26 SEPTEMBER
In Music History
1998 Prince (who is using an unpronounceable symbol as his name) injures his ankle performing at a show in Atlantic City and is forced to postpone his remaining tour dates.
1984 Paul Anka receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Blvd.
1981 Christina Milian is born Christine Flores in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1976 Marvin Gaye records a live album at the London Palladium (his first appearance in England in ten years).
1974 John Lennon releases Walls And Bridges.
1972 Shawn Stockman (of Boyz II Men) is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1970 Returning to Abbey Road studios in London, ex-Beatle John Lennon begins work on his first proper solo album, John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band.
1970 Motown Records announces The Jackson 5 have sold 10 million records in nine months.
1969 The Beatles release Abbey Road in England.
1969 Legendary promoter Bill Graham opens the Fillmore West, a West Coast version of his popular New York "rock ballroom," in San Francisco.
1962 Tracey Thorn (of Everything but the Girl) is born in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.
1961 Cindy Herron (of En Vogue) is born in San Francisco, California.
1960 Connie Francis' "My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own" hits #1 for the first of two weeks.
1957 The Monotones record "Book Of Love."
1956 Elvis Presley returns to his hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi, to play the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. One of the many smitten teenage girls in the audience is Wynette Pugh, who goes on to stardom as Tammy Wynette. Security issues soon make small-time appearances like this impossible for Elvis.
Rocky Horror Opens In Theaters
1975The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens in Westwood, California. Featuring a young Meat Loaf along with Tim Curry and Susan Sarandon, the movie tanks but later becomes a cult classic, with audience members shouting back at the screen and bringing toast, toilet paper, and other assorted items to enhance the viewing experience.
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2008 Clay Aiken announces he is gay in People magazine, saying: "It was the first decision I made as a father. I cannot raise a child to lie or to hide things. I wasn't raised that way, and I'm not going to raise a child to do that."
1992 Gloria Estefan stages a star-studded concert to provide relief to victims of Hurricane Andrew.More
1990 Cop Rock, a musical police drama with a theme song by Randy Newman, debuts on ABC. Stung by scathing reviews and terrible ratings, it is cancelled after 11 episodes.More
1987 Whitney Houston scores the fifth of seven consecutive #1 hits when "Didn't We Almost Have It All" tops the Hot 100.
1986 In Solna, Sweden, Metallica play their last show with bass player Cliff Burton, who dies when the band's tour bus crashes on the way to the next stop. The last song is "Blitzkrieg."
1966 The lyrically dissonant "Cherish" (don't play it at your wedding) by The Association hits #1 in America. In 1971, David Cassidy of The Partridge Family has his first hit with a cover of the song.
1964 Roy Orbison's "(Oh) Pretty Woman" hits #1 in America for the first of three weeks.
1957 The musical West Side Story, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet with New York City gang members, debuts on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. It runs for 732 performances.
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