21 AUGUST
In Music History
1965 The Rolling Stones album Out Of Our Heads hits #1 in the US, supplanting Beatles VI.
1965 Barry McGuire releases "Eve Of Destruction."
1961 Elvis Presley's LP Something For Everybody hits #1.
1961 Patsy Cline records "Crazy."
1957 Kim Sledge (of Sister Sledge) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1954 Drummer Steve Smith (of Focus and Journey) is born in Whitman, Massachusetts.
1952 Rock bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes (of Deep Purple) is born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England. He has a brief stint as Black Sabbath's frontman in the mid-'80s.
1947 Carl Giammarese (lead vocalist/guitarist for The Buckinghams) is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1941 Pop singer Jackie DeShannon is born Sharon Lee Myers in Hazel, Kentucky.
1941 Keyboardist Tom Coster (of Santana) is born in Detroit, Michigan. He composed "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" with Carlos Santana.
1939 Country singer Harold Reid (of The Statler Brothers) is born in Staunton, Virginia. He co-wrote many of the group's hits, including "Bed of Rose's" and "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine."
1938 Singer-songwriter Ernie Maresca, who penned several Dion hits, is born in The Bronx, New York City.
1938 Fats Waller records "Ain't Misbehavin'."
1938 Kenny Rogers is born in Houston, Texas. His most famous song, "The Gambler," is released when he is 40.
1928 Jazz trumpeter Art Farmer is born in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Sleepless In Seattle Soundtrack Hits #1
1993For one week, standards outsell rap as the soundtrack to the hit romantic comedy Sleepless In Seattle knocks Cypress Hill's Black Sunday off the top of the Billboard 200.
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2005 The Rolling Stones kick off their A Bigger Bang tour at Fenway Park in Boston (they played a warm-up show at a theater in Toronto on August 10). The tour lasts over two years and sets a record, taking in over $558 million over 144 dates (U2's 360 tour, which ends in 2011, breaks this record).
1993 Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch is raided by police after a child who stayed there comes forward with allegations of molestation. Jackson lets police strip search him, which he finds very humiliating. No charges are filed, but Jackson will later deal with more allegations.
1990 Alice in Chains release their debut album, Facelift, one of the first grunge albums to gain widespread popularity.More
1990 Jane's Addiction release the alternative rock touchstone Ritual de lo Habitual, which frontman Perry Farrell describes as filled with "sex and violence and joy and happiness."More
1988 Country singer Kacey Musgraves is born in Golden, Texas. She writes her first song, "Notice Me," at age 8 for her elementary school graduation.
1987 Midnight Oil release their sixth album, Diesel and Dust, inspired by their tour of indigenous communities in the Australian Outback. The single "Beds Are Burning" - a demand to give Aboriginal Australians back their rightful land - is the band's breakthrough hit in the US.More
1982 Bono of U2 marries his high school sweetheart Alison Stewart at the Guinness Church of Ireland. The couple will have four children.
1952 Punk rocker Joe Strummer (of The Clash) is born John Graham Mellor in Ankara, Turkey.
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