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2005 After reuniting to play four shows in London at Royal Albert Hall in May, Cream play the first of three sell-out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
1992 "End Of The Road" by Boyz II Men ties Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel"/"Hound Dog" as the longest-running #1 single when it reaches its 11th week at the top. It spends two more weeks at #1, but loses the record three months later when Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" stays for 14 weeks.More
1989 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its fifth class of inductees: The Who, Simon & Garfunkel, The Kinks, The Platters, Hank Ballard, Bobby Darin, The Four Seasons, The Four Tops, the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team, Carole King, and Gerry Goffin.
1988 John Fogerty's trial begins. He is accused of plagiarizing himself by using elements of his Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Run Through The Jungle" for his 1985 solo hit "The Old Man Down The Road." The suit is brought by his nemesis and former label boss Saul Zaentz, who owns the publishing on "Jungle." Fogerty wins the case.
1987 The title track of Michael Jackson's Bad album hits #1 in America for the first of two weeks.
1986 Aubrey Drake Graham is born in Toronto. After a stint on the TV show Degrassi: The Next Generation, he becomes a superstar rapper under the name Drake.
1978 The movie version of The Wiz, which debuted as a Broadway stage production in 1975, hits theaters. The all-black cast includes Diana Ross as Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow. The film marks Jackson's acting debut.
1970 "Lola" peaks at #9 in the US, giving The Kinks their first American Top 10 since "Tired of Waiting for You" in 1965. After their US tour in 1965, they were denied visas for the next three years, killing their momentum in that country. Following their return in 1969, "Lola" gets them back on the airwaves.
1962 In the thick of the Cuban Missile Crisis, James Brown records his electrifying stage show for the album Live at the Apollo.More
24 OCTOBER
In Music History
2023 Britney Spears publishes her memoir, The Woman In Me, revealing that she was once pregnant with Justin Timberlake's baby but didn't have the child.
2022 Adidas joins The Gap, Balenciaga, CAA, and most other companies associated with Kanye West in cutting ties with him over antisemitic comments he made on a podcast and on social media. It's a big financial hit for Adidas, as West's Yeezy line accounts for an estimated 6% of their sales.
2020 Billie Eilish pulls off Where Do We Go? The Livestream, the first large-scale virtual concert with extended reality (XR) effects, which immerse and interact with the performers (Eilish, her brother Finneas, and drummer Andrew Marshall), and shift scenes from song to song. Tickets cost $30.
2017 Fats Domino passes away at age 89 in his home in Harvey, Louisiana.
2017 Marilyn Manson boots longtime bassist Twiggy Ramirez from his band in response to allegations from Jack Off Jill singer Jessicka Adams that he raped and abused her.
2016 Bobby Vee dies at age 73 after a long battle with Alzheimer's. In 1961, he had a #1 hit with "Take Good Care Of My Baby."
2016 Photographer, artist, and lyricist Jeremy Ayers passes away after having a seizure and falling into a short coma. He had been a pivotal part of the Athens, Georgia, art scene and penned the lyrics for "52 Girls" by the B-52s, and "Windout" and "Old Man Kensey" by R.E.M.
2013 Tina Turner, who has obtained citizenship in Switzerland, where she has lived since 1995, relinquishes her United States citizenship.
2012 R&B singer Bobby Brown is arrested in Los Angeles, California, for a DUI ticket - after a similar incident in March of the same year in which he'd pleaded no contest and agreed to attend rehab. This time he is released on bail.
2008 In Chicago, Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother are shot and killed in their home by her sister's estranged husband, William Balfour. The body of her 7-year-old nephew is found three days later.
2008 Pianist/keyboardist Merl Saunders dies of infections caused by a stroke in San Francisco, California, at age 74.
2006 To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its best-selling album, Def Leppard reissues Hysteria as a two-CD package. Beyond a remastered edition of the original album, the new edition includes a bonus disc with a host of non-album tracks first issued during the period.
2006 Taylor Swift releases her self-titled debut album, a collection of country-pop tunes the singer wrote during her freshman year of high school. Led by the Top 20 single "Tim McGraw," it peaks at #5 on the Albums chart and becomes the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US, logging 157 weeks by 2009.
2001 Kim Gardner (bass guitarist for Ashton, Gardner & Dyke) dies of cancer in Los Angeles, California, at age 53.
Backstreet Boys Become Backstreet Men
2007Backstreet Boys release Unbreakable, their first album without Kevin Richardson.
Richardson left the previous June to start a family and focus on a budding acting career. The group pushed forward as a quartet and began recording their next album just two days after Richardson announced his departure. By the time Unbreakable is released, it is their first album of new material in two years, and marks their first project without longtime collaborator Max Martin, the Swedish pop dynamo responsible for many of the band's harmonizing hits. With even the youngest of the group, Nick Carter, approaching his 30s, the Backstreet Boys are no longer boys and want the world to know it. Their previous album, Never Gone, strayed far outside the balladeers' comfort zone with their first use of live instrumentation bringing a rock edge to their traditional pop sound. It was a commercial success, but a critical disaster. Unfazed by the backlash, they enlist songwriter Dan Muckala, who wrote the hit "Incomplete" for the lambasted album, for the production helm. Hoping to break into the Adult Contemporary market, the Boys record a varied collection of tunes to prove their capability as an adult vocal group, from the piano power ballad "Inconsolable" to the reggae-infused hip-hop track "One In A Million." JC Chasez, formerly of rival boyband *NSYNC, comes onboard to co-write and produce the electropop kiss-off "Treat Me Right." The album debuts to mixed reviews but earns a Top 10 spot in America, who has always been their toughest critic (dubbed No Fan Land in the band's early days as strictly European sensations). But sales figures don't lie: They aren't the superstars they used to be. For a group accustomed to pushing over a million copies in an album's first week, the mere 81,000 from Unbreakable's first-week sales is a stark contrast. The Backstreet Boys may be unbreakable, but that has to hurt.
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