August 2
1962, Robert Allen Zimmerman legally became Bob Dylan
having signed a music publishing deal with Witmark Music on 12th July of this year, engineered by Albert Grossman.
1964, After an intense search the bodies of Jim Reeves
and Dean Manuel were found in the wreckage of an aircraft and, at 1:00 p.m. local time, radio stations across the United States announced Reeves' death formally. The single-engine Beechcraft Debonair aircraft, with Reeves at the controls had crashed 42 hours earlier during a thunderstrom. Thousands of people travelled to pay their last respects at his funeral two days later. The coffin, draped in flowers from fans, was driven through the streets of Nashville and then to Reeves' final resting place near Carthage, Texas.
1976, Peter "Puddy" Watts, road manager with Pink Floyd died of a heroin overdose. Watts supplied the crazed laughter on the groups The Dark Side of The Moon album.
1983, James Jamerson
died of complications stemming from cirrhosis of the liver, heart failure and pneumonia in Los Angeles, he was 47 years old. As one of The Funk Brothers he was the uncredited bassist on most of Motown Records' hits in the 1960s and early 1970s
1991, Rick James
and his girlfriend Tanya Hijazi were arrested in Hollywood charged with assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated mayhem, torture, false imprisonment, and forcible oral copulation. James was released on $1 million bail.
1914 – Big Walter Price, 1935 – Hank Cochran, 1937 – Garth Hudson
(The Band), 1941 – Doris Coley (The Shirelles), 1944 – Jim Capaldi
(Traffic), 1948 – Andy Fairweather Low, 1950 – Ted Turner (Wishbone Ash), 1951 – Andrew Gold (wrote "Thank You For Being A Friend" theme song for
Golden Girls), 1951 – Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Deep Purple, Yngwie Malmsteen), 1955 – Butch Vig
(Garbage, produced Nirvana's album
Nevermind), 1959 – Apollonia Kotero, 1961 – Pete de Freitas
(Echo & The Bunnymen), 1962 – Lee Mavers (
The La's), 1968 – John Stanier
(Helmet)
1921 – Enrico Caruso, 1997 – Fela Kuti, 2012 –
Jimmy Jones, 2012 – Marguerite Piazza