Rock Source Music Facts Day by Day


May 21 1931	Tasio Golios is born in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. He will find success as country music guitarist Sleepy Willis, working with Capitol Records artist Dick Curless. (1931)
May 21 1934	Elbert McKinley Forriest is born in Pendleton, North Carolina, USA. He will find success as Albert 'Sonny' Forriest, guitarist of The Coasters, between 1959 and 1961. (1934)
May 21 1937	Steel guitar player Alvino Rey, credited as the first man to amplify a guitar by means of electricity, marries Louise King in the USA. (1937)
May 21 1943	Hilton Valentine, guitarist for The Animals, is born in North Shields, Tyne And Wear, UK. (1943)
May 21 1950	Songwriter, guitarist, film score composer and producer Pablo Manavello is born in Treviso, Italy, Europe. (1950)
May 21 1950	Country-blues-oriented singer, songwriter, guitarist and recording artist Paul Wookey is born in Healesville, near Melbourne, Australia. (1950)
May 21 1953	The Oscar Peterson Trio records I'm Glad There Is You, I Hear Music, Polka Dots And Moonbeams, One For My Baby, Autumn In New York, I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Spring Is Here and The Things We Did Last Summer for Verve Records in New York City, USA. Guitarist on the session is Barney Kessel. (1953)
May 21 1955	Chuck Berry records Wee Wee Hours for Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois, USA. This is the first track to be recorded for Berry's debut album, After School Session. (1955)
May 21 1961	Jimmy Rogers plays the tenth night of two weeks in the Camellia house Lounge at The Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. (1961)
May 21 1964	The Isley Brothers record Testify Parts 1 And 2 in New York City, USA, with guitarist James Hendrix, who will find much greater fame as Jimi Hendrix. (1964)
May 21 1969	Jimi Hendrix's guitar is stolen from his Corvette while he is in a clothes store on East 9th Street, New York City, USA. (1969)
May 21 1980	Joe Strummer of The Clash is arrested in Hamburg, Germany, when he hits an audience member with his guitar. (1980)
May 21 1982	Motorhead, with Brian Robertson aka Robbo, on guitar, play at Harpo's Inn, Detroit, Michigan, USA. (1982)