September 20 Born –
Frank De Vol (1911) – actor/composer/arranger (“Nature Boy”). Gogi Grant (aka Myrtle Arinsberg, 1924) – singer (“The Wayward Wind”). Ulysses B. "Bobby" Nunn (1925) – The Robins and The Coasters. Eddie Bo (aka Edwin Bocage, 1930) – singer/songwriter/pianist (“Pass The Hatchet”). "Sweet Pea" Atkinson (1945) – vocalist for Was Not Was. Mick Rogers (aka Michael Oldroyd, 1946) – guitarist for Manfred Mann's Earth Band. John Panozzo (1948) – drummer for Styx. Chuck Panozzo (1948) – bassist for Styx. Tony Destra (1954) – drummer for Cinderella and Britny Fox. Alannah Currie (1957) – The Thompson Twins. Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins (1960) – Grand Master Flash and The Furious Five. Dave Hemingway (1960) – vocalist for The Housemartins. Nuno Bettencourt (1966) – guitarist for Extreme. Gunnar Nelson (1967) – Nelson. Matthew Nelson (1967) – Nelson. Ben Shepherd (1968) – bassist for Soundgarden. Rick Woolstenhulme (1979) – drummer for Lifehouse. September 20 R.I.P. – Jean Sibelius (1957) – Age 91. Finnish composer (“Finlandia”). Jim Croce (1973) – plane crash. Age 30. Singer/songwriter (“I Got A Name”). Maury Muehleisen (1973) – plane crash. Age 24. Singer with Jim Croce. Steve Goodman (1984) – leukemia. Age 36. Folk singer/songwriter. Tim Davis (1988) – diabetes. Age 44. Drummer for The Steve Miller Band. Jule Styne (1994) – Age 88. Songwriter (“Three Coins In The Fountain”). Paul Weston (1996) – Age 84. Pianist/arranger/composer. Mahlon Clark (2007) – Age 83. Clarinetist/saxophonist with The Lawrence Welk Orchestra. Nappy Brown (2008) – died in his sleep. Age 78. R&B singer (“Night Time Is The Right Time”). September 20 album releases – AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976) Australia The Stills-Young Band – Long May You Run (1976) Ringo Starr – Ringo The 4th (1977) UK Yes – Tormato (1978) Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard Of Ozz (1980) Dire Straits – Love Over Gold (1982) Poco – Ghost Town (1982) Huey Lewis and The News – Fore! (1986) Luther Vandross – Any Love (1988) BulletBoys – BulletBoys (1988) Ween – The Pod (1991) Liz Phair – Whip-Smart (1994) Jamiroquai – 1999 Remixes (1999) Rae & Christian – Blazing The Crop (1999) UK Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus (2004) Bon Jovi – Have A Nice Day (2005) Earth, Wind & Fire – Illumination (2005) September 20 events – 1948 – The Four Freshmen make their professional stage debut at the 113 Club in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 1957 – Buddy Holly releases his single, “Peggy Sue” b/w “Everyday” on Coral Records. 1957 – Pat Boone records “April Love” at the Annex in Hollywood. 1957 – Don Rondo appears on American Bandstand. 1964 – The Beatles perform for no fee at the Paramount Theatre in New York for a charity concert in aid of the United Cerebral Palsy of New York City and Retarded Infants Services. It is the last date of their first full U.S. tour. 1965 – The Animals record “It’s My Life.” 1966 – George Harrison and wife Pattie travel to Bombay, India for a vacation. 1967 – Rick Nelson and his wife Kris become the parents of twins. 1968 – The New Yardbirds - soon to become Led Zeppelin - begin recording their first album at Olympic Studios in London. 1969 – John Lennon informs the rest of The Beatles that he “wants a divorce” and is quitting the group. Manager Allen Klein convinces him not to go public until the release of Let It Be. 1969 – UK music paper Melody Maker’s readers’ poll results are published, and this year’s winners include Eric Clapton for Best Musician, Bob Dylan for Best Male Singer and Best Album for Nashville Skyline, The Beatles for Best Group, Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Boxer'” for Best Single, and Janis Joplin for Best Female Singer. 1969 – Associated TV buys The Beatles' music publishing company, Northern Songs, for £1 million. 1970 – A Miami jury finds Jim Morrison guilty on misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure and profanity, but not guilty on the felony charge and misdemeanor for drunkenness. He is released on $50,000 bond. 1971 – Peter Frampton quits Humble Pie. 1972 – Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested for possession and growing marijuana at their farm in the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland. 1973 – The Roxy opens in Los Angeles, with Neil Young and Crazy Horse the first to take the stage. 1975 – ABC-TV debuts Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell, with first night guests Frank Sinatra <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra>, Shirley Bassey <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Bassey>, Paul Anka<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Anka> , John Denver <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Denver> and The Bay City Rollers, making their U.S. television debut. 1976 – The two-day 100 Club Punk Special begins in London, with performances by Subway Sect, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Clash and The Sex Pistols. 1976 – The Captain And Tennille Show debuts on ABC. The show lasts one season because the workload of recording, performing, and producing a TV show is too much for the duo. 1982 – Weighing only 77 lbs., Karen Carpenter is admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and fed intravenously in order to get her weight back to normal. Six weeks later and 30 pounds heavier, she checks herself out of the facility. 1983 – The first ARMS (Action into Research for Multiple Sclerosis) concert - a benefit for former Faces bassist Ronnie Lane who is now fighting MS - is held in London, featuring Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, John Paul Jones, Charlie Watts and Kenney Jones. 1997 – Pearl Jam's video for the song “Jeremy” is cited in a Washington courtroom as one of the reasons American teenager Barry Loukaitis snapped into a violent rage that left three people dead. Defense attorneys take the unprecedented step of playing the video in the courtroom. 2003 – An arsonist burns down an out-building lodge on Chuck Berry’s ranch in Wentzville, Missouri. 2003 – Nelly Furtado gives birth to daughter Nevis Chetan in Toronto. The father is DJ Jasper Gahunia (aka DJ Lil’ Jaz). 2004 – Billy Joel receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2004 – In an interview with England's The Sun tabloid, Keith Richards claims to have finally given up illegal drugs, in part because "the quality's gone down. All they do is try and take the high out of everything. I don't like the way they're working on the brain area instead of just through the blood system. That's why I don't take them any more. And you're talking to a person who knows his drugs." 2005 – Canadian J.D. Fortune beats two other finalists on the reality TV show Rock Star INXS to become the new lead singer of the group after a worldwide search to replace the late Michael Hutchence. 2006 – The Rolling Stones appear at Gillette Stadium in Boston on their A Bigger Bang Tour. 2007 – Stereophonics singer Kelly Jones is admitted to a hospital after being injured at the Vodafone Live Music Awards in London during an altercation with a member of a club's security team. 2010 – Eddie Franklin, Aretha’s 50-year old son, is severely beaten at a gas station in Detroit by two people. 2010 – Jacksonville, Florida, high school gym teacher, basketball coach, and band namesake, Leonard Skinner, passes away from Alzheimer’s disease at age 77. 2010 – At an auction in Santa Monica, The Beatles’ 1965 Cow Palace contract, which states that the group will not perform before a segregated audience, sells for $23,000. 2011 – The L.A. Unified School Board approves a name change for the Valley Region Elementary School in the San Fernando Valley to the Carlos Santana Arts Academy. 2012 – The former north London home of the original band members of Pink Floyd is bought by Singaporean developer Sham Masterman, who bought the Highgate house and the one next door for £1.2m each. Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett had all lived in the house in the 1960s. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
