September 3 Born –
Memphis Slim (aka John Chatman, 1915) – Blues pianist/singer ("Nobody Loves
Me").
Hank Thompson (1925) – Country singer (“The Wild Side Of Life”).
Thomas “Tompall” Glaser (1933) – Country artist, Tompall and The Glaser
Brothers.
Freddie King (1934) – Blues guitarist/singer ("Hide Away").
Al Jardine (1942) – The Beach Boys.
Mike Harrison (1942) – vocalist for Spooky Tooth, and The V.I.P.s.
George Biondo (1945) – bassist for Steppenwolf.
Eric Bell (1947) – original guitarist for Thin Lizzy.
Don Brewer (1948) – drummer for Grand Funk Railroad.
Leroy Smith (1952) – keyboardist for Sweet Sensation.
Steve Jones (1955) – guitarist for The Sex Pistols.
Susanne Freytag (1957) – keyboardist/vocalist for Propaganda.
Perry Bamonte (1960) – guitarist for The Cure.
Lester Noel (1962) – vocalist for Beats International.
Jonathan Segel (1963) – multi-instrumentalist for Camper Van Beethoven.
Vaden Todd Lewis (1965) – singer/guitarist for The Toadies.
Mike Wengren (1971) – drummer for Disturbed.
Jay “Cone” McCaslin (1980) – bassist for Sum 41.
September 3 R.I.P. –
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (1970) – drug overdose. Age 27. Canned Heat.
Harry Partch (1974) – heart attack. Age 73. Composer, inventor of the
Monophone.
Johnny Marks (1985) – Age 75. Christmas songwriter (“Rudolph, The Red-Nosed
Reindeer”).
“Papa” Jo Jones (1985) – Age 73. Jazz drummer for Count Basie.
Major Lance (1994) – heart disease. Age 55. R&B singer (“Um, Um, Um, Um,
Um, Um”).
Janis Martin (2007) – cancer. Age 67. Rockabilly/country singer.
Mike Edwards (2010) – car crash. Age 62. Cellist for Electric Light
Orchestra.
September 3 album releases –
Fleetwood Mac – Future Games (1971)
Diana Ross – Ross (1978)
Iron Maiden – Powerslave (1984)
George Michael – Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 (1990)
Judas Priest – Painkiller (1990)
Rush – Roll The Bones (1991)
Blues Traveler – Travelers And Thieves (1991)
Stevie Nicks – TimeSpace: The Best Of Stevie Nicks (1991)
September 3 events –
1940 – Artie Shaw and His Gramercy Five record “Summit Ridge Drive” at RCA
Studios in Los Angeles. The song is later voted the #8 record of all-time
in a 1956 Billboard magazine disc jockey poll.
1955 – Bill Haley and His Comets turn down a $2,000 offer for a 15-date tour
of Australia due to Haley’s fear of flying.
1955 – Jim Reeves leaves the Louisiana Hayride with his sights set on the
Grand Ole Opry.
1956 – Elvis Presley holds his final session for his second album,
recording “Rip It Up,” “First In Line” and “Ready Teddy” at Radio Recorders
in Hollywood.
1959 – Bobby Darin records “Clementine,” “I Can’t Give You Anything But
Love,” “All Nite Long” and “Guys And Dolls” at Atlantic Studios in New York
City.
1961 – Loretta Lynn signs her first major record deal with Decca Records.
1962 – The Beatles play a lunch time session at the Cavern Club. In the
evening, the group makes their stage debut at Queen’s Hall in Widnes, with
opening act Rory Storm and The Hurricanes.
1963 – Warner Brothers Records buys Frank Sinatra’s Reprise Records company.
1964 – The Beatles perform two shows at the Indiana State Fair in
Indianapolis on their first tour of the U.S.
1965 – Lou Christie records “Lightnin’ Strikes” at Olmstead Sound Studios
in New York City.
1965 – A riot ensues at a Rolling Stones gig at the Adelphi Theatre in
Dublin, when fans rush the stage. Mick Jagger is knocked to the floor, and
the rest of the band flees for their lives.
1967 – Young Swedish singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad wins a talent show contest
on the TV program Hyland's Corner with her group the Anni-Frid Four. She
will later go on to worldwide fame with ABBA.
1968 – Sly and The Family Stone win the final round on NBC-TV's summer
talent competition, Showcase '68.
1968 – Ringo Starr returns to Abbey Road and The Beatles after walking out
in disgust on August 22. However, he is not needed for recording, as George
works alone recording backwards guitars for “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
1969 – Elvis Presley’s 30th movie, The Trouble With Girls (And How To Get
Into It), opens in theaters.
