May 29 Born –
Danny Davis (1925) – trumpeter/bandleader, The Nashville Brass.
Irmin Schmidt (1937) – keyboardist for Can.
Roy Crewdson (1941) – guitarist for Freddie and The Dreamers.
Monti Rock (aka Joseph Montanez, Jr., 1942) – Disco musician.
Gary Brooker (1945) – keyboardist/vocalist for Procol Harum.
Joey Levine (1947) – singer/songwriter/producer ("Yummy, Yummy,
Yummy").
Francis Rossi (1949) – vocalist/guitarist for Status Quo.
Maureen "Rebbie" Jackson (1950) – singer, The Jacksons.
Danny Elfman (1953) – film composer, vocalist for Oingo Boingo.
Mike Porcaro (1955) – bassist for Toto.
La Toya Jackson (1956) – singer, The Jacksons.
Larry Blackmon (1956) – vocalist for Cameo.
Mel Gaynor (1960) – drummer for Simple Minds.
Jesse Johnson (1960) – guitarist for The Time.
Melissa Etheridge (1961) – singer/songwriter.
David Palmer (1961) – session drummer, ABC.
Blaze Bayley (aka Bayley Cooke, 1963) – singer/songwriter for
Woldsbane.
Noel Gallagher (1967) – Oasis.
Chad Kinchla (1969) – guitarist for Blues Traveler.
Simon Jones (1972) – bassist for The Verve.
Scary Spice (aka Melanie Brown, 1975) – The Spice Girls.May 29 R.I.P. – Fanny Brice (1951) – cerebral hemorrhage. Age 59. Singer, film and stage actress (“My Man”). Goddard Lieberson (1977) – cancer. Age 66. Composer, president of Columbia Records. John Cipollina (1989) – emphysema. Age 45. Quicksilver Messenger Service. Jeff Buckley (1997) – drowned. Age 30. Singer/songwriter. Oscar Brown (2005) - osteomyelitis. Age 78. Singer/songwriter (“Afro Blue”). Doc Watson (2012) – complications from colon surgery. Age 89. Folk/ bluegrass guitarist/singer. Toni Arden (2012) – Age 88. Singer (“Padre”). May 29 album releases – Crosby, Stills and Nash – Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969) Poco – Rose Of Cimarron (1976) Amy Grant – In Concert (1981) Warlock – Hellbound (1985) John Hiatt – Bring The Family (1987) Teenage Fan Club – Grand Prix (1995) Bright Eyes – Fevers And Mirrors (2000) May 29 events – 1942 – Bing Crosby records "White Christmas" with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra and the Ken Darby Singers for the movie, Holiday Inn. 1950 – The Carter Family joins the Grand Ole Opry. 1952 – Hank Williams divorces his wife Audrey for the second time. 1958 – Little Anthony and The Imperials record "Tears On My Pillow." 1958 – Frank Sinatra records "Ebb Tide," “Angel Eyes,” “Spring Is Here,” “Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry,” “Only The Lonely” and “Willow Weep For Me” at this first session at Capitol Studios for his upcoming album, Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely. 1959 – One of the first outdoor concerts is held at Herndon Stadium at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, featuring The Drifters, Ray Charles, B.B. King, and Jimmy Reed. 1962 – Barbra Streisand appears on CBS’s The Garry Moore Show, singing "When The Sun Comes Out" and a slow-tempo version of “Happy Days Are Here Again.” Also on the show is Robert Goulet. 1963 – Del Shannon's cover of The Beatles' "From Me To You" hits the charts, and becomes the first Lennon/McCartney song to appear on the American charts. 1967 – The Move, Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Zoot Money, Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band all appear at the Tulip Bulb Auction Hall in Spalding, Lincoln, England. 1971 – 36 people are hospitalized after drinking LSD-laced apple cider at a Grateful Dead concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. 1972 – Wings release their single, "Mary Had A Little Lamb" b/w "Little Woman Love" in the U.S. 1973 – Roger McGuinn makes his solo live debut at New York's Academy of Music, and confirms during the gig that The Byrds are through. 1975 – The Osmonds perform at Wembley Pool in London and cause a riot. 1977 – The Buzzcocks appear at the Electric Circus in Manchester with opening acts Penetration, and a local act making their stage debut, Warsaw, soon to become Joy Division. 