22 MAY
Featured Events
2019 The biographical film Rocketman, starring Taron Egerton as Elton John, debuts in US theaters.More
2017 Minutes after an Ariana Grande concert ends at the Manchester Arena in England, a suicide bomber detonates a device, killing 22 and injuring at least 60 others in an act of terrorism.More
1986 Cher, making her first appearance on David Letterman's show, tells him why she declined the many invitations to come on before: Because she thought he was an "a--hole."More
1967 The Monkees release Headquarters, proving they're more than a group of actors who just play a band on TV. Although it's their third album, it's the first that allows them creative control over songwriting and performing without relying on session musicians. The album goes to #1 on the Billboard 200.
1950 Bernie Taupin is born in Lincolnshire, England. He becomes Elton John's lyricist, and also co-writes #1 hits for two other acts: "These Dreams" for Heart and "We Built This City" for Starship.
22 MAY
In Music History
2019 ABC airs live remakes of All in the Family and The Jeffersons, two shows with iconic theme songs. Woody Harrelson and Marisa Tomei (as Archie and Edith Bunker) sing "Those Were The Days," the All in the Family theme; Jennifer Hudson does "Movin' On Up," The Jeffersons theme.More
2016 Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper becomes the first streaming-only entry on Billboard's albums chart when it debuts at #8.
2015 Jana Kramer marries former NFL player Mike Caussin.
2011 Donald Trump names John Rich of Big & Rich winner of The Celebrity Apprentice, Season 11.
2011 Joseph Brooks, who wrote the title hit to the 1977 film You Light Up My Life, commits suicide at age 73 while awaiting a rape trial. He was accused of committing a series of rapes by luring aspiring actresses to his apartment under the guise of conducting movie auditions.
2010 Alanis Morissette marries the rapper Souleye (Mario Treadway). They have their first child seven months later.
2009 Meg White marries guitarist Jackson Smith, son of Patti Smith and Fred "Sonic" Smith, in the backyard of her former husband (and White Stripes bandmate), Jack White, in Nashville. The ceremony is a double wedding, with the Raconteurs' Jack Lawrence marrying his photographer girlfriend Jo McCaughey.
2007 Joey Fatone of 'N Sync comes in second to Apolo Anton Ohno on Dancing With The Stars.
2004 After 12 weeks at #1, Usher's "Yeah!" is knocked off by his next single, "Burn," which spends another eight weeks at the top.
2000 Aaron Tippin releases "Kiss This," his third and final #1 hit on the country chart.
1996 Mission: Impossible, starring Tom Cruise as superspy Ethan Hunt, debuts in theaters. A reboot of the classic '60s TV series, it features a hit electronic reimagining of Lalo Schifrin's iconic "Burning Fuse" theme from U2's Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen.
1976 "Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney & Wings goes to #1 in America, where it stays for five weeks.
1972 The Guess Who record their Live At The Paramount album in Seattle, Washington.
1968 Cream's Disraeli Gears is certified gold.
1967 Dan Roberts (bass guitarist for Crash Test Dummies) is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Sticky Fingers Zips To #1
1971The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers album, with a working zipper on the cover, hits #1 in the US.
The Rolling Stones' first album of the 1970s is also the first release on their new label: Rolling Stones Records. The album is targeted squarely at the US market, where it outsells every previous Stones album, eventually selling over 3 million copies. After the sacking of founding member Brian Jones, a second guitarist, Mick Taylor, is added to the lineup. Taylor breathes new life into the band, bringing a more contemporary American sound to songs like the bluesy #1 single "Brown Sugar" and the country rocker "Wild Horses" (both songs recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama). Thanks to a series of shrewd deals made by the band's former lawyer, Allen Klein (to his benefit rather than theirs), the band were faced with a crippling tax bill, and Decca Records retained the rights to all of their material thus far - with the band owing them one final single to complete their contractual obligations. This led to the band holding back their newer recordings and presenting the company with an unreleasable song called "C--ksucker Blues." Decca responds by reissuing the two-year-old "Street Fighting Man," and the Stones, freed from the constraints of their deal, are able to strike out on their own. With complete artistic control over both the content of the record and its presentation, the band call in the pop artist Andy Warhol to design a cover. Warhol selects an image of a male model clad in tight jeans, with a working belt buckle and zipper that can be opened to reveal a pair of cotton briefs. The zipper itself is found to cause damage to the delicate vinyl, so the distribution companies have to partially unzip each one by hand to protect the part that meets the needle and minimize damage when they are stacked for transportation. The album also features the first use of the band's iconic "tongue and lips" logo, which is designed by a London art student named John Pasche.
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