12 SEPTEMBER
In Music History
1975 Pink Floyd release the album Wish You Were Here.
1974 Country singer Jennifer Nettles (of Sugarland) is born in Douglas, Georgia.
1970 The Woody Guthrie tribute concert takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Performers include Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Richie Havens and Joan Baez.
1969 The Rolling Stones release Through The Past, Darkly.
1966 The Roger Miller Show, starring the country singer, debuts on NBC with guests Bill Cosby and Wes Harrison. The show lasts just one season.
1966 Singer/pianist Ben Folds is born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
1960 Nina Simone's "Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out" peaks at #93, where it will stay for one week.
1957 Larry Williams records "Bony Maronie."
1956 Barry Andrews (keyboardist for XTC) is born in West Norwood, London, England.
1952 Folk rocker Gerry Beckley (of America) is born in Fort Worth, Texas.
1952 Neil Peart is born near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In 1974, he joins Rush, becoming both their drummer and lyricist.
1948 Giving up her job at the Tupelo Garment Company in Mississippi, Gladys Presley and her husband Vernon move to Memphis with their son, Elvis.
1946 Blue Cheer singer/bassist Dickie Peterson is born in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
1944 R&B singer Barry White is born Barry Eugene Carter in Galveston, Texas. He is raised in South Central Los Angeles.More
1943 Frank Sinatra starts his film career when he signs a 7-year contract with RKO Pictures.
The Monkees TV Show Debuts
1966The Monkees TV show makes its debut, with four actors chosen to portray a pop band based on The Beatles. While The Monkees are a fictional band, they become very real and eventually play on their own recordings instead of studio musicians.
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2007 Led Zeppelin announce a reunion concert, with 18,000 tickets priced at $255 each doled out in an online lottery. At least a million registrations come in for the show, which is scheduled for November 26 but postponed to December 10 when Jimmy Page breaks his finger.
2006 Britney Spears gives birth to her second child, Jayden James Federline, born just 363 days after her first son, Sean. In ensuing years, the kids enjoy many lavish joint birthday parties.
2006 Justin Timberlake releases his second solo album, FutureSex: LoveSounds. Impelled by the lead single "SexyBack," it goes to #1 in the US and sells over 9 million copies.
2003 Johnny Cash dies of complications from diabetes in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 71. One of the biggest stars of the '60s and '70s, he made some of his most memorable music near the end of his life with a set of back-to-basics albums produced by Rick Rubin, including American IV: The Man Comes Around, which wins the CMA for Album Of The Year posthumously.
1998 Lauryn Hill's solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill debuts at #1 in the US. It sells over 10 million copies and wins pretty much every award it's eligible for, including the Grammy for Album Of The Year, but it's the only solo album Hill ever puts out.
1957 Hans Zimmer is born in Frankfurt, Germany. Known for his innovative style of combining electronic and traditional instrumentation, he becomes one of the most sought-after film composers in Hollywood. He lands his breakthrough gig with the 1988 movie Rain Man, starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, and writes the music on a Fairlight digital synthesizer. He goes on to score hit movies like Gladiator (2000), The Dark Knight (2008), The Lion King (1994), and Dune (2021), with the latter two earning him his first Academy Award wins for Best Original Score.More
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