Musical birthdays today include jazz singer Jewel Brown (76), Specials bassist Horace Panter (60), ex-Swing Out Sister and Magazine drummer Martin Jackson (55), former Panic! at the Disco led guitarist Ryan Ross (27), and classical piano prodigy Emily Bear (12).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for country music legend Kitty Wells, born on this day in 1919... for bebop trumpeter Kenny Dorham, who would have been 89... for John Phillips, who would have been 78... for influential British DJ John Peel, who would have been 74... and for the Velvet Undergropund's Sterling Morrison, who died in 1995 two days after his 48th birthday.
Also on August 30: Bob Dylan releases Highway 61 Revisited (1965)... Two weeks after Woodstock ends, the second Isle of Wight festival begins. Bob Dylan, The Band, Joe Cocker, The Moody Blues and The Who are the headliners playing for some 150,000 fans who have paid 25 shillings ($3) per ticket. Among those spotted in the crowd are John & Yoko, George, Ringo, Jane Fonda, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor (1969)... The Texas International Pop Festival opens in Lewisville TX with Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Santana and Grand Funk Railroad headlining (1969)... Backed by Elephant's Memory, John & Yoko play Madison Square Garden to raise money for the One to One charity. The performance is recorded, and partially released on the Sometime in New York City album (1972)... The no. 1 single in the US is Steve Winwood's 'Higher Love' (1986)... Bruce Springsteen's wife Julianne Phillips files for divorce after salacious pictures of her husband and singer Patti Scialfa are published worldwide (1988)... James Taylor and Carly Simon perform live together before a crowd of 10,000 at Martha's Vineyard. It is the first time the pair have appeared on the same stage since 1979. The former couple play their own solo sets before joining forces to raise money for the local agricultural society (1995)... Stella McCartney marries publisher Alasdhiar Willis on the Isle of Bute in Scotland. Guests include dad Sir Paul, Madonna, Chrissie Hynde and Chris Martin (2003).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for country music legend Kitty Wells, born on this day in 1919... for bebop trumpeter Kenny Dorham, who would have been 89... for John Phillips, who would have been 78... for influential British DJ John Peel, who would have been 74... and for the Velvet Undergropund's Sterling Morrison, who died in 1995 two days after his 48th birthday.
Also on August 30: Bob Dylan releases Highway 61 Revisited (1965)... Two weeks after Woodstock ends, the second Isle of Wight festival begins. Bob Dylan, The Band, Joe Cocker, The Moody Blues and The Who are the headliners playing for some 150,000 fans who have paid 25 shillings ($3) per ticket. Among those spotted in the crowd are John & Yoko, George, Ringo, Jane Fonda, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor (1969)... The Texas International Pop Festival opens in Lewisville TX with Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Santana and Grand Funk Railroad headlining (1969)... Backed by Elephant's Memory, John & Yoko play Madison Square Garden to raise money for the One to One charity. The performance is recorded, and partially released on the Sometime in New York City album (1972)... The no. 1 single in the US is Steve Winwood's 'Higher Love' (1986)... Bruce Springsteen's wife Julianne Phillips files for divorce after salacious pictures of her husband and singer Patti Scialfa are published worldwide (1988)... James Taylor and Carly Simon perform live together before a crowd of 10,000 at Martha's Vineyard. It is the first time the pair have appeared on the same stage since 1979. The former couple play their own solo sets before joining forces to raise money for the local agricultural society (1995)... Stella McCartney marries publisher Alasdhiar Willis on the Isle of Bute in Scotland. Guests include dad Sir Paul, Madonna, Chrissie Hynde and Chris Martin (2003).
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