May 17

 

Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) is 59 today...

 

Chris Cornell passed away on this night in 2017 after a show in Detroit MI, an apparent suicide...

 

On this day in 1963, the first Monterey Folk Festival began in Monterey, California....

 

Today in 1996, Johnny Guitar Watson died of a heart attack while on tour in Yokohama, Japan...

 

On this day in 2012, Donna Summer, known as the Queen of Disco, died of lung cancer...

 

Born on this day in 1942, Henry Saint Clair Fredericks  a.k.a Taj Mahal...

 

Bill Bruford (King Crimson) was born on this date in 1948...

 

Musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario Lawrence Welk died on this day in 1992