August 21 Born –
William "Count" Basie (1904) – Jazz pianist/composer/bandleader.
Hy Zaret (aka Hyman Zaritsky, 1907) – composer/lyricist ("Unchained
Melody").
Art Farmer (1928) – Jazz trumpeter with Lionel Hampton and Gerry Mulligan.
Kenny Rogers (1938) – The New Christy Minstrels, The First Edition.
James Burton (1939) – session guitarist, road guitarist with Rick Nelson
and Elvis Presley.
Harold Reid (1939) – The Statler Brothers.
Tom Coster (1941) – keyboardist for The Loading Zone and Santana.
Jackie DeShannon (1944) – singer/songwriter.
Carl Giammarese (1947) – guitarist for The Buckinghams.
Robert Hazard (1948) – songwriter ("Girls Just Wanna Have Fun").
Glenn Hughes (1951) – bassist for Trapeze and Deep Purple.
Joe Strummer (aka John Mellor, 1952) – The Clash.
Nick Kane (1954) – guitarist for The Mavericks.
Steve Smith (1954) – drummer for Journey.
Budgie (aka Peter Clarke, 1957) – drummer for Siouxsie and The Banshees.
Kim Sledge (1957) – Sister Sledge.
David Morales (1961) – DJ/remixer/producer.
Serj Tankian (1967) – vocalist for System Of A Down.
Geraldine “Dina” Carroll (1968) – British singer.
Liam Howlett (1971) – keyboardist for The Prodigy.
August 21 R.I.P. –
Thad Jones (1986) – Age 63. Jazz trumpeter for The Count Basie Orchestra.
Tatiana Troyanos (1993) – breast cancer. Age 54. Opera singer.
Robert Moog (2005) – brain tumor. Age 71. Inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
Buddy Harman (2008) – congestive heart failure. Age 79. Prolific Nashville
session drummer.
Johnny Carter (2009) – Age 75. The Flamingos and The Dells.
August 21 album releases –
Etta James – Tell Mama (1968)
Metallica – The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited (1987)
Jethro Tull – Rock Island (1989) UK
Alice In Chains – Facelift (1990)
Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow – Stranger In Us All (1995)
Palace Music – Viva Last Blues (1995)
Oasis – Be Here Now (1997)
Paul McCartney – Liverpool Sound Collage (2000)
John Waite – Figure In A Landscape (2001)
The Damned – Grave Disorder (2001)
August 21 events –
1938 – Fats Waller records “Ain’t Misbehavin’” in London.
1948 – The Orioles release their single, “It’s Too Soon To Know” b/w
“Barbara Lee” on the It’s A Natural label. Considered to be one of the
first rock and roll records, the single is the first “race record” to cross
over and chart on the “white” pop carts.
1954 – Elvis Presley makes his first appearance outside of Tennessee at the
Mint
Club in Gladewater, Texas.
1958 – Ricky Nelson records “Lonesome Town” and “I Got A Feeling” at Master
Recorders in Hollywood.
1960 – Lionel Hampton, and The Four Preps appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Other musical guests include Tina Robin and Manolo Mera.
1961 – Still recovering from her serious car accident and on crutches,
Patsy Cline records the Willie Nelson song “Crazy” at Owen Bradley’s
Quonset Hut studio.
1961 – The Marvelettes release their debut single, “Please Mr. Postman” b/w
“So Long Baby” on the Tamla label.
1964 – The Beatles play at the Seattle Center Coliseum in Washington on
their first U.S. tour.
1965 – Barry McGuire’s “Eve Of Destruction” hits #58 on the Hot 100.
1965 – The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Do You Believe In Magic” debuts on
Billboard’s Hot 100.
1965 – The Beatles play at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota,
on their second tour of the U.S.
1966 – The Beatles perform their postponed set at Cosley Stadium in
Cincinnati at 12 noon, and then fly 350 miles to St. Louis, Missouri, for a
show at Busch Stadium in the pouring rain. A make-shift tarp keeps the
group somewhat dry, but the accumulative effect of the “bigger than Jesus”
controversy, the death threats, the demonstrations and the rain cement the
group’s decision to stop touring.
