2002Madonna breaks The Beatles' record for most Top 10 hits on the Hot 100 when "Die Another Day" goes to #8, giving her 35 Top 10 hits on the chart.
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1999The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announces the biggest-selling artists of the century in the United States: The Beatles have sold the most albums (106 million), Garth Brooks is the best-selling male solo act, and Barbra Streisand the best-selling female. Elton John's 1997 "Candle In The Wind" is the best-selling single of the century, and the best-selling album is the Eagles' Greatest Hits 1971-1975.
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2015Allen Toussaint dies at age 77. A giant in the New Orleans musician scene, he wrote "Southern Nights," which was a #1 hit for Glen Campbell in 1977.
2012Soul singer Major Harris (of The Delfonics) dies of congestive heart and lung failure at age 65.
2010Rapper Wiz Khalifa is arrested in Greenville, North Carolina, on drug charges after authorities smell marijuana coming from his tour bus. Police find 60 grams of pot after searching the vehicle. Khalifa is booked and released on a $300,000 bond. The rapper's lawyers are able to reduce the charge to personal possession and Khalifa avoids jail time.
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2009Gary Glitter suffers the ultimate indignation when he is executed for child rape in a Channel 4 TV dramatization.
2008"Pata Pata" singer Miriam Makeba dies of a heart attack at age 76 after performing at a concert in Castel Volturno, Italy.
2006At the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, Alicia Keys and David Bowieperform "Changes" at a benefit for the Keep a Child Alive organization, which helps disadvantaged children in Africa. It is Bowie's final performance, as his health deteriorates and he withdraws from the public eye.
2004Kenny Chesney is the big winner at the Country Music Assn. (CMA) Awards, held at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Chesney, who had never won a CMA award, scores both the Entertainer of the Year and Album of the Year trophies. The latter is for his No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems set.
1999Faith Hill releases her fourth album, Breathe. A huge crossover hit, it debuts at #1 in America and wins a Grammy Award for Best Country Album.
1998Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun and Bobby "Blue" Bland receive lifetime achievement awards from the Blues Foundation at a ceremony held at the House of Blues in West Hollywood.
1998Rick James suffers a stroke after a blood vessel ruptures in his neck while he is head banging during a performance in Denver, Colorado. A spokesman later comments, "The doctor called it a result of rock'n'roll neck, the repeated rhythmic whiplash motion of the head and neck."
1998Michael Jackson settles a lawsuit over stories and pictures in the London Daily Mirror that say his face had been disfigured by cosmetic surgery. "The photographs were taken honestly and were not tampered with, but the Mirror has since met with the plaintiff in person and acknowledges that the photographs do not accurately represent the plaintiff's true appearance," says a lawyer for the publisher.
1996For the first time, Bob Dylan licenses one of his songs for commercial use, in this case, "The Times They Are A Changin'" to the Bank of Montreal.
1993R. Kelly releases his debut album, 12 Play. It peaks at #2 in America and holds the top spot on the R&B albums chart for nine weeks.
Rolling Stone Magazine Publishes First Issue
1967
The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published, with a photo of John Lennonon the cover and items about David Crosby, The Who and Country Joe McDonald (of Country Joe & the Fish).
In its early years of publication, Rolling Stone is known primarily for its reporting on music and related issues, especially politics. In the debut issue, founder Jann Wenner writes in the Editor's Note that Rolling Stone is intended to be a combination of a newspaper and a magazine. Indeed, the first three editions resemble a newspaper more than the glossy magazine it eventually becomes.
The magazine's name is inspired by the Muddy Waters blues song "Rollin' Stone," the Bob Dylan hit "Like a Rolling Stone," and the band The Rolling Stones.
John Lennon is the first cover subject. The still shot from the movie set of How I Won the Warshows the Beatle in his familiar round glasses and a mesh-covered helmet, setting the tone for the mix of music and politics that become the magazine's hallmark.
The first issue costs 35 cents and becomes a collector's item, selling for upwards of $400 decades later.
Among the stories in this first issue are an investigative report on how the proceeds from the Monterey Pop Festival were spent, as well as reviews of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurantand Traffic's Hole in My Shoe.
The magazine becomes so popular that by 1972 making the cover is seen as the pinnacle of success, which Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show explain in their 1972 hit The Cover of "Rolling Stone":
We take all kinds of pills
To give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll getcha
When you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
When the editors realize they are aging out of their demographic, they bring in young writers to keep it fresh. One of these is the journalism prodigy Cameron Crowe, who begins writing for the magazine in 1973 at age 16, covering the likes of Deep Purple, The Allman Brothers and Jackson Browne. These experiences form the basis for his 2000 film Almost Famous.
The magazine's name is inspired by the Muddy Waters blues song "Rollin' Stone," the Bob Dylan hit "Like a Rolling Stone," and the band The Rolling Stones.
John Lennon is the first cover subject. The still shot from the movie set of How I Won the Warshows the Beatle in his familiar round glasses and a mesh-covered helmet, setting the tone for the mix of music and politics that become the magazine's hallmark.
The first issue costs 35 cents and becomes a collector's item, selling for upwards of $400 decades later.
Among the stories in this first issue are an investigative report on how the proceeds from the Monterey Pop Festival were spent, as well as reviews of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurantand Traffic's Hole in My Shoe.
The magazine becomes so popular that by 1972 making the cover is seen as the pinnacle of success, which Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show explain in their 1972 hit The Cover of "Rolling Stone":
We take all kinds of pills
To give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll getcha
When you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
When the editors realize they are aging out of their demographic, they bring in young writers to keep it fresh. One of these is the journalism prodigy Cameron Crowe, who begins writing for the magazine in 1973 at age 16, covering the likes of Deep Purple, The Allman Brothers and Jackson Browne. These experiences form the basis for his 2000 film Almost Famous.
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