On This Day in Music 1959, 22 year old Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, aged 17, died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa, the pilot of the single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza plane was also killed. Holly hired the plane after heating problems developed on his tour bus. All three were travelling to Fargo, North Dakota, for the next show on their Winter Dance Party Tour which Holly had set - covering 24 cities in three weeks, to make money after the break-up of his band, The Crickets, last year. 1968, The Beatles started work on their new single Lady Madonna at Abbey Road studios in London. Recording three piano and drum takes with overdub bass, fuzz guitars, drums, and vocals. 1973, Elton John started a three-week run at No.1 on the singles chart with Crocodile Rock. Eltons first of five No.1 singles. 1979, The Blues Brothers went to No.1 on the US album chart with Briefcase Full Of Blues. 1996, Queen Latifah was stopped by police for speeding who found a concealed weapon and marijuana, the singer was given two years probation. 2004, Sean P. Diddy Combs settled a $3 million court case filed by his former driver after an incident in 1999. Wardell Fenderson had driven Mr Combs and his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez away from a New York nightclub where three people had been wounded in a shooting. Mr Fenderson said he was traumatized by having guns in the car and being ordered to ignore police orders to stop, for which he was arrested. 2006, Former Dynasty star Heather Locklear filed for divorce from Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora after 11 years of marriage. Locklear who was previously married to Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee and Sambora were married in 1994 and have an eight-year-old daughter Ava. 2007, Daughtry were at No.1 on the US album chart with their self-titled debut. Lead singer Chris Daughtry was the fourth-place finalist on the fifth season of American Idol. The album sold over a 1m copies after just five weeks of release, becoming the fastest selling debut rock album of all time. 2010, AC/DC singer Brian Johnson, joined a growing group of critics of Bob Geldof and U2 singer Bono over their very public charity work, saying they should stop lecturing audiences about charity work and instead do their good deeds in private. Johnson said When I was a working man I didnt want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa. Im sorry mate, do it yourself, spend some of your own money and get it done. It just makes me angry.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 13:53:34 +0000
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