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Calendar Calendar - August Tuesday, August 07, 2007
1 August
1930: Ramblin’Jack Elliott
1942: Jerry Garcia
1946: Bobby Krieger (Doors)
1946: Boz Burrell (King Crimson/Bad Company)
1951: Tim Bachman (Bachman Turner Overdrive)
1951: Jaco Pastorius
1953: Robert Cray
1964: Adam Duritz (Counting Crows)
1960: Aretha Franklin makes her first recordings for CBS.
1963: Bob Dylan releases ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’
1970: Bon Scott’s Valentines split.
1971: Rick Wakeman joins Yes.
1971: George Harrison’s two Concerts for Bangladesh in NY.
1987: Joe Liggins dies.
1987: Los Lobos No.1 on US singles chart with ‘La Bamba.’
2 August
1937: Garth Hudson (The Band)
1948: Andy Fairweather Low
1951: Andrew Gold
1961: The Beatles begin two-year residency at Liverpool’s Cavern Club
3 August
1926: Tony Bennett
1963: James Hetfield (Metallica)
1963: Beatles make their 294th and final performance at the Cavern Club.
1969: Doug Parkinson in Focus win Hoadley’s Battle of the Sounds from Aesop’s Fables and the Valentines.
1971: Paul McCartney announces formation of Wings.
2001: Arthur Lee of Love dies.
4 August
1901: Louis Satchmo Armstrong
1940: Frankie Ford (Sea Cruise)
1947: Klaus Scultze (Tangerine Dream)
1966: John Lennon reported as saying that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus.
1968: Newport Pop Festival with Canned Heat, Sonny & Cher, Steppenwolf, The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane and Tiny Tim.
1971: Daddy Cool performs showcase at Whisky Au Go Go, Los Angeles.
1979: Tribute concert to Lowell George
1980: John Lennon starts recording Double Fantasy.
5 August
1941: Airto Moreira
1946: Jimmy Webb
1947: Rick Derringer
1957: American Bandstand premiers on US television.
1966: The Beatles release Revolver in UK.
1992: Jeff Porcaro of Toto dies.
6 August
1938: Isaac Hayes
1950: Rodney Crowell
1964: Rod Stewart makes his TV debut on The Beat Room in the Hoochie Coochie Men.
1965: Decca releases Small Faces debut single ‘Whatcha Gonnna Do About It?’
1973: Memphis Minnie dies.
1955: ‘Maybelline’ by Chuck Berry.
1965: Andrew Loog Oldham forms Immediate Records.
1965: Beatles release Help in UK.
1975: ‘Ego Is Not A Dirty Word’ is No 1 on Australian Album Chart.
2004: Rick James dies in his sleep of pulmonary/cardiac failure, aged 56.
7 August
1925 : Felice Bryant
1926: Stan Freberg
1936: Charles Pope (The Tams)
1937: Morris ‘Magic Slim’ Holt
1942: BJ Thomas
1950: Rodney Crowell
1952: Andy Fraser, bassist with the Bluesbreakers and Free.
1958: Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
1954: Johnny Cash married in Texas.
1957: Quarrymen make their debut at Liverpool’s Cavern Club.
1971: Daddy Cool’s ‘Eagle Rock’ tops the Australian singles chart with Blackfeather’s ‘Seasons of Change’ at No.2.
1979: Led Zeppelin perform for their last ever UK show at Knebworth.
1984: Esther Phillips dies from liver failure.
8 August
1923: Jimmy Witherspoon
1927: Andy Warhol (died February 22, 1987)
1933: Joe Tex (d 1982)
1961: The Edge (U2)
1957: Imperial Records release Fats Domino's first album This Is Fats.
1964: Another Side of Bob Dylan released.
1965: Julian 'Cannonball' Adderly dies.
1970: Janis Joplin buys headstone for Bessie Smith at Mont Lawn Cemetery in Philadelphia.
9 August
1960: Aimee Mann
1954: Bruce Thomas, bass player with Elvis Costello & The Attractions.
1963: First ever edition of BBC’s Ready, Steady, Go!
1964: Bob Dylan introduced to audiences at a Joan Baez concert in NY.
1967: Scott McKenzie’s ‘San Francisco’ No.1 on UK singles chart.
1980: AC/DC’s first No.1 UK LP Back In Black.
1995: Jerry Garcia dies, 53
10 August
1909: Leo Fender, founder of Fender Guitars
1928: Jimmy Dean, had a 1961 hit with ‘Big Bad John’ about Triple R’s Johnny Von Goes.
