Musical birthdays today include jazz sax & winds player John Barnes (91), Trini Lopez (86), original Little River Band lead singer Graeham Goble (76), Brian Eno (75), Mike Oldfield (70) Sisters of Mercy frontman Andrew Eldritch (63), former Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five lead rapper Melvin 'Melle Mel' Glover (62), Saint Etienne keyboardist Pete Wiggs (57), classical violinist Anne Akiko Meyers (53), Trail of Dead lead singer Conrad Keely (51), Ahmet Zappa (49), Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox (41), and Pussycat Dolls vocalist Jessica Sutta (41).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for composer Claudio Monteverdi, born on this day in 1567... for ragtime pianist Eddie Morton, born in 1870... for Eddy Arnold, born in 1918... for folk singer Bruce 'Utah' Phillips, who would have been 88 today... for former Chiffons vocalist Barbara Lee, who died on this date in 1992... for June Carter Cash, who passed away in 2003... and for film & TV score composer Alexander Courage [best remembered for the original Star Trek theme], who left us today in 2008.
Also on May 15th: The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden reopens two years after being badly damaged in a fire (1858)... Charlie Parker records the live album One Night in Birdland (1950)... John Cage's Piano Concerto premieres at Carnegie Hall (1958)... Bob Dylan’s single 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' peaks at No.39 on the Billboard chart, giving Dylan his first US top 40 hit. John Lennon reportedly finds the song so captivating that he has been quoted as saying he doesn't know how he'd be able to write a song that could compete with it (1965)... Paul McCartney meets American photographer Linda Eastman for the first time, during a Georgie Fame concert at the Bag O'Nails nightclub in London (1967)... George Harrison and Ringo Starr attend the premiere of 'Wonderwall' at the Cannes Film Festival. The film by first-time director Joe Massot stars Jack MacGowran and Jane Birkin, and features a cameo by Anita Pallenberg. The soundtrack was composed by Harrison. The film also provides the name for the Oasis track 'Wonderwall', which was inspired by George Harrison's score (1968)... John Lennon's Life With The Lions is released on Apple's avant-garde imprint Zapple. One side of the album was recorded on a cassette player at London's Queen Charlotte Hospital during Yoko Ono's pregnancy which ended in a miscarriage (1969)... EG Records release King Crimson's second album In the Wake of Poseidon (1970)... Crosby Stills Nash & Young score their second US № 1 LP with 4 Way Street. The live album features recordings from shows at the Fillmore East and The L.A. Forum (1971)... The Rolling Stones go to № 1 on the Billboard album chart with Black and Blue, their first release since the replacement of Mick Taylor with Ron Wood (1976)... Former Sex Pistol John Lydon's band Public Image Ltd performs a show at the Ritz Club in NYC posing behind a video screen while the music is played from tapes. The band are showered with missiles and eventually booed off stage (1981)... Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney start a seven week run at № 1 on the US singles chart with 'Ebony and Ivory' (1982)... Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards carves '4 real' into his arm with a razor blade while being interviewed by music paper The NME (1991)... Oasis become one of the first bands to attempt to exert censorship over the Internet when the group announce that they are working with Sony to close down unofficial websites carrying lyrics, sound files and photographs of the band (1997)... It is reported that Britney Spears has been crowned the queen of America's fastest growing youth movement, the teenage celibates. Spears told the German magazine Bravo that she intended to abstain from sex until her wedding night (2000).
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