1966, GEORGE HARRISON MARRIED PATTI BOYD AT LEATHERHEAD REGISTER OFFICE IN SURREY WITH PAUL MCCARTNEY AS BEST MAN. GEORGE HAD FIRST MET PATTI ON THE SET OF THE BEATLES MOVIE ‘A HARD DAY’S NIGHT’
1968, JIMI HENDRIX RECORDED HIS VERSION OF THE BOB DYLAN SONG ‘ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER’ AT OLYMPIC STUDIOS IN LONDON. ROLLING STONE BRIAN JONES AND DAVE MASON FROM TRAFFIC BOTH PLAYED ON THE SESSION. THE TRACK WAS RELEASED IN THE US AS A SINGLE IN 1968
1984, SOUL SINGER JACKIE WILSON DIED AGED 49. WILSON SUFFERED A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK WHILE PLAYING A DICK CLARK SHOW AT THE LATIN CASINO IN NEW JERSEY ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1975, FALLING HEAD-FIRST TO THE STAGE WHILE SINGING ‘LONELY TEARDROPS’, AND HAD REMAINED IN A COMA UNTIL HIS DEATH 8 YEARS LATER.
1997, ‘COLONEL’ TOM PARKER, ELVIS PRESLEY’S MANAGER AND AGENT DIED OF A STROKE IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, AT THE AGE OF 87. BORN ANDREAS VAN KUIJK, A DUTCH IMMIGRANT WHO CHANGED HIS NAME AS SOON AS HE ARRIVED IN THE US, PARKER NEVER APPLIED FOR A GREEN CARD AND FEARED DEPORTATION HIS ENTIRE LIFE.
BORN TODAY
1925, BORN ON THIS DAY, TELLY SAVALAS, SINGER, ACTOR (1975 UK NO.1 SINGLE ‘IF’). PLAYED LT. THEO KOJAK A BALD NEW YORK CITY DETECTIVE IN THE TELEVISION SERIES KOJAK, WITH A FONDNESS FOR LOLLIPOPS AND WHOSE TRADEMARK LINE WAS “WHO LOVES YA, BABY?” DIED OF CANCER ON 22ND JANUARY 1994.
1941 – RICHIE HAVENS, STARR DIED ON 2ND APRIL 2003 AGED 61.
1950 – BILLY OCEAN, SINGER,
1976 – EMMA BUNTON, BABY SPICE, THE SPICE GIRLS
