Happy Birthday to old warrior Gary Booker still performing I'm assured!
Here is performing Old Brown Shoes at the Concert for George!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znDTZTJEXsc
On Wednesday, 29 May 2013 16:19:07 UTC+1, Eidem wrote:
> 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.
>
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