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2014 Sam Smith releases his debut album, In the Lonely Hour, in the US.
2008 With Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne becomes the first artist since 50 Cent in 2005 to sell more than 1 million copies of an album in a single week. It goes on to sell 3 million.
2008 Katy Perry's major-label debut album, One of the Boys, is released, featuring the hit single "I Kissed a Girl." It's not her first album: In 2001 she released a gospel album under her real name, Katy Hudson.More
2006 Shakira lands her first #1 hit on the Hot 100 when her single "Hips Don't Lie," featuring Wyclef Jean, reaches the top of the tally. It also breaks the record for the most-played pop song in a single week when it's aired on American radio 9,637 times.More
2000 Eighteen months after Billboard starts factoring airplay into their Hot 100 chart, "Try Again" by Aaliyah becomes the first song to hit the top spot based on airplay alone, as the song is not available for purchase as a single.
1997 When Ozzy's voice gives out before the Ozzfest date in Columbus, Ohio, he doesn't appear but the show goes on without him. Fans, who aren't told until later that he won't be there, don't take the news well and trash the venue.More
1994 Megadeth is kicked off their tour with Aerosmith after Dave Mustaine is heard in an interview saying that his band should be the headliners. Jackyl and 4 Non Blondes open the remaining dates on the US tour.
1994 With the United States hosting the World Cup, the opening ceremonies are held at Soldier Field in Chicago. In one of the production numbers, Diana Ross sings "I'm Coming Out" while she takes a penalty kick. She misses, but the goal splits open anyway and she runs through to complete the bit.More
1972 Grateful Dead keyboard player and founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan plays his last show with the band at a Hollywood Bowl concert. Health problems force him to stop touring, and he dies in March 1973 at age 27.
17 JUNE
In Music History
2016 Tom DeLonge reveals his true reason for leaving blink-182: to investigate UFOs. In an interview with Mic, the "Aliens Exist" singer claims the truth is out there: "There's been hundreds and hundreds of thousands of eyewitness accounts. Trace evidence that's been analyzed by scientists across the world. Events have happened on the ground. It's all around us. I know of stuff I can't talk about right now."
2016 Red Hot Chili Peppers release The Getaway, their first album since 2011 and their first since 1991 without Rick Rubin producing - Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton is the producer.
2016 Prince Be of P.M. Dawn dies of kidney disease at age 46.
2008 The Offspring release Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace - their first album in nearly five years.
2006 Ron Wood of The Rolling Stones enters rehab to kick his drinking habit, but recovers in time to join the band on their latest world tour a month later.
2006 Rolf Harris is honored with a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II.
2004 T.I. shoots a promotional video from Fulton County Jail, where he has been incarcerated for two months on a parole violation. A jail supervisor is fired over the video, which features guards and other inmates as extras.
2002 U2 guitarist The Edge gets married for the second time, this time to Morleigh Steinberg, the belly dancer on their 1992-1993 Zoo TV tour.
1999 Suffering from depression, Screaming Lord Sutch commits suicide at age 58. The singer, who also founded the UK political party Official Monster Raving Loony Party, worked with several artists, including Keith Moon, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck.
1997 Blink-182, a pop-punk trio from San Diego, release their major-label debut, Dude Ranch. The album boasts their first rock-radio hit, "Dammit," a breakup tune that blows out bassist Mark Hoppus' vocal chords.More
1997 Switchfoot's debut album, The Legend of Chin, is released under the independent label Re:think Records.
1995 Rod Stewart sets an attendance record at Wembley Stadium in London when 83,000 fans attend his concert. The record holds until 2009, when U2 draws 88,000 on their 360 tour.
1989 Pop singer Simone Battle (of G.R.L.) is born in Los Angeles, California.
1989 Ringo Starr announces the second annual line-up of his All-Starr Band, featuring Billy Preston, Joe Walsh, Dr. John, Nils Lofgren and Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, and The Band's Levon Helm and Rick Danko.
1987 Kendrick Lamar is born in Compton, California. At 8 years old, he watches Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre film their "California Love" video in his neighborhood and decides he wants to be a rapper.
Barry Manilow Is Born
1943Barry Manilow is born Barry Alan Pincus in Brooklyn, New York. Despite never wanting to be an entertainer, he becomes one of the best-selling artists in the world as a famous soft-rock balladeer.
Before he becomes one of the premier soft-rock icons of the '70s with hit ballads like "Mandy," "Weekend In New England," and "Looks Like We Made It," Barry Manilow puts his skills to use in the world of advertising, composing jingles for Band-Aid, Pepsi-Cola, and McDonald's. He also arranges music for off-Broadway productions and TV shows, which helps him get a deal at Bell Records as part of a group of studio musicians called Featherbed, who are produced by Tony Orlando. Manilow is the standout performer, but he has no interest in becoming an entertainer. He envisions his career unfolding as a composer, conductor, and arranger. Still, he signs a solo contract with the Clive Davis-led Arista Records and is groomed to be a star. In between his work on the road with Bette Midler as her pianist and musical director, he issues his debut self-titled album, which goes unnoticed until his subsequent album, Barry Manilow II, becomes a smash. The star single is "Mandy," a reworking of a British tune called "Brandy," which is re-named to avoid confusion with the Looking Glass hit "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)." Davis continues to act as Manilow's commercial ear, selecting songs for him to transform into hits. While many of the tracks on his albums are his own compositions, most of his singles are by other songwriters (barring his disco-tropical original "Copacabana (At The Copa)") - a fact that makes him uneasy. By the '80s, he decides to only make the music he wants to make, which results in the jazz albums 2:00 AM Paradise Café and Swing Street. When he does embrace covers, they're his favorite songs from different eras, which proves to be a successful formula. His take on the Greatest Songs Of The Fifties in 2006 puts him at #1 in the US for the second time in his career. With more than 85 million sales to his name, Manilow remains one of the best-selling artists in the world.
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