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9 DECEMBER

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2023 Thanks to a new music video, "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee, originally released in 1958, goes to #1 in America, making Lee, 78, the oldest artist ever to top the chart. And at 65 years, it's the longest a song has ever taken to reach the top spot.

2022 SZA releases her second album, SOS, which debuts at #1 in America. Many of the songs find her navigating a toxic relationship, including the big hit "Kill Bill," where she considers offing her ex.

2022 The British rock band Slaves change their name to Soft Play. Meant to reference "the grind of day-to-day life," they say the name "doesn't represent who we are as people or what our music stands for any longer."

2021 Kanye West and Drake end their long-running feud when they perform together at the Free Larry Hoover concert.

2019 Marie Fredriksson of Roxette dies of a brain tumor at 61.

2014 Sting joins the Broadway cast of his musical The Last Ship, which is based on the shipbuilding community where he grew up.

2014 Winfred "Blue" Lovett, an original member of The Manhattans, dies of cancer at age 74.

2011 Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer Karen O marries her longtime boyfriend, director Barnaby Clay.

2005 Mike Botts (drummer for Bread) dies of colon cancer the day after his 61st birthday in Burbank, California.

2003 Ozzy Osbourne crashes his quad bike, breaking several bones, including his collarbone, and fracturing vertebrae. The injuries are considerable, but not life-threatening.

2003 The Offspring release their seventh studio album, Splinter.

2003 After the runaway success of the bluegrass soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou?, producer T Bone Burnett helms another Appalachian-inspired album for the Civil War movie Cold Mountain. Alison Krauss sings the Sting-written "You Will Be My Ain True Love" and "The Scarlet Tide," both of which are nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

2002 Australian band The Vines are booted from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno when lead singer Craig Nichols trashes equipment during sound check.

1991 A long legal battle over Bob Marley's estate ends when the nearly $12 million estate is awarded to his widow, Rita, and her children. In honor of the verdict, son Ziggy names his daughter, who was born that day, Justice Marley.

1989 Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" hits #1 in America.

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Jim Morrison Becomes First Rocker Arrested Mid-Performance

1967

Jim Morrison of The Doors is arrested at his own concert in New Haven, Connecticut, after a police officer finds him backstage with a young girl and maces him. It's the first time a famous musician is arrested in the middle of a performance.

The whole thing starts when Morrison takes up with Sandy Spodnik, an 18-year-old student at Southern Connecticut State College. Looking for some privacy, they end up in the bathroom next to one of the dressing rooms, which is occupied by one of the opening acts, Tommy & The Rivieras. They don't recognize Morrison, and when they ask him to leave, he responds, "F--k you." Band member Tommy Janette summons a cop to remove the couple, and he doesn't recognize Morrison either. According to Janette, this exchange takes place: Cop: "This is your last chance to leave peacefully." Morrison: "This is your last chance to eat me." The officer maces Morrison, who is handcuffed, but when the cops realize who he is, they let him go, telling him he can perform, but would be arrested after the show. Morrison accelerates that process when he takes the stage and launches into a profanity-filled rant about the incident during an interlude in "Back Door Man." Three cops go on stage and arrest him, telling him, "You've gone too far." In Morrison's arrest report, Janette is listed as the complainant because he alerted the cop. He's charged with breach of peace, resisting arrest and "performing an indecent and immoral exhibition." Morrison pays the $7500 bond on the spot, as he has the money in his wallet. The mugshot lists the date as December 10 because it was taken after midnight. In The Doors 1970 song "Peace Frog," Morrison references the incident with the line, "Blood in the streets of the town of New Haven."

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