October 31 Born –
Ethel Waters (1896) – Blues/jazz/gospel singer (“Stormy Weather”).
Dale Evans (aka Lucille Smith, 1912) – actress/singer/songwriter (“Happy
Trails”).
Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet (1922) – Jazz saxophonist ("Flying Home").
Jimmy Savile (1926) – renowned British DJ and television host.
Anita Kerr (aka Anita Grilli, 1927) – singer/songwriter/arranger/producer.
Norman Wright (1937) – The Del-Vikings.
Tom Paxton (1937) – Folk singer/songwriter.
Noel Fox (1939) – The Oak Ridge Boys.
John Guerin (1939) – session and tour drummer.
Eric Griffiths (1940) – The Quarrymen.
Russ Ballard (1945) – British singer/songwriter, Argent.
Rik Kenton (1945) – bassist for Roxy Music.
Bernard Edwards (1952) – bassist for Chic.
Tony Bowers (1952) – bassist for Blind Eye, and Alberto Y Lost Trios
Paranoias.
Larry Mullen, Jr. (1961) – drummer for U2.
Johnny Marr (aka John Maher, 1963) – guitarist for The Smiths.
Mikkey Dee (aka Micael Delaoglou, 1963) – drummer for King Diamond and
Motörhead.
Colm Ó Cíosóig (1964) – drummer for My Bloody Valentine.
Annabella Lwin (aka Myint Myint Aye, 1965) – vocalist for Bow Wow Wow.
Ad-Rock (aka Adam Horovitz, 1966) – The Beastie Boys.
Adam Schlesinger (1967) – singer/songwriter, Fountains Of Wayne (“That
Thing You Do”).
Vanilla Ice (aka Bob Van Winkle, 1967) – rapper.
Alistair "Ally" McErlaine (1968) – Scottish guitarist for Texas.
Malin Berggren (1970) – Ace Of Base.
Charlie Moniz (1980) – bassist for Grade, and Avrul Levigne.
Frank Iero, Jr. (1981) – guitarist for My Chemical Romance.
October 31 R.I.P. –
Carl Belew (1990) – cancer. Age 69. Country music singer/songwriter ("Am I
That Easy To Forget").
Lester Sill (1994) – Age 76. Record executive, Philles Records, Colgems
Records.
Claude “Juan” Johnson (2002) – Age 67. Don and Juan (“What’s Your Name”).
Liz Anderson (2011) – heart and lung disease. Age 81. Country music
singer/songwriter.
October 31 album releases –
Elvis Presley – Spinout (1966)
Phil Ochs – Pleasures Of The Harbor (1967)
Jethro Tull – Living In The Past (1972) U.S.
David Crosby and Graham Nash – Crosby-Nash Live (1977)
Smokey Robinson – Smokin’ (1978)
Klaus Schulze – Dig It (1980)
Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heals (1983)
Paul McCartney – Pipes Of Peace (1983)
Possessed – Beyond The Gates (1986)
Roxette – Pearls Of Passion (1986)
Paul McCartney - Choϐa ϐ CCCP (1988) Russia
Soundgarden – Ultramega OK (1988)
Dinosaur Jr. – Bug (1988)
The Grateful Dead – Built To Last (1989)
The Psychedelic Furs – Book Of Days (1989)
Foreigner – Mr. Moonlight (1994)
ABBA – Thank You For The Music (1994) (box set)
Julian Cope – 20 Mothers (1995)
Curtis Mayfield – Live At The Bitter End (1995)
Slipknot – Mate, Feed, Kill, Repeat (1996)
Bane – Give Blood (2001)
The Haunted – Made Me Do It (2000)
U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)
Santana – All That I Am (2005)
Phish – Colorado ’88 (2006) U.S.
October 31 events –
1930 – Bernie Moten and His Kansas City Orchestra, with Count Basie on
vocals, records “Somebody Stole My Gal” and “Harlem Hot Shots” for the
Bluebird Electric label.
1952 – St. Louis boogie-woogie pianist Johnnie Johnson hires 26-year old
hairdresser Chuck Berry as guitarist for his group The Sir John's Trio.
1956 – Mary McCartney, the mother of Paul and Michael, passes away from an
embolism after surgery for breast cancer at the age of 47.
1958 – The Flamingos record “I Only Have Eyes For You” at bell Sound
Studios in New York City.
1959 – Johnny and The Moondogs - John, Paul and George - fail the regional
Liverpool competition for Carroll Levis’ Star Search television show, but
still qualify for the final round which will be held in Manchester in two
weeks.
1960 – The Everly Brothers record “Ebony Eyes” at RCA Studios in Nashville.
Later in the day in the same studio, Elvis Presley records “I’m Gonna Walk
Dem Golden Stairs,” “Joshua Fit The Battle,” “Swing Down Sweet Chariot” and
five other songs on the second and final day of sessions for his gospel
album His Hand In Mine.
