Musical
birthdays today include jazz singer Norma Winstone (80), Julio Iglesias
(78), Iron Butterfly drummer Ron Bushy (76), original Alice Cooper
drummer Neal Smith (74), Bruce Springsteen (72), former
Lemon Kitten and experimental musician Danielle Dax (63), session
bassist and songwriter Martin Page (61), industrial metal rocker Lucia
Cifarelli (51), Ani DiFranco (51), rapper Layzie Bone (46), and Cascada lead singer Natalie Horler (40).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for folk song collector and ethnomusicologist John Lomax, born on this day in 1870... for early R&B singer Tiny Bradshaw, born on this day in 1907... for John Coltrane, born in 1926... for bluesman Mighty Joe Young, born in 1927... for choreographer Bob Fosse, who died on this date in 1987... and for blueswoman Etta Baker, who left us today in 2006.
Also on September 23: Wagner's opera Das Rheingold has its world premiere in Frankfurt (1869)... Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys make their first recordings in Dallas (1935)... Buddy Holly & the Crickets hit № 1 in the US with 'That'll Be the Day' (1957)... The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in NYC (1962)... The Beatles record 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' at Abbey Road. John Lennon took the title for the song from an advertisement in an American gun magazine that George Martin had showed him. Jim Morrison drops by the studio and watches the Fab Four at work for just over an hour (1968)... Mick Jagger meets Bianca Macias for the first time, backstage after a Stones concert at L'Olympia in Paris (1970)... Blondie release their commercial breakthrough album Parallel Lines (1978)... Against his doctors' advice, Bob Marley goes ahead with a scheduled concert at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh two days after collapsing in Central Park in NYC. The singer passes out in mid-performance and is rushed to the University of Pittsburgh Hospital. It is Marley's last public show before his death from cancer the following May... David Bowie makes his Broadway debut in the title role of 'The Elephant Man' (1980)... James Browne, Melba Moore, and Freddie Jackson headline an anti-crack benefit concert in the ballroom at the Plaza Hotel in NYC (1986)... The first Lilith Fair concert outside of North America takes place at the Royal Albert Hall (1998)... CBS is fined $550,000 by the FCC for airing Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' during the Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year (2004)... Neil Young is named artist of the year at the annual Americana Honors and Awards in Nashville (2006)... Grand Canyon State natives Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks and Buck Owens are inducted into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame (2007).
Shoutout to the Great Beyond for folk song collector and ethnomusicologist John Lomax, born on this day in 1870... for early R&B singer Tiny Bradshaw, born on this day in 1907... for John Coltrane, born in 1926... for bluesman Mighty Joe Young, born in 1927... for choreographer Bob Fosse, who died on this date in 1987... and for blueswoman Etta Baker, who left us today in 2006.
Also on September 23: Wagner's opera Das Rheingold has its world premiere in Frankfurt (1869)... Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys make their first recordings in Dallas (1935)... Buddy Holly & the Crickets hit № 1 in the US with 'That'll Be the Day' (1957)... The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in NYC (1962)... The Beatles record 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' at Abbey Road. John Lennon took the title for the song from an advertisement in an American gun magazine that George Martin had showed him. Jim Morrison drops by the studio and watches the Fab Four at work for just over an hour (1968)... Mick Jagger meets Bianca Macias for the first time, backstage after a Stones concert at L'Olympia in Paris (1970)... Blondie release their commercial breakthrough album Parallel Lines (1978)... Against his doctors' advice, Bob Marley goes ahead with a scheduled concert at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh two days after collapsing in Central Park in NYC. The singer passes out in mid-performance and is rushed to the University of Pittsburgh Hospital. It is Marley's last public show before his death from cancer the following May... David Bowie makes his Broadway debut in the title role of 'The Elephant Man' (1980)... James Browne, Melba Moore, and Freddie Jackson headline an anti-crack benefit concert in the ballroom at the Plaza Hotel in NYC (1986)... The first Lilith Fair concert outside of North America takes place at the Royal Albert Hall (1998)... CBS is fined $550,000 by the FCC for airing Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' during the Super Bowl halftime show earlier this year (2004)... Neil Young is named artist of the year at the annual Americana Honors and Awards in Nashville (2006)... Grand Canyon State natives Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks and Buck Owens are inducted into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame (2007).
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