Events in Music
Music History
Dec 15 British rocker David Bowie performs three songs on American television program Saturday Night Live - "The Man Who Sold the World", "TVC-15" and "Boys Keep Swinging"
- Dec 20 Garry Sherman and Peter Udell's musical "Comin' Uptown", based on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", and starring Gregory Hines, opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 45 performances
Pretenders
Dec 27 Sire Records releases "Pretenders", the debut album of The Pretenders, in US
- Dec 30 Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
Birthdays in Music
- Dec 2 Yvonne Catterfeld, German pop and soul singer, and actress, born in Erfurt, East Germany
- Dec 3 Daniel Bedingfield, British-New Zealand pop singer-songwriter ("Gotta Get Thru This"), born in Auckland, New Zealand
- Dec 7 Sara Bareilles, American pop singer ("Love Song"; "Brave"), born in Eureka, California
- Dec 8 Ingrid Michaelson, American folk-pop singer-songwriter (Lights Out), born in New York City
- Dec 9 Olivia Lufkin, Japanese-American pop singer and songwriter, born in Naha, Japan
- Dec 14 Sophie Monk, Australian actress, singer, and model, born in London
- Dec 16 Mihai Trăistariu, Romanian singer-songwriter ("Tornerò"), born in Constanța, Romania
- Dec 17 Ryan Key, American musician and songwriter (Yellowcard), born in Jacksonville, Florida
- Dec 19 Kevin Devine, American singer-songwriter (Brother's Blood), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Dec 21 Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress and singer, born in Stockholm, Sweden
- Dec 26 Chris Daughtry, American rock singer, born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina
- Dec 26 Mzbel [Nana Akua Amoah], Ghanaian singer (16 Years, Saucy Girl), born in Accra, Ghana
- Dec 27 Walker Hayes, American country-pop singer-songwriter ("Fancy Like"), born in Mobile, Alabama
- Dec 28 Senna Guemmour, German singer-songwriter (Monrose), born in Frankfurt, Germany
- Dec 31 Bob Bryar, American drummer (My Chemical Romance, Gerardolopoly), born in Downers Grove, Illinois
Weddings in Music
Liza Minnelli
Dec 4 American singer Liza Minnelli (33) weds (her 3rd) American sculptor Mark Gero; divorce 1992
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Dec 23 American blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan (25) weds Lenora "Lenny" Bailey; divorce in 1988
Deaths in Music
Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
Dec 30 American composer, mostly for theater (Rodgers & Hart - "Pal Joey"; "Babes In Arms"; Rodgers & Hammerstein - "Oklahoma!"; "South Pacific"; "The King And I"; "The Sound Of Music") and 1st EGOT (Emmy; Grammy; Oscar; and Tony awards winner), dies at 77
