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In Music History
1972 Badfinger's "Day After Day" is certified Gold.
1971 Fergal Lawler (drummer for The Cranberries) is born in Limerick, Ireland.
1971 One the eve of their new UK tour, The Rolling Stones become rock's first tax exiles by announcing that they're moving from England to France.
1969 Chastity Bono is born to Sonny & Cher.
1968 An icy car crash sends Temptations members Eddie Kendricks and Otis Williams to a Somerset, Pennsylvania, hospital.
1968 The Mothers of Invention release their third studio album, We're Only it It for the Money.
1967 Evan Dando (frontman for The Lemonheads) is born in Essex, Massachusetts.
1967 The Rolling Stones chart their fourth #1 hit in America with the ballad "Ruby Tuesday."
1967 Steve Winwood and his brother, Muff, announce they are leaving The Spencer Davis Group. Steve forms Traffic later that year.
1966 Patrick Hannan (drummer for The Sundays) is born in the UK.
1963 Jason Newsted is born in Battle Creek, Michigan. He plays bass for Flotsam and Jetsam, Metallica and Voivod.
1963 The Beach Boys release "Surfin' U.S.A.," a reworking of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen."
1955 Boon Gould (of Level 42) is born in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England.
1954 St Clair L. Palmer (of Sweet Sensation) is born in Saint Kitts.
1953 Emilio Estefan is born in Cuba; he moves to Miami as a teenager. In 1977 Gloria Fajardo (also Cuban-born) joins his group Miami Sound Machine. A year later they get married, and after building a huge following in the South Florida Latin scene, they break through in 1985 with the hits "Conga" and "Words Get In The Way." Gloria Estfan goes solo in 1989 with Emilio her producer and manager.
Bee Gees Write The Hits
1978The #3 "Sometimes When We Touch" by Dan Hill is the only song in the Top 5 not written by a member of The Bee Gees. Andy Gibb's "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" is #1, with "Stayin' Alive" at #2, "Night Fever" at #5 and Samantha Sang's "Emotion," written by Robin and Barry Gibb, at #4.
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2017 The Katy Perry song "Chained to the Rhythm" hits #4 on the Hot 100, making guest vocalist Skip Marley the first of the Marleys to land a Top 10 on that tally.More
2003 Evanescence release their first album, Fallen, featuring the hits "Bring Me To Life" and "Going Under."
1993 Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown and Victoria Adams are among 400 hopefuls at a London dance studio auditioning for producers who are forming a new group. They are selected, and along with Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton, become the Spice Girls.More
1984 The Police play the final concert of their Synchronicity tour in Melbourne, Australia. It is their last show, except for a few special events together, until 2007.
1966 John Lennon is quoted in the London Evening Standard saying, "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now." The remark goes mostly unnoticed, but causes a big stink when it is reprinted in a US publication four months later.
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