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Born on this day:
1956, Bernard Sumner, guitar, vocals, Joy Division, New Order
1956, Nels Cline, guitar, Wilco
1957, Patty Loveless, country singer
1960, Michael Stipe, vocals, R.E.M.
1962, Robin Guthrie, guitar, Cocteau Twins
1962, Peter Stelle, vocals, Type O Negative
1963, Till Lindermann, vocals, Rammstein
1965, Beth Gibbons, vocals, Portishead
1954, Elvis Presley made his second visit to the Memphis Recording Service and cut two songs onto an acetate – “Casual Love Affair” and “I’ll Never Stand in Your Way.” Studio boss Sam Phillips asked Presley to leave his phone number.
1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience played the first of what would be more than 240 gigs in this year when they appeared at the Bromel Club, Bromley.
1969, U.K. music weekly Disc and Music Echo reported that The Beatles were to release five new albums. One would be their first-ever live album plus four separate LPs, each one the choice of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
1975, Elton John started a two-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with his version of The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” His third U.S. #1, the song featured John Lennon on guitar.
1977, The Sex Pistols shocked passengers and airline staff at Heathrow Airport when they spat and vomited while boarding a plane to Amsterdam.
1986, Irish singer, songwriter and bassist Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy died of heart failure and pneumonia after being in a coma for eight days following a drug overdose. A life-size bronze statue of Phil Lynott was unveiled on Harry Street in Dublin in 2005.
2004, Britney Spears had her surprise marriage annulled less than 55 hours after tying the knot at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas with childhood friend Jason Alexander. They couple married on Saturday morning, during a night out in Las Vegas, but immediately her lawyers filed for an annulment, saying Spears “lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to the marriage.”
2006, The house where Johnny Cash lived for 35 years was bought by Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb. The rustic house near Nashville, Tennessee, went on the market in June 2005 with an asking price of $2.9 million. Gibb said he planned to preserve the house to honour the Cash memory. For more on this story, see This Day in Music Spotlight.
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