1970 – The Dave Clark 5 calls it quits.
1970 – In his divorce from Marianne Faithfull, John Dunbar cites an affair
with Mick Jagger as its cause.
1970 – Arthur Brown is arrested after a performance at the Palermo Pop
Festival in Italy for completely disrobing on stage. He spends four days in
solitary confinement before being deported.
1971 – Paul McCartney dubs his new band, Wings.
1971 – After 15 years on ABC-TV, The Lawrence Welk Show airs its last
episode. The program will run in syndication well into the 1980s.
1975 – An all-star jam takes place at the 50th birthday party for Peter
Sellers in L.A. The line-up for the group, who named themselves “The
Trading Faces,” is Bill Wyman on bass, Ronnie Wood, Jesse Ed Davis, and
Danny Kortchmar on guitars, Keith Moon on organ and drums, Joe Cocker on
vocals, Nigel Olsson on drums, and David Bowie and Bobby Keys on saxes.
1982 – Shawn Love gives birth to Dennis Wilson’s son, Gage.
1982 – The three-day US Festival begins in San Bernardino with 110°
temperatures. Artists performing at the festival include Tom Petty and The
Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, The Police, The Cars, Talking Heads, The
Kinks, The Ramones, The B-52s, The English Beat, Dave Edmonds, Santana,
Gang Of Four, The Grateful Dead, Pat Benatar, Jackson Browne, Eddie Money,
The Joe Sharino Band and Jerry Jeff Walker, Oingo Boingo and Jimmy Buffett.
1991 – R.E.M. - along with Kate Pierson of The B-52s - releases their
single “Shiny Happy People” b/w “Forty Second Song” in the U.S.
1991 – Whitney Houston performs the first of ten nights at Wembley Arena in
London on her I’m Your Baby Tonight World Tour.
1991 – Ike Turner is released from the California Men's Colony state prison
in San Luis Obispo after serving only 18 months of his four-year sentence
for cocaine possession.
1991 – While on tour in the UK, Nirvana records “Dumb,” “Drain You” and
“Endless, Nameless” at Maida Vale Studios in London for BBC Radio’s John
Peel Show.
1994 – Former Stray Cats lead man Brian Setzer marries his second wife,
Christine Schmidt. They stay married for eight years.
1999 – Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx is arrested after a show in Raleigh,
North Carolina, and is charged on four counts of felony riot, plus
misdemeanor offenses of assault, disorderly conduct and inciting a riot.
All charges stem from a concert in Greensboro in October 1997 when Sixx
hurled racist remarks at a security guard and encouraged the crowd to
attack him.
1999 – The largest music bootleg bust in U.S. history takes place when
agents confiscate recording equipment valued at $250,000 and almost one
million CDs and tapes, thus ending the operation that alone was responsible
for an estimated $100 million in lost music revenues.
2002 – The Rolling Stones kick off their Licks Tour at the Fleet Center in
Boston, celebrating their 40th anniversary.
2004 – After 46 years with EMI, Cliff Richards signs with Universal Records.
2005 – The Rolling Stones appear in front of 89,260 fans at the Magnetic
Hill Music Festival in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, on their A Bigger
Bang Tour, which becomes the largest musical event ever in Atlantic coast
Canada.
2006 – Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums are tampered with in record stores
throughout the UK in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy, who
replaced the original CDs with his own mixes of the songs.
2007 – On the final date of their tour with Linkin Park, My Chemical
Romance vocalist Gerard Way marries Mindless Self Indulgence bassist Lyn Z
backstage after the show at the Coors Amphitheatre in Englewood, Colorado.
2008 – R&B singer Ne-Yo is awarded a $700,000 judgment in his lawsuit
against rapper R. Kelly, who dropped the singer from his tour because he
was stealing the show.
2009 – A private funeral is held and Michael Jackson is laid to rest at
Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.
2009 – Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour becomes the highest grossing tour by a
solo artist of all time, earning $408 million from 85 shows in 32 countries
in front of 3.5 million fans. Her tour is second only to The Rolling
Stones’ A Bigger Bang Tour, which grossed $558 million.
2010 – In a ceremony in Ottawa, The Guess Who’s Burton Cummings is awarded
the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honor.
2012 – Internal e-mails sent by the promoters of Michael Jackson's planned
2009 This Is It comeback concerts begin coming to light, and show that
there were many concerns over Jackson’s stability and health. One e-mail,
sent the day the singer appeared in London to announce the shows, described
Jackson as "an emotionally paralyzed mess," and that the singer locked
himself in his room and was said to be drunk and despondent.
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