18 SEPTEMBER
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2009 After completing her set at a concert in Minneapolis, Lucinda Williams marries her manager, Tom Overby, on stage. After exchanging vows, they do an encore, starting with "Happy" by The Rolling Stones.
1994 The United States Postal Service issues the Billie Holiday stamp to honor the singer.More
1992 Cameron Crowe's film Singles hits theaters in the US. While at first glance, the movie could be seen as an epilogue to all those teen angst films of the '80s with the cast of offbeat and quirky rebels and outcasts moving through early adulthood with no less angst than before, it quickly proves to be much more than a post-adolescent coming-of-age flick. Pearl Jam and Soundgarden appear.More
1983 Kiss make their first public appearance without their trademark make-up when they show up on MTV to promote their new album - and single - "Lick It Up."
1978 WKRP in Cincinnati, a TV series about a radio station that switches format from easy listening to rock, makes its debut on CBS. It lasts four seasons, enjoying support from real radio professionals who recognize the quirky characters (incompetent general manager Arthur Carlson, disheveled morning jock Johnny Fever) in their co-workers.
1970 Jimi Hendrix is found dead in his basement. He had taken nine pills of the barbiturate Vesparax, that along with alcohol, caused a fatal overdose.More
18 SEPTEMBER
In Music History
2013 Roger Pope (frequent drummer for Elton John) dies of cancer in Southampton, England, at age 66, just hours after marrying his longtime companion, Sue Tresidder.
2012 Annie Lennox, formerly of the bands The Tourists and Eurythmics, gets hitched to her third husband, a London doctor named Mitch Besser.
2011 At the Austin City Limits festival, Awolnation lead singer Aaron Bruno does a little crowd surfing, using a boogie board to actually surf on top of the crowd before performing their apropos hit "Sail."More
2008 The Village People get a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 6529 Hollywood Blvd.
2006 Willie Nelson's tour bus is stopped near Lafayette, Louisiana, and Nelson, along with four members of his band, are arrested for possession of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.
2005 Dashboard Confessional donates proceeds from its Toronto show to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
2004 The Fugees reunite for a concert hosted by the comedian Dave Chappelle on a corner in Brooklyn. Other performers at the show, which is later released as the film Dave Chappelle's Block Party, include Kanye West, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and The Roots.
2004 Britney Spears marries her fiance, dancer Kevin Federline, at a private home in Los Angeles. The 27 guests are told it's an engagement party and are surprised to learn it's an actual ceremony, which lasts five minutes. It is Spears' second marriage in nine months; they divorce less than three years later.
2002 Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson perform at the Adopt-A-Minefield Benefit Gala in Los Angeles. They do separate sets but share the stage for "God Only Knows," a song McCartney once called "the greatest song ever written."
2001 Tori Amos releases Strange Little Girls, a concept album where she sings from the perspective of the female characters in songs written by males, including Eminem's "'97 Bonnie And Clyde," Neil Young's "Heart Of Gold," The Beatles' "Happiness Is A Warm Gun," and The Stranglers' "Strange Little Girl."
2000 Papa Roach release their breakthrough single, "Last Resort." The track goes on to top the US Modern Rock Tracks chart.
1998 On the Grand Ole Opry, Jett Williams pays tribute to her late father, Hank Williams, who would have been 75 the day before. Daughter salutes father by performing "Your Cheatin' Heart," a song released after his death on New Year's Eve, 1952. "He never sang the song on the Opry. He never sang it live," Williams tells the audience.
1997 Jump blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon dies of throat cancer in Los Angeles, California, at age 77.
1992 Earl Van Dyke, keyboardist for Funk Brothers, Motown's in-house band, dies of prostate cancer at age 62.
1985 The Gladys Knight/Flip Wilson sitcom Charlie And Company premieres on CBS.
KISS Members Release Simultaneous Solo Albums
1978The albums Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss all hit stores on the same day.
Riding a wave of incredible commercial success that includes over $10 million dollars made in 1977 (the year of Love Gun), KISS pushes things even further. Sparking up drama with news of divisions forming within the band, all four members release solo albums. It's the first time in history that all standing members of a band release solo albums concurrently. The news that interpersonal tensions were the catalyst for this move is almost surely exaggerated, if not wholly fabricated, as KISS' 1976 contract with Casablanca Records included demands for four solo albums. Casablanca spends $2.5 million in promotion. The effort pays off. Gene Simmons sells best of all the albums, but each of them does well and attains platinum status. It's a far better fate than that had by the band's other 1978 promotional effort, the abysmally cheesy Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park TV movie released on October 28, 1978. 1979's Dynasty follows the solo efforts. It is the last KISS album to feature Peter Criss on every song.
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