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1999 Los Angeles sheriff's investigators search for Sandra Ann Rosas, the wife of Los Lobos singer-guitarist Cesar Rosas, after finding her van abandoned in La Puente, California. They arrest her half-brother, parolee Gabriel Gomez, for investigation of kidnapping.

1998 R.E.M. play an exclusive concert for BBC Radio 1 at the Radio Theater at Broadcasting House in London for an audience primarily consisting of fan club members and contest winners.

1997 During a concert in Flint, Michigan, Johnny Cash tells the crowd he has Parkinson's Disease after he falls over trying to pick up a guitar pick. The crowd thinks he's joking, but Cash's manager confirms it in a statement two days later.

1996 The first Ozzfest is held as a two-day festival in Phoenix, Arizona, and Devore, California.

1995 Cliff Richard is invested as Sir Cliff Richard, becoming the first pop star to receive a knighthood for services to music.(Bob Geldof received his honorary knighthood nine years earlier).

1994 Hootie & the Blowfish begin their first US tour in South Bend, Indiana. They're the opening act for Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

1993 Howie Blauvelt (bass guitarist for Ram Jam) dies of a heart attack. Blauvelt also played bass for Billy Joel's former group The Hassles.

1992 Country singer Roger Miller dies of lung and throat cancer in Los Angeles, California, at age 56.

1992 The "Sinead Brigade," a group supporting Sinéad O'Connor, who tore up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live a few weeks earlier, protests outside of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, where Cardinal John O'Connor is holding mass. Wearing masks of O'Connor, they mimic her display by tearing up photos of the Pope.

1991 Margo Sylvia (lead singer of The Tune Weavers) dies of a heart attack and stroke in San Diego, California, at age 55. Known for the 1957 hit ''Happy, Happy Birthday Baby."

1991 The renowned concert promoter Bill Graham, who ran the Fillmore and Fillmore East venues, dies in a helicopter crash returning home from a Huey Lewis & the News concert. Graham, 60, provided a more intimate and elegant concert experience with improved sound and even light shows. Some of his bigger productions included The Band's "Last Waltz" final concert and the Grateful Dead's New Year's Eve shows.

1988 Chico and Bobby DeBarge (of DeBarge) are convicted in Michigan of trafficking cocaine.

1985 R&B singer Ciara is born Ciara Princess Harris in Austin, Texas, but is raised throughout the US and Germany thanks to her Army dad.

1984 Pop star Katy Perry is born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson in Santa Barbara, California.

1981 Jerome "Romeo" Jones (of Immature/IMx) is born in Los Angeles, California.

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Grunge Is All The Rage As Eddie Vedder (Unwillingly) Makes The Cover Of Time

1993

Time magazine puts Eddie Vedder on the cover with the headline "All The Rage." Both Vedder and Kurt Cobain refused to speak with the magazine for the story, but they run it anyway in an attempt to explain why young people are listening to such angry music.

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