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24 SEPTEMBER

In Music History

1993 Guns N' Roses founding member Steven Adler agrees to a $2.5 million settlement in a lawsuit brought against the band and their managers. Adler signed away his interest in the band when he left in 1990 but claimed he was seriously impaired at the time and was taken advantage of.

1990 AC/DC releases The Razors Edge, omitting the apostrophe in the title. The only album by the band to feature Chis Slade on drums, it reaches #2 on the US Albums chart and #4 in the UK.

1989 Bob Dylan plays flute and recorder at the "L'Chaim - To Life!" telethon, backing up the band Chopped Liver with his son-in-law Peter Himmelman, who is married to Dylan's daughter Maria.

1988 Lou Reed returns to his old haunt CBGB to play some songs with Tom Tom Club, including "Femme Fatale," which he has recently re-recorded with the group.

1988 The Hollies go to the top of the UK singles chart with "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" after the song was used in a UK TV beer commercial. The record was originally a hit for them in 1969.

1988 Graham Parker opens a solo acoustic tour at the University of Rhode Island.

1988 James Brown leads police on an hour-long, two-state car chase starting in Augusta, Georgia. Brown is arrested and eventually serves two years for a variety of charges.

1987 The Cosby Show begins its fourth season, introducing a new, jazzy version of the theme song performed by Bobby McFerrin. It finishes the season as the highest-rated show on TV.

1979 The Eagles release their sixth album, The Long Run. The lead single is "Heartache Tonight," a song co-written by Bob Seger.

1978 Ruth Etting, a popular singer and actress throughout the '20s and '30s, dies at age 80. Her life inspired the 1955 fictionalized biopic Love Me or Leave Me, starring Doris Day and James Cagney.

1977 Barely a month after his untimely death, the first national Elvis Presley convention takes place in Memphis.

1975 Rush release their third album, Caress of Steel. The album doesn't sell as well as its predecessor, Fly by Night, and is poorly received by critics. Rush chalks up the album's lack of focus and quality to copious amounts of marijuana consumed during its making. The audacious ambition of the album, however, is an important step in the band's evolution, another step forward on an artistic path that will find fruit a year later with 2012.

1974 James Brown plays to 80,000 in Zaire, closing out a festival timed to coincide with the Ali-Foreman "Rumble In The Jungle," which has been postponed.

1971 Marty Cintron (of No Mercy) is born in the Bronx, New York City.

1971 The Jackson 5 appear on the cover of Life magazine, with the headline "Rock Stars At Home With Their Parents."