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1994Justin Bieber is born in London, Ontario, Canada.
1985Ford licenses The Beatles "Help!" for a commercial, marking the first time one of their songs is used in a TV ad.
1973Pink Floyd release Dark Side Of The Moon. The album debuts at an inauspicious #95 on the US Albums chart, but becomes far and away the album with the most weeks on the tally, thanks in large part to a run from 1977-1988 when it never leaves.
1969Jim Morrison of The Doors is arrested on stage at a Miami show after allegedly exposing himself to the audience.More
1927Harry Belafonte is born in Harlem, New York, but at age 8 moves to Jamaica (his mother's birthplace) with his family. The Belafontes move back to New York in the early stages of World War II; in the '50s, Harry becomes a top entertainer, his career buoyed by the calypso craze.
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In Music History
2012On Justin Bieber's 18th birthday, he appears on The Ellen Degeneres Show, where his manager presents him with a Fisker Karma luxury electric car worth about $100,000.
2004Warner Music Group leaves parent company Time Warner for the first time, bought out as a separate entity by investors led by former Universal Music head Edgar Bronfman Jr.
2002Shirley Jones of the Partridge Family files for divorce from her husband, actor Marty Ingalls (she later withdraws the petition).
1995Tony Bennett wins the Album Of The Year Grammy award for MTV Unplugged, taken from his acoustic performance on the network.
1994Ozzy Osbourne wins Best Metal Performance with Vocal for "I Don't Want to Change the World" from his album No More Tears.
1994The Bodyguard soundtrack wins the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, with "I Will Always Love You" taking Record of the Year. Frank Sinatra receives a Living Legends Award and Aretha Franklin gets a Lifetime Achievement Award. Branford Marsalis and Bruce Hornsby take Best Pop Instrumental Performance for their song "Barcelona Mona," which was penned for the Barcelona Olympics.
1991Director Oliver Stone's biopic The Doors, starring Val Kilmer, opens in Los Angeles.
1987Kesha Sebert is born in Los Angeles. Using the stage name "Ke$ha" (she drops the $ in 2014), she becomes a pop superstar when her first album Animal tops the US chart in 2010.
1986Mr. Mister's "Kyrie" hits #1 in America. The refrain "Kyrie eleison" is Greek for "Lord, have mercy."
1984Two days after losing to Michael Jackson at the Grammy Awards, Prince records "When Doves Cry," programming the drums and playing every instrument himself (including the bass, which he decides to take out).
1981NBC airs Elvis And The Beauty Queen, starring Don Johnson as Elvis Presley. The TV special tells the story of his last years and his affair with Linda Thompson.
1979The Coca-Cola Company introduces Mello Yello as a competitor to Pepsi's Mountain Dew in the urine-colored soda category. Donovanhopes they will use his song "Mellow Yellow" in their advertising, but the company declines.
1977Bob Dylan's wife, Sara Lowndes - the "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" - files for divorce. The couple have been separated for years.
1975Elvis Presley wins a Grammy for Best Inspirational Performance for his live version of "How Great Thou Art."
1975At the Grammy Awards, Olivia Newton-John takes Record of the Year for "I Honestly Love You," Barbra Streisand wins Song of the Year for "The Way Were," and Stevie Wonder gets Album of the Year for Fulfillingness' First Finale.
Sting Brags About Hours-long Sex
1993
Q magazine publishes an interview with Sting and Bob Geldof where Sting explains how his sex lasts for hours through the benefits of yoga.
Lubricated with Irish coffee and wine, Geldof and Sting engage in a freewheeling discussion with writer Adrian Deevoy. When Geldof asks Sting if "the yoga thing" works, he replies, "It can take you to higher levels, yeah. I've started to use it in sex now where you don't spill your seed."
Later in the interview, Sting adds, "In yoga, sex is a spiritual focus of energy. It ends when you choose it to. If you've gone on for four or five hours, you don't really want to come."
The interview also includes reflections on fame and insights on confessional songwriting, but it's the hours-long sex revelation that becomes the story. The tale quickly becomes fodder for comedians and a handy analogy ("This blender will last longer than Sting if you take care of it").
Sting is referring to Tantric Sex, a practice where men can train themselves to keep their volcanos dormant. "It involves this muscle a lot of men aren't trained to control," he later explains.
This obscure practice quickly gets a lot of attention, but most guys find they have a better chance of learning to play bass like Sting than achieving his yogic enlightenment. Sting and his wife Trudie Styler are early adopters of yoga and have spent years refining their practice - Styler releases a series of yoga DVDs, and Sting appears on "Mountain Hare Krishna," a track by Kirtan artist Krishna Das - so it's not as easy as it sounds. There's also a great deal of intimacy involved, requiring commitment from both partners.
Any trace of nuance or explanation is lost in the legend, however, as Sting becomes known for Herculean stamina in the sack. Decades later, it's still a hot topic and in 2014 he once again addresses it during an episode of Inside The Actor's Studio, telling host James Lipton that the famed seven-hour sessions include movie and dinner.
(photo: Frank Ockenfels)
Later in the interview, Sting adds, "In yoga, sex is a spiritual focus of energy. It ends when you choose it to. If you've gone on for four or five hours, you don't really want to come."
The interview also includes reflections on fame and insights on confessional songwriting, but it's the hours-long sex revelation that becomes the story. The tale quickly becomes fodder for comedians and a handy analogy ("This blender will last longer than Sting if you take care of it").
Sting is referring to Tantric Sex, a practice where men can train themselves to keep their volcanos dormant. "It involves this muscle a lot of men aren't trained to control," he later explains.
This obscure practice quickly gets a lot of attention, but most guys find they have a better chance of learning to play bass like Sting than achieving his yogic enlightenment. Sting and his wife Trudie Styler are early adopters of yoga and have spent years refining their practice - Styler releases a series of yoga DVDs, and Sting appears on "Mountain Hare Krishna," a track by Kirtan artist Krishna Das - so it's not as easy as it sounds. There's also a great deal of intimacy involved, requiring commitment from both partners.
Any trace of nuance or explanation is lost in the legend, however, as Sting becomes known for Herculean stamina in the sack. Decades later, it's still a hot topic and in 2014 he once again addresses it during an episode of Inside The Actor's Studio, telling host James Lipton that the famed seven-hour sessions include movie and dinner.
(photo: Frank Ockenfels)
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