May 30 Born –
Benny Goodman (1909) – clarinetist and bandleader.
Don Wayne (aka Donald Choate, 1933) – Country songwriter (“Walk
Tall”).
Lenny Davidson (1944) – guitarist for The Dave Clark 5.
Gladys Horton (1945) – The Marvelettes.
Nicholas "Topper" Headon (1955) – drummer for The Clash.
Marie Fredrikkson (1958) – Roxette.
Stephen Duffy (1960) – founder of Duran Duran.
Tom Morello (1964) – guitarist for Rage Against The Machine.
Wynonna Judd (1964) – Country music artist.
Sven Pipien (1967) – bassist for The Black Crowes.
Tim Burgess (1967) – vocalist for The Charlatans.
Patrick Dalheimer (1971) – bassist for Live, and The Gracious Few.
Cee-Lo Green (aka Thomas Callaway, 1974) – rapper/songwriter/producer.
May 30 R.I.P. –
John Ryanes (1972) – Age 31. The Monotones ("The Book Of Love").
Paul Desmond (1977) – lung cancer. Age 52. Saxophonist for The Dave
Brubeck Quartet.
Carl Radle (1980) – kidney infection. Age 37. Derek And The Dominos.
Sun Ra (1993) – pneumonia. Age 79. Jazz keyboardist/composer.
Gordon "Tex" Beneke (2000) – respiratory failure. Age 86. Saxophonist
for The Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Mickie Most (2003) – peritoneal mesothelioma. Age 64. Producer.
Ali-Ollie Woodson (2010) – leukemia. Age 58. The Temptations.
Anita Humes (2010) – Age 69. The Essex ("Easier Said Than Done").
Pete Cosey (2012) – complications from surgery. Age 68. Session
guitarist for Chess Records, guitarist for Miles Davis.
May 30 album releases –
The Rolling Stones – England's Newest Hit Makers (1964) U.S.
The Velvet Underground – Live At Max's Kansas City (1972)
Bobby Womack – Understanding (1972)
George Harrison – Living In The Material World (1973)
Wings – Venus And Mars (1975) UK
Peter Frampton – Where I Should Be (1979)
Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel (1980)
Echo and The Bunnymen – Heaven Up Here (1981)
Jefferson Strarship – Nuclear Furniture (1984)
Earth, Wind & Fire – The Best Of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 2 (1988)
Bob Dylan – Down In The Groove (1988)
Dimmu Borgit – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (1997)
Dredg – Leitmotif (1998)
Billy Bragg and Wilco – Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (2000)
May 30 events –
1917 – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band records "Darktown Strutters'
Ball" for Columbia.
1955 – Elvis Presley performs at the Fair Park Auditorium in Abilene,
Texas.
1956 – Time Magazine prints an article entitled "Teener's Hero," which
tries to explain Elvis Presley's mystique, saying, "…his movements
suggest, in a word, sex."
1960 – Brenda Lee releases her single, "I'm Sorry" b/w "That's All You
Gotta Do."
1963 – Leslie Gore appears on American Bandstand, singing "It's My
Party."
1964 – The Searchers' "Don't Throw Your Love Away" debuts on the Hot
100 chart.
1964 – Johnny Rivers’ “Memphis” hits the charts.
1965 – The Rolling Stones play the final night of their U.S. tour at
the New York Academy of Music. During the afternoon, the band records
six songs for the Clay Pole TV show.
1966 – University student Anne Murray signs a contract with Canada’s
CBC-TV to be a regular on the "Singalong Jubilee" show.
1966 – The Doors appear at the Hullaballoo Club in West Hollywood.
1966 – The Jefferson Airplane performs at a benefit concert for the
Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization (HALO) at the Winterland Ballroom in
San Francisco.
1966 – The Beatles release their single, "Paperback Writer" b/w "Rain"
in the U.S.
1966 – Dolly Parton marries her first and only husband, Carl Dean.
1968 – The Beatles begin recording their next album, starting with the
song "Revolution I."
