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In Music History
1966 Edie Brickell ("What I Am") is born in Dallas, Texas. She marries Paul Simon in 1992.
1966 Bob Dylan records "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)," "Temporary Like Achilles," "Rainy Day Women #12 And 35," "Obviously 5 Believers," "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat," and "I Want You."
1964 Simon and Garfunkel record "The Sound Of Silence."
1964 Neneh Cherry is born Neneh Mariann Karlsson in Stockholm, Sweden. She takes her surname from stepdad Don Cherry.
1963 Producer Rick Rubin is born Frederick Jay Rubin in Long Beach, New York. Albums he produced include Raising Hell by Run-D.M.C., Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes and Echo by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
1963 Three days after an emotional public service, Patsy Cline's body is buried quietly at Shenandoah Memorial Park in Winchester, Virginia.
1963 Jeff Ament (bassist for Pearl Jam) is born in Havre, Montana.
1963 "Little" Stevie Wonder performs "Fingertips" at the Regal Theatre in Chicago. The performance is recorded and released as a single in May, becoming the first live recording to hit #1 on the Hot 100.
1962 "Hey Baby" by Bruce Channel goes to #1 in the US.
1961 Jeff Barry, later half of the famous Brill Building songwriting team Barry-Greenwich, lands his first big gig with a publisher, signing to Trinity Music.
1956 Bobby Darin makes his first television appearance, singing "Rock Island Line" on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show. The budding entertainer is clearly nervous - he keeps glancing at his palms where he's written the song's lyrics.
1955 Trumpeting their new signing, RCA Victor places a half-page ad in Billboard announcing Elvis Presley as the "new singing rage."
1954 Disco singer Tina Charles, known for the 1976 hit "I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance)," is born Tina Hoskins in Whitechapel, London, England. Her dad is actor Charles Hoskins.
1951 Mario Lanza's "Be My Love" hits #1.
1950 Ted McKenna (drummer for The Sensational Alex Harvey Band) is born in Lennoxtown, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Marvin Gaye's Estate Wins "Blurred Lines" Case
2015A jury awards Marvin Gaye's estate (his children Marvin III, Frankie and Nona) $7.3 million, finding that the Robin Thicke song "Blurred Lines" is too similar to Gaye's 1977 hit "Got To Give It Up."
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Featured Events
2003 Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines sparks political controversy in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq after telling a London audience: "Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas."
1988 Andy Gibb, whose three older brothers are the Bee Gees, dies of heart failure at age 30. Gibb had three #1 hits in the late '70s, including "I Just Want To Be Your Everything."
1984 Deep Purple reunite with the Mark II lineup of the band, which includes guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and lead singer Ian Gillan. The band has been dormant since 1976, and this lineup last played together in 1973. They take a break in 1989 and Blackmore leaves in 1993, but the core of the group stays intact into the 2020s.
1983 Carrie Underwood is born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She begins her music career by winning Season 4 of American Idol, becoming the first country singer to do so. She becomes the best-selling Idol alum in any genre, with over 20 million albums sold in America.
1979 Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" hits #1 on the Hot 100. It becomes a female-empowerment anthem, but the song was written by two men.More
1954 The Threepenny Opera opens at the Theater de Lys in New York's Greenwich Village. A revival of a German production from 1928, the standout scene is when the Street Singer does "Mack The Knife," a song about the murderous Macheath.More
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