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| Births | |
| 1923 | Atlantic Records chairman Ahmet Ertegun is born in Istanbul Turkey. Ahmet Ertegun, along with his brother Nesuhi, helped create and hone the Atlantic Records jazz, R&B, and pop empire in the '50s and '60s. The Ertegun brothers arrived in America from Turkey and forged a company to record, distribute and publicize the sounds of Black America, which at that time were largely going ignored. |
| 1931 | Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell is born in Detroit, MI. |
| 1946 | Gary Lewis (real name Gary Harold Lee Levitch), of Gary Lewis and the Playboys, is born in Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1946 | Rock singer and guitarist Bob Welch, formerly with Fleetwood Mac, is born in California. Welch joined Fleetwood Mac in 1971 after original member Jeremy Spencer disappeared in Los Angeles. |
| 1947 | Herman's Hermits bassist Karl Green is born in Salford, England. |
| 1953 | Hugh MacDowell, former cello player with the Electric Light Orchestra. |
| 1957 | Daniel Ash, guitarist with Bauhaus and Love and Rockets. |
| 1958 | Bill Berry, drummer for R.E.M., is born in Duluth, MN. |
| 1963 | Norman Cook, bassist with the British pop band the Housemartins, and mastermind behind the techno-dance groups Beats International and Fatboy Slim, is born in Bromley, England. |
| Deaths | |
| 1964 | Country star Jim Reeves, piloting his own plane, dies when the aircraft crashes near Nashville. Reeves was 39. Also killed in the crash is Reeves's pianist, Dean Manuel. |
| 1989 | One of the first major stars of R'n'B, Bull Moose Jackson (real name Benjamin Clarence Jackson), dies in Cleveland of cancer. He was 70. Jackson was at his peak in the late 1940's, and became the first R'n'B artist to receive a gold record, for his 1947 recording of "I Love You, Yes I Do." |
| Events | |
| 1964 | Another Rolling Stones concert and another riot is provoked. However, this time the show in Belfast, Northern Ireland is stopped after only 12 minutes. |
| 1967 | A London Appeals Court throws out Keith Richard's drug conviction of last month, describing the evidence against him as flimsy. At the same time, the court reduced Mick Jaggers sentence on a related conviction to conditional discharge with probation. Chief Justice Lord Parker admonishes Jagger to remember his responsibilities as a pop idol. |
| 1969 | A Moscow police chief reports that thousands of Moscow telephone booths have been made inoperable by thieves who have stolen phone parts in order to convert their acoustic guitars to electric. |
| 1970 | To fill a contractual obligation, the Rolling Stones hand over the disc, Cocksucker Blues to Decca Records. They are now free to form Rolling Stones Records. |
| 1971 | James Taylor's "You've Got A Friend" hits #1 on the chart. |
| 1971 | The second night of the Who's first of two '71 U.S. tours is marked with tragedy when a 22 year old security guard is stabbed at New York's Forest Hills Stadium. |
| 1972 | The group Chicago receives a gold record for its first #1 album, Chicago V. One of the songs, "Saturday in the Park," reaches #3 in September. |
| 1976 | Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper" is released. |
| 1979 | James Taylor plays a free concert in New York's Central Park to help the city's campaign to restore the park's Sheep Meadow. |
| 1980 | John Phillips, formerly of the Mamas and Papas, is arrested for conspiracy to distribute narcotics at his summer home on Long Island, New York. He is sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $15,000. The sentence is later reduced to 30 days in jail. |
| 1990 | Harry Nilsson is charged with drunk driving in Beverly Hills, CA. |
| 1991 | Black Crowes lead singer Chris Robinson is given six months probation for spitting on a customer in a 7/11 store in Denver. When the woman said she didn't know who the Black Crowes were, Robinson told her she would know if she didn't eat so many Twinkies. The woman claimed Robinson then spat on her. |
| 1993 | Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickie Betts is arrested after a fight with his wife at a Saratoga Springs, NY, hotel. He pleaded innocent to the charges but left the group to undergo alcoholism treatment. |
| 1995 | Courtney Love and her band Hole quit about halfway through a Lollapalooza show in Pittsburgh after someone threw a shotgun shell casing on to the stage. Love's husband, Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain, had used a shotgun to kill himself the previous year. |
| 1995 | Jamaica issues a series of postage stamps honoring reggae superstar Bob Marley. He had died of cancer in 1981 at age 36. |
| 1996 | The New York City medical examiner confirms it was an overdose of alcohol and drugs that killed Smashing Pumpkins backing keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin earlier in the month. |