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Band Dynamics
1985 : It's no joke: David Lee Roth officially leaves Van Halen to start a solo career. |
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Awards and Honors (1)
| 1974 : Barbra Streisand (in The Way We Were) loses the Best Actress Academy Award to Glenda Jackson (in A Touch Of Class). |
Band Dynamics (2)
Births (13)
Charts (1)
Concerts and Festivals (1)
| 1961 : The Beatles begin a grueling gig at Hamburg's Top Ten Club - seven hours a day on weekdays (eight hours on weekends) for three months. |
Deaths (3)
| 1984 : Marvin Gaye is fatally shot by his own father and dies at age 44. Investigation revealed that Marvin had beaten his father, who ended up serving 5 years probation for voluntary manslaughter. |
| 1999 : Jesse Stone |
| 2005 : Jack Keller |
Debuts (1)
Health Issues (1)
| 1977 : Elvis Presley is admitted to a Memphis hospital suffering from fatigue and intestinal flu (he stays there for six days). |
Legal Issues (1)
| 1992 : Billy Idol pleads no contest to charges of misdemeanor assault and battery and is fined $2,000. The incident happened in October, 1991, when Idol ended up in a car with two women and allegedly punched one of them. Alcohol was involved. |
Movies (2)
| 1956 : Elvis Presley gets his film career going with a screen test at Paramount Studios, where he performs a scene from The Rainmaker. He lands a contract and ends up starring in 31 movies. |
| 1970 : The Woodstock movie premieres in Hollywood. |
Recordings (2)
| 1961 : Troy Shondell, "This Time" |
| 1986 : Bruce Hornsby and the Range release The Way It Is, an album that would produce four hits (including the title track) and be certified multi-platinum. |
Releases (5)
| 1959 : Freddy Cannon's "Tallahassee Lassie" |
| 1965 : The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones Now! |
| 1966 : David Bowie's first solo single is released, "Do Anything You Say." It flops. |
| 1991 : The Rolling Stones, Flashpoint |
| 2008 : The Rolling Stones, Shine A Light |
TV, Radio, Press (1)
| 1959 : James Darren guests on ABC-TV's Donna Reed Show. |
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