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2015Dallas Taylor, former Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young drummer, dies of complications from pneumonia and kidney disease in Los Angeles, California, at age 66.
2008Amid casting sessions for American IdolClay Aiken makes his Broadway debut in New York City in Monty Python's Spamalot.
1990Eric Clapton plays the first of an 18-night concert run at Royal Albert Hall in London.
1987Steve Winwood marries Eugenia Grafton.
1985USA Today readers select Cleveland, Ohio, as their choice for the permanent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1983Samantha Mumba, known for her hit debut single "Gotta Tell You" (2000), is born in Dublin, Ireland.
1980Famous Southern-rock record label Capricorn files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
1980Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager are sentenced to 3 ½ years in jail on charges of tax evasion, which soon brings the legendary disco to an end.
1978Neil Sedaka is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1977President Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Concert takes place the night before the swearing-in, featuring performances by Linda Ronstadt and Aretha Franklin, among others. John Lennon and Paul Simon are among those spotted in the crowd.
1977Michael Tierney is born in Sydney, Australia. He and his brother, Andrew, along with next-door neighbor schoolmates Phil Burton and Toby Allen form the Australian boy band Human Nature while they are students at Hurlstone Agricultural High School in Sydney.
1975Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago officially declares today Bobby Vinton Day as a tribute to the artist.
1975Barry Manilow's "Mandy" hits #1 in America. The song was written as "Brandy" but changed to avoid confusion with the Looking Glass hit "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)."
1973The Rolling Stones perform a benefit concert for the victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua, where Mick Jagger's wife Bianca is from. The show raises $400,000.
1971KoRn frontman Jonathan Davis is born in Bakersfield, California.
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"We Are One" Concert Celebrates Obama's Inauguration

2009
A wide range of top musicians including Mary J. BligeU2BeyoncéBruce SpringsteenGarth BrooksSheryl Crowwill.i.amJames TaylorJohn LegendJohn MellencampPete SeegerShakiraUsher and Stevie Wonder, perform at a concert in Washington, DC, to celebrate the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.
Over 400,000 people flock to the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall to honor the United States' newest president, Barack Obama, at the We Are One concert celebration. Guest performers choose songs that hail Obama's election as a positive turning point that will restore a nation crippled by war and financial instability. Bruce Springsteen and the Joyce Garrett Singers sing "The Rising," the Boss's post-9/11 anthem about a heroic firefighter. Mary J. Blige sings the Bill Withers classic "Lean On Me." Bettye LaVette and Jon Bon Jovi duet with Sam Cooke's civil-rights proclamation "A Change Is Gonna Come," and Garth Brooks offers a trio of hits: Don McLean's "American Pie," The Isley Brothers' "Shout," and Brooks' own "We Shall Be Free." U2 also takes the stage with "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" and "City Of Blinding Lights." 

In between the musical entertainment, actors give readings from historical passages, like Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" speech read by Laura Linney and a portion of historian Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait read by Tom Hanks. 

Shortly after Obama's speech "Voices Calling for Change," that promises hope against the hard times ahead as long as the American people stick together, Beyonce closes the ceremony with a rendition of "America The Beautiful."

The concert is broadcast across the globe, with HBO airing it for free in the US, and is screened at the official inauguration ceremony two days later. 

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