BIRTHS ..
1935 – OZtralian rock-n-roller the JOHNNY O’KEEFE
1939 – PHILIP EVERLY of the THE EVERLY BROTHERS
1943 – American she-legend the JANIS JOPLIN
1944 – British singer the LAURIE LONDON
1945 – the AUDIENCE vocalist the TREVOR WILLIAMS
1946 – the DOLLY PARTON
1947 – the DEEP PURPLE‘s founding member the ROD EVANS
1949 – the ROBERT PALMER (pictured)
1959 – MICKEY VIRTUE of the UB40′s
1963 – the SOUL II SOUL‘s leading vocalist the CARON WHEELER
1968 – WHITFIELD CRANE, lead vocalists for the UGLY KID JOE
1971 – the MARCY’S PLAYGROUND vocalist the JOHN WOZNIAK
1977 – Japanese popper the COCCO
1979 – English rapper the WILEY
1982 – Taiwanese popper the ANGELA CHANG

DEATHS ..
1998 – rockabilly pioneer CARL PERKINS dies from lung cancer (b. April 9, 1932)
2006 – American rock and souler the WILSON PICKETT of a heart attack (b. March 18, 1941)
2007 – founding member of the ’60s group the THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS the DENNY DOHERTY died from a second abdominal aneurysm after going to get the first one removed (b. November 29, 1940)

EVENTS ..
1967 – the LESLEY GORE appears on an eps of the BATMAN series playing PUSSCAT in which she gets to perform her current single-ladies the CALIFORNIA NIGHTS
1971 – at the CHARLES MANSON murder trial the BEATLES‘ HELTER SKELTER mp3 was played as the words “helter skelter” were written on a mirror of one of the murder scenes
1974 – two Miami shows featuring BOB DYLAN prove so popular that they cause a nine-mile-long traffic jam, as a result many ticket holders only get to see half of the show(s)
1976 – the THE BEATLES turned down an offer from rock promoter the BILL SARGENT of $30 million to play together again on the same stage
1988 – the METALLICA begin recording their fourth long_one the AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
1993 – the FLEETWOOD MAC re-unite to perform at the BILL CLINTON’s inauguration – the CLINTON has used the MAC‘s ’77 mp3 the DONT STOP as his campaign theme song
1999 – the U.S. Supreme Court without comment refused to hear a 1998 lawsuit brought by ticket buyers against Ticketmaster, the suit charged that the firm engaged in anticompetitive behaviour and price-fixing with promoters
1999 – the BIZZY BONE (of the BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY) went on trial in Columbus on charges that he dragged a student barber down a flight of stairs
1999 – Jean-Michel Jarre delivered a petition to the European Parliament signed by hundreds of leading European recording artists asking for better legal protection against music piracy on the internet
2002 – rapper the C-MURDER was arrested in the shooting death of 16-year old Steve Thomas at a nightclub

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