1940: Bobby Hatfield (Righteous Brothers)
1947: Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
1947: Ronnie Spector (Ronettes)
1964: Neneh Cherry
1968: The Band’s Music From Big Pink enters the US charts.
11 August
1914 Buster Brown (‘Fanny Mae’)
1942: Mike Hugg (Manfred Mann)
1949: Eric Carmen
1955: Joe Jackson
1968: Charlie Sexton
1962: Booker T & The MGs debut on the US charts with 'Green Onions.'
1968: Beatles launch Apple Records.
1973: Mott The Hoople's Mott and Van Morrison's Hard Nose The Highway enter UK LP chart.
1979: Ry Cooder's Bop Til You Drop enters UK LP chart.
12 August
1920: Percy Mayfield
1942: Son Seals
1948: Ron Mael (Sparks)
1951: August Darnell (Kid Creole)
1949: Mark Knopfler
1953: Jeremy Speiser, drummer, Men At Work
1964: A Hard Day’s Night film opens in US.
1966: The Beatles begin final tour of the US.
1967: Fleetwood Mac debuts at National Jazz & Blues Festival
1970: Janis Joplin sings final concert.
1972: Derek & Dominos Layla enters UK LP chart.
1982: Joe Tex dies.
1994: Woodstock 94 held in Sugerties, NY and attended by 350,000.
13 August
1921: Jimmy McCracklin
1951: Dan Fogelberg
1952: Big Mama Thornton records original version of 'Hound Dog.'
1966: Revolver at No.1 in the UK. First of 7 weeks at the top.
1971: Pink Floyd play Festival Hall, Melbourne
1971: Sax player King Curtis stabbed to death.
1976: Clash make their London concert debut.
1982: Joe Tex dies of heart attack (49).
1990: Curtis Mayfield paralysed by falling lighting rig in New York
14 August
1941: David Crosby
1946: Larry Graham - (Sly & Family Stone)
1947: Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span)
1958: Big Bill Broonzy dies aged 65.
1976: Nick Lowe’s first solo single ‘So It Goes’ - first Stiff Records single
1988: Roy Buchanan dies.
15 August
1930: Jackie Brenston
1958: Big Bill Broonzy dies.
1965: Beatles perform for record rock concert crowd of 55,600 at Shea Stadium, NY
1969: Woodstock held at Yasgur’s farm in upstate NY
1983: Norman Petty
16 August
1938: Robert Johnston buried
1942: Barbara George
1945: Kevin Ayers
1938: Robert Johnson dies.
1977: The King is Dead! Elvis dies, aged 42
1996: Ray Brown (of the Whispers) dies
1966: Monkees first single released - ’Last Train to Clarksviile’/’Take A
Giant Step’
1973: Ramones play first gig at CBGB.
1975: Peter Gabriel announces he is leaving Genesis.
17 August
1939: Luther Allison (died 1997)
1953: Kevin Rowland (Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
1955: Colin Moulding (XTC)
1964: Maria McKee
1964: Kinks ‘You Really Got Me’ released.
1968: Cream's Wheels On Fire enters UK LP chart.
18 August
1918: Cisco Houston
1930: Johnny Preston
1945: Nona Hendryx
1957: Ron Strykert (Men At Work)
1962: Ringo Starr makes first appearance with Beatles at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.
1969: Mick Jagger accidentally shot in the hand on the set of Ned Kelly. Unfortunately, he was able to complete the film.
1979: Nick Lowe marries Carlene Carter
19 August
1939: Ginger Baker
1940: Johnny Nash
1945: Ian Gillan (Deep Purple)
1948: Billy J Kramer
1959: Blind Willie McTell dies
1964: Beatles first US tour opens at Cow Palace San Francisco.
1967: Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates Of Dawn debuts on UK LP chart.
1968: Final Monkees TV show airs in US.
1969: Miles Davis starts recording Bitches Brew in New York.
1972: Roxy Music's 'Virginia Plain' enters UK chart.
1977: Elvis Costello & the Attractions release their first album My Aim Is True.
1979: Dorsey Burnette dies.
2001: Singer Betty Everett(‘The Shoop Shoop Song’, 1964) dies.
20 August
1924: Jim Reeves
1947: James Pankow (Chicago)
1948: Robert Plant
1951: Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy)
1952: John Hiatt
1965: Andrew Loog Oldham launches the Immediate label.
1975: Daddy Coot splits for (almost) the last time.
