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9 OCTOBER

In Music History

2018 Mondo Scripto, the first-ever lyrics and drawing exhibition by Bob Dylan, opens at the Halcyon Gallery in London.

2009 Bruce Springsteen plays the last concert at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. Part of his set includes an early version of "Wrecking Ball" that he wrote for the occasion.

2007 LeAnn Rimes releases her ninth studio album, Family, which features the hit singles "Nothin' Better To Do" and "What I Cannot Change."

2006 The Bad Brains kick off a three-night residency at CBGB's, during the famed music venue's last week of operation. Celebrities spotted in the crowd include Ric Ocasek, Paulina Porizkova, Richard Hell, and Elijah Wood.

2003 Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O, a very frenetic performer, is hurt when she tumbles off the stage at a show in Sydney and a monitor lands on her head. After one more song she's taken to the hospital, but two days later she performs from a wheelchair when the band return to the same venue for a festival.

2000 On what would have been John Lennon's 60th birthday, the book Lennon Remembers, The Complete Rolling Stone Interviews is released, containing material too controversial to publish years earlier.

2000 The John Lennon museum opens in Japan on what would have been his 60th birthday. Yoko Ono allows it to operate for 10 years before terminating the agreement, as she feels Lennon's spirit should stay in motion.

2000 Barry White gives a speech to the debate squad at Oxford University.

2000 Dennis DeYoung of Styx, unable to tour because of debilitating fatigue, sues the band for touring without him. The suit is eventually settled, but DeYoung never returns to the fold. Styx carries on without him, but leaves most of his songs out of the setlists.

1999 Jazz vibraphonist Milt "Bags" Jackson dies in Teaneck, New Jersey, at age 76. Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie discovered him in 1946 when he hired him for his sextet.

1997 Bernhard Mikulski, founder of the German record label ZYX Music, dies at age 68.

1996 Maxwell sells out the Roxy Theater in a show that was moved from the smaller Cotton Club to meet demand.

1990 West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein, 72, retires from conducting due to emphysema. He dies five days later.

1988 Electric guitarist Cliff Gallup (of Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps) dies of a heart attack at age 58.

1986 Little-known Kenny G makes his first appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, but instead of playing his cover of Junior Walker's "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)" as agreed, he goes off script and plays his own composition, "Songbird." Impressed by the reaction, Arista Records issues the song as a single and it becomes a hit, setting the stage for more instrumental sax songs from Kenny G and the emergence of the Smooth Jazz format.