1968 – Jerry Lee Lewis agrees to play Iago in a controversial (and
ultimately disastrous) rock-opera version of Shakespeare's Othello entitled
Catch
My Soul.
1969 – Led Zeppelin performs at the Carousel Theatre in Framington,
Massachusetts.
1971 – Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Hawkwind, Duster Bennett, Brewers
Droop, Indian Summer, Graphite, and Queen all appear at the Carnon Downs
Festival at the Tregye Country Club in Truro, Cornwall.
1972 – At a Jefferson Airplane show in Akron, Ohio, a fight breaks out on
stage between the band and local police when guitarist Paul Kantner refers
to them as "pigs." Grace Slick is maced in the eyes, Kantner is thrown to
the floor, and Jack Casady is arrested. Spectators throw rocks at the
police, who respond with tear gas.
1975 – The Eagles appear at the Paramount Northwest Theater in Seattle on
their One Of These Nights Tour.
1976 – The Rolling Stones, 10CC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Todd Rundgren's Utopia and
Hot Tuna all appear at Knebworth.
1976 – RCA Records announces that sales of Elvis Presley records has
surpassed the 400 million mark.
1979 – Gary Numan releases his single, “Cars” b/w “Asylum.”
1980 – Linda Ronstadt makes her Broadway debut in The Pirates Of Penzance.
1982 – U2’s Bono marries Alison Stewart. They are still married.
1983 – Guitarist Johnny Ramone undergoes four hours of surgery to remove
blood clots from his brain after being found unconscious on a New York
street after a fight.
1984 – Jazz film score composer and actor Clint Eastwood receives a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1993 – Following up on molestation allegations made by a child who had
recently spent time there, the L.A.P.D. raids Michael Jackson’s Neverland
Ranch looking for incriminating evidence.
1994 – While on probation for drunk driving, John Denver crashes his
Porsche into a tree and is arrested again for drunk driving in Aspen,
Colorado.
1994 – During her concert at Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California, Whitney
Houston asks that the spotlight be turned on Justin and Sydney Simpson,
whose father, O.J. Simpson, is currently on trial for murder.
1996 – After serving only two years of his original five-year sentence for
kidnapping and torture, Rick James is released from California’s Folsom
Prison.
1997 – Former Stone Roses drummer Alan Wren, in court for driving with no
car insurance, loses his temper with a top Manchester Magistrate, is jailed
for seven days.
1997 – At a press conference in San Francisco’s Hard Rock Cafe, Carlos
Santana unveils his limited-edition line of t-shirts bearing his artwork,
and autographs 500 of the shirts for distribution to foreign and domestic
markets.
1998 – Journey performs at Freedom Hall in Louisville at the Kentucky State
Fair: their seventh show with new singer Steve Augeri.
2000 – Madonna releases her single, “Music” b/w “Cyber Raga” on CD,
cassette and DVD.
2000 – Survivor lead guitarist Frank Sullivan files a lawsuit in Chicago
against TVT Records and CBS Television for their unauthorized use of the
Survivor trademark (registered back in 1977) on the hit reality television
show and the show’s soundtrack CD.
2003 – Johnny Cash holds his final recording session, recording the song
"Engine One-Forty-Three" at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville.
2005 – Joan Baez camps with and performs for military mothers and other
anti-war protesters at Camp Casey, a protest camp near President Bush'sranch in
Crawford, Texas.
2005 – The Rolling Stones play the first of two nights at Fenway Park in
Boston - their first two shows in the U.S. on their A Bigger Bang Tour.
2008 – Convicted pedophile Gary Glitter is refused entry into Hong Kong
after being deported from Thailand. Banned entry in 19 countries, and with
nowhere else to go, he returns to Thailand.
2009 – Journey and Heart appear at Freedom Hall in Louisville at the
Kentucky State Fair.
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