December 8 Born –
Jean Sibelius (1865) – Finnish composer (“Finlandia”). Floyd Tillman (1914) – Country musician/songwriter (“They Took The Stars Out Of Heaven”). Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925) – singer/actor/entertainer. Jimmy Smith (1925) – Jazz organist. David Carradine (1936) – actor/musician, singer/songwriter, Cosmic Rescue Team. James Galway (1939) – Irish flutist, “The Man with the Golden Flute.” Jerry Butler (1939) – Soul singer/songwriter, The Impressions. Bobby Elliott (1941) – drummer for The Hollies. Jim Morrison (1943) – The Doors. Graham Knight (1943) – bassist for Marmalade. Mike Botts (1944) – drummer for Bread. George Baker (aka Johannes Bouwens, 1944) – singer/songwriter (“Paloma Blanca”). Gregg Allman (1947) – The Allman Brothers Band. Geoff Daking (1947) – drummer for Blues Magoos. Ray Schulman (1949) – bassist for Gentle Giant. Dan Hartman (1950) – The Edgar Winter Group. Colin Gibb (1953) – bassist for Black Lace. Warren Cuccurullo (1956) – guitarist with Frank Zappa, Missing Persons and Duran Duran. Phil Collen (1957) – guitarist for Def Leppard. Paul Rutherford (1959) – Frankie Goes To Hollywood. Marty Friedman (1962) – guitarist for Megadeth. Sinéad O'Connor (1966) – singer/songwriter. Ryan Newell (1972) – guitarist for Sister Hazel. Corey Taylor (1973) – vocalist for Slipknot. December 8 R.I.P. – John Mills, Sr. (1967) – Age 85. The Mills Brothers. Gary Thain (1975) – heroin overdose. Age 27. Bassist for Uriah Heep. John Lennon (1980) – murdered. Age 40. The Beatles. Big Walter Horton (1981) – heart failure. Age 64. Blues harmonica player. Marty Robbins (1982) – complications from heart surgery. Age 57. Country music singer/songwriter. Herbert “Toubo” Rhoad (1988) – heart attack. Age 44. The Persuasions. Buck Clayton (1991) – died in his sleep. Age 80. Jazz trumpeter for Count Basie. Antônio Carlos Jobim (1994) – cardiac arrest. Age 67. Brazilian songwriter/pianist (“The Girl From Impanema”). "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott (2004) – murdered on stage. Age 38. Pantera and Damageplan. Martha Tilton (2006) – Age 91. Swing singer (“And The Angels Sing”). Dick Sims (2011) – cancer. Age 60. Keyboardist for Eric Clapton. Dan “Bee” Spears (2011) – exposure after falling outside. Age 62. Bassist for Willie Nelson. December 8 album releases – The Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour (1967) (EP) UK The Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967) UK Traffic – Mr. Fantasy (1967) UK Stevie Wonder – For Once In My Life (1968) Wings – Wild Life (1971) U.S. Lou Reed – Transformer (1972) Marvin Gaye – Trouble Man (1972) (soundtrack) The Eagles – Hotel California (1976) Public Image Ltd. – First Issue (1978) UK Motörhead <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mot%C3%B6rhead> – On Parole (1979) Queen – Flash Gordon (1980) (soundtrack) Fleetwood Mac – Live (1980) Tesla – Mechanical Resonance (1986) Kool Moe Dee – How Ya Like Me Now (1987) Phil Collins – Serious Hits… Live! (1990) Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions – The Anthology 1961-1977 (1992) Julian Cope – Jehovahkill (1992) Katatonia – Sounds Of Decay (1997) (EP) Jimmy Buffet – Buffet Hotel (2009) December 8 events – 1928 – The WSM Barn Dance radio show changes its name to The Grand Ole Opry. 1941 – The Glenn Miller Orchestra, along with Ray Eberle and The Modernaires on vocals, records "Moonlight Cocktail." 1957 – The Platters sing “Only You,” and Ray Peterson sings “Fever” on The Ed Sullivan Show. Also on the show is Noel Coward, who sings a medley of his hits. 1959 – Lloyd Price records songs for his next two singles, “Lady Luck” and “Never Let Me Go,” and “No If’s–No And’s” and “For Love” at Bell Sound Studio in New York City. Upon release, all four sides will chart. 1960 – The Henry Mancini Orchestra records “Moon River.” 1960 – Teen idol Fabian visits Elvis Presley at his Graceland mansion in Memphis, where Elvis rips his pants demonstrating his new passion: karate. 1961 – The Pendletones release their debut single, “Surfin’” b/w “Luau” on Candix Records, and find that their name has been changed to The Beach Boys. 1961 – The Supremes record the Smokey Robinson song “Your Heart Belongs To Me,” with Smokey producing. 1962 – DJ and promoter Alan Freed appears at his payola trial in New York City, and testifies to receiving money from labels to play their records on the air. He is found guilty and fined $300 and given six months probation, but the irreparable damage to his career has been done. 1962 – Flatt and Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys, along with Merle Travis, appear at Carnegie Hall in front of a sold-out audience. 1963 – 19-year old Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping>from room 417 at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrah%27s_Lake_Tahoe>. He is released two days later after his father pays $240,000 ransom<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom>. Barry Keenan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Keenan>, Johnny Irwin, and Joe Amsler are soon captured, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to short prison <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison> terms for the kidnapping. 