Happy Birthday: Jimmy Buffett born in 1946 – not just a singer, author, business man, etc.
1980 – Paul McCartney receives a phone call from Michael Jackson wishing Paul a Merry Christmas. Michael suggest they write some songs together and ended up recording 3 duets. Their friendship ends years later when Jackson buys the publishing rights to McCartney’s songs.
1981 – The J. Geils Band perform a special Christmas Day concert at the Norfolk Correctional Center outside of Boston. During the concert, singer Peter Wolf tells the inmates “We wanna be the first to buy you all a free drink on the outside.”
1987 – Ted Nugent appears on “Late Night with David Letterman” where he sings The Christmas Song with a bogus Letterman.
1994 – Green Day perform at New York’s Madison Square Garden. During the show, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong performs wearing only socks and a strategically placed guitar. Merry Christmas!