Musical birthdays today include ska and reggae trombonist Rico Rodriguez (79), Gary Puckett (71), Defunkt trombonist Joseph Bowie (60), Alan Jackson (55), Aqua vocalist René Dif (46), Ziggy Marley (45), Wyclef Jean (44), and Eminem (41).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for composer Herbert Howells, born on this date in 1892... for jazz guitarist Barney Kessel, who would have been 90 today... for Jeanine Deckers, AKA the Singing Nun, who would have been 80... for former Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack, who would have been 67... for Frédéric Chopin, who died today in 1849... and for Alberta Hunter, who left us today in 1984... and for pop singer Teresa Brewer, who passed away in 2007.
Also on October 17: The opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by a 15-year-old prodigy named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premieres in Milan (1771)... In between lunchtime and evening sets at the Cavern Club, the Beatles pop over to Manchester to make their British television debut, performing 'Some Other Guy' and 'Love Me Do' on the Granada TV local magazine program People and Places (1962)... Manfred Mann starts a two week run at no. 1 on the Billboard singles chart with 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy' (1964)... The Rolling Stones play a show in Brussels as part of their current European tour; opening acts are Billy Preston and the American group Kracker (the first act signed to Rolling Stones Records after the band created the label). Saxophonist Bobby Keys fails to show for the gig, provoking Mick Jagger to sack him from the backing musicians. The excuse given by Keys (who will be banned from Stones tours until the early '80s) is that he filled his hotel bathtub with Dom Perignon and attempted to drink his way out while sitting in it (1973)... The Bee Gees become the only act to have a UK no. 1 single in the '60s, '70s and '80s when 'You Win Again' tops the British charts (1987)... During an interview with the Observer Magazine, Noel Gallagher of Oasis says "Nothing would make me happier than Damon Albarn and Alex Cox [of rival band Blur] dying of AIDS". He will later apologize for the statement (1995)... The British tabloid press reports that Michael Jackson recently played a secret gig at a martial arts convention in Barnstaple, N. Devon. In fact, the man who arrived in the white stretch limo was Navi, a notorious London impersonator of the superstar (1999)... The 2-storey, 2-bedroom Montague Square townhouse owned by Ringo Starr through much of the '60s (and where John, Yoko and Jimi Hendrix were frequent houseguests) goes on the market for £575,000 (2000)... Two security guards at the University Of California-San Diego's RIMAC Arena are fired after refusing to allow Bob Dylan into his own concert. The singer, who had recently asked that security be tightened up on his Love and Theft tour, had arrived backstage without his ID badge (2001)... Madonna and Guy Ritchie announce that their marriage is over (2008).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for composer Herbert Howells, born on this date in 1892... for jazz guitarist Barney Kessel, who would have been 90 today... for Jeanine Deckers, AKA the Singing Nun, who would have been 80... for former Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack, who would have been 67... for Frédéric Chopin, who died today in 1849... and for Alberta Hunter, who left us today in 1984... and for pop singer Teresa Brewer, who passed away in 2007.
Also on October 17: The opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by a 15-year-old prodigy named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, premieres in Milan (1771)... In between lunchtime and evening sets at the Cavern Club, the Beatles pop over to Manchester to make their British television debut, performing 'Some Other Guy' and 'Love Me Do' on the Granada TV local magazine program People and Places (1962)... Manfred Mann starts a two week run at no. 1 on the Billboard singles chart with 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy' (1964)... The Rolling Stones play a show in Brussels as part of their current European tour; opening acts are Billy Preston and the American group Kracker (the first act signed to Rolling Stones Records after the band created the label). Saxophonist Bobby Keys fails to show for the gig, provoking Mick Jagger to sack him from the backing musicians. The excuse given by Keys (who will be banned from Stones tours until the early '80s) is that he filled his hotel bathtub with Dom Perignon and attempted to drink his way out while sitting in it (1973)... The Bee Gees become the only act to have a UK no. 1 single in the '60s, '70s and '80s when 'You Win Again' tops the British charts (1987)... During an interview with the Observer Magazine, Noel Gallagher of Oasis says "Nothing would make me happier than Damon Albarn and Alex Cox [of rival band Blur] dying of AIDS". He will later apologize for the statement (1995)... The British tabloid press reports that Michael Jackson recently played a secret gig at a martial arts convention in Barnstaple, N. Devon. In fact, the man who arrived in the white stretch limo was Navi, a notorious London impersonator of the superstar (1999)... The 2-storey, 2-bedroom Montague Square townhouse owned by Ringo Starr through much of the '60s (and where John, Yoko and Jimi Hendrix were frequent houseguests) goes on the market for £575,000 (2000)... Two security guards at the University Of California-San Diego's RIMAC Arena are fired after refusing to allow Bob Dylan into his own concert. The singer, who had recently asked that security be tightened up on his Love and Theft tour, had arrived backstage without his ID badge (2001)... Madonna and Guy Ritchie announce that their marriage is over (2008).
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