21 August
1904: Count Basie
1938: Kenny Rogers
1939: James Burton
1944: Jackie De Shannon
1952: Joe Strummer (dies December 22, 2002).
1965: Rolling Stones reach No 1 on US charts with Out of Our Heads
1965: 'Do You Believe In Magic?' by Lovin' Spoonful debuts on US singles chart.
1971: Who's Next enters US LP chart.
1976: Rolling Stones headline Knebworth with 10cc.
1977: Final Ariel appearance, at Dallas Brooks Hall, Melbourne
22 August
1917: John Lee Hooker (patron saint of Rhythms Magazine) in Clarkesdale, Mississippi
1938: Dale Hawkins
1963: Tori Amos
1964: 'Dancing In The Streets' by Martha & The Vandellas released.
1965: Beatles' second film Help! premieres in the US.
1969: Elvis Presley opens season at the International Hotel in Las Vegas.
1970: Jimi Hendrix’s final recording session ever in Electric Lady Studios.
1978: Joy Division release first single, 'An Ideal For Living.'
1979: Led Zeppelin release In Through The Out Door.
23 August
1905: Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup
1946: Keith Moon (died 1978)
1949: Rick Springfield
1959: Edwyn Collins (Orange Juice)
1978: Julian Casablancas, The Strokes.
1969: Crosby Stills & Nash enters UK LP chart.
1970: Lou Reed leaves Velvet Underground after gig at Max’s, Kansas City
1980: Jam hit UK chart at No. 3 with 'Start.'
24 August
1905: Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
1942: Fontella Bass
1943: John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
1944: Jim Capaldi (Traffic)
1945: Ken Hensley (Uriah Heap)
1969: Premiere of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant.
1981: Mark Chapman gets 20 years jail for murdering John Lennon.
1983: Jerry Lewis's fifth wife, Shawn, found dead.
25 August
1933: Wayne Shorter
1949: Gene Simmmons (Kiss)
1950: Willy Deville
1954: Elvis Costello (Declan McManus)
1967: Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)
1967: Traffic release 'Hole In My Shoe'.
1970: Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert debut in Plymouth.
1979: Nick Lowe's 'Cruel To Be Kind' enters Uk chart.
2000: Jack Nitzsche dies aged 63.
26 August
1903: Jimmy Rushing
1960: Branford Marsalis, saxophonist
1967; Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful join The Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Bangor, North Wales.
1967: Jimi Hendrix's
'Purple Haze' released in the US.
1970: The Isle of Wight Pop Festival: Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, The who, The Doors, Sly & The Family Stone and more.
1977: Ian Dury’s first solo record Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll released on Stiff
27 August
1953: Willy Deville
1956: Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols)
1965: Bob Dylan releases Highway 61 Revisited
1967: Beatles manager Brian Epstein (32) dies of sleeping pill overdose
1965: Highway 61 Revisited released in the US.
1968: Recordings for Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland completed.
1990: Stevie Ray Vaughan killed in helicopter accident.
28 August
1949: Hugh Cornwall (The Stranglers)
1964: The Beatles meet Bob Dylan for the first time after a show at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York.
1978: Tom Verlaine disbands Television.
29 August
1920: Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker, alto sax
1924: Dinah Washington (Ruth Jones)
1942: Sterling Morrison, Velvet Underground.
1945: Chris Copping (Procol Harum)
1958: Michael Jackson
1969: Me’shell Ndegeocello
1966: The Beatles’ last official concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
1970: Jimi Hendrix’s last performance at the Isle Of Wight Festival
1976: Jimmy Reed dies aged 50
1998: Charlie Feathers dies
2001: Shirley Strachan dies
30 August
1935: John Phillips, Mamas & Papas
1939: John (Robert Parker Ravenscroft) Peel - UK music presenter and legend. Died October 25, 2004.
1995: Stirling Morrison (Velvet Underground) dies, 53
1972: John Lennon and Yoko Ono play their first official American solo concert.
2003: Sam Phillips, founder of Sun Records, dies.
31 August
1939: Jerry Allison (The Crickets)
1945: Van ‘The Man’ Morrison, born George Ivan Morrison, in Belfast
1957: Glen Tilbrook (Squeeze)
1960: Chris Whitley
1969: Dylan returns to the stage at the Isle Of Wight after a motorcycle accident.
1970: Derek & the Dominos record ‘Key to the Highway’ for the Layla album.
1974: Last Traffic gig at Reading Festival.
1976: George Harrison found guilty of ‘subconscious’ plagiarism with ‘My Sweet Lord.’
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