2016 Bob Dylan accepts the Nobel Prize in Literature. He doesn't attend the ceremony, but sends an insightful speech that is read by the US ambassador to Sweden.More
2015 The TV movie Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors airs on NBC.More
2007 Led Zeppelin play a one-off show at the O2 Arena in London, the biggest reunion in rock history. John Bonham's son, Jason, plays drums at the show, which is hailed by critics and fans as triumphant.More
2005 After five years of dating, country singers Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood tie the knot in a private ceremony at their home in Owasso, Oklahoma. The marriage is Brooks' second and Yearwood's third.
1974 The Rankin/Bass animated holiday special The Year Without A Santa Claus airs on ABC.More
1967 Otis Redding dies at age 26 when his personal Beechcraft plane crashes into Lake Monona near Madison, Wisconsin. Members of his road band The Bar-Kays also die in the crash; the only survivor is the band's trumpet player Ben Cauley. One month later, "Dock of the Bay" is released, becoming the first #1 song issued after the artist's death.
2023 TikTok stages their first live music event with a five-hour concert in Mesa, Arizona, featuring Charlie Puth, Cardi B, Peso Pluma and a slate of emerging artists. 17,000 phone-wielding fans attend the sold-out show, with over 9 million more watching online.
2015 Janis Joplin's psychedelic-painted Porsche sells for $1.76 million at auction.More
2011 At the last of four 30th anniversary concerts at The Filmore in San Francisco, Metallica are joined on stage by two original members: bass player Ron McGovney and guitarist Dave Mustaine.More
2010 Michael Jackson's first posthumous album, Michael, is released.
2006 A demo called KO At Home by Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O is accidentally leaked on the internet. The recording was meant to be a gift to friend Dave Sitek from TV on the Radio but it was stolen from Sitek's suitcase. Karen O shrugged off the leak, saying "s--t happens."
2005 Just six monts after topping the chart with Mezmerize, System Of A Down's album Hypnotize goes to #1 on America, giving them two #1 albums in the same calendar year.
2003 Bill Deal (frontman for The Rhondels) dies at age 59. Known for the 1969 hit singles "I've Been Hurt," "What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am," and "May I."
1999 Rick Danko (bassist for The Band) dies of heart failure in his sleep in Marbletown, New York, at age 56.
1997 Olivia Newton-John causes trouble for Murphy Brown on the episode "I Hear A Symphony."
1996 Country singer Faron Young dies a day after shooting himself, possibly due to his failing health, at age 64.
1995 During a recording session, Fat Boys member Darren Robinson, known as "The Human Beatbox," dies of a heart attack at age 28.
1991 Alan Freed, the disc jockey who coined the phrase "rock and roll," is posthumously awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
1986 Prince goes to a Bonnie Raitt concert at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles. Impressed, he invites her to his home studio in Minnesota where they work on some songs together, but nothing comes of it.
1985 Three Dog Night's Danny Hutton and Cory Wells fire third vocalist Chuck Negron.
1983 Tina Turner's first solo hit, a cover of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together," charts at #6 in the UK as her comeback gets going.
The first issue of Playboy magazine is published (Marilyn Monroe is on the cover). Over the next two decades, "playboy" shows up in several hit songs: "Playboy" by Marvelettes (1962) "He's Just A Playboy" by The Drifters (1964) "Playboy" by Gene & Debbe (1968) "International Playboy" by Wilson Pickett (1973)
There is also a '50s group called The Playboys, and in the mid-'60s Gary Lewis & the Playboys becomes one of the top acts in America, earning a huge hit with "This Diamond Ring." In 1968, John Fred & His Playboy Band goes to #1 with "Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)"; there is also a group called The Playboys Of Edinburg, and a record label called Playboy. The term will lose its popular appeal as it becomes more associated with the nudie magazine your dad hid under his mattress and less about the freewheeling bachelor. "Playboy" songs of note become more didactic: Morrissey's "The Last of the Famous International Playboys," U2's "The Playboy Mansion." In the '90s, a new variation on the term shows up: "player" (or "playa"). Songs include: "I'm A Player" by Too Short "Player's Ball" by OutKast "Player's Anthem" by Junior M.A.F.I.A. "Don't Wanna Be A Player" by Joe "I'm Not A Player" by Big Punisher Hugh Hefner's famous magazine keeps on going, sometimes making significant contributions to music journalism, as evidenced by a far-reaching 1980 interview with John Lennon.
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