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In Music History
1992 Stefanie Sargent of 7 Year Bitch dies at age 24. After a night of drinking and drug use, she chokes to death when she vomits in her sleep.
1989 Tom Jones gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1989 The B-52s release Cosmic Thing, their first album following the death of guitarist and band co-founder Ricky Wilson. It features two of their biggest hits with "Roam" and "Love Shack."
1986 Black Flag play their final ever gig in Detroit, Michigan. The band will go on to confirm their split two months later, in August 1986.
1976 John Lennon receives his "green card" from the US Department of Naturalization.
1976 Leigh Nash (lead vocalist for Sixpence None the Richer) is born in New Braunfels, Texas.
1975 Fandango becomes ZZ Top's second gold album.
1966 Led by Frank Zappa, the Mothers of Invention release their debut album Freak Out! Critics and music fans alike are baffled by what they hear.
1959 Country singer Lorrie Morgan is born Loretta Lynn Morgan in Nashville, Tennessee. Her dad is country singer George Morgan.
1956 At Master Recorders in Hollywood, Fats Domino records "Blueberry Hill," a song popularized by Gene Autry in 1940. Domino's version, with his famous piano intro, becomes his biggest hit and the definitive version of the song.
1951 Gilson Lavis (drummer for Squeeze) is born in Bedford, England.
1942 Bruce Johnston (of The Beach Boys) is born Benjamin Baldwin in Peoria, Illinois. He is adopted by William and Irene Johnston and grows up in Los Angeles.
1925 Doc Pomus, a blues singer and songwriter who would pen several hits of the rock and roll era, is born Jerome Solon Felder in Brooklyn, New York.
1729 French composer Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, known for her harpsichord pieces, dies at age 64.
Whitney Houston Lands Fourth #1 Hit
1987Whitney Houston charts her fourth #1 on the Hot 100 with "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," the debut single from her second album.
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2012 In what is probably the only case of a musician being said to cause someone's death while performing onstage, police in Czechoslovakia arrest Randy Blythe, frontman for heavy metal band Lamb of God, for manslaughter.More
2002 John Entwistle (age 57), bassist for The Who, dies in a hotel room in Las Vegas, Nevada, from a heart attack triggered by cocaine use.
1980 Three songs into Led Zeppelin's concert in Nuremberg, drummer John Bonham collapses while beating out the rhythm to "Black Dog" and is rushed to the hospital, abruptly ending the show. Robert Plant jokes that he ate too many bananas before the show, but alcohol is the likely culprit. In September, Bonham dies after a night of drinking.
1971 New York City's Fillmore East concert hall closes. The Allman Brothers Band, Edgar Winter, Country Joe McDonald and the Fish and The Beach Boys are on the bill for the last show.
1970 The group Smile change their name to Queen and perform for the first time under that moniker.More
1964 Peter & Gordon's "A World Without Love" - written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney - goes to #1 in the US. The connection: McCartney is dating Peter Asher's sister, Jane.
1960 Connie Francis becomes the first solo female act with a Hot 100 #1 hit when "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" tops the chart.
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