Musical birthdays today include Austrian balladeer Freddy Quinn (82), Stax session player Don Nix (72), Randy Bachman (70), Meat Loaf (66), classical guitarist David Starobin (62), session bassist Robbie Shakespeare (60), Shaun Cassidy (55), Third Eye Blind lead singer Stephan Jenkins (49), Wild Flag guitarist & singer Carrie Brownstein (39), Lil Wayne (31), Avril Lavigne (29), and Of Mice & Men lead singer Austin Carlile (26).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Bud Powell, who would have been 89 today... for bop trumpeter Red Rodney, who would have been 86... for Soul Train host and producer Don Cornelius, who would have been 77... for Men at Work multi-instrumentalist Greg Ham, who would have been 60... for former Wings guitarist Jimmy McCullough, who died of a drug overdose on this date in 1979... for Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, who was killed in an accident involving the band's tour bus in 1986... and for Johnny Mathis, who left us two years ago today.
Also on September 27: The Beach Boys make their debut appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, performing 'I Get around' and 'Wendy' (1964)... Bob Dylan is among the guests at a party at Miles Davis' home in Manhattan given for Robert Kennedy, candidate for the US Senate from NY (1964)... The Beatles complete work on 'Fool on the Hill' and begin recording 'I Am the Walrus' (1967)... Pink Floyd appear at Queen's Hall on the Isle of Dunoon in Scotland. All regularly scheduled ferry services to the island having been cancelled because of bad weather, the group hire a small boat on their own and risk the rough seas to make the crossing. They eventually appear in front of 400 fans (1968)... The no.1 album in Britain today is David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes (1980)... U2 play a show from the rooftop of Dublin's Clarence Hotel [which they own] to more than 4,000 listeners in the streets below (2000)... Phil Spector is formally charged with murder in the February 3, 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson (2004)... Metallica have the no.1 album in the US with Death Magnetic, the group's ninth studio release (2008)... At the age of 85 Tony Bennett becomes the oldest living person to top the US album chart, with Duets II. Featuring collaborations with Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga, among others, it is also the singer's first US no.1 (2011).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for Bud Powell, who would have been 89 today... for bop trumpeter Red Rodney, who would have been 86... for Soul Train host and producer Don Cornelius, who would have been 77... for Men at Work multi-instrumentalist Greg Ham, who would have been 60... for former Wings guitarist Jimmy McCullough, who died of a drug overdose on this date in 1979... for Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, who was killed in an accident involving the band's tour bus in 1986... and for Johnny Mathis, who left us two years ago today.
Also on September 27: The Beach Boys make their debut appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, performing 'I Get around' and 'Wendy' (1964)... Bob Dylan is among the guests at a party at Miles Davis' home in Manhattan given for Robert Kennedy, candidate for the US Senate from NY (1964)... The Beatles complete work on 'Fool on the Hill' and begin recording 'I Am the Walrus' (1967)... Pink Floyd appear at Queen's Hall on the Isle of Dunoon in Scotland. All regularly scheduled ferry services to the island having been cancelled because of bad weather, the group hire a small boat on their own and risk the rough seas to make the crossing. They eventually appear in front of 400 fans (1968)... The no.1 album in Britain today is David Bowie's Ashes to Ashes (1980)... U2 play a show from the rooftop of Dublin's Clarence Hotel [which they own] to more than 4,000 listeners in the streets below (2000)... Phil Spector is formally charged with murder in the February 3, 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson (2004)... Metallica have the no.1 album in the US with Death Magnetic, the group's ninth studio release (2008)... At the age of 85 Tony Bennett becomes the oldest living person to top the US album chart, with Duets II. Featuring collaborations with Amy Winehouse and Lady Gaga, among others, it is also the singer's first US no.1 (2011).
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