959, ALONE WITH AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR AND TAPE RECORDER IN HIS NEW YORK CITY APARTMENT BUDDY HOLLY MADE HIS LAST RECORDINGS, INCLUDING ‘PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED’, ‘CRYING, WAITING, HOPING’, ‘THAT’S WHAT THEY SAY’, ‘WHAT TO DO’, ‘LEARNING THE GAME’ AND ‘THAT MAKES IT TOUGH’. THE RECORDINGS WOULD BE OVERDUBBED POSTHUMOUSLY AND WERE LATER RELEASED BY CORAL RECORDS.
1980, THIS WEEK’S US TOP 5 SINGLES: NO.5, RUPERT HOLMES, ‘ESCAPE, (THE PINA COLADA SONG)’, NO.4, SMOKEY ROBINSON, ‘CRUSIN’, NO.3, KENNY ROGERS, ‘COWARD OF THE COUNTY’, NO.2, CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE, ‘DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME’, AND NO.1, MICHAEL JACKSON, ‘ROCK WITH YOU.’
1992, MARIAH CAREY’S STEPFATHER WENT TO COURT SEEKING DAMAGES, CLAIMING THAT HE HAD PAID FOR HER MANHATTAN APARTMENT, A CAR AND DENTAL WORK IN HER EARLY YEARS ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT SHE WOULD REPAY HIM WHEN SHE BECAME SUCCESSFUL.
2012, ADELE BROKE AN AMERICAN CHART RECORD THAT HAS STOOD FOR YEARS AFTER BEING SET BY THE BEATLES AND PINK FLOYD. THE SINGERS SECOND ALBUM ’21’ CLOCKED UP 16 WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE ON THE US CHART MATCHING THE SUCCESS OF THE TITANIC ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK. ’21’
BORN TODAY
1931, SAM COOKE, US SOUL SINGER
1947, MALCOLM MCLAREN, MANAGER OF THE SEX PISTOLS AND SOLO ARTIST, DIED AGED 64 FROM CANCER ON 8TH APRIL 2010.
1953, STEVE PERRY, VOCALS, JOURNEY
1960, MICHAEL HUTCHENCE, VOCALS, INXS, DIED 22ND NOV 1997 AGE 37
