September 28 Born –
Ed Sullivan (1901) – entertainment writer, variety show host. Tuli Kupferberg (1923) – The Fugs Billy Grammer (1925) – Country music singer/guitarist (“Gotta Travel On”). Koko Taylor (aka Cora Walton, 1928) – Chicago blues singer. Tommy Collins (aka Leonard Sipes, 1930) – Country music singer/songwriter. Johnny “Country” Mathis (1933) – Country music singer/songwriter (“Please Talk To My Heart”). Ben E. King (1938) – soul singer, The Drifters (“Stand By Me”). Nick St. Nicholas (1943) – bassist for Steppenwolf. Helen Shapiro (1946) – British singer (“You Don’t Know”). Peter Hope-Evans (1947) – Medicine Head. Paul Burgess (1950) – drummer for 10cc. Norton Buffalo (aka Phillip Jackson, 1951) – singer/songwriter/harmonica player, The Steve Miller Band. Andy Ward (1952) – drummer for Camel. Keni Burke (1953) – R&B/soul singer/songwriter, The Five Stairsteps. Jim Diamond (1953) – Scottish singer/songwriter (“I Won’t Let You Down”). George Lynch (1954) – guitarist for Dokken. Jennifer Rush (aka Heidi Stern, 1960) – singer/songwriter (“The Power Of Love”). Peter Hooton (1962) – vocalist for The Farm. Ginger Fish (aka Kenny Wilson, 1966) – drummer for Marilyn Manson. Moon Unit Zappa (1967) – singer/actress (“Valley Girl”). Melody Thornton (1984) – singer/songwriter, The Pussycat Dolls. Hilary Duff (1987) – singer/actress. September 28 R.I.P. – Nacio Herb Brown (1964) – Age 68. Songwriter (“Singin’ In The Rain”). Harpo Marx (1964) – complications from open heart surgery. Age 75. Actor, harp player. “Daddy-O” Dewey Phillips (1968) – heart failure. Age 42. Pioneer rock and roll DJ. Rory Storm (1972) – chest infection. Age 33. Rory Storm and The Hurricanes. Miles Davis (1991) – stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure. Age 65. Jazz trumpeter. Bob Gibson (1996) – progressive supranuclear palsy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_supranuclear_palsy> (PSP). Age 64. Folk singer. Scott Muni (2004) – Age 74. New York DJ. Evelyn Knight (2007) – lung cancer. Age 89. Singer (“Buttons And Bows”). “DJ AM” Adam Goldstein (2009) – drug overdose. Age 36. Re-mixer/producer, Crazy Town. Dolores Wilson (2010) – natural causes. Age 82. Opera singer. September 28 album releases – Status Quo – Hello! (1973) Slade – Sladest (1973) Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains The Same (1976) Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life (1976) Black Sabbath – Never Say Die! (1978) Alice Cooper – Da Da (1983) Depeche Mode – Music For The Masses (1987) Wet Wet Wet – Popped In Souled Out (1987) UK M.C. Hammer – Let’s Get It Started (1988) Brian May – Back To The Light (1992) UK Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Live Seeds (1993) The Police – Message In A Box: The Complete Recordings (1993) (box set) Depeche Mode – The Singles 86>98 (1998) Tony Bennett – Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot & Cool (1999) The Indigo Girls – Come On Now Social (1999) Creed – Human Clay (1999) ZZ Top – XXX (1999) Brian Wilson – Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE (2004) The Buzzcocks – The Complete Singles Anthology (2004) Joss Stone – Mind, Body & Soul (2004) Mariah Carey – Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (2009) Tina Turner – Tina Live (2009) Europe Soundgarden – Telephantasm (2010) September 28 events – 1928 – Glen Gray's Orchestra, with Kenny Sargeant on vocals, records "Under A Blanket Of Blue." 1956 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “Love Me Tender” b/w “Any Way You Want Me.” 1957 – The Gisèle MacKenzie Show debuts on NBC-TV. The show lasts one season. 1958 – The Teddy Bears release their single, “To Know Him Is To Love Him” b/w “Don’t Worry My Little Pet.” 1958 – Chuck Berry records four songs at Chess Studios in Chicago: “Anthony Boy,” “Joe Joe Gun,” “Memphis, Tennessee” and “Sweet Little Rock And Roll.” 1959 – Brenda Lee releases her single, “Sweet Nothin’s” b/w “Weep No More My Baby” on Decca. 1962 – The Beatles play their 240th lunchtime gig at the Cavern Club. In the evening, the group plays their fourth and final Riverboat Shuffle aboard the Mersey River ferry MV Royal Iris. 1963 – New York disc jockey Murray the K receives a copy of The Beatles' "She Loves You" and plays it on the radio to a tepid response. 1963 – The Ronettes appear on American Bandstand, lip-synching to “Be My Baby.” Also on the show is Bobby Rydell, performing “Let’s Make Love Tonight.” 1965 – The Rolling Stones play the first of two nights at the Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales. 1965 – Mary Wells, Little Anthony and The Imperials, Jimmie Rodgers, Georgie Fame, Dick and Dee Dee, Bobby Sherman and Donna Loren all appear on Shindig! 