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1987 Will Shatter (vocalist, bassist for Flipper) dies of a drug overdose.
1981 Sonny Til (lead tenor for The Orioles) dies of heart failure and diabetes in Washington, D.C., at age 53.
1978 Kate Bush makes her first and only appearance on Saturday Night Live. The British singer-songwriter performs the songs "The Man With The Child In His Eyes" and "Them Heavy People" from her debut album, The Kick Inside.
1978 The Blues Brothers release their first single, a cover of "Soul Man." The original is by Sam & Dave, whom the Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) emulated to create their act.
1978 Chic's "Le Freak" hits #1.
1978 Steely Dan's Greatest Hits album enters the charts.
1974 George Harrison releases the album Dark Horse, named after the label he established a few months earlier, Dark Horse Records.
1974 Rapper Canibus is born Germaine Williams in Kingston, Jamaica. He would spend his childhood moving to various cities, following his mother's career.
1972 Helen Reddy becomes the first Australian to land a #1 hit in America when "I Am Woman" tops the chart.
1972 The Moody Blues' Seventh Sojourn album hits #1 in America, where it stays for five weeks.
1972 Tre Cool (drummer for Green Day) is born Frank Edwin Wright III in Frankfurt, West Germany, but would be raised in Willits, California.
1971 Portishead instrumentalist Geoff Barrow is born in Somerset, England.
1968 The TV special TCB (Takin' Care Of Business), starring Supremes and The Temptations, airs on NBC.
1968 Brian Bell (rhythm guitarist/keyboardist for Weezer) is born in Iowa City, Iowa.
1963 The Beach Boys release "Little Saint Nick," which envisions Santa in a hot-rod sleigh.
Jim Morrison Becomes First Rocker Arrested Mid-Performance
1967Jim 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.
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2001 Perhaps hoping for a Nigel Tufnel Spinal Tap moment, Slash shows up at The Joint in Las Vegas, where his old band Guns N' Roses is playing. He is denied entry, as band management doesn't want to upset Axl Rose.
1984 The Jacksons' Victory tour comes to an end with a show at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. It would be the only tour featuring all six members of The Jacksons (including Michael).
1980 The airwaves are filled with the music of John Lennon, who was shot and killed the previous evening. In Philadelphia, Bruce Springsteen opens his concert by telling the crowd, "It's hard to come out here and play tonight, but there's nothing else to do."
1969 Jakob Dylan (lead singer for The Wallflowers) is born in New York City, New York. He is the fifth and youngest child of Bob Dylan and his first wife, Sara Lownds.
1965 A Charlie Brown Christmas makes its debut, airing on CBS in place of The Munsters. The famous score, which becomes synonymous with the Peanuts, is written by the jazz musician Vince Guaraldi and performed by his trio.More
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