Musical birthdays today include composer Harold Budd (78), jazzman Archie Shepp (73), Bob Dylan (73), Patti LaBelle (70), session guitarist Waddy Wachtel (67), Blue Öyster Cult drummer Albert Bouchard (67), Daniel Amos singer & songwriter Terry Scott Taylor (64), Roseanne Cash (59), Cameo frontman Larry Blackmon (58), ex-Dire Straits keyboardist Guy Fletcher (54), Black Crowes lead guitarist Rich Robinson (45), and Nine Inch Nails keyboardist Alessandro Cortini (38).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for rockabilly pioneer Rusty York, who would have been 79 today... for rapper Dwight 'Heavy D' Myers, who would have been 47... for bluesman Elmore James, who died on this date in 1963... for Duke Ellington, who passed away 40 years ago today... for Byrds founding member Gene Clark, who died in 1991... for Wilco co-founder & guitarist Jay Bennett, who died in 2009... for Slipknot bassist Paul Gray, who died of a drug overdose today in 2010 at the age of 38... and for Congolese soukous singer Ndombe Opetum, who left us two years ago today.
Also on May 24th: At the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna, Beethoven's Egmont Overture is played for the first time (1810)... Country pioneer Jimmie Rodgers, now terminally ill with tuberculosis, makes his final recordings in NYC. The 'Yodelin' Brakeman' is so weak that he has to lie down on a cot in the studio in between the takes of 'Mississippi Delta Blues' and 'Years Ago'. He will die two days later in his room at the Taft Hotel (1933)... The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland. The host country have the winning entry with Lys Assia's 'Refrain' (1956)... The Beatles record the first instalment of their own BBC radio program, 'Pop Go the Beatles'. The Fabs' guests for their inaugural show are The Lorne Gibson Trio (1963)... Captain Beefheart, The Buffalo Springfield and The Doors appear on the same bill at the Whiskey A Go Go in West Hollywood, CA (1966)... The Rolling Stones release the single 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'... The Small Faces release the album Ogdens Gone Nut (1968)... The Beatles hit № 1 in America with 'Get Back'. The group's only single that credits another artist, ~ the label of the 45 says 'The Beatles with Billy Preston ~ it is also their first release in the US in true stereo (1969)... At the Bath Festival in Somerset, England, Peter Green plays his last gig with Fleetwood Mac (1970)... Genesis fans turning up at the Club Roxy box office in Los Angeles to buy tickets for a forthcoming gig are surprised to find the band members Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford selling the tickets themselves (1980)... The Spice Girls go to № 1 on the Billboard album chart with their debut collection Spice, making them only the third all-female act to do so after the Supremes and The Go-Go's, and the first British girl group (1997)... Queen front man Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991, is honoured on a new set of millennium stamps issued by the Royal Mail. Mercury, who features on the 19p stamp, was a keen philatelist, and his collection was purchased by the Post Office in 1993. The stamp marks his contribution to the Live Aid charity concert in 1985, and causes controversy by showing Queen’s drummer, Roger Taylor, in the background - UK stamps by tradition only carry pictures of living persons who are members of the Royal Family (1999)... Paul McCartney performs live in Russia for the first time when he gives a concert for 20,000 fans on Moscow's Red Square (2003)... Billy Joel is served with a lawsuit filed by his former drummer for hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid royalties. Liberty Devitto claims that Joel hasn't paid him proper royalties for 10 years of his work. Devitto was Joel's drummer from 1975 until 2005, when he said he was abruptly sacked from the band. He says: "People get fired, they get severance or insurance for a certain period of time. I didn't even get a phone call. It was cold" (2009).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for rockabilly pioneer Rusty York, who would have been 79 today... for rapper Dwight 'Heavy D' Myers, who would have been 47... for bluesman Elmore James, who died on this date in 1963... for Duke Ellington, who passed away 40 years ago today... for Byrds founding member Gene Clark, who died in 1991... for Wilco co-founder & guitarist Jay Bennett, who died in 2009... for Slipknot bassist Paul Gray, who died of a drug overdose today in 2010 at the age of 38... and for Congolese soukous singer Ndombe Opetum, who left us two years ago today.
Also on May 24th: At the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna, Beethoven's Egmont Overture is played for the first time (1810)... Country pioneer Jimmie Rodgers, now terminally ill with tuberculosis, makes his final recordings in NYC. The 'Yodelin' Brakeman' is so weak that he has to lie down on a cot in the studio in between the takes of 'Mississippi Delta Blues' and 'Years Ago'. He will die two days later in his room at the Taft Hotel (1933)... The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland. The host country have the winning entry with Lys Assia's 'Refrain' (1956)... The Beatles record the first instalment of their own BBC radio program, 'Pop Go the Beatles'. The Fabs' guests for their inaugural show are The Lorne Gibson Trio (1963)... Captain Beefheart, The Buffalo Springfield and The Doors appear on the same bill at the Whiskey A Go Go in West Hollywood, CA (1966)... The Rolling Stones release the single 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'... The Small Faces release the album Ogdens Gone Nut (1968)... The Beatles hit № 1 in America with 'Get Back'. The group's only single that credits another artist, ~ the label of the 45 says 'The Beatles with Billy Preston ~ it is also their first release in the US in true stereo (1969)... At the Bath Festival in Somerset, England, Peter Green plays his last gig with Fleetwood Mac (1970)... Genesis fans turning up at the Club Roxy box office in Los Angeles to buy tickets for a forthcoming gig are surprised to find the band members Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford selling the tickets themselves (1980)... The Spice Girls go to № 1 on the Billboard album chart with their debut collection Spice, making them only the third all-female act to do so after the Supremes and The Go-Go's, and the first British girl group (1997)... Queen front man Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991, is honoured on a new set of millennium stamps issued by the Royal Mail. Mercury, who features on the 19p stamp, was a keen philatelist, and his collection was purchased by the Post Office in 1993. The stamp marks his contribution to the Live Aid charity concert in 1985, and causes controversy by showing Queen’s drummer, Roger Taylor, in the background - UK stamps by tradition only carry pictures of living persons who are members of the Royal Family (1999)... Paul McCartney performs live in Russia for the first time when he gives a concert for 20,000 fans on Moscow's Red Square (2003)... Billy Joel is served with a lawsuit filed by his former drummer for hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid royalties. Liberty Devitto claims that Joel hasn't paid him proper royalties for 10 years of his work. Devitto was Joel's drummer from 1975 until 2005, when he said he was abruptly sacked from the band. He says: "People get fired, they get severance or insurance for a certain period of time. I didn't even get a phone call. It was cold" (2009).
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