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Lillian Glinn is born in Hillsboro, Texas, USA. She will find success as a pioneering female blues and country blues singer and songwriter.
James Rachell is born near Brownsville, Tennessee, USA. He will achieve success as country blues musician Yank Rachell. (N.B. Some sources give his date of birth as 1910)
Country and blues musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist Cliff Carlisle is born in a log cabin on a tobacco farm in Taylorsville, Kentucky, USA. (N.B. Some sources give Carlisle's date of birth as 1904.)
Boruch Alan Bermowitz is born in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. He will find international acclaim as Alan Vega, co-founder of pioneering electro-punk duo Suicide.
Jimmy Yancey records Cryin' In My Sleep, Death Letter Blues, Yancey's Bugle Call and 35th And Dearborn for Victor Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Frank Sinatra records The Birth Of The Blues, Azure-Te (Paris Blues), Luna Rossa, Tennessee Newsboy and Bim Bam Baby for Columbia Records in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Movie musical The Girl Can't Help It, starring Jayne Mansfield, and with music by Little Richard, Fats Domino, Eddie Cochran, The Platters, Gene Vincent and others, goes on general release in the USA.
Jeffrey Lee Pierce is born in Montebello, California, USA. He will find success as leader of The Gun Club.
An inquest into the death of rock'n'roll idol Eddie Cochran opens at Bristol Assizes, Bristol, England, UK. On learning that vital witnesses are still in hospital, the Coroner adjourns the inquest until 23rd May.
Lee De Forest who, in 1915, invented an electronic instrument called The Audion Piano, the first musical instrument to use a vacuum tube, dies in Hollywood, California, USA. At the time of his death, De Forest has just $1,250 in his bank account.
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Postal worker William Moore, known for staging lone protests against racial segregation, is murdered on a rural stretch of Highway 11 near Attalla, Alabama, USA. He had been planning to deliver a letter of protest to the Mississippi Governor's mansion but instead he was shot twice in the head at close range with a .22 caliber rifle owned by a certain Floyd Simpson, with whom Moore had argued earlier that day. No charges were ever laid against Simpson. Several songs will be inspired by Moore's death, including William Moore, The Mailman by Pete Seeger [1963] and William Moore by Phil Ochs [1964].
Medgar Evers is buried with full military honours in Arlington National Cemetary, Arlington, Virginia, USA. Evers, a committed anti-segregation campaigner, had been shot in the back just days earlier in Jackson, Mississippi, by a white racist gunman. Evers' death will be the spark for the Bob Dylan song Only A Pawn In Their Game.
Red River Dave records Answer To The Death Of A President and The Bay Of Pigs in San Antonio, Texas, USA, for Reveal Records.
After a thorough search by several parties (including Ernest Tubb and Marty Robbins) the body of the singer Jim Reeves is found in the wreckage of his crashed plane near Brentwood, Tennessee, USA. At 1:00 p.m. local time, radio stations across the United States begin to announce Reeves' death formally.
The Beach Boys release their classic album Pet Sounds on Capitol Records in the USA.
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Country music star Moon Mullican dies of a heart attack, aged 57, in Beaumont, Texas, USA.
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A special mass is held in Samois-sur-Seine, Paris, France, Europe, to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the death of gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Following the mass a commemorative plaque is unveiled in Reinhardt's house and a jazz jam session is held.
In the largest anti-war rally in American history, over 500,000 peace protesters take part in the March Against Death in Washington DC., USA. Performers at the rally include Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul And Mary, Arlo Guthrie, John Denver, Mitch Miller, and the touring cast of Hair.
At the 14th Annual Grammy Awards in The Felt Forum, New York City, USA, Carole King wins Record Of The Year for It’s Too Late, Song Of The Year for You’ve Got A Friend, Album of The Year for Tapestry, plus Best Female Vocal Performance. Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers is Best R’n’B Song. James Taylor scoops the Best Pop Vocal Grammy. The Beatles are given a NARAS Trustee Award in recognition of their ‘outstanding talent, originality and music creativity’.
Legendary bluesman Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup plays his final live concert, at Hunter College, New York City, USA.
Pioneering British r'n'b bandleader Graham Bond dies aged 36 under the wheels of a Piccadilly line train at Finsbury Park station, London, England, UK, Europe. Most sources list Bond's death as a suicide.
During a round of golf near Madrid, Spain, Europe, Bing Crosby suffers a heart attack, collapses and dies soon after, aged 74.
Bauhaus release the single Bela Lugosi's Dead, widely considered the track that ushered in the era of Gothic rock.
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Malcolm Owen, singer with UK punk-reggae band The Ruts, dies aged 26 of a heroin overdose while in the bath at his mother's house. Horrified by Owen's death, The Damned will write their song The Limit Club.
Elvis Costello and Squeeze play at a benefit show in the Top Rank, Swansea, Wales, UK, Europe, for the family of Johnny Owen, a UK boxer whose injuries in a recent fight led to his death.
