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Featured Events
2017During Jason Aldean's headlining set at the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Las Vegas strip, a gunman opens fire from his suite at the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 58 and injuring over 500 in the deadliest mass shooting in US history.More
2011After 28 years and two children together, Gene Simmons (62) and Shannon Tweed (54) finally get married. Their wedding song is "At Last," sung by their daughter Sophie.More
2000Australian rock band Midnight Oil play their hit "Beds Are Burning" at the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Sydney. Their black outfits are emblazoned with the word "sorry," a symbolic olive branch towards the Aboriginals who were forced from their lands by a government that refuses to apologize.More
1970Janis Joplin makes her last recordings, singing "Mercedes Benz," which is included on her posthumous Pearl album a capella. She also records a goofy version of "Happy Trails" as a birthday present for John Lennon. Joplin dies three days later.
1965At a concert at Carnegie Hall, Bob Dylan introduces his new band. Formerly Ronnie Hawkins' backup band, they were known as the Hawks, but soon became The Band.
1962The Beach Boys release their first album, Surfin' Safari, which includes their debut single, "Surfin'." The album climbs to #32 in the US.More
1962Johnny Carson's Tonight Show makes its debut. The theme song ("Johnny's Theme") is written by Paul Anka, but as part of the deal, Carson writes some lyrics for the song that are published, but never used, earning him half of the royalties from the song, which are substantial, as the song runs throughout Carson's 30-year tenure on the show.
1947Bing Crosby broadcasts the first ever pre-recorded radio show when he airs his Philco Radio Time show on the ABC network using a magnetophon, a Nazi recording technology discovered and brought to America by US Army Corps Officer John Thomas "Jack" Mullin. The magnetophon leads to the evolution of multi-track recording technology, which revolutionizes the music industry. Crosby becomes an investor in the technology, which he uses so he doesn't have to always do his shows live.
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In Music History
2018Peggy Sue Gerron, subject of the Buddy Holly hit "Peggy Sue," dies at 78.
2018The French singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour dies at 94. His compositions include "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "If You Go Away."
2012Chris Thile, the mandolin player known for his work with Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers, wins a Genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. The foundation typically accepts nominees through anonymous selection, and when Thile receives the congratulatory phone call, he thinks its a political robo-call until his agent looks up the number.
2011Meat Loaf performs at the AFL Grand Final in Melbourne between Collingwood and Geelong. Suffering from a hemorrhaging vocal cord, he struggles through the 12-minute set and is blasted in the press. The singer responds by calling AFL organizers "the cheapest people I've ever seen in my life."More
2010Justin Timberlake portrays Napster co-founder Sean Parker in the Oscar-nominated film The Social Network, which depicts the founding of Facebook.
2007Outside the Soho Revue Bar in London, Laura Marling and her band perform a set in front of shocked and ecstatic fans. The club won't allow the 17-year-old Marling inside to perform because it violates their strict 18 & over policy, so she takes it to the streets. She later returns to the club in February 2008 for an encore of sorts, performing indoors and onstage to celebrate the release of her debut, Alas, I Cannot Swim, and her 18th birthday.
2007A judge awards Kevin Federline custody of his two children with Britney Spears, reasoning that she can't be trusted due to her "habitual, frequent and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol." Spears starts getting her life together a few months later after her family commits her to a psychiatric institution.
2004Bruce Palmer (bassist for Buffalo Springfield) dies of a heart attack in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, at age 58.
2002Good Charlotte release their second album, The Young and the Hopeless.
2002Ms. Dynamite is the big winner at the UK Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards, where she is named Best Newcomer and UK Act of the Year, and her song "It Takes More" wins Best Single. She fades fast, releasing only one more album in the '00s.
2002The White Stripes play a free show in New York's Union Square Park, treating a large lunchtime crowd to a set full of covers and nuggets from the group's three albums.
2002Barry White's label reveals that the singer has been hospitalized with kidney failure. Unable to get a transplant, he dies nine months later.
1998John Fogerty gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
1996Fountains of Wayne release their self-titled debut album, which took just five days to record.
1996A collection of live Nirvana performances is released on the album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah.
Julie Andrews Is Born
1935Julie Andrews is born Julia Elizabeth Wells in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England.
After taking Broadway by storm in the 1950's with starring roles in My Fair Lady and Camelot, Andrews is introduced to film audiences as the whimsical nanny in Mary Poppins in 1964, enchanting children and adults alike with her trilling soprano and sweet demeanor. The title role earns her an Academy Award for Best Actress and paves the way for another iconic part as Maria von Trapp in the following year's musical smash The Sound of Music. She continues her reign of the big screen with star turns in The Americanization of Emily (1964), Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), and Victor/Victoria (1982). The latter film, a gender-bending musical comedy that casts Andrews as a struggling female singer who masquerades as a male female impersonator to get by, receives rave reviews and inspires a Broadway version in 1994. The strain of the role sends Andrews into a botched throat surgery which nearly destroys her voice. She continues to work, but doesn't sing again until dueting with Raven-Symoné on "Your Crowning Glory" for The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement in 2004. In 2000, she's made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her decades of service to the performing arts.
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