ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC

• Willie DIxon (1915)
• Ronnie Lane (Small Faces) (1946)
• Scott Joplin dies (1917)
• David Bowie's first single "Anything You Say" is released (1966)
• Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced" is released (1966)

• Marvin Gaye (1939)
• Leon Russell (1941)
• Larry Coryell (1943)

• Jan Berry (Jan and Dean) (1941)
• Richard Manuel (The Band) (1943)
• Tony Orlando (1944)
• Dee Murray (Elton John Band) (1946)
• Richard Thompson (1949)

• Muddy Waters (1915)
• Berry Oakley (Allman Brothers) (1948)
• Pick Withers (Dire Straits) (1948)
• Kurt Weill (composer) dies (1950)

• Julian Lennon (1963)
• Bob "Bear" Hite (Canned Heat) dies of a heart attack (1981)

• Merle Haggard (1937)
• Michelle Phillips (Mamas and Papas) (1944)
• Bob Marley (1946)

• Billie Holiday (1915)
• Ravi Shankar (1920)
• Spencer Dryden (Jefferson Airplane, New Riders) (1938)
• Freddie Hubbard (1938)
• Mick Abrams (Jethro Tull) (1943)
• John Oates (Hall and Oates) (1949)
• Janis Ian (1951)

• Steve Howe (Yes, Asia) (1947)
• The Grateful Dead release their first LP (1967)
• Neil Young's "Journey Through The Past" film premieres in Dallas (1973)
• Singer-songwriter Laura Nyro dies of cancer (1997)

• W.C. Fields (1879)
• Carl Perkins (1932)
• Phil Oaks, folksinger, hangs himself (1976)
• The Beatles release "Ticket To Ride" (1965)

• Bobby Hatfield (Righteous Brothers) (1940)
• Bunny Wailer (1947)
• Terre Roche (The Roches) (1953)
• Stu Stutcliffe (nearly a Beatle) dies (1962)
• Nat King Cole is beaten on stage by a white anti-r&b crowd (1956)

• Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli get married (1981)

• Herbie Hancock (1940)
• David Cassidy (1950)
• David Letterman (1947)
• Tiny Tim (1930)
• Pat Travers (1954)
• John Kay (Steppenwolf) (1944)
• Bill Haley And The Comets record "Rock Around The Clock" (1954)
• Jan Berry (of Jan and Dean) hits dead man's curve in his 'Vette (1966)

APRIL 13

• Al Green (1946)
• Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) (1944)
• Max Weinberg (E Street Band) (1951)
• Jim Pons (Mothers Of Invention) (1946)
• Jimmy Destri (Blondie) (1954)
• Roger Daltry releases his first solo album (1973)

APRIL 14

• Ritchie Blackmore (Rainbow) (1945)
• Loretta Lynn (1940)

APRIL 15

• Dave Edmunds (1944)
• Bessie Smith (1898)
• Elvis Costello's "This Years Model" is released (1978)
• Billy Joel crashes motorcycle (1982)

• Herbie Mann (1930)
• Dusty Springfield (1939)
• "Brown Sugar" is the first single on the Rolling Stones own label (1970)

• Roy Estrada (Mothers Of Invention) (1943)
• Jan Hammer (1948)
• Don Kirshner (1934)
• Eddie Cochran died in a car crash (1960)
• Vinnie Taylor (canned Heat) died from a drug overdose (1974)
• Johnny Cash played at the White House for Richard Nixon

• Mike Vickers (Mannfred Mann) (1941)

• Mark Volman (Turtles, Flo And Eddie) (1947)
• Alan Price (Animals) (1942)
• Chuch Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" hits the charts

• Craig Frost (Grand Funk Railroad) (1948)

• Robert Smith (The Cure) (1959)
• Iggy Pop (1947)

• Peter Frampton (1950)
• Charles Mingus (1922)
• Jack Nicholson (1937)
• The Rolling Stones play two benefit concerts in Toronto to pay for Keith Richard's heroin bust (1979)

• Roy Orbison (1936)
• Peter Ham (Badfinger) died (1975)

• Barbra Steisand (1942)
• Stu Cook (Creedence) (1945)
• Doug Clifford (Creedence) (1945)
• Glen Cornick (Jethro Tull) (1947)

• Albert King (1924)
• Ella Fitzgerald (1918)
• Pam Morrison (Jim's wife) died of a drug overdose (1974)
• Elvis had a number one hit with "Heartbreak Hotel" (1956)

• Pete Ham (Badfinger) (1947)

• Ace Frehley (Kiss) (1951)
• Sheena Easton (1959)
• Phil King (Blue Oyster Cult) died, shot in head while gambling (1972)
• Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach married in London (1981)

• Steve Khan (jazz guitarist) (1947)
• "Hair" opens in New York City (1968)

• Duke Ellington (1899)
• Marvin Gaye shot to death by father (1984)
• The Rolling Stones sign Andrew Loog Oldham for their manager (1963)

• Willie Nelson (1933)
• Lester Bangs, rock critic, died (1982)
• Twiggs Lyndon, Allman Brothers road manager, is arrested for killing a club owner over a breach of contract (1970)

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