May 24 Born – Max Bennett (1928) – session bassist. Clint Ballard (1931) – songwriter (“Game Of Love”). Prince Buster (aka Cecil Campbell, 1938) – Jamaican singer/songwriter/ producer. Bob Dylan (aka Robert Zimmerman, 1941) – singer/songwriter. Derek Quinn (1942) – guitar and harmonica for Freddie and The Dreamers. Patti LaBelle (1944) – singer, The Blue Belles and LaBelle. Priscilla Presley (1945) Dave Peacock (1945) – Chas and Dave. Steve Upton (1946) – drummer for Wishbone Ash. Albert Bouchard (1947) – drummer for Blue Öyster Cult. Cynthia "Plaster Caster" (aka Cynthia Albritton, 1947) – groupie. Rosanne Cash (1955) – singer/songwriter. Larry Blackmon (1956) – vocalist for Cameo. Guy Fletcher (1960) – keyboardist for Dire Straits. Heavy D (aka Dwight Myers, 1967) – rapper. Rich Robinson (1969) – guitarist for The Black Crowes. Alessandro Cortini (1976) – keyboardist for Nine Inch Nails.
May 24 R.I.P. – Elmore James (1963) – heart attack. Age 45. Blues guitarist/ songwriter. Duke Ellington (1974) – lung cancer and pneumonia. Age 75. Pianist/ composer/band leader. Gene Clark (1991) – heart attack. Age 46. The Byrds. Jimmy McGriff (2008) – multiple sclerosis. Age 72. Jazz organist. Jay Bennett (2009) – died in his sleep. Age 45. Guitarist/singer/ songwriter for Wilco. Paul Gray (2010) – drug overdose. Age 38. Bassist for Slipknot. May 24 album releases – The Small Faces – Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (1968) AC/DC – Who Made Who (1986) Van Halen – OU812 (1988) Camper Van Beethoven – Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (1988) ABBA – More ABBA Gold: More ABBA Hits (1993) Jimmy Buffett – Fruitcakes (1994) Beastie Boys – Ill Communication (1994) Jeru the Damaja – The Sun Rises In The East (1994) Jimmy Buffett – Beach House On The Moon (1999) May 24 events – 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland. 1956 – Bo Diddley records "Who Do You Love?" at Chess Studios in Chicago. 1959 – Fabian appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, singing "Tiger" and "Turn Me Loose." Other musical guests include Carol Lawrence, Billy Storm, and Kyle McDonnell. 1960 – Country music singer Ferlin Husky records “Wings Of A Dove” at Owen Bradley’s Quonset Hut studio in Nashville. 1960 – Jack Scott records both songs for his next single, "It Only Happened Yesterday" and "Cool Water," at Bell Sound Studio in New York City. 1963 – The Beatles record the first installment of their own radio show, Pop Go The Beatles. The Lorne Gibson Trio is the guest musical act on the show. 1964 – The Ed Sullivan Show airs a Beatles clip of "You Can't Do That," which was filmed for their movie A Hard Day's Night but was not included in the film. Live guests on the show include Liza Minnelli, Shirley Verrett, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Jean Paul Vignon, and The Christenson High School Band from St. Croix in the Virgin Islands. 1966 – Filming begins on Elvis Presley's 20th movie, Frankie And Johnny. 1966 – Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band headline a show at the Whisky A Go-Go, with Buffalo Springfield and The Doors as opening acts. 1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays the last date of their first UK tour at the Gröna Lund amusement park in Stockholm. 1968 – The Rolling Stones release their single, "Jumpin' Jack Flash" b/ w "Child Of The Moon" in the UK. 1969 – The Guess Who make their American television debut on American Bandstand, lip-synching to "These Eyes" and "Laughing." 1969 – BBC television airs "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee." 1970 – Peter Green plays his last gig with Fleetwood Mac at the Bath Festival in Somerset. 1971 – On his 30th birthday, Bob Dylan gets an honorable mention in Charles Schultz' "Peanuts" cartoon strip. 1974 – After nine years and 264 episodes, The Dean Martin Show broadcasts its last show. 1974 – Boz Scaggs, Bobby “Blue” Bland, The New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Olivia Newton-John, Melvin Van Peebles, and Marvin Hamlisch all appear on The Midnight Special. 1979 – The members of Genesis man the ticket booth at the Roxy in L.A. to sell tickets to their own show. 1982 – The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Starship, Boz Scaggs and Country Joe McDonald perform at a Viet Nam veterans benefit at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. 1986 – Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork re-unite and begin The Monkees' 20th Anniversary Tour at the Concord Hotel in the Catskill Mountains. 1986 – Country music artist Garth Brooks marries his college sweetheart, songwriter Sandy Mahl. They stay married for 5 years. 1991 – Guns 'N Roses begin their 192-date Use Your Illusion Tour at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin. 1992 – A man impersonating Steve Miller walks out on a $600 hotel bill in Montgomery, Alabama. However, he does leave a $73 tip on an $8 drinks bill. 1999 – Freddie Mercury is featured on a new set of millennium stamps issued by the Royal Mail. 2000 – Andrea and Sharon Corr of The Corrs both collapse in the mid- day sun while shooting a video in the Mojave Desert. The pair are treated in the hospital for heat exhaustion and are back filming the next day. 2000 – The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde appears in a New York court to face charges stemming from her March 10 arrest for an animal rights protest at a Gap store in Manhattan, and is told by the judge that the charges will be dropped if she can stay out of trouble for six months. 2003 – Paul McCartney performs in Russia for the first time in Red Square. 2004 – An attempt to auction off Bruce Springsteen's birth certificate on eBay is shut down by his attorneys. 2004 – Madonna kicks off the North American leg of her Re-Invention World Tour, playing the first of three sold-out nights at the Los Angeles Forum in Inglewood. 2005 – Johnny Cash’s first wife and mother of Rosanne, Vivian Liberto passes away after lung cancer surgery, on Rosanne’s 50th birthday. 2006 – Elton John wins $188,000 in a libel suit against the Daily Mail newspaper for reports that he asked guests not to approach him a charity event. 2007 – Amy Winehouse, Madonna and Arctic Monkeys are among the winners at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards, with Winehouse winning Best Contemporary Song for “Rehab,” Madonna collecting the International Hit of the Year for “Sorry,” and Sheffield-based band Arctic Monkeys receiving the Best Album award for Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not. 2009 – Billy Joel is sued by his former drummer Liberty DeVitto for hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid royalties, with DeVitto claiming that Joel hadn't paid him proper royalties for 10 years of the 30 he was in the group. 2010 – Bee Gee Robin Gibb flips out and screams expletives at London's Heathrow Airport when he is singled out for an extra security check. 2010 – John Fogerty’s song “Centerfield” is chosen to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame at the July 25th ceremony: the first time ever for an artist or a song to be honored in such a way. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. 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