Musical birthdays today include soul singer Cissy Houston (80), 5th Dimension vocalist Marilyn McCoo (70), Québecoise pop singer Diane Dufresne (69), 10,000 Maniacs founding member John Lombardo (61), Gov't Mule drummer Matt Abts (60), singer & multi-instrumentalist Patrice Rushen (59), country singer Marty Stuart (55), Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio (49), Goo Goo Dolls original lead singer Robby Takacs (49), ex-Sugababes vocalist Keisha Buchanan (29), and rapper T-Pain (29).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for jazz legend Buddy Rich, who would have been 96 today... for English songwriter & pianist Donald Swann [of Flanders & Swann], who would have been 90... for former Buffalo Springfield drummer Dewey Martin, who would have been 73... for Frankie Lymon, who would hve been 71... for Marc Bolan, who would have been 66... for Fabulous Thunderbirds frontman Nick Curran, who would have been 36... for Mary Ford, who died on this date in 1977... for American composer Virgil Thomson, who died in 1989... and for songwriter [and sometime Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn collaborator] Jacques Levy, who left us today in 2004.
Also on September 30: Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute] has its premiere in Vienna (1791)... Donovan makes his US television debut on Shindig! (1965)... The UK's first national pop radio station, BBC Radio 1, is launched to take over from the pirate radio stations, which had been shut down by the Home Office. The first record played by former pirate DJ Tony Blackburn is The Move's 'Flowers in the Rain' (1967)... David Crosby's girlfriend Christine Hinton is killed in a head-on collision just north of San Francisco (1969)... Steve Earle is arrested in Nashville for failing to report for jury duty (1992)... Kate Pierson of the B-52's is charged with criminal mischief and trespassing after being arrested during an anti-fur demonstration outside Vogue Magazine's New York offices (1993)... Mariah Carey becomes the first female act to enter the Billboard Hot 100 at no.1, with her latest single 'Fantasy' (1995)... Chris De Burgh's website is closed down after its guestbook is flooded with obscene messages. One of the posts consisted of two four-letter words repeated 3500 times (1999).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for jazz legend Buddy Rich, who would have been 96 today... for English songwriter & pianist Donald Swann [of Flanders & Swann], who would have been 90... for former Buffalo Springfield drummer Dewey Martin, who would have been 73... for Frankie Lymon, who would hve been 71... for Marc Bolan, who would have been 66... for Fabulous Thunderbirds frontman Nick Curran, who would have been 36... for Mary Ford, who died on this date in 1977... for American composer Virgil Thomson, who died in 1989... and for songwriter [and sometime Bob Dylan and Roger McGuinn collaborator] Jacques Levy, who left us today in 2004.
Also on September 30: Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte [The Magic Flute] has its premiere in Vienna (1791)... Donovan makes his US television debut on Shindig! (1965)... The UK's first national pop radio station, BBC Radio 1, is launched to take over from the pirate radio stations, which had been shut down by the Home Office. The first record played by former pirate DJ Tony Blackburn is The Move's 'Flowers in the Rain' (1967)... David Crosby's girlfriend Christine Hinton is killed in a head-on collision just north of San Francisco (1969)... Steve Earle is arrested in Nashville for failing to report for jury duty (1992)... Kate Pierson of the B-52's is charged with criminal mischief and trespassing after being arrested during an anti-fur demonstration outside Vogue Magazine's New York offices (1993)... Mariah Carey becomes the first female act to enter the Billboard Hot 100 at no.1, with her latest single 'Fantasy' (1995)... Chris De Burgh's website is closed down after its guestbook is flooded with obscene messages. One of the posts consisted of two four-letter words repeated 3500 times (1999).
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