August 2 Born –
Helen Morgan (1900) – stage actress, speakeasy singer (Show Boat).
Joe Harnell (1924) – composer, accompanist and arranger for Peggy Lee.
Winston “Buddy” Deane (1924) - influential DJ and television dance show
host, The Buddy Deane Show.
Garland "Hank" Cochran (1935) – Country singer/songwriter ("She's Got You").
Eric Garth Hudson (1937) – keyboardist/saxophonist for The Band.
Bill “Little Bo” Savich (1939) – drummer for Johnny and The Hurricanes.
Andrew Steele (1941) – drummer for The Herd and Stealers Wheel.
Homer Banks (1941) – songwriter for Stax Records ("(Ain't That) A Lot Of
Love").
Doris Coley (aka Doris Kenner-Jackson, 1941) – The Shirelles.
Kathy Lennon (1943) – The Lennon Sisters.
Jim Capaldi (1944) – Traffic.
Andy Fairweather Low (1948) – Welsh session guitarist, Amen Corner.
"Fat" Larry James (1949) – drummer/vocalist for Fat Larry's Band.
David "Ted" Turner (1950) – guitarist/vocalist for Wishbone Ash.
Andrew Gold (1951) – singer/songwriter.
Joe Lynn Turner (1951) – singer for Rainbow.
Donnie Munro (aka Donaidh Rothach, 1953) – vocalist for Runrig.
Butch Vig (aka Bryan Vig, 1955) – producer, drummer for Garbage.
Mojo Nixon (aka Neill McMillan, 1957) – psychobilly musician.
Apollonia (aka Patricia Kotero, 1959) – Apollonia 6.
Pete De Freitas (1961) – drummer for Echo and The Bunnymen.
Lee Mavers (1962) – guitarist for The La's.
Al Macauley (1965) – drummer for Tindersticks.
Zelma Davis (1970) – C + C Music Factory.
August 2 R.I.P. –
Enrico Caruso (1921) – peritonitis. Age 48. Opera singer.
Betty Jack Davis (1953) – car crash. The Davis Sisters.
Brian Cole (1972) – heroin overdose. Age 29. The Association.
James Jamerson (1983) – cirrhosis, heart failure, pneumonia. Age 47.
Bassist with the Funk Brothers.
David Martin (1987) – heart attack. Age 50. Bassist for Sam the Sham and
The Pharaohs.
Ron Townson (2001) – renal failure. Age 68. The 5th Dimension.
Mitch Jayne (2010) – Age 82. The Dillards.
Marguerite Piazza (2012) – congestive heart failure. Age 91. Opera singer.
Jimmy Jones (2012) – Age 75. Singer/songwriter (“Handy Man”).
August 2 album releases –
Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention – Fillmore East - June 1971 (1971)
Grand Funk Railroad – Good Singin’, Good Playin’ (1976)
Boston – Don’t Look Back (1978)
Jackson Browne – Lawyers In Love (1983)
Poison – Look What The Cat Dragged In (1986)
Vinnie Vincent Invasion – Vinnie Vincent Invasion (1986)
Dwight Yoakam – Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (1988)
Immature – Playtyme Is Over (1994)
Michael Penn – Mr. Hollywood Jr., 1947 (2005)
The Tubes – Wild In London (2005)
August 2 events –
1953 – Skeeter Davis breaks both arms and both legs in a car accident in
Cincinnati. The accident kills her singing partner, Betty Jack Davis.
1956 – Look magazine reports that Elvis Presley is receiving 3,000 fan letters
a week.
1957 – The official Elvis Presley Fan Club is formed in the UK.
1957 – Buddy Holly and The Crickets begin a one week tour as headliners at
the Howard Theater in Washington DC. Others acts on the bill include Clyde
McPhatter, The Cadillacs, Edna McGriff, Otis Rush, Lee Andrews and The
Hearts, Oscar and Oscar, and The G-Clefs.
1961 – The Beatles begin what will become a two-year night residency at the
Cavern Club in Liverpool.
1962 – Aretha Franklin makes her national television debut on American
Bandstand,
singing “Don’t Cry Baby” and “Try A Little Tenderness.”
1962 – Bob Zimmerman legally changes his last name to Dylan.
1963 – Still rebuilding his career after the scandal of his marriage to his
second cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis accepts $9,500 to open Las Vegas' new
Thunderbird Hotel.
1964 – The bodies of Jim Reeves and Dean Manuel are found north of
Brentwood, Tennessee, in the airplane wreckage that took their lives.
1964 – The Beatles perform at the Gaumont Theatre in Bournemouth, with
opening acts The Kinks, Mike Berry, and Adrienne Poster.
1965 – Bob Dylan records “Ballad Of A Thin Man” at Columbia Studios in New
York City.
1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience plays the first of five nights at the
Salvation Club in New York City.
1969 – Bob Dylan makes a surprise appearance at his 10-year high school
class reunion, but leaves early when a drunk former classmate tries to pick
a fight with him.
1969 – Paul McCartney gives his demo of “Come And Get It” to The Iveys.
1971 – Creedence Clearwater Revival, reduced to a trio with the exit of Tom
Fogerty, begins their last tour at the Assembly Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1972 – The Eagles appear at the Denver Coliseum in Colorado.
1973 – Papa John Phillips sues his former label, Dunhill Records, for $9
million in unpaid royalties.
1976 – Pink Floyd’s road manager, Peter “Puddy” Watts, dies from a heroin
overdose.
1977 – Sex Pistol Sid Vicious is fined £125 by a London court for carrying
a knife at the 100 Club Punk Festival the previous September.
1982 – José Feliciano marries his second wife, Susan Omillian. They are
still married.
1991 – Rick James and his girlfriend, Tanya Hijazi, are arrested in Hollywood
and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated mayhem, torture,
false imprisonment and forcible oral copulation of a 24-year old woman.
James is released on $1 million bail.
1998 – The Beatles take the top spot in Mojo magazine’s “Favorite Recording
Artist of All Time” nationwide poll. Elvis Presley came in second, followed
by Frank Sinatra, Queen and Elton John.
1999 – Barry White is hospitalized for exhaustion after a concert in San
Diego.
2000 – Liverpool music store, Rushworth and Dreaper, closes its doors after
150 years.
2001 – Whitney Houston re-signs with Arista Records for $100 million.
2004 – Eric Clapton bails out Cordings clothing store in London by buying
fifty percent of the retailer's shares.
2005 – Status Quo appears as themselves on the BBC television show, Coronation
Street.
2007 – Elvis Presley Enterprises announces plans to expand Graceland with a
visitor’s center and a convention hotel.
2007 – Keith Richards signs a $7 million book deal for the rights to his
autobiography.
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