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Featured Events
2004American Idol winner Fantasia's "I Believe" hits #1 on the US singles chart.
1989The Monkees get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the ceremony, all four Monkees reunite for the first time - Mike Nesmith was a holdout on their reunion tour.
1981Rick James releases "Super Freak."
1936Billie Holiday becomes the first major artist to record the classic song "Summertime," which was featured in the musical Porgy and Bess a year earlier.
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In Music History
2016Aerosmith lead guitarist Joe Perry suffers a cardiac arrest while performing with Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp, fellow members of the supergroup The Hollywood Vampires, in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. The 65 year old is rushed to Coney Island hospital, where's he's listed in stable condition.
2015The documentary Amy is released. The film, directed by Asif Kapadia, chronicles the short life of British singer Amy Winehouse. Hard-living Winehouse won five Grammy awards for her 2006 album Back To Black. She died at the age of 27 from alcohol poisoning in 2011.
2012Slash, of late Guns N' Roses fame, gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Charlie Sheen is master of ceremonies at the event, and comments, "It seems quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on." Oooooooooh, burn!
2010The audience attending a benefit for Palestinian children in Oxfordshire, England, knew they were going to be entertained by David Gilmour. What they didn't know was that Gilmour's onetime Pink Floyd bandmate Roger Waters was going to drop in for a surprise four-song set. Waters said in a Facebook posting that he agreed to do it after Gilmour agreed to join him for a performance of The Wall in March 2011 in Europe. The last time the two had been on stage together was at the 2005 Live 8 London concerts.
2009Robert Plant is officially a Commander of the British Empire after being bestowed with the title by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.
2008VH1's Rock Honors pays tribute to The Who.
2000A much-ballyhooed Supremes "reunion" tour, "Return To Love," which features only Diana Ross from the original group, is canceled after initial ticket sales don't match expectations.
1993Bob Seger marries his third and wife, Juanita Dorricott.
1986Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia goes into a diabetic coma, forcing the band to cancel the rest of their tour. He's in the coma for five days, and when he comes to, he has to learn how to walk and talk again. After months of rehab, he gets his faculties back and in December, and is once again on stage with his band.
1980Jessica Simpson is born in Abilene, Texas.
1979Chuck Berry is sentenced to jail for tax evasion. He would serve four months.
1978Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman falls from the stage at a gig St. Paul, Minnesota, and is knocked unconscious.
1977Cher gives birth to Elijah Blue Allman, her first and only child with Gregg Allman of The Allman Brothers.
1976A 16-year-old girl is stabbed to death at a Yes concert in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Shazam Can Name That Tune
2008
By simply tapping an app button on an iPhone, music fans can finally get an answer to the timeless question, "What's that song?" Shazam's free smartphone app is the first music recognition service of its kind - using a phone's microphone to listen to any song being played publicly - like in a restaurant, at a friend's house, or on TV - and identify it. And it actually works.
The technology is called Acoustic Fingerprinting, an algorithmic process of generating a map of any given audio as a unique file, storing it, and then associating it with other metadata, such as lyrics or album covers. Gracenote and CDDB use a similar process to gather data about songs and then return display results; this is how iTunes grabs album covers from the Internet automatically when you insert a CD.
Using Shazam's new app, when a user "tags" a song using their phone's microphone, the software looks for a match and then returns a link with the artist's name, track name, and a direct link to download the song on iTunes.
Shazam had been a paid service in the UK, where a user would call a shortcode number and the "answering service" would listen to 30 seconds of audio and then return an SMS with the song's info, for a small fee. Now that anyone with an iPhone can "tag" a song, the Shazam database grows exponentially, eventually with over 1 million songs tagged each week. Competition emerges from companies like MusixMatch and Soundhound.
Shazam technology changes how artists get discovered by fans and music industry scouts. The company can see in real-time what songs people are "Shazaming," and predict which songs will race to the top of the charts, before they are even released to radio. Among the most-Shazamed songs early on: "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye and "Greyhound" by Swedish House Mafia.
Using Shazam's new app, when a user "tags" a song using their phone's microphone, the software looks for a match and then returns a link with the artist's name, track name, and a direct link to download the song on iTunes.
Shazam had been a paid service in the UK, where a user would call a shortcode number and the "answering service" would listen to 30 seconds of audio and then return an SMS with the song's info, for a small fee. Now that anyone with an iPhone can "tag" a song, the Shazam database grows exponentially, eventually with over 1 million songs tagged each week. Competition emerges from companies like MusixMatch and Soundhound.
Shazam technology changes how artists get discovered by fans and music industry scouts. The company can see in real-time what songs people are "Shazaming," and predict which songs will race to the top of the charts, before they are even released to radio. Among the most-Shazamed songs early on: "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye and "Greyhound" by Swedish House Mafia.
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