TODAY IN HISTORY – August 24th
1944 - Born this day, Jim Capaldi, musician, drummer, singer, Traffic, 1967 UK No.2 single Hole In My Shoe, and solo, 1975 UK No.4 single Love Hurts.
1956 - Elvis Presley recorded Love Me Tender.
1959 - In the US, a headline in Billboard magazine read, "Rock and Roll Ain't Ready For The Ol' Rockin' Chair Yet." The story stated that Rock 'n' Roll was losing popularity a year ago, but the record buyers now like Elvis Presley, Lloyd Price and Fats Domino along with newcomers, The Everly Brothers, The Drifters and Ricky Nelson.
1963 - Stevie Wonder became the first artist ever to score a US No.1 album and single in the same week. Wonder was at No.1 on the album chart with Little Stevie Wonder / The 12 Year Old Genius and No.1 single Fingertips part 2. This was also the first ever live recording to make No.1.
1964 - Beatles manager Brian Epstein met Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker for the first time, at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
1967 - 17-year old singer and guitarist Bruce Springsteen joined a group called Earth
1975 - Queen started recording 'Bohemian Rhapsody' at Rockfield studio's in Monmouth, Wales, (the song was recorded over three weeks). Freddie Mercury had mentally prepared the song beforehand and directed the band throughout the sessions. May, Mercury, and Taylor sang their vocal parts continually for ten to twelve hours a day, resulting in 180 separate overdubs.
1977 - Singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings was arrested, and charged with possession of cocaine. Jennings had recently been named an honorary police chief.
1981 - Mark David Chapman was sentenced from 20 years to life imprisonment for his self-admitted murder of former Beatle John Lennon.
1983 - The fifth wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, Shawn Michelle Stevens was found dead at their Mississippi home of a methadone overdose. They had been married less than three months. Jerry Lee would marry again in 1984 to 22 year-old Kerrie McCarver, but divorce in 2004.
1985 - Huey Lewis and The News reached the top of the charts. The Power of Love was No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. The song featured in the movie Back To The Future.
1990 - A judge in Reno, Nevada, ruled that the British heavy metal rock band Judas Priest was not responsible for the deaths of two youths who shot themselves after listening to the band's music.
1991 - Lenny Kravitz was at No.2 in the US singles chart with It Ain't Over Till It's Over. It was held off the No.1 position by Bryan Adams' Everything I Do.
1995 - Amid great media hoopla, Microsoft Corporation launched its Windows 95 software system, using the Rolling Stones' Start Me Up as its theme song.
1996 - Liam Gallagher failed to turn up for the recording of the Oasis MTV unplugged session at London's Royal Festival Hall in front of 400 fans. He later sat in the audience and watched the show with his brother Noel taking over on vocals.
1996 - 'Missing' by UK duo Everything But The Girl broke the all-time US chart stay record previously held by The Four Seasons' 'December, 1963 (Oh What A Night)', when it appeared on the Billboard chart for the 55th week.
2005 - Justin Timberlake accepted libel damages for a fabricated story that he had an affair behind girlfriend Cameron Diaz's back. A News of the World article in July 2004 alleged Mr Timberlake had sexual relations with model Lucy Clarkson. The singer's solicitor Simon Smith told London's High Court Ms Clarkson had admitted lying to the newspaper. Under the headline "Exclusive: Bad News for Cameron as model reveals lover's secret fling", Ms Clarkson went into detail about several dates they had before spending the night together in a hotel. Timberlake donated the "substantial" damages paid by the newspaper and Ms Clarkson to charity.
2009 - The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide caused by a mix of drugs meant to treat insomnia. On February 8, 2010, Dr. Conrad Murray was charged with involuntary manslaughter by prosecutors in Los Angeles. Dr. Murray pleaded not guilty and was released after posting $75,000 bail, but would be found guilty in November, 2011 and was sentenced to four years in a Los Angeles County jail.
2010 - George Michael pleaded guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in London to driving under the influence of drugs. The singer had been arrested in July when he was returning home from the London Gay Pride parade and crashed his car into the front of a Snappy Snaps store in Hampstead, North London.
