BIRTHDAYS
1931: Kenny Burrell
1943: Roland LaVoie a.k.a. Lobo
1951: Carlo Karges a.k.a. Nena
1957: Daniel Ash (Bauhaus)
1958: Bill Berry (R.E.M.)
1963: Quentin / Norman Cook a.k.a. Fatboy Slim
1964: Jim Corr (The Corrs)
1978: Will Champion (Coldplay)
EVENTS
1967: Keith Richards & Mick Jagger were released from jail, a month after being arrested on drugs charges.
1968: Working at Trident studios in London, England, (with its 8-track equipment, as EMI was still using 4-track desks), The Beatles recorded four takes of a new Paul McCartney song, “Hey Jude”.
1976: George Benson started a 2-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with ‘Breezin’.
2021: Death of drummer, Charles Connor [aged 86]. His best known work was with Little Richard, James Brown, Sam Cooke & Jackie Wilson. Little Richard’s shout of “a-wop bop-a loo-mop, a-lop bam-boom” at the beginning of “Tutti Frutti” is said to be a reference to Connor’s drum rhythms. On 1957’s “Keep A-Knockin'”, Connor played a sixteen – bar drum intro (known as the “flattened out double shuffle” that John Bonham later imitated in the opening of Led Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll”.
