Music Almanac: December 29

Birthdays

• 1935 - Virgil Johnson (Velvets) (77)
• 1939 - Ed Bruce (73)
• 1941 - Ray Thomas (Moody Blues) (71)
• 1942 - Jerry Summers (Dovells) (70)
• 1942 - Rick Danko (Band) (d. 1999)
• 1946 - Marianne Faithfull (66)
• 1947 - Cozy Powell (Rainbow, Whitesnake, Emerson Lake & Palmer) (d. 1998)
• 1948 - Charlie Spinosa (John Fred & the Playboy Band) (64)
• 1951 - Yvonne Elliman (61)
• 1951 - Laurel Massé (Manhattan Transfer) (61)
• 1954 - Roger Voudouris (d. 2003)
• 1955 - Neil Giraldo (57)
• 1961 - Jim Reid (Jesus and Mary Chain) (51)
• 1961 - Mark Day (Happy Mondays) (51)
• 1963 - Alex Gifford (Propellerheads) (49)
• 1965 - Dexter Holland (Offspring) (47)
• 1966 - Chris Barnes (Cannibal Corpse) (46)
• 1967 - Evan Seinfeld (Biohazard) (45)
• 1970 - Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) (42)
• 1970 - Aled Jones (42)
• 1973 - Pimp C (born Chad Butler) (Underground Kingz (UGK)) (d. 2007)
• 1983 - Jessica Andrews (29)

Deaths

• 1967 - Paul Whiteman (77)
• 1980 - Tim Hardin - Heroin overdose (39)
• 1994 - Eugene Tanner, Jr. (5 Royales) (58)

On This Day

• 1956 - Elvis Presley set a record at the time by having ten songs in the Top 100.
• 1963 - WMCA in New York is the first American station to play I Want to Hold Your Hand.
• 1963 - The Weavers played a farewell concert at Chicago's Orchestra Hall.
• 1967 - Dave Mason quit the group Traffic.
• 1982 - Jamaica issued commemorative stamps for Bob Marley.
• 1994 - Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes plead guilty for setting fire to her boyfriend's $1 million Atlanta mansion which was destroyed.
• 2000 - John Michael Montgomery falls while hunting and suffers a compound fracture of his right leg.
• 2000 - Bryan Ferry was on a jet that was overtaken by a man who wanted to fly the plane into the ground. He was overtaken by the crew.
• 2000 - Janet Jackson's former husband, Rene Elizondo, Jr., sues her for more than $10 million saying they had an agreement to split her assets.
• 2001 - Aretha Franklin filed a suit against the U.S. newspaper The Star for claiming she was having trouble with alcohol.

Marriages

• 1957 - Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme

Divorces

• 1975 - Grace Slick and Paul Kantner (both Jefferson Airplane)
• 2006 - Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese (filed by Von Teese)

Recorded

• 1966 - Penny Lane - Beatles

Broadcasts

• 1966 - Top of the Pops (U.K. BBC) - Jimi Hendrix Experience