1969 – The Beatles release their single, "The Ballad Of John And Yoko"
b/w "Old Brown Shoe" in the UK. It is immediately banned by the BBC.
1969 – Led Zeppelin plays the first of two nights at Fillmore East in
New York City.
1972 – Roxy Music makes their stage debut at the Great Western Express
Festival in Lincolnshire.
1974 – 14-year old David Cassidy fan Bernadette Whelan dies from heart
failure four days after being crushed in a crowd surge at Cassidy’s
concert at White City Stadium in London.
1975 – Joan Baez hosts The Midnight Special, with guests Hoyt Axton
and Kool & The Gang.
1978 – Led Zeppelin begins recording their final album, In Through The
Out Door, at Polar Studios in Stockholm, Sweden.
1980 – The Temptations host The Midnight Special, with guests Firefall
and Robbie Dupree.
1983 – The US Festival hosts “Rock Day,” featuring Los Lobos, Little
Steven & The Disciples Of Soul, Berlin, Quarterflash, U2, Missing
Persons, The Pretenders, Joe Walsh, Stevie Nicks, and David Bowie.
1987 – A riot breaks out at a Beatie Boys concert at the Royal Court
Theatre in Liverpool just minutes after the group takes the stage.
Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz is later arrested for throwing a beer can
and hitting a female audience member.
1987 – David Bowie plays the first date of the European leg of his
Glass Spider tour at Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam, Holland.
1988 – Leonard Cohen plays the first of three sold-out nights at the
Royal Albert Hall in London.
1990 – The band Midnight Oil closes down 6th Avenue in New York City
and plays a "protest" concert in front of the Exxon building in
reaction to the Exxon Valdez disaster.
1991 – Morrissey begins the U.S. leg of his Kill Uncle Tour at the San
Diego Sports Arena.
1992 – Paul Simon marries his third wife, singer for The New
Bohemians, Edie Brickell. They are still married.
1997 – Neil Young cancels his European tour after badly cutting his
finger while making a ham sandwich.
1999 – A bomb threat is called in to a Kenny Rogers concert at the
Royal Albert Hall. The audience of 3,000 is evacuated and no bomb is
found.
2002 – Diana Ross enters the Promises rehab center in Malibu.
2003 – Singer Finley Quaye is threatened with jail time when his cell
phone goes off in court while he is being arraigned on domestic abuse
charges. Quaye is found guilty of assault and is ordered to attend
domestic violence classes.
2004 – Madonna loses a plagiarism lawsuit and is forced to pay out
£250,000 for copying ideas by the late French erotic photographer, Guy
Burton, for the video of her song, "Hollywood."
2005 – Coldplay's new album, X&Y, is leaked on the Internet a week
before its official release date.
2007 – L.A. coroner, Dr. Louis Pena, testifies that Phil Spector
victim, Lana Clarkson, was murdered, and that she had bruising inside
her mouth where the gun barrel had been forcibly shoved in.
2007 – Several tracks of the new as-yet unreleased White Stripes
album, "Icky Thump," are leaked and played by Chicago radio station
Q101-WKQX. Jack White personally calls the station from Spain, where
he is touring, to voice his displeasure.
2008 – British music mogul and manager Simon Fuller marries his long-
time girlfriend Natalie Swanston at a ceremony in Napa Valley,
California.
2009 – Six audience members are stabbed during a concert by War in
Mountain View, California.
2009 – The Domino Effect benefit concert takes place in New Orleans to
aid in the hurricane recovery and to honor Fats Domino. Chuck Berry,
B.B. King, Little Richard, Taj Mahal and others perform.
2009 – Ozzy Osbourne sues Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi for
unpaid royalties and use and ownership of the band's name.
2009 – A painting of Madonna in the nude with her ex-husband, Guy
Ritchie, fails to sell at an auction.
2009 – Mick Jagger offers to buy a vintage restored ice cream truck
for £100,000, but is turned down by the owner who promised his
daughter that he would drive her to her wedding in it.
2009 – Comedian and musician Steve Martin makes his Grand Ole Opry
debut, performing songs from his album, The Crow: New Songs For The
Five-String Banjo.
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