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2007 Ornette Coleman wins the Pulitzer Prize for music for his 2006 album, Sound Grammar, the first jazz work to receive the honor.
1996 Kiss perform at the Grammys in full makeup and glorious costumes. It's just the second time since 1980 (following their 1995 MTV Unplugged taping) that all four original members have been on stage together.
1991 The Temple of the Dog album is released. The one-off project is a tribute to Andrew Wood, the Mother Love Bone lead singer who died in 1990. Temple of the Dog is comprised of Soundgarden members Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron, along with Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam.More
1990 The Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa concert is held in Wembley Stadium, London, to celebrate the release of Mandela, who had been imprisoned since 1962. Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Tracy Chapman, Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt all perform.More
1974 Queen make their US live debut at Regis College in Denver, Colorado, supporting Mott the Hoople. Their trek ends early when Brian May develops hepatitis a month later.
1971 The Rolling Stones issue "Brown Sugar," the first release on their own label, Rolling Stones Records.
1964 Needing one more song for his album, Dean Martin records "Everybody Loves Somebody," which his friend Frank Sinatra recorded in 1948 and several other singers tried in the '50s. Martin's version is the first to hit, and it hits big, knocking The Beatles off the top spot in August.
1955 Kool Herc is born in Kingston, Jamaica. Born Clive Campbell, his stage name is based on "Hercules," a nickname he earns for his strength. When he is 12, his family moves to the Bronx, where Herc becomes a DJ, throwing dance parties where MCs talk over extended breakbeats he creates with two turntables, one of the most important developments in hip-hop.
1944 On shore leave from the Merchant Marines, Woody Guthrie arrives at Folkway Records' studios in New York City, where he starts recording with the label's founder, Moses Asch, in what becomes known as the "Asch recordings." Among the songs recorded during these sessions is "This Land Is Your Land," which becomes an iconic populist protest anthem, covered by countless artists including Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen.More
16 APRIL
In Music History
2018 Kendrick Lamar's album DAMN. wins the Pulitzer Prize for music, making him the first rapper to win the award, which traditionally goes to classical composers or jazz musicians.
2010 Shakira appears on Wizards of Waverly Place in the episode "Dude Looks Like Shakira."
2010 At the Showbox in Seattle, Washington, Soundgarden play their first show in 13 years.
2008 Barbra Streisand donates $5 million to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for a women's heart education and research program.
2003 Luther Vandross suffers a stroke that leaves him confined to a wheelchair. The singer, whose album Dance With My Father is released in June and goes to #1 in America, dies two years later.
2003 Jerry Lee Lewis files for divorce from his sixth wife, Kerrie McCarver, who was once the president of his fan club.
1999 Skip Spence of Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape dies of lung cancer two days before his 53rd birthday.
1996 Judy Collins marries her second husband, designer Louis Nelson.
1995 Gabrielle gives birth to her son Jordan. Eight months later, Jordan's father murders his stepfather and is sentenced to life in prison.
1995 Bob Seger has his second child: a daughter named Samantha Char.
1994 Pearl Jam pay tribute to Kurt Cobain, who was found dead a week earlier, on Saturday Night Live with a performance of "Daughter" that ends with lead singer Eddie Vedder opening up his jacket to reveal a "K" on his T-shirt.
1994 Harry Connick, Jr. marries Victoria's Secret model Jill Goodacre in New Orleans.
1993 Billy Burnette leaves Fleetwood Mac to pursue a country music career.
1993 Chance the Rapper is born Chancelor Bennett in Chicago. He upsets the industry apple cart by making a huge impact while remaining independent, earning most of his revenue early on through live shows and sponsorships.
1992 Nirvana appear on the cover of Rolling Stone with Kurt Cobain wearing a T-shirt that reads, "Corporate Magazines Still Suck."
Electra Kicks Out The MC5
1969Elektra Records drop the MC5 from their roster after the group takes out an ad in an underground newspaper castigating the department store chain Hudson's for not stocking their debut album, Kick Out The Jams. Hudson's didn't want it on their shelves because of a line in the title track: "Kick out the jams, motherf--ker!"
The group signed to Elektra just six months earlier along with another Detroit group, The Stooges. Their anthem, "Kick Out The Jams," was sanitized for the single, replacing "motherf--kers" with "brothers and sisters," but the album version remained uncensored. Hudson's, a Detroit-based retailer, refused to stock it, which raised the hackles of MC5 manager John Sinclair, a counterculture revolutionary who headed the radical White Panther party. Sinclair had a local artist named Robin Sommers draw up the ad, which read: "Kick out the jams, motherf--ker! and kick in the door if the store won't sell you the album on Elektra." Sommers included the Elektra logo and added a line: "F--k Hudon's!" It ran in an alternative paper called the Fifth Estate. Hudson's retaliated by threatening to pull every Elektra album from their shelves, which was enough for the label to drop the MC5, which were not selling enough albums to offset their nuisance (the "Kick Out The Jams" single peaked at #82 two weeks earlier). After sacking the band, Electra pulls the album and replaces it with a censored version, substituting the "brothers and sisters" edit for the original. The band is picked up by Atlantic, but their two albums on the label flop, and in 1973, they call it quits.
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