May 12 Born –
Gordon Jenkins (1910) – pianist/composer/arranger for Decca and
Capitol Records.
Burt Bacharach (1928) – songwriter/singer.
Henry "Hank" Cosby (1928) – saxophonist/songwriter for Motown.
Klaus Doldinger (1936) – German saxophonist, Passport.
Norman Whitfield (1940) – songwriter/producer for Motown.
Billy Swan (1942) – American singer/songwriter ("I Can Help").
Ian Dury (1942) – Ian Dury and The Blockheads.
David Walker (1943) – guitarist for Gary Lewis and The Playboys.
James Purify (1944) – James and Bobby Purify.
Ian McLagan (1945) – keyboardist for Small Faces and Faces.
Jayotis Washington (1945) – The Persuasions.
Bob MacVittie (1946) – guitarist for Sugarloaf (“Green Eyed Lady”).
Steve Winwood (1948) – singer/songwriter/keyboardist, Traffic and
Blind Faith.
Billy Squier (1950) – singer/songwriter/guitarist, Piper.
John "Jocko" Marcellino (1950) – Sha Na Na.
Barry Borden (1954) – drummer for Molly Hatchet.
Leon "Kix" Brooks III (1955) – Brooks & Dunn.
Eric Singer (1958) – drummer for KISS.
Billy Duffy (1961) – guitarist for The Cult.
Brett Gurewitz (1962) – guitarist/songwriter for Bad Religion.
May 12 R.I.P. –
Martin Lamble (1969) – car crash. Age 19. Drummer for Fairport
Convention.
Ron Wilson (1989) – brain aneurysm. Age 45. Drummer for The Surfaris
("Wipe Out").
Perry Como (2001) – died in his sleep. Age 88. Singer.
George Cates (2002) – Age 90. Arranger/conductor/songwriter
(“Moonglow”).
May 12 album releases –
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Are You Experienced (1967) UK
The Rolling Stones – Exile On Main St. (1972)
The Stranglers – Black And White (1978)
The Black Crowes – The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion (1992)
Lenny Kravitz – 5 (1998)
Buzzcocks – Inventory (2003)
Steve Earle – Townes (2009)
May 12 events –
1955 – Gisèle MacKenzie portrays a singer in the “Hard To Get” episode
of the NBC-TV program Justice, and introduces her song "Hard To Get,"
which will become her biggest seller.
1956 – Elvis Presley releases his single, "I Want You, I Need You, I
Love You" b/w "My Baby Left Me."
1958 – Johnny Mathis records "A Certain Smile" at Columbia Studios in
New York City.
1959 – Singer Eddie Fisher marries actress Elizabeth Taylor in Las
Vegas.
1960 – The Frank Sinatra Timex Special: Welcome Home Elvis, airs on
ABC-TV.
1961 – The Beatles - John, Paul, George and Pete - sign a recording
contract with producer Bert Kaempfert in Hamburg.
1962 – Billboard magazine reports that "Big Bad John," by Jimmy Dean,
was the most played jukebox song of 1961.
1963 – Bob Dylan walks out of rehearsals for The Ed Sullivan Show
after being told he can't perform "Talking John Birch Society Blues"
due to it mocking of the U.S. military.
1965 – The Rolling Stones re-record "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" at
RCA Studios in Hollywood.
1965 – The Moody Blues, Russ Titleman, Dino, Desi & Billy, The
Righteous Brothers, The Olympics, Dick and Dee Dee, Brenda Holloway,
The Blossoms, Bobby Sherman, Jerry Mason and Bach Yen all appear on
Shindig!
1967 – Procol Harum releases their debut single, "A Whiter Shade Of
Pale" b/w "Lime Street Blues."
1967 – Pink Floyd performs the first ever surround-sound concert when
they debut their custom-made quadraphonic speaker system at Queen
Elizabeth Hall in London.
1968 – Brian Jones makes his final live appearance with The Rolling
Stones at the New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert at the Empire
Pool, Wembley. Other acts on the bill include The Herd, Lulu, Amen
Corner, Cream, The Move, Status Quo, The Tremeloes, Scott Walker and
many others.
1968 – Gary Puckett and The Union Gap appear on The Ed Sullivan Show,
singing "Lady Willpower" and "Young Girl." Other musical guests
include Diahann Carroll, Shanni Wallis, and The Young Americans.
1969 – Cliff Richard makes a guest appearance on the UK children's TV
show, Sooty.
1971 – Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias in St.
Tropez.
1972 – Wings release their single, "Mary Had A Little Lamb" b/w
"Little Woman Love" in the UK.
1975 – Jefferson Starship plays a free concert in Central Park,
sponsored by radio station WNEW-FM, and both the station and the band
are forced to pay $14,000 for clean up and damages to the park.
1977 – Virgin Records signs The Sex Pistols: the group's third
recording contract in less than six months.
1977 – Led Zeppelin is awarded an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding
Contribution to British Music.
1979 – The new Jefferson Starship, with Mickey Thomas replacing Grace
Slick as lead vocalist, debuts at a free concert in San Francisco's
Golden Gate Park.
1981 – Meatloaf files for bankruptcy, owing over $1 million.
1981 – Van Halen begins their Fair Warning Tour at the Metro Centre in
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1981 – Lena Horne: The Lady And Her Music opens at the Nederlander
Theatre in New York for 333 performances.
1985 – Lionel Richie receives an honorary Doctor of Music degree from
the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
1985 – Phil Collins kicks off the North American leg of his No Jacket
Required World Tour at The Centrum in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1986 – The Clash’s Joe Strummer is convicted of drunk driving and
loses his license for a year.
1987 – Three Pink Floyd concerts slated for the Montreal Forum sell
out 40,000 tickets in 4 1/2 hours.
1991 – The Simple Truth: A Concert for Kurdish Refugees takes place at
Wembley Arena, featuring Peter Gabriel, Sting, Hall & Oates, Tom
Jones, Paul Simon, The Gypsy Kings, MC Hammer, INXS, Chris de Burgh,
Gloria Estefan, Whitney Houston, The New Kids On The Block, Rod
Stewart and others.
1995 – Monkee Peter Tork appears as Jedediah Lawrence in the "Career
Day" episode of Boy Meets World.
1998 – Elton John fires his manager of 30 years, John Reid, over
career and financial matters.
2000 – The gates to Strawberry Fields are stolen by a man in a blue
van. They are later recovered in a salvage scrap yard.
2000 – Rod Stewart has surgery to remove a nodule from his thyroid.
2001 – Travis appears at singer's Fran Healy's former school, Weston
Park Primary School, in Crouch End, London.
2004 – Barry and Robin Gibb receive honorary degrees from the
University of Manchester. One is also given posthumously to their
brother, Maurice.
2006 – James Taylor plays the first of two nights at the Ryman
Auditorium in Nashville.
2008 – Neil Young has a spider named after him when U.S. university
biologist Jason Bond discovers a new species of trapdoor spider and
decides to name it after his favorite musician. Myrmekiaphila
neilyoungi was found in Jefferson County, Alabama, in 2007.
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