2024
Royal Mail announced it was issuing a set of 15 stamps celebrating The
Spice Girls. one of the world's most successful pop groups, as they marked their 30th anniversary. It was the first time Royal Mail had dedicated an entire stamp issue to a female pop group. The stamps were set to feature images from their performances from 1997 to 2012, including at the Brit Awards in 1997, and at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
2019
British musician Eric Haydock died age 75. He is best known as the original bass guitarist of The Hollies from December 1962 until July 1966. He was one of the first British musicians to play a Fender Bass VI, a six-string bass.
2016
Donald Fagen, lead singer and founder of
Steely Dan, was arrested by New York police and charged with assaulting his wife at their home. Fagen, was accused of pushing Libby Titus into a marble window frame, knocking her to the ground, at their Manhattan apartment.
2010
American trumpeter, bandleader and producer Willie Mitchell died from a cardiac arrest age 81. He was best known for his Hi Records label of the 1970s, which released albums by a large stable of popular Memphis soul artists, including Mitchell himself, Al Green, O. V. Wright, Syl Johnson and Ann Peebles.
2004
The Kinks singer Ray Davies was shot in the leg while on holiday in New Orleans. The 59-year-old singer-songwriter was shot when running after two men who stole his girlfriend's purse at gunpoint. Davies was admitted to the Medical Centre of Louisiana but his injuries were not considered serious. New Orleans police said one person had been arrested, and police were still searching for the second.
2003
Green Day's lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong was arrested on suspicion of drink driving after being stopped in California speeding in a black BMW convertible. He failed a breath test and was taken to Berkeley county jail and was later released on $1,053 (£657) bail.
2001
Kirsty MacColl was laid to rest at a private funeral ceremony, ahead of a public memorial to pay tribute to her life. The singer songwriter was killed in a boating accident on 18th Dec 2000.
1979
Prince made his live debut at the Capri Theatre, Minneapolis. Warner Bros. executives attended the show but decided that
Prince and the band needed more time to develop his music.
1976
Former
The Beatles roadie Mal Evans was shot dead by police at his Los Angeles apartment. His girlfriend called police when she found Evans upset with a rifle in his hand; he pointed the gun at the police who opened fire. Friends later said that Evans was depressed about his separation from his wife Lil Evans — who had asked for a divorce before Christmas.
1969
During the band's first North American tour,
Led Zeppelin played the last of four nights at the Whisky A Go-Go, Los Angeles, with
Alice Cooperas the opening act. Zeppelin were billed as 'Led Zeppelin featuring
Jimmy Page, formerly of the Yardbirds'.
1968
Jimi Hendrix was jailed for one day in Stockholm, Sweden on drink charges after going berserk and destroying everything in his room at the Goteberg Hotel.
1967
Pink Floyd and Eyes of Blue appeared at The
Marquee Club London, England. Queen magazine said: "The two guitarists looked moody, the drummer thrashed wildly about and the lights kept flashing. After about twenty minutes it became very boring and after half an hour I left."
1964
The
Rolling Stones performed at the Ricky Tick club at the Olympia Ballroom in Reading, England. During the 1960s, the club was host to many important acts such as
The Who,
Jimi Hendrix,
Pink Floyd and
Cream. The Yardbirds were filmed performing in a recreation of the club built at MGM Studios in Borehamwood for Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blow-Up.
1961
The Beatles played at Litherland Town Hall, Liverpool. In the audience are two members from Rory Storm & the Hurricanes: Johnny Guitar and
Ringo Starr who have just returned from Hamburg, Germany.
1966
American musician Kate Schellenbach. She played with Beastie Boys from 1981 to 1984 and was later the drummer from the alternative rock, rap-rock group Luscious Jackson. The band's name is a reference to former American basketball player Lucious Jackson. Schellenbach is now a television producer.
1957
Maartin Allcock, English multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer who was a member of British folk rock band Fairport Convention and then Jethro Tull. Allcock died 16 September 2018 aged 61.
1949
Joe Herndon, American R&B and soul singer, former bass singer of a version of doo-wop group The Spaniels and former bass singer for The Temptations (2003–15).
1941
Grady Thomas, a former member of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic. Thomas started out in the late 1950s as one of The Parliaments, a doo wop barbershop quintet led by George Clinton.
1923
Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, the first label of
Elvis Presley's recordings. Phillips played a major role in the development of rock and roll during the 1950s, launching the career of Presley. He recorded Carl Perkins, Ike Turner, B.B. King,
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis. Phillips died of respiratory failure on 30 July 2003 aged 80, at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, one day before the original Sun Studio was designated a National Historic Landmark.
