1961, BOB DYLAN ACHIEVED HIS DREAM OF MEETING HIS IDOL WOODY GUTHRIE WHEN GUTHRIE WAS ON WEEKEND RELEASE FROM HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS BEING TREATED FOR HUNTINGTON’S CHOREA. DYLAN TOLD HIM; ‘I WAS A WOODY GUTHRIE JUKEBOX’. GUTHRIE GAVE DYLAN A CARD WHICH SAID: ‘I AIN’T DEAD YET’.
1968, THE DOORS APPEARED AT THE PUSSY CAT A GO GO, LAS VEGAS. AFTER THE SHOW SINGER JIM MORRISON TAUNTS A SECURITY GUARD IN THE PARKING LOT BY PRETENDING TO SMOKE A JOINT, RESULTING IN A FIGHT. THE POLICE ARRIVE WHO ARREST MORRISON AND CHARGE HIM WITH VAGRANCY, PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS, AND FAILURE TO POSSESS SUFFICIENT IDENTIFICATION.
1982, FLYING BACK FROM CANNES, FRANCE, GARY NUMAN MADE A FORCED LANDING AFTER RUNNING LOW ON FUEL AT AN RAF BASE OUTSIDE SOUTHAMPTON, THE PRESS RAN STORIES THAT HE HAD IN FACT CRASH LANDED ON THE A3057.
2001, A NEW YORK BASED DATA COMPANY ISSUED A CHART LISTING SALES OF POSTHUMOUS ALBUMS. THE IDEA CAME ABOUT AFTER RADIO STATIONS WANTED TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN PROPER RECORDINGS WHEN THE ARTISTS WERE ALIVE AND CD’S RELEASED AFTER THEY DIED. MIKE SHALETT FOUNDER OF SOUNDSCAN SAID THERE WAS ONLY ONE PROBLEM. WHAT TO CALL THE CHART. THE TOP 5 CHART HAD THE DOORS AT NO.5, EVA CASSIDY AT 4, JIMI HENDRIX AT 3, BOB
MARLEY AT 2 AND 2PAC AT NO.1.
2009, SINGER-SONGWRITER JOHN MARTYN DIED IN HOSPITAL IN IRELAND AT THE AGE OF 60
BORN TODAY
1938, BORN ON THIS DAY, JAMES JAMERSON, BASSIST PLAYED WITH THE FUNK BROTHERS ON MANY MOTOWN HITS BY THE TEMPTATIONS, MARVIN GAYE, THE FOUR TOPS,
1943, BORN ON THIS DAY, TONY BLACKBURN, DJ ON RADIO CAROLINE AND THE FIRST D.J. ON BBC RADIO ONE
1952, BORN ON THIS DAY, THOMAS ERDELYI, (TOMMY RAMONE), HUNGARIAN DRUMMER WITH THE RAMONES,
1954, BORN ON THIS DAY, ROB MANZOLI SINGER FROM RIGHT SAID FRED
1964, BORN ON THIS DAY, RODDY FRAME, GUITARIST, SINGER, SONGWRITER WITH BRITISH GROUP AZTEC CAMERA