1944 - Born this day, Jim Capaldi, musician, drummer, singer, Traffic, 1967 UK No.2 single Hole In My Shoe, and solo, 1975 UK No.4 single Love Hurts.
1956 - Elvis Presley recorded Love Me Tender.
1959 - In the US, a headline in Billboard magazine read, "Rock and Roll Ain't Ready For The Ol' Rockin' Chair Yet." The story stated that Rock 'n' Roll was losing popularity a year ago, but the record buyers now like Elvis Presley, Lloyd Price and Fats Domino along with newcomers, The Everly Brothers, The Drifters and Ricky Nelson.
1963 - Stevie Wonder became the first artist ever to score a US No.1 album and single in the same week. Wonder was at No.1 on the album chart with Little Stevie Wonder / The 12 Year Old Genius and No.1 single Fingertips part 2. This was also the first ever live recording to make No.1.
1964 - Beatles manager Brian Epstein met Elvis Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker for the first time, at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
1967 - 17-year old singer and guitarist Bruce Springsteen joined a group called Earth
1975 - Queen started recording 'Bohemian Rhapsody' at Rockfield studio's in Monmouth, Wales, (the song was recorded over three weeks). Freddie Mercury had mentally prepared the song beforehand and directed the band throughout the sessions. May, Mercury, and Taylor sang their vocal parts continually for ten to twelve hours a day, resulting in 180 separate overdubs.
1977 - Singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings was arrested, and charged with possession of cocaine. Jennings had recently been named an honorary police chief.
1981 - Mark David Chapman was sentenced from 20 years to life imprisonment for his self-admitted murder of former Beatle John Lennon.
1983 - The fifth wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, Shawn Michelle Stevens was found dead at their Mississippi home of a methadone overdose. They had been married less than three months. Jerry Lee would marry again in 1984 to 22 year-old Kerrie McCarver, but divorce in 2004.
1985 - Huey Lewis and The News reached the top of the charts. The Power of Love was No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. The song featured in the movie Back To The Future.
1990 - A judge in Reno, Nevada, ruled that the British heavy metal rock band Judas Priest was not responsible for the deaths of two youths who shot themselves after listening to the band's music.
1991 - Lenny Kravitz was at No.2 in the US singles chart with It Ain't Over Till It's Over. It was held off the No.1 position by Bryan Adams' Everything I Do.
1995 - Amid great media hoopla, Microsoft Corporation launched its Windows 95 software system, using the Rolling Stones' Start Me Up as its theme song.
1996 - Liam Gallagher failed to turn up for the recording of the Oasis MTV unplugged session at London's Royal Festival Hall in front of 400 fans. He later sat in the audience and watched the show with his brother Noel taking over on vocals.
1996 - 'Missing' by UK duo Everything But The Girl broke the all-time US chart stay record previously held by The Four Seasons' 'December, 1963 (Oh What A Night)', when it appeared on the Billboard chart for the 55th week.
2005 - Justin Timberlake accepted libel damages for a fabricated story that he had an affair behind girlfriend Cameron Diaz's back. A News of the World article in July 2004 alleged Mr Timberlake had sexual relations with model Lucy Clarkson. The singer's solicitor Simon Smith told London's High Court Ms Clarkson had admitted lying to the newspaper. Under the headline "Exclusive: Bad News for Cameron as model reveals lover's secret fling", Ms Clarkson went into detail about several dates they had before spending the night together in a hotel. Timberlake donated the "substantial" damages paid by the newspaper and Ms Clarkson to charity.
2009 - The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide caused by a mix of drugs meant to treat insomnia. On February 8, 2010, Dr. Conrad Murray was charged with involuntary manslaughter by prosecutors in Los Angeles. Dr. Murray pleaded not guilty and was released after posting $75,000 bail, but would be found guilty in November, 2011 and was sentenced to four years in a Los Angeles County jail.
2010 - George Michael pleaded guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in London to driving under the influence of drugs. The singer had been arrested in July when he was returning home from the London Gay Pride parade and crashed his car into the front of a Snappy Snaps store in Hampstead, North London.