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2016Mamma Mia, here we go again! The Swedish pop quartet ABBAreunites for the first time in eight years to celebrate Mamma Mia! The Party, a restaurant inspired by the long-running musical.More
2011Appearing on the Bravo show Watch What Happens Live, Tiffanytalks about dating Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block in the '80s, and inadvertently outs him, saying, "He became gay later."More
2006The TV movie High School Musicalpremieres on the Disney Channel, creating a teen and tween sensation and the biggest album of 2006.More
1983Def Leppard release their third album, Pyromania. Like their previous effort, High 'n' Dry, it's produced by Mutt Lange, who does the Gunter Glieben Glauten Globen on "Rock of Ages."More
1982Ozzy Osbourne gets a rabies shot after biting off the head of a live bat, thinking it was one of the rubber ones he used in his act.
1962Dick Dale's guitar instrumental "Let's Go Trippin'" hits #60, becoming the first Surf Rock song to chart. Many groups, including The Beach Boys, subsequently cover the song.More20
In Music History
2015Edgar Froese (drummer for Tangerine Dream) dies of a pulmonary embolism at age 70 in Austria.
2013Bob Engemann (of The Lettermen) dies of complications from heart bypass surgery at age 77.
2009David "Fathead" Newman, a jazz and R&B saxophonist who played alongside Ray Charles, dies at age 75 of complications from pancreatic cancer.
2009Bon Iver releases Blood Bank, a four-track EP and follow up to the hugely-successful For Emma, Forever Ago. The song "Woods," which features on the EP, will go on to be sampled by Kanye West on his track "Lost in The World."
2001With the debut Lifehouse album climbing the charts, lead singer Jason Wade marries his longtime girlfriend, Braeden.
1999Bill Albaugh (drummer for the psychedelic pop group The Lemon Pipers) dies at age 53.
1998Bob McBride (lead singer for Lighthouse) dies of heart failure at age 51.
1998With the release of their debut single, "I Want You Back," *NSYNC emerges as a rival to Backstreet Boys, who are taking America by storm.
1997French electronic duo Daft Punk release their debut album, Homework in the UK (it is released in America on March 25). The record is a big hit in Europe but only reaches #150 in the USA. Both members, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, are music producers who use recording technology to combine house music with synthpop.
1988The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Drifters, Bob Dylan, and The Supremesare inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the third class. Mike Love of The Beach Boys gives a Ricky Gervais-at-the-Golden Globes-style speech, insulting many in attendance. Diana Ross skips the ceremony over a spat with fellow Supreme Mary Wilson.
1985Country singer Brantley Gilbert is born in Jefferson, Georgia.
1979Rob Bourdon (Linkin Park drummer) is born in Calabasas, California.
1975Bob Dylan releases Blood on the Tracks, which contains the tracks "Tangled Up In Blue" and "Idiot Wind."
1973Jerry Lee Lewis makes his first appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, telling the crowd at the end of his set: "Let me tell ya somethin' about Jerry Lee Lewis, ladies and gentlemen; I am a rock 'n' rollin', country-and-western, rhythm 'n' blues-singin' mothaf---er."
1971Diana Ross marries Bob Silberstein (Robert Ellis Silberstein) at a ceremony in Las Vegas. It's the first marriage for Ross, who dated Motown chief Berry Gordy for years. One of the first high-profile interracial couples, they get divorced in 1976 after having three children together, including Tracee Ellis Ross, star of the TV series Black-ish.
America Learns The Electric Slide
1990
After being revived by a Washington DJ, "The Electric Boogie" by Jamaican singer Marcia Griffiths peaks at #51 on the Billboard Hot 100, as the "Electric Slide" line dance craze sweeps the nation.
Before the Spanish-flavored dance moves of the "Macarena" or the aerobics-inspired "Cha Cha Slide" encourage Americans to embarrass themselves at social events, the '90s are all about a Jamaican party ride known as the "The Electric Slide." Jamaican singer Marcia Griffiths, half of the '60s duo Bob and Marcia and a member of Bob Marley's famed backing group the I-Threes, covers Bunny Wailer's 1976 tune "Electric Boogie" in 1982. It soars to #1 on the Jamaican charts, but with Marley's death the year before, record execs in the US aren't putting much stock in the reggae genre, and the tune never makes it off the island.
By 1988, Marley's son Ziggy is making international waves with his album Conscious Party that lands him a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album and tunes listeners into a fresh sound straight off the island. The following summer, a reggae-loving DJ in Washington, DC, plays "The Electric Boogie" for the first time in the US and it line-dances its way across the country, where it lands at #51 on the Billboard Hot 100. No one is more surprised by the phenomenon than Griffiths: "When I sang it in Washington, DC, the entire audience got up and started doing the dance - I was forced to learn it on the spot! I said, 'Lord, this is unbelievable.' After that, it just got bigger and bigger."
By 1988, Marley's son Ziggy is making international waves with his album Conscious Party that lands him a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album and tunes listeners into a fresh sound straight off the island. The following summer, a reggae-loving DJ in Washington, DC, plays "The Electric Boogie" for the first time in the US and it line-dances its way across the country, where it lands at #51 on the Billboard Hot 100. No one is more surprised by the phenomenon than Griffiths: "When I sang it in Washington, DC, the entire audience got up and started doing the dance - I was forced to learn it on the spot! I said, 'Lord, this is unbelievable.' After that, it just got bigger and bigger."
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