1977 – Fleetwood Mac, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Kenny Loggins all perform at the Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida. 1977 – During a concert at the Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland, a clearly out of it Elvis Presley walks off stage for 30 minutes, leaving the audience confused and angry. When he returns to the stage, Presley makes excuses about a “sore ankle” and “nature.” When the show ends, the audience leaves without a standing ovation. 1981 – Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band play the first of six nights at Wembley in London. 1981 – Prince begins his first European tour at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, Holland. 1982 – Survivor releases their single, "Eye Of The Tiger" b/w "Take You On A Saturday." 1983 – KISS plays their last show in their traditional make up for the next 13 years. 1983 – The second US Festival features “Heavy Metal Day,” with Quiet Riot, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Triumph, Scorpions, and Van Halen. 1987 – Michael Jackson offers to buy the bones of John Merrick, the Elephant Man, for $50,000. 1988 – During Levon Helm's concert at the Lone Star Café in New York City, Bob Dylan joins him on stage to sing "The Weight" and Chuck Berry's "Nadine." 1989 – Elvis Presley's first grandchild, Danielle Riley Keough, is born to Lisa Marie and her husband, Danny. 1991 – Nirvana plays a last-minute gig at the Jabberjaw in L.A. at an all-ages punk show. Audience members include Iggy Pop, L7 bassist Jennifer Finch, and her friend Courtney Love. 1992 – After the recent AIDS-related death of Freddie Mercury, the Queen song "We Are The Champions" is banned from the graduation ceremony at Sacred Heart private school in Clifton, New Jersey. 1992 – The FBI recovers 44 nude photographs of Madonna stolen from fashion photographer Steven Meisel. 1995 – A guard at Madonna's Los Angeles mansion shoots and wounds Robert Hoskins, a 37-year old intruder and stalker who scaled the fence to get on the property. Hoskins will be sentenced to 10 years in prison for stalking and making terrorist threats. 1997 – Former manager for Snoop Dog, Sharitha Knight, sues the rapper for $1 million, claiming she was never paid her 20% fees. 1999 – The Rolling Stones appear at the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart, Germany, on the first night of the European leg of their Bridges To Babylon tour. 1999 – Photographers taking shots of old cars wrecked at the bottom of Malibu's Decker Canyon discover the skeletal remains of Iron Butterfly bassist Philip Kramer, who has been missing since February 12, 1995. His death is later ruled a suicide. 2001 – The Eagles perform at the SC Olymisky in Moscow on their first Russian tour. 2002 – A 16ft. x 6ft. mosaic designed by John Lennon, and part of his swimming pool at his mid-60s Kenwood home, is put on display at the Beatles Story museum in Liverpool. 2002 – Singer Natalie Imbruglia signs a $170,000 deal with L'Oreal and becomes their new spokeswoman. 2007 – The upright grand piano from New York’s Record Plant recording studio - the last piano John Lennon played on the night he was killed - is put up for sale for $375,000. 2009 – Phil Spector is sentenced to 19 years to life for the murder of Lana Clarkson. 2010 – Sabrosa Park in Sabrosa, Portugal, is re-named B.B. King Park. 2010 – Following a concert at the Foro Sol Arena in Mexico City, Paul McCartney's tour bus comes under attack by a group of thugs. The police are called and no one is injured. 2012 – Bob Dylan receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama during a ceremony at the White House. 2012 – On his 67th birthday, Procol Harum’s Gary Brooker is hospitalized in the ICU of the Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, with a serious skull fracture after falling in his hotel room. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
