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In Music History
1986 Wham! play their farewell concert at Wembley Stadium in London. Both members - George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley - are just 23. For their last song, "I'm Your Man," they're joined on stage by Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran.
1973 The Helen Reddy Show summer replacement TV series debuts on NBC.
1968 Jefferson Airplane make the cover of Life magazine under the headline: "Jefferson Airplane, Top Rock Group, With Music That's Hooked the Whole Vibrating World."
1968 In the UK, Pink Floyd release their second album, A Saucerful Of Secrets. It's the first with a cover designed by Hipgnosis, the team of Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell.
1965 Dick Clark's Where The Action Is premieres on ABC.
1962 The Drifters record "Up On The Roof."
1945 David Knights (original bass guitarist for Procol Harum) is born in Islington, North London, England.
1936 Pop singer Cathy Carr is born Angelina Helen Catherine Cordovano in The Bronx, New York City. Known for the 1956 hit "Ivory Tower."
1913 The British composer George Walter Selwyn Lloyd is born.
1902 Richard Rodgers, a prolific composer known for his partnership with lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, is born in New York City.
Clay And Ruben Rule The Chart
2003After Ruben Studdard beats Clay Aiken to win Season 2 of American Idol, their first singles debut at the top of the Hot 100. Aiken takes the top spot, becoming the first new artist to go straight to #1 on the chart.
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2010 Jake Holmes finally gets around to suing Led Zeppelin for plagiarizing his 1967 song "Dazed And Confused." Led Zeppelin released a very similar song with the same title on their 1969 debut album, but Holmes waited decades to take legal action. The case is eventually settled, with the writing credit on the song changed to "Jimmy Page, Inspired By Jake Holmes."
1980 Paul McCartney's "Coming Up" hits #1 in the US.
1978 The C.W. McCall hit "Convoy" is adapted into a movie of the same name, which opens in theaters. Kris Kristofferson plays the main character, a trucker who goes by "Rubber Duck."
1975 David Bowie releases "Fame," featuring John Lennon on backing vocals. It become Bowie's first #1 hit in the US.
1968 Aretha Franklin appears on the cover of Time magazine under the banner, "The Sound Of Soul."
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