1967 – Gladys Knight and The Pips release their single, “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” b/w “It’s Time To Go Now” on Motown. 1968 – Bruce Springsteen and local folk rock group The Founders appear at the Off Broad Street Coffee House in Red Bank, New Jersey. 1968 – Janis Joplin’s manager, Albert Grossman, announces that the singer is leaving Big Brother and The Holding Company in November, stating that the singer and the group had stopped growing together. 1969 – The Temptations, Barbara Streisand and Tony Bennett all perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1971 – Led Zeppelin plays the first of two nights at the Festival Hall in Osaka, Japan. 1972 – David Bowie makes his Carnegie Hall debut on his Ziggy Stardust tour. 1972 – The Temptations release their single, “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone,” with the vocal version on Side A, and the instrumental version on Side B. 1973 – Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert debuts on ABC-TV. Guests include The Doobie Brothers, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Cross Country. The Rolling Stones perform on video - their first appearance on U.S. television in six years - singing their latest hit “Angie.” 1974 – John Lennon appears on Dennis Elsas’ WNEW radio show in New York to promote his new album Walls And Bridges, and spends a few hours playing DJ, spinning records and reading commercials. 1974 – King Crimson disbands. 1976 – A&M Records sues George Harrison - who is sick with hepatitis - for $6 million for not delivering his album, 33 1/3, on time. 1987 – British tabloid The Sun reports erroneously that Elton John keeps several guard dogs with their larynxes removed so that he can't hear them bark. Elton will sue and win. 1987 – U2 plays the first of two nights at Madison Square Garden on their Joshua Tree Tour. 1987 – Smokey Robinson and Gladys Knight are celebrity contestants on the $100,000 Pyramid game show. 1989 – Jimmy Buffett publishes his first book, a collection of short fiction, entitled Tales From Margaritaville. 1991 – Nirvana hits New York City and makes an in-store appearance at Tower Records during the day, then appears at the Marquee Club in Manhattan that evening. 1991 – Bryan Adams is awarded the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. 1996 – Bob Dylan is nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for his songwriting by Gordon Ball, literature professor at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. 2000 – Ballet For Life, a ballet tribute to late Queen’s singer and AIDS casualty Freddie Mercury, premieres at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre. 2000 – Barbra Streisand plays the final night of her Timeless: Live In Concert Tour at Madison Square Garden. 2000 – Radiohead plays the first of two nights at Glasgow Green in Scotland, on their Kid A/Amnesiac Tour. 2002 – Madonna is voted the greatest female singer of all-time by 750,000 music fans in a VH1 poll. 2002 – The city of Nutbush, Tennessee, re-names a section of State Route 19 between Brownsville and Nutbush the Tina Turner Highway. 2004 – A tribute concert in honor of Ray Charles, featuring Stevie Wonder, Michael McDonald, Travis Tritt, James Ingram, and Patti Austin, is held in Beverly Hills, and raises $15 million for Atlanta's African-American institution, Morehouse College. 2007 – An ad for P. Diddy's Unforgivable Woman perfume, featuring a lingerie-clad model cavorting with the rapper in a New York hotel stairwell, is shown on Channel 4 in the UK. The ad had been banned in the U.S. by the FCC for being too sexually explicit for U.S. television. 2007 – In a statement to the press, Michael Jackson's spokeswoman, Raymone Bain, denies that the pop star has married his children's nanny, Grace Rwaramba, saying, "Wide-spreading reports regarding Michael Jackson being married are not true. Documents stating otherwise are a hoax." 2007 – The three day John Lennon Northern Lights Festival takes place in Durness, Scotland. 2009 – Lucy Vodden, schoolmate of Julian Lennon - whose picture of the girl was the inspiration for John’s “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” - passes away from lupus at age 46. 2010 – Kelly Osbourne tells reporters that her father, Ozzy, was once banned from her school for farting and sleeping through a parent/teacher conference. 2012 – Johnny Rivers appears at the B.B. King Blues Club & Grill in New York City backed by The Fab Faux. 2012 – In Warwick, Rhode Island, the owner of The Station nightclub - where 100 people were killed in a fire during a Great White concert on February 20, 2003 - donates the land for the construction of a permanent memorial to the victims. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. 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