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2011 The B-52s play their first ever show in Idaho, finally performing their song "Private Idaho" in the state that inspired it.
2009 When Taylor Swift wins for Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West comes on stage and commandeers the microphone, explaining that Beyoncé deserved the award for her "Single Ladies" video. When Beyoncé does win for Video of the Year later that night, she brings Taylor on stage to finish her speech.More
2000 Almost Famous is released in theaters across the US. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of writer and director Cameron Crowe's time spent interviewing rock bands for Rolling Stone in the '70s, when he was just a teenager. The film centers around a fictional band called Stillwater, and rather than being based on one band in particular, Stillwater feels like every '70s arena band rolled into one.More
1997 Elton John's rewritten version of "Candle In The Wind" that he played at Princess Diana's funeral a week earlier is released as a single. It sells a record 600,000 copies the first day in Britain alone, where it becomes the best selling single of all time. Worldwide, it sells over 30 million copies, second only to "White Christmas."More
1996 Tupac Shakur, age 25, dies six days after being shot while riding in a car driven by his label boss, Suge Knight. No arrests are made in the case.
1969 At the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival, host Kim Fowley starts a rock tradition when he asks the crowd to hold up lighters for Eric Clapton and John Lennon.More
13 SEPTEMBER
In Music History
2019 Eddie Money dies of esophageal cancer at 70.
2018 Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin get married at a New York City courthouse. They keep it a secret for months, and don't have a ceremony until September 30, 2019.
2015 REO Speedwagon guitarist Gary Richrath, who wrote their hits "Ridin' the Storm Out" and "Take It On The Run," dies at age 65.
2013 Hozier releases "Take Me to Church," the lead single from his self-titled debut album.
2013 After winning a landmark lawsuit, The Village People lead singer Victor Willis regains the copyright to 33 songs he co-wrote for the band. Willis is the first songwriter to go public with his case, which deals with a 1978 law that reverts copyrights to songs back to their original owners 35 years after. Like many songwriters, Willis had signed away the rights to his songs.
2011 After an eight-year absence, Anthrax release their 10th studio album, Worship Music. Joey Belladonna, who hasn't been with the band since 1992, returns to handle lead vocals.
2010 John Mayer shuts down his Twitter account with 3.7 million followers. Once an avid Tweeter, Mayer has shied away from social media after oversharing in a Playboy interview. He does eventually return to Twitter, but in moderation. "It does rewire your brain," he says.
2009 Katy Perry and Russell Brand meet at the MTV Video Music Awards, which Brand is hosting. The pair begin dating soon after.
2008 Come Dancing, a musical devoted to the music of The Kinks, opens in London.
2005 Jimi Hendrix's boyhood home in Seattle is saved from destruction after his estate and the city agree to renovate the building and turn it into a community center.
2003 Dave Clark Five lead singer Mike Smith suffers a tragic fall from a ladder at his home in Spain, leaving him without any movement in three limbs. He would remain a near-quadriplegic until his death in 2008 from pneumonia, a complication of the original injury.
1994 The Notorious B.I.G. releases his debut solo album, Ready to Die. It's the first album issued on Sean Combs' Bad Boy label.
1993 Max Weinberg, drummer with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, begins his new job as bandleader for NBC-TV's new show Late Night With Conan O'Brien.
1993 Niall Horan of One Direction is born in Mullingar, Westmeath, Ireland.
1991 Alice Cooper plays Freddy Krueger's father in the movie Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.
First-time Producer Kate Bush Releases The Dreaming
1982After co-producing her previous release, Never For Ever, British singer-songwriter Kate Bush returns as sole producer with The Dreaming.
Bush - who first broke into the UK charts at #1 with her debut single, "Wuthering Heights," in 1978 - unleashes her unfettered creativity on the album. For her first outing as producer, she "wanted to try and create pictures with the sounds by using effects" by experimenting with different textures and voices, along with blending new technology (notably the new Fairlight CMI digital sampler) and traditional folk instruments. The lead single, "Sat In Your Lap," features thundering percussion and shrieking vocals that draws comparison to Public Image Ltd.'s post-punk oddity "Flowers Of Romance." In contrast, "Night Of The Swallow" is a folk tune that employs members of the traditional Irish groups Planxty and The Chieftains, who bring uillean pipes, bagpipes and the mandolin-like bouzouki to the arrangement. The title track ditches Ireland for the Outback – with the help of Rolf Harris playing the didgeridoo and a bird impersonator making sheep noises, it tells the story of Aboriginal Australians whose homelands were destroyed by uranium-seeking white Aussies. Critics think the project is too experimental and will likely alienate her fanbase, but The Dreaming still manages a #3 entry on the UK charts. More importantly, it gives Bush the power to seize control over her career - a landmark move for any artist, but even more so for a female in the male-dominated industry. Over time, the album is highly regarded, not only as part of Kate's discography but as part of the pop music canon.
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