1960 – Jerry Wallace records “There She Goes” at Radio Recorders in
Hollywood.
1963 – The Beatles return from their tour of Sweden to find 50,000
screaming fans waiting for them at London's Heathrow Airport, the surest
proof yet that Beatlemania is a national phenomenon. Also at the airport is
American television variety show host Ed Sullivan, who notices the furor.
Sullivan immediately contacts manager Brian Epstein to book the band for
three appearances on his CBS show early in 1964.
1964 – Ray Charles is arrested at Boston's Logan Airport for possession of
heroin: his third drug arrest since 1958. The singer is ordered to rehab in
order to avoid jail time.
1964 – For the first time since January, The Beatles do not have a song on
the current Billboard Hot 100 chart.
1964 – Joan Baez appears with Bob Dylan at New York's Philharmonic Hall,
and duets with Dylan on “Mama, You Been On My Mind,” “With God On Our Side”
and “It Ain’t Me, Babe.”
1965 – The Who make their only appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
1965 – Singer Wayne Fontana quits his group The Mindbenders.
1965 – Barry McGuire appears on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing “Eve Of
Destruction.” Also on the show is Liza Minnelli.
1966 – Bobby Darin records the John Sebastian song “Lovin’ You” in New York
City.
1967 – Rolling Stone Brian Jones is released from Wormwood Scrubs prison in
London on £750 bail after spending the night in jail for marijuana
possession.
1967 – The Stooges make their live debut at a Halloween party in Detroit,
Michigan.
1968 – Photographer Linda Eastman moves to London to live with Paul
McCartney.
1970 – Mama Michelle Phillips marries actor Dennis Hopper. It lasts eight
days.
1974 – Led Zeppelin launches their record label, Swan Song.
1975 – The Marshall Tucker Band headlines a fundraising concert for
Presidential nominee Jimmy Carter.
1975 – Queen releases their single, “Bohemian Rhapsody” b/w “I’m In Love
With My Car.”
1976 – Elvis Presley records his last song ever in the Jungle Room at
Graceland, recording “He’ll Have To Go.” In the evening, Elvis flies to Las
Vegas.
1980 – Bow Wow Wow singer Annabella Lwin celebrates her 16th birthday by
performing solo at London's Rainbow Theatre. One of her backup singers is
Lieutenant Lush, who will change his name a year later to Boy George.
1986 – Roger Waters files suit to formally dissolve Pink Floyd, a legal
battle that will drag on for years.
1988 – Singer Debbie Gibson holds a séance at her Halloween party to try
and contact the spirits of Sid Vicious and Liberace.
1989 – The very first MTV Unplugged show is recorded in New York City with
Squeeze, Syd Straw and The Cars’ Elliot Easton.
1989 – Renowned BBC DJ Roger Scott, a participant in the recording of John
and Yoko’s “Give Peace A Chance,” passes away from cancer at age 46.
1990 – During a gig in Seattle, Washington, Billy Idol dumps 600 dead fish
in Faith No More's dressing room. They respond by walking on stage naked
during Idol's set.
1993 – In the early morning hours, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea
appears with Johnny Depp and his band P at the Viper Room on the Sunset
Strip when news filters through the club that actor River Phoenix is
convulsing on the sidewalk outside. Flea leaves the stage and rides with
paramedics to the hospital with Phoenix, who is pronounced dead a short
time later.
1995 – James Brown is arrested and charged with spousal abuse at his home
in Aiken, South Carolina, after striking his wife Adrienne with a mirror.
1999 - EMI announces that it will not pay for artists to release singles if
they’ve sold less than 80,000 copies of their latest release.
2000 – Napster announces a deal with entertainment giant BMG to turn its
illegal file-sharing software into a paid subscription service.
2000 – Britney Spears pays £6,000 to hire a private bar in Leipzig,
Germany, during a night off on her Oops!... I Did It Again Tour.
2002 – Hildur Runa Hauksdottir, the mother of Icelandic pop star Björk,
ends her month-long hunger strike to protest against plans by a U.S.
company to build an aluminum smelter and hydroelectric plant power plant in
the Icelandic wilderness.
2004 – Rapper R. Kelly is kicked off the Jay-Z Best Of Both Worlds Tour
after claiming he was attacked with pepper spray by a member of Jay-Z’s
entourage when he stormed off stage the previous evening.
2005 – Isley Brother Ronald Isley is sentenced to 26 years in federal
prison on tax evasion charges.
2005 – The white suit worn by John Lennon on the cover of the Beatles' Abbey
Road album sells at a Las Vegas Amnesty International charity auction for
$118,000.
2008 – In a London courtroom, *Amy Winehouse’s drug dealers, *John Blagrove
and Cara Burton, plead guilty *to selling drugs to Winehouse, filming her
smoking crack cocaine, then selling the footage to The Sun tabloid.*
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