Jueves 17 Abr 2008, 9:00
1934 - Born on this day, Don Kirshner, who launched the careers of Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Harry Nilsson, The Monkees and The Archies.
1940 - Born on this day, Billy Fury. He died of a heart attack on 28th January 1983.
1943 - Born on this day, Roy Estrada, bass, Frank Zappa band.
1948 - Born on this day, Jan Hammer, keyboard player, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, solo.
1955 - Born on this day, Pete Shelley, guitar, vocals, Buzzcocks.
1960 - The car taking Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent to London Airport crashed, killing 21-year old Cochran, Vincent was injured in the accident.
1964 - Born on this day, James Keenan, Tool. Also a member of A Perfect Circle and Puscifer.
1965 - Bob Dylan's debut album 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' was at No.1 on the UK chart.
1967 - Born on this day, Matt Chamberlain one of the world's most widely-heard session drummers. Worked with, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, Pearl Jam, Tori Amos, Morrissey, Fiona Apple, Christina Aguilera, Dido, David Bowie, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, The Wallflowers, Natalie Merchant, Robbie Williams, Kanye West, Garbage, John Mayer and William Shatner.
1970 - Johnny Cash played at the White House for President Nixon, who requested that he played 'A Boy Named Sue.'
1971 - All four Beatles had solo singles in the UK charts, Paul McCartney with 'Another Day', John Lennon, 'Power To The People', George Harrison, 'My Sweet Lord' and Ringo Starr, 'It Don't Come Easy.'
1972 - Keith Richards Girlfriend Anita Pallenberg gave birth to their second child, daughter Dandelion.
1973 - Tito and John Jackson from The Jackson Five were arrested for buying stolen TV and stereo equipment.
1973 - Pink Floyd's album 'The Dark Side of the Moon' went gold in the US. The LP went on to stay in the US chart for more than ten years and become the longest charting rock record of all time.
1974 - Vinnie Taylor guitarist with US rock 'n roll revival band Sha Na Na died from a drug overdose.
1977 - Appearing at The Roundhouse, London, The Stranglers, Cherry Vanilla, The Police and The Jam.
1980 - Appearing at London's Royal Albert Hall, Gerry Rafferty, tickets £2-£6.
1982 - Vangelis was at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Chariots Of Fire', he also won an Oscar for best original score.
1983 - Felix Pappalardi, producer and bass player with Mountain was shot dead by his wife Gail Collins during a jealous rage. Collins was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and sentenced to four years in prison. Pappalardi who was 43 had produced the Cream albums 'Disraeli Gears 'and 'Wheels of Fire.'
1987 - Carlton Barrett of The Wailers was shot dead outside his house in Kingston.
1991 - Appearing at the OK Hotel in Seattle, Nirvana played ‘Smell’s Like Teen Spirit’ live for the first time.
1993 - Former Bangles leader Susanna Hoffs married screenwriter M. Jay Roach in Los Angeles.
1993 - David Bowie went to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Black Tie White Noise' his eighth UK No.1 LP.
1994 - Pink Floyd started a four-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with 'The Division Bell', their fourth No.1 album.
1998 - Linda McCartney died after a long battle against cancer. Married Paul McCartney in 1969 when working as a photographer. As well as a being a member of Wings, she became an animal rights campaigner and launched her own brand of vegetarian food.
2002 - Music weekly The NME published a list of the 50 most influential icons. At No.10, Public Enemy, 9, U2, 8, The Jam, 7, Radiohead, 6, Oasis, 5, The Sex Pistols, 4, David Bowie, 3, The Stone Roses, 2, The Beatles and No.1 The Smiths.
2003 - Earl King the New Orleans Blues guitarist died aged 69.
2004 - Kurt Cobain's Mark IV-style Mosrite Gospel guitar sold for $100,000 at the Icons of 20th Century Music auction held in Dallas, Texas. Other items sold included Elton John and Bernie Taupin's song writing piano which sold for $140,000 and a 1966 Rickenbacker guitar owned by The Byrds Roger McGuinn's sold for $99,000.
2006 - A line from U2's 1992 hit ‘One’ was voted the UK's favorite song lyric after in a poll of 13,000 people by music channel VH1. The line "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers" came top. The Smiths lyric “So you go, and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry, and you want to die" from the song ‘How Soon is Now?’ came second in the poll, followed by "I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us", from Nirvana's ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ which was voted into third place.
2007 - Bryan Ferry was forced to make an apology after praising Nazi iconography in a German magazine. Talking to Welt am Sonntag, he said the Nazis "knew how to put themselves in the limelight and present themselves…I'm talking about the films of Leni Riefenstahl and the buildings of Albert Speer and the mass marches and the flags. Just amazing - really beautiful." British MPs asked shoppers to think twice about shopping in Marks and Spencer asking for Ferry to be dropped as the face of the M&S Autograph menswear collection. Ferry said he was "deeply upset" by the publicity surrounding the interview.