*January 4 –*
Born –
Don Arden (aka Harry Levy, 1926) – British music manager for Small Faces
and Electric Light Orchestra.
Jimmy Arnold (1932) – The Four Lads.
Ray Starling (1933) – British jazz trumpeter.
John Gorman (1936) – The Scaffold (“Lily The Pink”).
John McLaughlin (1942) – Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Volker Hombach (1944) – Tangerine Dream.
Arthur Conley (1946) – R&B singer ("Sweet Soul Music").
Clive Gregson (1955) – British singer/songwriter.
Bernard Sumner (1956) – guitarist for Joy Division.
Nels Cline (1956) – songwriter/guitarist for Wilco.
Patty Loveless (1957) – Country music singer.
Marcel King (1958) – Sweet Sensation.
Michael Stipe (1960) – vocalist for R.E.M.
Martin McAloon (1962) – bassist for Prefab Sprout.
Peter Steele (1962) – bassist for Type O Negative.
Robin Guthrie (1962) – The Cocteau Twins.
Till Lindemann (1963) – vocalist for Rammstein.
Beth Gibbons (1965) – singer for Portishead.
Cait O’Riordan (1965) – bassist for The Pogues.
Son of Dave (aka Benjamin Darvill, 1967) – Crash Test Dummies.
R.I.P. –
Phil Lynott (1986) – pneumonia and multiple organ failure due to sepsis.
Age 36. Thin Lizzy.
John Gary (1998) – cancer. Age 65. Singer.
Les Brown (2001) – lung cancer. Age 88. Les Brown and The Band of Renown.
Bill “Little Bo” Savich (2002) – cancer. Age 62. Drummer for Johnny and The
Hurricanes.
Gerry Rafferty (2011) – liver failure. Age 63. Singer/songwriter, Steelers
Wheel.
Mick Karn (2011) – cancer. Age 52. Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist
for Japan.
Sammy Johns (2013) – Age 66. Country music singer/songwriter (“Chevy Van”).
Album releases –
The Doors – The Doors (1967)
Yes – Fragile (1972) U.S.
Grace Slick – Manhole (1974)
The Romantics – The Romantics (1980)
The Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (1983) UK
Judas Priest – Defenders Of The Faith (1984)
Marillion – B’Sides Themselves (1988)
L.A. Guns – L.A. Guns (1988)
L.A. Guns – Lack Of Charisma (1993)
Lagwagon – Trashed (1994)
Events –
1932 – NBC Red begins airing the music program, The Carnation Contented
Hour.
1950 – Two years after Columbia Records introduces the *long*-*playing
record*, *RCA* announces its intention to follow suit.
1953 – The funeral for Hank Williams takes place at the City Auditorium in
Montgomery, Alabama.
1954 – Elvis Presley makes his second visit to the Memphis Recording
Service. For the price of $4, Presley cuts two songs onto a 10-inch
acetate, "Casual Love Affair" and "I'll Never Stand In Your Way." Studio
boss Sam Phillips asks Presley to leave his phone number.
1955 – Perry Como records “Ko-Ko-Mo (I Love You So)” at Webster Hall in New
York City.
1957 – Solomon Burke makes his television debut on The Steve Allen Show,
and is introduced by boxer Joe Louis.
1957 – Elvis Presley releases his single, “Too Much” b/w “Playing For
Keeps.” As his new record hits the shelves, Elvis reports to the Kennedy
Veterans Hospital for his pre-Army induction physical.
1957 – Louis Jordan records “Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out.”
1960 – Bobby Rydell records “Wild One” for Cameo Records.
1962 – The Beatles top a popularity poll by Mersey Beat, and are featured
heavily in the issue for the first time.
1962 – Gene McDaniels records "Point Of No Return."
1963 – Roy Orbison records “In Dreams,” “Falling,” “Shahdaroba” and
“Distant Drums” in Nashville.
1965 – Leo Fender sells his Fender Guitar Company to CBS for $13 million.
1965 – Tony Bennett records “If I Ruled The World.”
1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience appears at the Bromel Club inside the
Bromley Court Hotel in Kent.
1969 – UK music weekly Disc and Music Echo reports that The Beatles are to
release five new albums. One will be their first ever live album, plus four
separate LPs.
1969 – Country music artists George Jones and Dolly Parton join the Grand
Ole Opry.
1970 – Keith Moon accidently runs over and kills his driver/bodyguard, Neil
Boland, when Boland exits the car to move some unruly fans. With Boland
outside the car, Moon panics and gets behind the wheel and steps on the
gas, running over Boland.
1970 – Oliver performs “Jean” and “Good Morning Starshine” on The Ed
Sullivan Show. Also on the show are Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
1971 – The movie, Performance, starring Mick Jagger and Keith Richards’
girlfriend Anita Pallenberg, premieres in London.
1972 – Yes releases their single, “Roundabout” b/w “Long Distance
Runaround.”
1973 – The Allman Brothers Band announces that Lamar Williams will be
replacing the recently deceased Berry Oakley on bass.
1974 – Bruce Springsteen plays the first of three nights at Joe’s Place in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, with opening act Peter Johnson & The Manic
Depressives.
1977 – The Sex Pistols shock passengers and airline staff at London’s
Heathrow Airport when they spit and vomit boarding a plane to Amsterdam.
This proves to be the last straw for their EMI record label.
1978 – Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green marries Jane Samuel in
Los Angeles. They stay married for one year.
1979 – The Star Club re-opens in Hamburg, Germany.
2001 – Courtney Love files a lawsuit against the ex-wife of her current
boyfriend Jim Barber, accusing Lesley Barber of stalking her and driving
over her foot and forcing her to forfeit her role in a forthcoming film.
2001 – Rapper Vanilla Ice (aka Bob Van Winkle) is arrested and jailed in
Broward County, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after ripping out some of his
wife's hair. The rapper tells police he pulled on her hair to prevent her
from jumping out of their truck's window. Ice is released the next morning
on $3,500 bail.
2004 – The Kinks’ Ray Davies is shot in the leg while chasing two muggers
who stole a ladies purse in New Orleans.
2004 – Britney Spears marries childhood friend Jason Alexander at the
Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. The marriage will be annulled
less than 55 hours later, with Spears’ lawyers saying she “lacked
understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of
agreeing to the marriage.”
2005 – A.J. Abdallah, owner of Studio 8 - the Detroit recording studio
where Eminem recorded his Slim Shady album - is found shot dead by a
business colleague. It is thought that he’s been dead for at least two
days, and police suggest that a robbery may also have taken place.
2006 – Bee Gee Barry Gibb buys Johnny Cash’s longtime Hendersonville,
Tennessee, home for $2.9 million.
2007 – Nikki Bacharach, the only child of songwriter Burt Bacharach and
actress Angie Dickinson, commits suicide by suffocation using a plastic bag
and helium. She was 40 years old.
2008 – Beyonce wins a long-running copyright dispute over her hit song
“Baby Boy,” when an appeals court in Houston, Texas, upholds a 2006
decision which dismissed musician Jennifer Armour's claims that the song’s
lyrics were based on her work.
2008 – Britney Spears is carried out of her home on a stretcher and taken
into custody after police are called in a custodial dispute involving her
children. After nearly three hours, Spears eventually hands over her
children to ex-husband Kevin Federline, and is then taken away.
2012 – Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry, 66, marries his second wife, 29-year-old
Amanda Sheppard.
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