1966 – At an early session at Abbey Road studios, Paul McCartney records his vocals for “When I’m Sixty-Four.” No other Beatles are present. Later in the evening, the group re-records the basic track for John Lennon’s “Strawberry Fields Forever.” 1968 – Ray Charles, The Association, and Liza Minnelli all appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1968 – Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits plays the title role in NBC-TV's Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Pinocchio. 1969 – In a Toronto courtroom, Jimi Hendrix testifies in his trial for possession of hashish and heroin. Claiming to have outgrown drugs, Hendrix gives a very detailed history of his drug use, and after eight hours of deliberation, the jury returns a verdict of not guilty. 1970 – Jim Morrison holds a recording session to record some of his poetry, much of which will find its way onto the album An American Prayer. 1975 – On the last night of his Rolling Thunder Revue tour, Bob Dylan hosts the benefit concert "A Night Of The Hurricane" at Madison Square Garden, which features many non-musical celebrities and raises over $100,000 in legal aid for the release of wrongly imprisoned boxer Rueben "Hurricane" Carter. 1976 – John Denver appears along with Victor Borge on The Carpenters’ Very First TV Special on ABC. 1977 – A riot breaks out at Her Majesty's Theatre in Brisbane, Australia, after nearly 1,000 fans - who waited for more than an hour for Blondie to appear on stage - were told that the show was canceled because Blondie was ill. Four people are arrested. 1980 – Photographer Annie Leibovitz takes a series of photographs of John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their Dakota apartment for a Rolling Stone magazine story. Afterward, John and Yoko travel to the Record Plant to finish recording Yoko’s song “Walking On Thin Ice.” Upon returning home, Mark David Chapman - who got John’s autograph earlier in the evening - shoots Lennon five times in the back outside his New York City apartment house. 1984 – Former Coasters manager Patrick Cavanaugh is convicted of first degree murder and is sentenced to death for killing group member Buster Wilson, whose dismembered body was discovered in Modesto, California, in 1980. 1984 – Ringo Starr hosts Saturday Night Live, with musical guest Herbie Hancock. 1995 – The Grateful Dead officially break up. 1995 – Courtney Love is interviewed by Barbara Walters for ABC's 10 Most Fascinating People Of 1995, and says she wishes she had done “eight thousand million things differently” to prevent the death of her husband Kurt Cobain. 1998 – The FBI opens its 1,300 page file on Frank Sinatra to the public. 1998 – Bruce Springsteen and his publicity firm, Shore Fire Music, announce plans to reunite with The E Street Band for a tour in 1999: their first together in ten years. 1999 – Prince appears on NBC’s Today Show for a live interview. 1999 – James Brown releases his new MP3-only holiday album, "James Brown Christmas For The Millennium & Forever," exclusively through Emusic.com. 1999 – 1960's singer Heinz is given a formal caution by magistrates in Southampton for playing music too loud in his flat. 2000 – Numerous tributes and memorials take place marking the 20th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder, including the Fidel Castro unveiling of a Lennon statue in Cuba, and the installation of an English Heritage Blue Plaque at Lennon’s childhood home in Mendips. 2000 – Sting receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2003 – Ozzy Osbourne is seriously injured when he crashes while riding an ATV, breaking his collarbone, a vertebrae in his neck, and six ribs - which puncture one of his lungs. Osbourne requires immediate emergency surgery to repair the collarbone which is crushing a major artery, and to stop the blood flow in his lung. 2004 – Damageplan guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott is one of five people shot and killed when a man storms the stage during a show at the Alrosa Villa Club in Columbus, Ohio. Nathan Gale walked onstage and shot former Pantera guitarist Abbott point blank in the head, then began firing into the crowd, before being shot and killed by a police officer who arrived shortly after the first shots were fired. 2004 – Dick Clark is hospitalized after suffering a stroke, which affects his speech and appearance. 2010 – Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson’s divorce from movie director and former rock writer Cameron Crowe becomes finalized. 2010 – Movie composer Hans Zimmer receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 2011 – Singer Sinéad O'Connor marries her fourth husband, therapist Barry Herridge. 2012 – The Rolling Stones perform at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, as part of their 50 And Counting Tour. Guests joining the Stones on stage include Mary J. Blige and blues guitarist Gary Parker, Jr. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Diamond Headz" group. 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