Jr. marries his third wife, Altovise Gore. They
will stay married until Davis' death in 1990.
1972 – Rick Nelson and The Stone Canyon Band records "Garden Party" at
United in Hollywood.
1972 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on The Dick Cavett Show, where
Lennon claims the FBI is tapping is phone.
1972 – David Cassidy appears almost nude on the cover of Rolling Stone
magazine.
1973 – Stevie Wonder records "Higher Ground" in three hours, playing
all the instruments himself.
1973 – Wings kick off their first official tour at the Bristol
Hippodrome, playing 21 shows throughout the UK.
1974 – Steely Dan releases their single, "Rikki, Don't Lose That
Number" b/w "Any Major Dude Will Tell You."
1974 – Led Zeppelin attends Elvis Presley's concert at the L.A. Forum
and meet up after the show.
1975 – Gregg Allman appears on the Cher show.
1978 – Queen wraps up their News Of The World Tour by playing the
first of three sold-out nights at Wembley Arena.
1979 – Rod Stewart appears at the Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan, on
his Blondes Have More Fun Tour.
1985 – Two nights before his wedding to actress Julianne Phillips,
Bruce Springsteen and a small group of friends have a boy’s night out
in Lake Oswego, Oregon, drinking at the Gemini bar and singing karaoke
to his own records in the jukebox.
1988 – Carnegie Hall hosts a star-studded celebration for Irving
Berlin's 100th birthday. Guests include Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles,
Isaac Stern and Leonard Bernstein.
1989 – Roy Orbison is posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall
of Fame in New York, with Eric Clapton presenting the award to
Orbison's widow.
1990 – Ritchie Valens posthumously receives a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame.
1995 – The Stevie Ray Vaughan Tribute Concert is held in Austin,
Texas, featuring Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, B.B. King
and Robert Cray. All five guitarists performed with Stevie at his
final concert on August 26, 1990.
1996 – Irish rock journalist, Bill Graham, credited with discovering
U2, dies in his home from a heart attack at age 44.
1996 – 17-year old Bernadette O'Brien is crushed to death while body
surfing at a Smashing Pumpkins concert at The Point in Dublin,
Ireland.
1999 – Country music artist Eddy Arnold announces his retirement from
the music industry.
2001 – The Tour of Brotherly Love, featuring Oasis, The Black Crowes
and Spacehog - all bands with brothers - begins at The Hard Rock Café
in Las Vegas.
2002 – Over 500 Michael Jackson fans hold a demonstration outside the
Sony Records building in Berlin, Germany, protesting that the label
hadn't promoted the singer's latest album, Invincible.
2003 – Jackson Browne "appears" as himself in the "Brake My Wife,
Please" episode of The Simpsons.
2004 – Willie Nelson cancels all appearances for seven weeks due to
upcoming carpal tunnel surgery.
2006 – George Michael is involved in his second car crash in a month,
crashing into a bollard when he wakes up and tries to drive away,
after a tabloid photographer finds him asleep in his parked car in
central London.
2007 – Rap artist Game (aka Jayceon Taylor) is arrested at his home in
connection with an incident at a basketball game in south Los Angeles
the previous February, where he threatened a person with a gun. The
rapper is released the next day after posting $50,000 bail.
2011 – Elizabeth Jagger, the daughter of Mick and Jerry Hall, appears
in Playboy.
2011 – The world's rarest rock t-shirt - a Led Zeppelin t-shirt from
their 1979 Knebworth concert - sells for $10,000 on eBay.
2011 – Katy Perry becomes the first artist in Billboard chart history
to spend an entire year with songs in the Top 10 of the Hot 100.
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