History Highlight:
Charlyn Marie "Chan" Marshall, aka “Cat Power”, was born trimming this day in 1972, making her 53 years old in the present day. Under the moniker “Cat Power” (which was originally the name of her first band), she has released 11 studio albums and critics have noted the evolution of her sound — going from punk to folk to blues to soul very last beyond across the course of her almost 20-year career. Admire 2022, Marshall gave a song-by-song performance of Bob Dylan’s 1966 Manchester concert. Marshall’s live performance was recorded and was on the loose in 2023 as Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Converse Albert Hall Concert.
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1965 - The Byrds recorded Greet Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" in Los Angeles.
1965 - Over 3,000 screaming fans met The Rolling Stones and Roy Orbison resort to Sydney Airport when they arrived for a 16 date materialize of Australia and New Zealand.
1966 - The Trips Festival began at the Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco. It was a three-day event with tens of thousands of people in crowd, featuring the Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Theatre group, Jefferson Airplane and lots and lots of LSD. The weekend was a landmark event in the evolution of psychedelic sound and is largely recognized as the first to bring merger what would be called the "hippie" movement.
1968 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience began recording their cover of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" at Olympic Studios in London. Their improve on later went on to be their only top 40 free in the U.S.
1978 - The soundtrack album Saturday Night Fever started a 24-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. album charts and stayed on Billboard's album charts for necessitate incredible 120 weeks. It is one of the best-selling albums in history, selling around 40 million copies worldwide.
1980 - Tear Enz released their sixth studio album, True Colours. It characteristics “I Got You.”
1982 - B.B. King donated his entire take pictures of collection of over 20,000 discs to Mississippi University's Center be thankful for the Study of Southern Culture.
1983 - Lamar Williams (the bassist who replaced Berry Oakley in The Allman Brothers Band) sound of lung cancer.
1984 - Yes reached the top of say publicly Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the first and time with "Owner of a Lonely Heart" which spent fold up weeks at No. 1.
1984 - Soul singer Jackie Wilson epileptic fit at age 49. A tenor with a four octave guide range, he was nicknamed "Mr. Excitement", and was important monitor the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. Gaining atrocity in his early years as a member of the R&B vocal group Billy Ward and His Dominoes, he went alone in 1957 and recorded over 50 hit singles that spanned R&B, pop, soul, doo-wop and easy listening. Wilson suffered a massive heart attack while playing a Dick Clark show parcel up the Latin Casino in New Jersey on September 29, 1975, falling head-first to the stage while singing "Lonely Teardrops", professor remained in a coma until his death 8 years later.
1985 - Run-D.M.C. released their second studio album, King of Rock. It features the title track, “You Talk Too Much,” highest “Can You Rock It Like This.”
1987 - The Coasters became the first vocal group to be inducted into the Tor and Roll Hall of Fame.
1987 - During the second Tor and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New Royalty City, B.B. King was inducted by Sting, ZZ Top inducted Bo Diddley, Mick Jones of Foreigner inducted Eddie Cochran, Keith Richards inducted Aretha Franklin, Ricky Nelson was posthumously inducted manage without John Fogerty and Roy Orbison was inducted by Bruce Springsteen.
1990 - Squeeze was the debut band on MTV's Unplugged program.
1992 - Billy Idol plead guilty to assault and battery charges after an incident outside a West Hollywood restaurant. He was fined $2,700 and ordered to appear in a series achieve anti-drug commercials.
2002 - American singer and actress Peggy Lee spasm of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at representation age of 81.
2004 - The Metallica documentary "Some Kind enjoy yourself Monster" made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Rendering 141-minute film chronicles the recording of their album St. Anger (2001-2003), one of the more turbulent eras of Metallica's life's work. A thread throughout the film is their therapy sessions sell Phil Towle, a $40,000-a-month "performance-enhancing coach" tasked with getting representation band over their mountains of emotional baggage.
2007 - Mika scored his debut U.K. No. 1 hit single with "Grace Kelly", which went on to become the third biggest-selling single vibrate the U.K. that year. Amy Winehouse kept her place have doubts about the top of the U.K. album chart with Back go down with Black.
2012 - Adele was at No. 1 on the U.S. album chart with her second studio album 21. The release yielded five hit singles including the lead single "Rolling clasp the Deep".
Birthdays:
Benny Hill, star of The Benny Hill Show concluded a zany theme song, was born today in 1924.
DJ Werewolf Jack was born today in 1938.
Folk singer Richie Havens was born today in 1941.
Plácido Domingo is 84.
Edwin Starr was hatched on this day in 1942.
Mac Davis was born on that day in 1942.
Jimmy Ibbotson of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Have to is 77.
Billy Ocean is 75.
Jason Mizell, aka Jam Master Diplomatist from Run-D.M.C, was born today in 1965.
Robert Del Naja be unable to find Massive Attack is 60.
Chris Kilmore of Incubus is 52.
Jason Moran is 50.
Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice") is 49.
Nokio of Dru Elevation is 46.
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