Faron Young, Perennial C&W Hit maker born in Louisiana.
1943
George Harrison born in Liverpool.
1945
Jazz singer Elkie Brooks born in Manchester.
1950
Emitt Rhodes born.
1957
Stuart Wood of the Bay City Rollers born.
Buddy Holly & the Crickets record "That'll Be the Day" at Norman Petty's Clovis studio.
1959
Mike Peters of the Alarm is born.
1962
The youngest of the singin' Sylvers, Foster Sylvers born in Memphis.
1963
The First Beatles 45 "Please Please Me" is released in America by a small Black owned Rec company out of Chicago, Vee Jay Records. Name of band is spelled "Beattles".
1964
Cassius Clay, who recorded "Will The Real Sonny Liston Please Fall Down" becomes world heavyweight champion.
1977
Polydor records signs the Jam to a recording deal for £6000. Within 90 days they successfully renegotiating realizing how very stupid they were.
1981
Christopher Cross wins FOUR Grammies for his 1980 debut Lp. Has anyone seen him lately?
1994
Sued by an absolute nobody who has been using the name Suede for years in Washington, DC, the UK band named Suede agrees to call themselves the London Suede in the US.
1995
The courts tell Elastica they've streatched the bounds of appropriation and must give the Strangles 1/2 of all royalties earned for "Waking Up", because, well, it's a lot like "No More Heroes". On their own they also settle with Wire for using "Three Girl Rhumba" as the basis for "Connection".
