2006 - Mariska Veres (Shocking Blue) - Cancer (59)
2008 - Odetta - Heart disease (77)
2009 - Eric Woolfson (Alan Parsons Project) - Kidney cancer (64)
2013 - Junior Murvin - Diabetes and hypertension (64 or 67)
2014 - Bobby Keys - Liver cancer (70)
On This Day
1957 - Danny and the Juniors got their big break when they were asked to fill in for Little Anthony & the Imperials on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Their performance of At the Hop sent the song to number 1 a month later.
1969 - Cindy Birdsong of the Supremes was kidnapped by a maintenance worker from her apartment building and had to jump out of his moving car on the San Diego Freeway to escape.
1969 - George Harrison joined Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, including Eric Clapton, for the rest of their current tour.
1973 - The members of the Who are arrested in Montreal for allegedly destroying a hotel suite.
1974 - Ravi Shankar had to leave a tour with George Harrison to be treated for chest pains in Chicago.
1981 - Dreamgirls opened on Broadway. The show was loosely based on the career of the Supremes.
1983 - MTV aired the full version of Michael Jackson's Thriller for the first time.
1986 - Jerry Lee Lewis admitted himself to the Betty Ford Clinic to kick painkillers.
1991 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Shirelles, B.J. Thomas and Gene Pitney, saying they were owed $1.2 million in royalties.
1995 - The Guinness Book of World Records named The Sign by Ace of Base as the biggest selling debut record of all time.
1996 - Adam Duritz of Counting Crows severed a ligament and tore cartilage in his knee when he fell during a show in New York.
1997 - A man was killed during a Rolling Stones concert when he fell from the balcony of the Pontiac Silverdome.
1997 - A Philadelphia record store filed what would become a class-action lawsuit against EMI, Sony, WEA, Universal, Bartlesman and Polydor, saying that they had “conspired to raise, fix and maintain at artificially high and non-competitive levels the wholesale prices of CDs.”
1998 - Jimmy Buffett did a benefit concert in Mobile, AL for the victims of hurricane Georges.
2000 - Thieves broke into the home of Madonna and Guy Ritchie in London.
2000 - The Smashing Pumpkins played their last show in Chicago.
2002 - Liam Gallagher of Oasis was arrested after kicking a police officer during a fight.
2003 - Simon and Garfunkel performed in New York for the first time in ten years.
2003 - Alice Cooper received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2003 - Ray Charles announced he had undergone hip replacement surgery.
2004 - Lynn Anderson was charged with drunk driving when an officer found her passed out behind the wheel of her car.
2005 - Irv and Chris Gotti, owners of the label The Inc., were cleared of charges that they were laundering drug money through the company.
2012 - Led Zeppelin were honored by the Kennedy Center.
Divorces
1979 - Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge
Released
1971 - Black Dog - Led Zeppelin (single)
1972 - You're So Vain - Carly Simon (single)
2003 - The Diary of Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys
Broadcasts
1959 - This is Your Life - Bobby Darin
1988 - Geraldo - Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Willie Nelson
Number Ones – U.S. Singles
1950 - The Thing - Phil Harris (4 weeks)
1957 - You Send Me - Sam Cooke (2 weeks)
1967 - Daydream Believer - Monkees (4 weeks)
1972 - Papa Was a Rollin' Stone - Temptations (1 week)
1978 - You Don't Bring Me Flowers - Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond (1 week)
1995 - One Sweet Day - Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men (16 weeks)
2006 - I Wanna Love You - Akon Featuring Snoop Dogg (2 weeks)
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