1967 - A young guitarist named Boz Scaggs joins The Steve Miller Band, the blues band led by his childhood friend, Steve Miller. He would go on to be a a Grammy-winning, chart-topping blues, jazz, and R&B singer/songwriter. his breakthrough album Silk Degrees, included the hits "Lido Shuffle" and "Lowdown".
1967 - The Beatles meet up at Paul McCartney's house in London to decide what to do following the death of their manager, Brian Epstein. They decide to be their own managers, and McCartney takes the lead on most business decisions. With hefty responsibilities outside of music, things get tense and the group breaks up two years later.
1979 - U2 released their first record in their native Ireland. It was an EP titled U2-3.
In 1979, when U2 were a long way from conquering the world, the Ireland division of CBS Records released 1,000 copies of U2 Three on vinyl as a hand-numbered, limited-edition 12". Subsequent pressings are known through 1982, including a collectible set called 4 U2 Play. This single contains earlier recordings of the songs "Out of Control" and "Stories for Boys," which appear on Boy, and the non-LP track "Boy/Girl."
1983 - Guitarist Mick Jones was dismissed from the Clash by Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon for "drifting apart from the original concept of the band." The Clash soon broke up afterwards, and Jones went on to form Big Audio Dynamite.
1983 - Tom Waits releases Swordfish Trombones. While there were hints of this move on previous albums, Waits drastically alters his sound. Gone were the strings and less piano, in exchange for low-pitched horns, bass instruments, and percussion, set in spare, close-mic-ed arrangements. The music is primitive, moving to odd time signatures, while Waits alternately howls and wheezes in his gravelly bass voice. Swordfishtrombones marked an evolution of Waits and in career terms, it reinvented him. (Photo by Scott Gries/Getty Images)
1984 - After a 25-year career, Tina Turner had her first solo No.1 single in the US with 'What's Love Got To Do With It'. This song was originally written for Cliff Richard, however the song was rejected. It was then offered to Donna Summer, who has stated she sat with it for a couple of years but never recorded it.
2011 - Green Day's Billy Joe Armstrong was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight for wearing his pants too low. A flight attendant approached Armstrong and told him, "Pull your pants up or you get off the plane." Later, Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins released a statement saying that the airline and Armstrong had settled their differences over the incident.
Birthdays:
Conway Twitty was born today in 1933. Originally a '50s rock & roll singer, Conway Twitty became the reigning country superstar of the '70s and '80s, racking up a record 40 number one hits over the course of two decades. With his deep, resonant down-home voice, Twitty was one of the smoothest balladeers to work in Nashville during the country-pop era.
Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees is 77. Recognized for his otherworldly falsetto vocals, Barry Gibb is a pop icon best known as one-third of the trio of brothers who made up the chart-topping group the Bee Gees. Influenced by the Beatles, Gibb and his brothers initially rose to fame in the '60s crafting their own brand of lyrical, harmony-driven psychedelic pop. However, it was their breakthrough 1977 soundtrack to the disco-themed Saturday Night Fever that brought them superstar status. A cultural phenomenon (and one of the best-selling albums of all time), the record proved transformative for the Bee Gees.
On This Day In Music History was sourced from This Day in Music, Song Facts, Allmusic, and Wikipedia.
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