Musical birthdays today include big band singer Kitty Kallen (92), Tom T. Hall (78), former Family keyboardist John Palmer (71), U.K. Subs lead singer Charlie Harper (70), Tokens vocalist Mitch Margo (67), Scorpions lead singer Klaus Meine (66), former Asleep at the Wheel steel guitarist Cindy Cashdollar (58), Paul Weller (56), ex-Megadeath lead guitarist Glen Drover (45), Tha Dogg Pound rapper Delmar 'Daz Dillinger' Arnaud (41), The Fray guitarist Joe King (34), pop singer Neon Hitch (28), and Union J vocalist JJ Hamblett (26).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for early 20th c. recording star Billy Murray, born on this day in 1877... for song & dance man Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, born in 1878... for songwriter Hal David, born in 1921... for Beverly Sills, who would have been 85 today... for reggae singer & producer Sugar Minott, who would have been 58... for composer Gustav Holst, who died on this date in 1934... for blues harp virtuoso Alex Miller AKA Sonny Boy Williamson II, who died in 1965 [According to the Led Zeppelin biography 'Hammer of the Gods', whilst touring the UK in the early '60s, Sonny Boy once set his hotel room on fire by trying to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator]....for Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell, who died of a drug overdose today in 1996 at the age of 28... for Mars Volta sound technician & vocal operator Jeremy Michael Ward, who died of an overdose today in 2003 at the age of 27... for ska & reggae pioneer Desmond Dekker, who passed away in 2006... for rapper Tero 'Camu Tao' Smith, who died in 2008... and for former Bill Haley & His Comets bassist Marshall Lytle, who left us one year ago today.
Also on May 25th: Gilbert & Sullivan's 'HMS Pinafore' opens at the Opera Comique in London (1878)... A benefit concert is held at the original Madison Square Garden. Arturo Toscanini conducts a combined NBC Symphony and New York Philharmonic in a performance of music by Wagner, Verdi, and John Philip Sousa. The evening raises $100,000 for the Red Cross; during an intermission auction, NYC mayor Fiorello LaGuardia auctions off Toscanini's baton for $10,000 (1944)... Procol Harum's 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' enters the UK singles chart for the first time. It will go on to reach № 1, and by 2009 will be officially classed as the song most frequently played in public places in Britain over the last 75 years (1967)... Simon & Garfunkel score their second US № 1 album with Bookends (1968)... A benefit concert is held for Fairport Convention at The Roundhouse, London to raise money for the families of the band's drummer Martin Lamble and Richard Thompson's girlfriend, clothes designer Jeannie Franklyn, who were both killed in an accident driving back from a gig. Also on the bill are Family, The Pretty Things, Soft Machine and John Peel... At Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, Led Zeppelin and The Who play on the same bill for the only time in their careers, with Zeppelin as the opening act. [On the tickets, their name is misspelt 'Lead Zeppelin'] (1969)... Carole King plays a free concert for an estimated crowd of 100,000 in NYC's Central Park (1973)... Rick Wakeman becomes the first member of Yes to have a № 1 LP outside the group when his Journey to the Centre of the Earth tops the UK album chart (1974)... After seeing The Hype [soon to change their name to U2] play at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin, Paul McGuinness becomes their manager (1978)... Dire Straits hve the № 1 album on both sides of the Atlantic with Brothers in Arms. It is one of the first albums to be directed primarily at the CD market, and also one of the first to be recorded on digital rather than analog equipment (1985)... The earliest known recording of Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, a home tape from 1961 of the duo performing several traditional blues songs, sells at Christies of London for £50,250 (1995)...
