December 25 Born –
Edward “Kid” Ory (1886) – Jazz trombonist, bandleader.
Cabell “Cab” Calloway III (1907) – Jazz singer, bandleader.
Tony Martin (aka Alvin Morris, 1913) – actor/singer (“To Each His Own”).
Pete Rugolo (1915) – Jazz composer, television theme songwriter (The
Fugitive).
Chris Kenner (1929) – R&B singer/songwriter ("Land Of A Thousand Dances").
Bill Horton (1929) – The Silhouettes.
McKinley Mitchell (1934) – R&B/soul singer (“The Town I Live In”).
O’Kelly Isley (1937) – The Isley Brothers.
Bob James (1939) – Jazz keyboardist.
Pete Brown (1940) – poet/lyricist (“White Room”).
Trevor Lucas (1943) – guitarist for Fairport Convention.
Henry Vestine (1944) – guitarist for Canned Heat.
Kenny Everett (aka Maurice Cole, 1944) – British DJ, television host.
John Edwards (1944) – The Spinners.
Steve Mancha (aka Clyde Wilson, 1945) – 100 Proof (Aged In Soul).
Noel Redding (1945) – bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Fat
Mattress.
Jimmy Buffett (1946) – singer/songwriter.
Barbara Mandrell (1948) – Country music singer/songwriter, The Mandrell
Sisters.
Merry Clayton (1948) – Soul singer (“Gimme Shelter”).
Annie Lennox (1954) – Eurythmics.
Robin Campbell (1954) – guitarist/vocalist for UB40.
Shane MacGowan (1957) – vocalist for The Pogues.
Alannah Myles (1958) – Canadian singer/songwriter.
Bob Stanley (1964) – guitarist for Saint Entienne.
Noel Hogan (1971) – guitarist for The Cranberries.
Dido (aka Florian Armstrong, 1971) – singer/songwriter.
Josh Freese (1972) – drummer for Nine Inch Nails and Devo.
December 25 R.I.P. –
Johnny Ace (1954) – accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. Age 25. R&B
singer.
Eugene “Bird” Daughtry (1994) – cancer. Age 55. The Intruders.
Clarence "Satch" Satchell (1995) – brain aneurysm. Age 55. The Ohio Players.
Dean Martin (1995) – acute respiratory failure from emphysema. Age 78.
Singer/entertainer.
Damita Jo DeBlanc (1998) – respiratory failure. Age 68. Singer ("If You Go
Away").
Bryan MacLean (1998) – heart attack. Age 52. Singer/guitarist/songwriter
for Love (“Alone Again Or”).
Joe Olivier (2001) – diabetes. Age 74. Guitarist for Bill Haley and His
Comets.
Birgit Nilsson (2005) – Age 87. Opera singer.
James Brown (2006) – heart failure. Age 73. Soul/R&B singer/songwriter.
Eartha Kitt (2008) – colon cancer. Age 81. Singer/actress.
T-Bone Bellamy (2009) – liver failure. Age 63. Guitarist for Redbone.
Vic Chesnutt (2009) – overdose. Age 45. Singer/songwriter.
Dorothy Jones (2010) – Alzheimer’s disease. Age 76. The Cookies.
Jim "Motorhead" Sherwood (2011) – Age 69. Saxophonist for The Mothers of
Invention.
December 25 album releases –
Pestilence – Consuming Impulse (1989)
Zard – Mō Sagasanai (1991)
December 25 events –
1931 – NBC radio broadcasts the first full opera from the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York City, airing Hansel And Gretel.
1936 – Future Country music Hall of Famer Roy Acuff marries future
recording executive Mildred Douglas. They stay married 45 years, until her
death in 1981.
1937 – Arturo Toscanini makes his NBC radio debut conducting the Symphony
of the Air.
1954 – While on tour with Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Ace (aka John
Alexander) accidently shoots himself to death while playing with what he
thinks is an unloaded gun backstage at the City Auditorium in Houston,
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1958 – DJ Alan Freed puts on his first Christmas Rock & Roll Spectacular at
Loews State Theatre in Manhattan, featuring Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, Bo
Diddley, Eddie Cochran, The Moonglows, The Everly Brothers, Frankie Avalon
and Johnnie Ray. The show runs for 10 days.
1959 – 18-year old engineer apprentice Richard Starkey receives a drum set
for Christmas.
1960 – 12-year old James Taylor gets his first guitar for Christmas.
1964 – George Harrison’s girlfriend Pattie Boyd is attacked by fans at The
Beatles' Christmas Show in London.
1964 – The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Miracles, Stevie
Wonder and The Marvelettes all appear at the Fox Theatre in Brooklyn, New
York.
1964 – Murray the K’s Big Holiday Show begins its 10-day run in Manhattan,
featuring The Zombies, The Nashville Teens, The Shangri-Las, Chuck Jackson,
Ben E. King, The Drifters, Patti Labelle and Dionne Warwick.
1965 – Johnny Mathis is the only guest on Shindig!
1967 – Paul McCartney and Jane Asher announce their engagement.
1969 – 16-year old Robbie Bachman receives a drum set for Christmas.
1978 – John Lydon debuts his new group Public Image Ltd. at their first
live gig at the Rainbow Theatre in London.
1981 – The J. Geils Band plays a Christmas concert for the inmates of
Norfolk Correctional Center near Boston.
1982 – Three armed men wearing nylon stockings over their heads invade Johnny
Cash's vacation home in Jamaica, terrorizing Cash and his family and
locking them in the basement before robbing the place and fleeing. The
three men are later shot and killed by Jamaican authorities.
1990 – James Brown is given a four-day furlough from prison in order to
perform a free concert for troops at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, whose
Christmas leave is cancelled because of the impending Gulf War.
1991 – Willie Nelson’s 33-year old son Billy commits suicide by hanging
himself in Nashville after splitting up with his wife and spending 30 days
in an alcohol rehab center.
2003 – Michael Jackson gives his first interview since his arrest on child
molestation charges to CBS’ 60 Minutes news program.
2010 – Elton John and husband David Furnish welcome the birth of their
second son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John. The identity of the
surrogate parents remains a secret.
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