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2023 Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington dies at 71. He was last founding member of the band still alive.

2016 Visiting a music-production class at N.Y.U., Pharrell Williams is blown away by a song called "Alaska" by Maggie Rogers, a senior at the university. "It's singular... your whole story I can hear it in the music," he tells her.More

2013 In a Czech court, Lamb of God lead singer Randy Blythe is acquitted of manslaughter. He was charged with pushing a fan to his death at a 2013 LoG concert in Prague; in 2012 he was arrested when the band returned to the country for another show.

2011 Justin Bieber, 17, hits #1 with Never Say Never - The Remixes, a companion to his Never Say Never concert film. This makes him the only male solo artist with two #1 albums before turning 18. Before the year is over he adds a third with his Christmas album Under The Mistletoe.

2007 Three years after publishing their well-received debut album Funeral, Arcade Fire release Neon Bible.

1999 Trauma Entertainment files a $40 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the members of Bush for failure to deliver their next album.

1995 Viv Stanshall of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band dies in a fire at age 51. Stanshall was asleep in his North London home when an electrical fire broke out.

1994 Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane is arrested at her home in Tiburon, California for pointing a loaded gun at police officers responding to reports of a domestic dispute. She will be sentenced to community service and forced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

1992 Soundgarden play the first of two nights at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington. Both nights are filmed, and several songs turn up in November as part of the Motorvision home video, with additional tracks eventually turning up as part of the 25th Anniversary edition of Badmotorfinger in 2016.

1984 Howard Jones' debut album, Human's Lib, is released in the UK, where it rises to #1.

1983 At The Stone in San Francisco, Metallica play their first show with bass player Cliff Burton. The band relocates to the Bay Area to accommodate Burton and join a metal scene far more vibrant than the one they leave behind in Los Angeles.

1982 John Belushi of The Blues Brothers, 33, dies of a drug overdose in his bungalow at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. Belushi had been injected with a speedball, a mixture of cocaine and heroin.

1981 Songwriter E.Y. "Yip" Harburg ("Over The Rainbow") dies in a car accident at age 81.

1977 18-year-old Kate Bush writes "Wuthering Heights" after catching the end of a BBC adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel of the same name. The ethereal tune becomes her debut single the following year and hits #1 in the UK.

1977 Barbra Streisand's "Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)" hits #1 in the US. The song was written for the 1976 film she starred in with Kris Kristofferson.

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Rod Stewart Meets Britt Ekland

1975

Rod Stewart meets the Swedish actress Britt Ekland when she comes backstage after his concert at the Los Angeles Forum, kicking off an affair that results in a famous song and a nasty lawsuit.


Ekland, whose previous partners include Peter Sellers, Warren Beatty, Lou Adler and Ryan O'Neal, moves in with Stewart and joins him on tour. She appears in the video for "Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)" and does the naughty French whispering at the end of the song, which climbs to #1 in America in 1976. Stewart also writes "You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)" while the pair are together. In 1977, Stewart is spotted with another blonde actress, Liz Treadwell, and the couple split after two-and-a-half years together. Ekland doesn't go quietly: invoking a California law that gives former girlfriends and mistresses certain alimony and property rights, she files a $12.5 million lawsuit against Stewart, claiming she sacrificed her career for his. The suit is settled out of court for a reported $500,000 in property. When Stewart does finally get married - to Alana Hamilton in 1979 - he has her sign a prenuptial agreement.

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Renee from UsaI have watched interviews with Rod recently and on the UK show Loose Women,he mentions that Britt is the only former love that doesn't speak to him and said that she needs to get over it and move on. Yes Rod. This is exactly what someone wants to do: Still be friendly with a person who lied,cheated and deceived them after they put their own needs and wants on hold to please the other. Someone get Rod a dictionary and point to a picture of him next to the word ignorance.
Linda from UsaI remember being a kid and the whole Britt/Rod relationship seemed to be everywhere. It's a shame that things didn't work out as they looked great together.

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