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2016Kate McKinnon sings "Hallelujah" in character as Hillary Clinton to open Saturday Night Live.More
1988Kylie Minogue's version of "The Loco-Motion" hits #3 in the US, making the song a hit in three different versions - the 1962 Little Eva original and the 1974 Grand Funk Railroad cover are the others.
1983With some fabricated Swahili ("Tambo liteh sette mo-jah!"), Lionel Richie hits #1 in America with "All Night Long (All Night)."
1973In Leeds, England, Queen begin their first tour. They're the opening act for Mott the Hoople.
1968Jimi Hendrix's third album, Electric Ladyland, shows the famous guitarist on the cover along with a collection of naked women. You can only get it in England - the American version is released with an alternate cover.
1966The Monkees' self-titled debut album hits #1 in America and stays for 13 weeks.
1945Neil Young is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is raised in the small, rural town of Omemee, Ontario, where the Youngtown Museum will be established in his honor.
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In Music History
2011Blues drummer Doyle Bramhall dies of heart failure in his sleep in Alpine, Texas, at age 62. He worked with both Jimmie Vaughan (in The Chessmen) and Stevie Ray Vaughan (in The Nightcrawlers).
2010Katy Perry launches her first fragrance, "Purr."
2010Ne-Yo welcomes his first child, baby girl Madilyn Grace, with girlfriend Monyetta Shaw.
2008John Ronald "Mitch" Mitchell (drummer for Jimi Hendrix) dies after years of alcohol-related health problems in Portland, Oregon, at age 61.
2005Mariah Carey wins Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for The Emancipation of Mimi and R&B Voice of the Year and Best R&B Song for "We Belong Together" at the Vibe Awards.
2004The funeral of longtime (and highly influential) British DJ John Peel is held in Suffolk, England, with attendees including Robert Plant, The White Stripes, and members of Underworld, Pulp, and The Undertones. Peel died of a heart attack on October 25.
2003Session drummer Tony Thompson (of The Power Station and Chic) dies of kidney cancer in Los Angeles, California, at age 48, two months after Power Station bandmate Robert Palmer died from a heart attack.
1999Glam legend Gary Glitter is acquitted in England's Bristol Crown Court of sexual assault on a minor stemming from an incident with a fan in the '80s; however, that same day, Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) is sentenced to four months in jail for four counts of possessing child pornography found in 1997.
1999Kid Rock and Lauryn Hill top the 1999 Billboard Music Video Awards, held at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel.
1999Kevin Smith's fantasy comedy Dogma premieres, featuring Alanis Morissette as God. She also performs the song "Still" for the movie's soundtrack.
1998Madonna draws the Best Female and the Best Album (Ray of Light) honors at the 1998 MTV Europe Music Awards in Milan.
1997Taiwanese pop singer Chang Yu-Sheng dies 31 weeks after a car accident leaves him in a coma, at age 31.
1997Rainer Ptacek, blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, dies nearly two years after a brain tumor diagnosis in Tucson, Arizona, at age 46.
1997More than $2 million is raised at the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund's 1997 Children's Choice Award dinner honoring Grammy-winning producer/songwriter David Foster. Performers and guests include Az Yet, All-4-One, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman and Cindy Crawford.
Madonna Releases Like A Virgin
1984
With Chic frontman Nile Rodgers producing, Madonna releases her second studio album, Like A Virgin, her first #1 on the US albums chart.
More importantly, the diamond-certified (10 million copies) album's success shatters the notion that she is a flash-in-the-pan pop singer. The album yields five dance-pop singles: the title hit "Like A Virgin," followed by "Material Girl," "Angel," "Into The Groove," and "Dress You Up." Rodgers' former bandmates Bernard Edwards and Tony Thompson round out the tracks with their respective bass and drums, while Rodgers himself is on guitar.
"Like A Virgin" becomes an important plot point in music history: Not only does it ruffle the feathers of moralists who call for a ban of the song and its accompanying video, but it also marks one of the most memorable MTV moments of all time. At the very first Video Music Awards ceremony, Madonna emerges from a 17-foot tall wedding cake in a bridal gown outfitted with a "Boy Toy" belt and coos lyrics like "touched for the very first time" while she slinks across the floor. She doesn't take home any awards that night, but the song soon becomes Madonna's first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stays for six weeks. Take that, Tipper Gore.
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