Actor William Holden dies alone at home in Santa Monica, California, USA. While intoxicated, he slips on a rug, severely lacerating his forehead on a bedside table, and bleeds to death. His death will inspire the 2018 song The Day William Holden Died by Dan Stuart, and is also referred to in Suzanne Vega's 1987 song Tom's Diner.
Guitarist Jimmy Nolen, dies, aged 47, of a heart attack in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Nolen had worked with James Brown from 1965 until his death, and was renowned for his distinctive 'chicken scratch' guitar playing style.
Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin (Aretha Franklin's father) dies aged 69, five years after being shot during a robbery attempt at his home in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The incident left him in a coma until his death.
Wells Kelly, best-known to rock music fans as the drummer in pop rock group Orleans, collapses and dies on the front step of a London, England, UK, Europe, apartment, apparently from asphyxiation - caused by swallowing his own vomit. Kelly was on tour with Meatloaf and his death followed a night of partying with friends.
In Reno, Nevada, USA, after listening to the Judas Priest album Stained Class, heavy metal fans Raymond Belknap and Jay Vance attempt suicide with a sawn-off shotgun. Belknap dies instantly. Vance survives but is horribly disfigured.
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Hugh Cornwell plays his last gig with The Stranglers at Alexandra Palace, London, England, UK.
Suicide Blonde by INXS enters the ARIA Singles Chat in Australia at No6. It will peak at No2. The blues harp intro to the song is a sample from a Charlie Musselwhite track.
Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones becomes (arguably) rock's sexiest grandad when his daughter Jade gives birth to her first daughter, Assissi.
Country guitar virtuoso Danny Gatton, nicknamed The Humbler, locks himself in his garage and commits suicide by shooting himself, aged 49, at his home in Newburg, Maryland, USA. No specific reason for his suicide ever emerges, although friends and relatives were of the opinion that he had suffered from depression for many years.
Pop, rock and country singer Nicolette Larson dies aged 45 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Her death came as a result of complications arising from cerebral edema triggered by liver failure. She had been showing symptoms of depression, and her fatal seizure was thought to be related to her chronic use of Valium and Tylenol PM.
Wes Berggren, guitarist and founding member of Tripping Daisy, is found dead of a drug overdose in his apartment in Dallas, Texas, USA. Traces of cocaine, propoxyphene, and benzodiazepine are found in his body. After his death, the group will disband.
British pop star Heinz (Heinz Burt) dies, aged 57, following a stroke, in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, UK, Europe. He had long suffered from motor neurone disease, but performed live from a wheelchair at a social club just two weeks before his death.
Lou Reed appears in the New York City tv studios of Saturday Night Live to confirm that widespread rumours of his death from an overdose of Demerol have been somewhat exaggerated.
Innovative rock guitarist Robert Quine dies aged 61 in New York City, USA. Depressed by the death of his wife, Alice, he deliberately takes an overdose of heroin at his New York City apartment. Quine worked with Richard Hell, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, Tom Waits and many others.
Iron Maiden release a new live DVD, Death On The Road, in the UK.
Peter Lopez, the lawyer who represented music business clients including Michael Jackson, The Eagles, Andrea Bocelli and Michael Buble, is found dead at his home in Encino, California, USA, apparently having committed suicide by shooting himself. Lopez was married to the actress Catherine Bach.
Newly-released legal documents reveal that the estate of Michael Jackson has earned over $300m since the singer's death in June 2009. This amount includes earnings from album sales, movies, licensing arrangements and licencing deals for Cirque du Soleil shows.
Ronnie Montrose, guitarist and bandleader, dies, apparently of prostate cancer, aged 64, in the San Francisco Bay area of California, USA, where he was born. However, a coroner's report will later reveal that he committed suicide using an unregistered .38-caliber revolver.
Lover's Rock reggae artist Trevor Spar ks dies from a stroke in Chicago, Illinois, USA. For some years before his death he had been confined to a wheelchair following injuries sustained in a car accident.
When The Eagles Of Death Metal play at The Grog Shop, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA, they perform their version of Duran Duran's Save A Prayer live for the first time.
John 'Brad' Bradbury, drummer with The Specials, dies aged 62 in England, UK. No cause of death is announced.
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Motorhead's classic 1980 track Ace Of Spades finally makes its appearance in the Billboard charts in the USA - presumably spurred by the recent death of the band's frontman Lemmy Kilmister. It enters the magazine's Hot Rock Songs chart at No12, thr Rock Streaming Songs chart at No24, and the Hard Rock Digital Songs Chart at No8. It even reaches No3 on the LyricFind Chart which measures the number of lyric searches worldwide.
Jesse Hughes of The Eagles Of Death Metal attends day 3 of the 2016 NAMM Show at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, USA.
73-year-old Rolling Stones' singer Mick Jagger becomes a father for the eighth time when 29-year-old Melani e Hamrick, give birth to a baby boy. Jagger is at the hospital for the birth in New York City, USA.
Walter Morrison, aka Junie, dies aged 62 in London, England, UK, Europe. No cause of death is reported. Junie first found success as keyboard player, vocalist, producer and songwriter for the Ohio Players during the early '70s, but later went on to work with Parliament-Funkadelic.
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