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| 1916 | | Voot voot! R&B's own non-sense-making songwriter Slim Gaillard is born. |
| 1923 | | The Barn Dance radio show is born when fiddler M.J. Bonner saws square dance tunes for 90 minutes on WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas. The still active WBAP preceeded the Grand Old Opry show by nearly three years. |
| 1936 | | Billboard Magazine publishes their first top 100 chart. |
| 1937 | | John Gorman of Scaffold is born. |
| 1942 | | Guitar avatar John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti) is born. |
| 1944 | | Volker Homback, member of Tangerine Dream born in Kamenz, Germany. |
| 1946 | | Arthur Conley, later to ask, "Do you like good music?", is born. |
| 1953 | | Hank Williams is burried in Montgomery, Alabama as 20,000 mourners crowd the downtown area for a last look. |
| 1954 | | Elvis Presley records his second acetate demo, one of those "make your own record" deals at Sun Studios' Memphis Recording Studio Service. Owner Sam Phillips is mildly impressed with the young man's versions of "Casual Love Affair" and "I'll Never Stand In Your Way", telling a secretary to write down his phone number. At the time, Elvis is a truck driver and odd job man eagerly awaiting his 19th birthday in four days . |
| 1956 | | Electronic, New Order and Joy Division guitarist Bernard Sumner (later Albrecht) born in Lancashire, UK. DayRock/Tobler lists his name as Bernard Albrecht/Summer (Bernard Dicken). |
| 1957 | | With encouraging words of, "cough" and "bend over", Army doctors at Kennedy Veterans' Hospital in Memphis give Elvis Presley his pre-induction physical.
Louisiana's Fats Domino records his signature song and future #1 on the Billboard R&B charts, "I'm Walkin' to New Orleans". |
| 1958 | | Macel King (Sweet Sensation) is born. |
| 1960 | | Michael Stipe of R.E.M born |
| 1962 | | Martin McAloon of Prefab Sprout born. |
| 1964 | | Ian Masters of the Pale Saints born. |
| 1965 | | CBS buys the Fender Guitar Company for a reported $13 million.
David Glasper of Breathe is born. |
| 1968 | | In Gothenburg, Sweden, the police arrest a drunken Jimi Hendrix in the process of destroying his hotel room. |
| 1970 | | His Bentley limo attacked by skinheads outside of a Hatfield disco, non-driver Keith Moon panicks and accidentally runs over and kills his driver Neil Boland, who had gotten out of the car to clear the way. |
| 1971 | | Completed nearly two years earlier, the feature film "Performance" starring Mick Jagger premieres in London. |
| 1973 | | Readers of Rolling Stone learn that the newest Allman Brothers' bandmember will be bassist Lamar Williams, replacing the late Berry Oakley. |
| 1976 | | Former Beatles bodyguard 40 year old Mal Evans is shot to death by Los Angeles police after finding him despondent, armed and threatening. |
| 1978 | | Black Sabbath welcomes Ozzy Osbourne back for a short-lived reunion.
In Los Angeles, Peter Green, former Fleetwood Mac guitarist, marries Jane Samuel. |
| 1979 | | Jazz legend Charles Mingus dies in Mexico at age 56 following struggle with Lou Gehrig's Disease (heart attack?). He was working on a Joni Mitchell project, some of which was released as Mingus.
The success of the Beatles spurs the re-opening of Hamburg's Star Club, scene of the band's musical maturation. |
| 1986 | | Bassist, ex Grand Slam and ex-Thin Lizzy leader Phil Lynott dies of heart and liver failure (GuinnessDayxDay says brought on by drugs after being in a coma for a week) . |
| 1989 | | Cocoanut Grove Nightclub in Los Angeles closes. |
| 1991 | | Nirvana, a post punk Seatle band announces it's leaving local label Sub Pop and signing a two album deal with Geffen. |
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