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for early 20th c. recording star Billy Murray, born on this day in 1877... for song & dance man Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, born in 1878... for songwriter Hal David, born in 1921... for Beverly Sills, who would have been 85 today... for reggae singer & producer Sugar Minott, who would have been 58... for composer Gustav Holst, who died on this date in 1934... for blues harp virtuoso Alex Miller AKA Sonny Boy Williamson II, who died in 1965 [According to the Led Zeppelin biography 'Hammer of the Gods', whilst touring the UK in the early '60s, Sonny Boy once set his hotel room on fire by trying to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator]....for Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell, who died of a drug overdose today in 1996 at the age of 28... for Mars Volta sound technician & vocal operator Jeremy Michael Ward, who died of an overdose today in 2003 at the age of 27... for ska & reggae pioneer Desmond Dekker, who passed away in 2006... for rapper Tero 'Camu Tao' Smith, who died in 2008... and for former Bill Haley & His Comets bassist Marshall Lytle, who left us one year ago today.
Also on May 25th: Gilbert & Sullivan's 'HMS Pinafore' opens at the Opera Comique in London (1878)... A benefit concert is held at the original Madison Square Garden. Arturo Toscanini conducts a combined NBC Symphony and New York Philharmonic in a performance of music by Wagner, Verdi, and John Philip Sousa. The evening raises $100,000 for the Red Cross; during an intermission auction, NYC mayor Fiorello LaGuardia auctions off Toscanini's baton for $10,000 (1944)... Procol Harum's 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' enters the UK singles chart for the first time. It will go on to reach № 1, and by 2009 will be officially classed as the song most frequently played in public places in Britain over the last 75 years (1967)... Simon & Garfunkel score their second US № 1 album with Bookends (1968)... A benefit concert is held for Fairport Convention at The Roundhouse, London to raise money for the families of the band's drummer Martin Lamble and Richard Thompson's girlfriend, clothes designer Jeannie Franklyn, who were both killed in an accident driving back from a gig. Also on the bill are Family, The Pretty Things, Soft Machine and John Peel... At Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD, Led Zeppelin and The Who play on the same bill for the only time in their careers, with Zeppelin as the opening act. [On the tickets, their name is misspelt 'Lead Zeppelin'] (1969)... Carole King plays a free concert for an estimated crowd of 100,000 in NYC's Central Park (1973)... Rick Wakeman becomes the first member of Yes to have a № 1 LP outside the group when his Journey to the Centre of the Earth tops the UK album chart (1974)... After seeing The Hype [soon to change their name to U2] play at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin, Paul McGuinness becomes their manager (1978)... Dire Straits hve the № 1 album on both sides of the Atlantic with Brothers in Arms. It is one of the first albums to be directed primarily at the CD market, and also one of the first to be recorded on digital rather than analog equipment (1985)... The earliest known recording of Mick Jagger and Keith Richard, a home tape from 1961 of the duo performing several traditional blues songs, sells at Christies of London for £50,250 (1995)...
Bob
Dylan is diagnosed as suffering from histoplasmosis pericarditis, a
fungal infection of the lungs, and is admitted to hospital, where he will stay for a week. Having just turned 56, Dylan later admitted "I
really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon". After being treated with antibiotics and rest,
Bob will be back on the road only 10 weeks later, for 22 American and
Canadian shows (1997)... 30
Eminem fans are are injured in a crowd surge at a gig in Washington DC.
Five people were taken to hospital, one man having suffered a heart attack (2002)... Madonna
cancels three shows in Israel after receiving death threats directed at both her and her children. A spokesperson says she was targeted because she
symbolises the West and not because she practises the Jewish Kabbalah faith (2004)... The Sheriff's Office of Alameda Co., CA announce that they are officially closing the stabbing case of Meredith Hunter, the
18-year-old Rolling Stones fan who was killed at the 1969 Altamont free concert. After a renewed two-year
inquiry, investigators have dismissed the theory that a second Hell's Angel took
part in the stabbing (2005)... Sixties
pop star Wayne Fontana is remanded into custody after admitting that he poured petrol over a bailiff's car and set fire to it. The judge admonishes the former lead singer of the Mindbenders for arriving at
Derby Crown court dressed as the Lady of Justice. Fontana has to hand pver a
sword and scales to guards, but is allowed to wear a crown, cape and dark
glasses to symbolise his claim that "justice is blind" (2007).
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