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2003 Britney Spears' girl-power flick Crossroads earns eight nominations at the 23rd Golden Raspberry Awards, and two wins: Worst Original Song for "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" and Worst Actress for Spears, an honor she shares with Razzie darling Madonna for Swept Away (named Worst Picture). The Material Girl, who has been a regular contender - and five-time Worst Actress winner - since her 1986 win for Shanghai Surprise, earns two more awards. She shares Worst Screen Couple with Adriano Giannini for Swept Away and garners Worst Supporting Actress as Verity in Die Another Day.
1987 Anthrax release their third album, Among the Living. The cover shows an image of Henry Kane, a character in the film Poltergeist II: The Other Side, which the band finds terrifying.More
1986 Heart's "These Dreams" hits #1 in the US. The lyric is written by Elton John's songwriting partner, Bernie Taupin.
1980 Pink Floyd tops the Hot 100 with "Another Brick In The Wall (part II)," which stays a total of four weeks. It's a rare hit single for the band, whose only other Top 40 appearance is "Money," which hit #13 in 1973.More
1978 A Beatles parody special called The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, airs on ABC. The special stars various members of the Monty Python troupe.More
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In Music History
2019 Scott Walker dies at 76. In the UK, he became a pop star in the '60s, but turned to more experimental music in ensuing years.
2017 Original Boston drummer Sib Hashian, who played on their first two albums, dies at age 67 after collapsing during the Legends of Rock Cruise.
2016 After years of health problems and a battle with diabetes, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest dies at age 45.
2013 My Chemical Romance announce their breakup after 12 years as a band. They return to action in 2019.
2013 Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy releases his debut EP, God Loves You When You're Dancing.
2009 Folk music historian Archie Green dies at age 91.
2006 Cuban singer Pío Leyva (of Buena Vista Social Club) dies of a heart attack at age 88.
2006 Aerosmith cancels the rest of their Rockin' The Joint tour so lead singer Steven Tyler can have throat surgery to treat strained vocal chords.
2005 Rod Price (guitarist for Foghat) dies after suffering a heart attack and falling down a flight of stairs at his home.
2002 Celine Dion releases the album A New Day Has Come, which goes to #1 in many territories, including the US, UK, and Canada.
2001 Earl Beal of The Silhouettes dies at age 71.
1997 "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" by Puff Daddy goes to #1, the first of four chart-toppers in 1997 from his Bad Boy label. The others are "Hypnotize" and "Mo Money Mo Problems" by The Notorious B.I.G., and "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff, his tribute to B.I.G., who died on March 9, 1997.
1996 Don Murray (drummer for The Turtles) dies of complications from ulcer surgery at age 50.
1994 Ted Nugent, always a straight arrow, makes a PSA warning kids of the dangers of abusing inhalants.
1994 Dan Hartman dies of an AIDS-related brain tumor at age 43.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Is Born
1948Andrew Lloyd Webber is born in Kensington, London, England.
The composer and mastermind behind Broadway smashes like Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Evita, and The Phantom of the Opera grows up in a musical family, including cellist virtuoso brother Julian, that encourages his passion for music. His father, William Lloyd Webber, is a composer in his own right and his mother, Jean Hermione Johnstone, is a violinist and pianist. By the age of 9, Lloyd Webber is already composing his own music and putting on shows in his toy theater. Sounds cute, but he actually publishes six short pieces as "The Toy Theatre" in Music Teacher Magazine. Teaming up with lyricist Tim Rice, he first gains notoriety in the early '70s with the retelling of a Bible story with Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and a rock opera inspired by the life of Argentina's former First Lady, Eva Peron, in Evita (for which he wins his first Tony Award for Best Musical). In 1977, he creates the Really Useful Group, one of the biggest theater operators in London. But his masterpiece comes in the following decade when The Phantom of the Opera makes its debut in 1986 and surpasses another Lloyd Webber production, Cats, as the longest-running Broadway musical of all time. As composer and impresario for 13+ musicals, Lloyd Webber earns dozens of awards, including multiple Academy Awards, Tony Awards, Ivor Novello Awards (a prestigious songwriting and composing award named for the UK entertainer), Golden Globes, and Grammys. On top of all that, we really should be calling him The Lord Lloyd-Webber as he is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992 and later bestowed the rank of baron. Photo: Lucy Sewill
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