1963 - Charlie Watts left the group Blues Incorporated and his job working as a graphic designer. to join an up and coming band called The Rolling Stones.
2007 - John Mayer joins Steve Jobs onstage at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco to introduce Apple's latest invention: the iPhone. Steve Jobs makes good on his promise that "Apple is going to reinvent the phone."
The new touchscreen device will allow users to literally have all their media at their fingertips, functioning as a three-in-one iPod, Internet browser, and mobile camera.
John Mayer, a hardcore Apple devotee who has been present at the expos for the past seven years – ever since he cold-called Jobs to offer his services as a company man - takes the stage to perform a few tunes to closeout the keynote address. He also nabs one of the first iPhones when an Apple sales associate hand-delivers a prerelease while he's on tour.
2014 - The 10 Greatest Double Albums of All Time
Rolling Stone magazine published their Readers Poll: The 10 Greatest Double Albums of All Time. The top 5 were: Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti, Bruce Springsteen, The River, The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street, Pink Floyd, The Wall, and winning the poll was The Beatles, with their ninth studio album and only double album released in November 1968 The White Album.
Birthdays:
Joan Baez is 83. With the exception of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez was the most important artist to rise from the folk music movement that first blossomed in the late 1950s and early '60s. Baez was also the finest and most influential interpretive singer in contemporary folk; blessed with a soprano voice of uncommon clarity, her performances were emotionally compelling without resorting to histrionics.
James Patrick “Jimmy” Page is 80. Unquestionably one of the all-time most influential, important, and versatile guitarists and songwriters in rock history is Jimmy Page. Just about every rock guitarist from the late '60s/early '70s to the present day has been influenced by Page's work with Led Zeppelin -- his monolithic riffs served as a blueprint for what would eventually become heavy metal, yet he refused to be pigeonholed to any single musical style (touching upon folk, country, funk, blues, and other genres). Page also lent a hand in writing (or co-writing) Zeppelin's vast array of classic songs and produced all their albums.
Interesting note: He originally harbored dreams of becoming a biologist. When he made an appearance on the TV talent show All Your Own in 1958 he was asked about his ambition in life and replied that he was looking toward “biological research.” (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame )
David Johansen / Buster Poindexter of the New York Dolls is 74. Best known for his tenure fronting the hugely influential New York Dolls, David Johansen was a true chameleon; throughout the course of a career which saw him transform from a lipstick-smeared proto-punk hero into an urbane blue-eyed soul man and finally into a tuxedo-clad lounge lizard (Buster Poindexter), he remained a rock & roll original, an unpredictable iconoclast and a true cultural innovator.
Dave Matthews is 57. Dave Matthews Band emerged from the jam band underground of the 1990s to become an enduring American musical institution. Steeped in the progressive, multi-cultural sounds of the '80s -- the group spliced bar band college rock with the jazz and worldbeat explorations of Paul Simon and Sting -- Dave Matthews Band built a following through word-of-mouth cultivated by traded cassettes of live performances, a trick learned from the Grateful Dead.
Dave and the band's first officially released concert album was recorded at Red Rocks, Live at Red Rocks 8.15.95. Another Colorado connection, Dave covered John Denver's Take Me To Tomorrow on KBCO Studio C Vol. 32
He has also appeared in movies: You Don't Mess With The Zohan, Because Of Winn-Dixie, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, and voiced characters on The Simpsons and Pete The Cat.
On This Day In Music History was sourced from This Day in Music, Allmusic, Song Facts, IMDB, Rhino, and Wikipedia.