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1995Coolio wins Single Of The Year for "Gangsta's Paradise" at the Billboard Music Awards. When he performs the song at the ceremony, he is joined by Stevie Wonder, whose "Pastime Paradise" is the basis for Coolio's track.
1994Bush release their debut album Sixteen Stone, which takes off in America but is largely ignored in their native England.More
1988Roy Orbison dies of heart failure at age 52.
1977Jackson Browne releases Running On Empty, a live album compiled from performances at various stops on his summer tour. Live albums typically rely on songs that have already been released, but this one features all new songs, the first major rock album to do so.
1975Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years album hits #1 in America, his first solo album to top the chart.
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1969The Rolling Stones headline the Altamont concert at a speedway in California. It's a free event with Jefferson Airplane and Santana also on the bill, but it turns violent when the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, who are hired as security, kill a crowd member. The concert is documented in The Stones movie Gimme Shelter.More6
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2013After its authenticity is verified on the PBS series History Detectives, the Fender Stratocaster that Bob Dylan played in his historic performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 is purchased at a 2013 auction for an astounding $965,000. It had spent the previous 48 years with the family of Dylan's personal pilot, who received no reply when he told Dylan to retrieve the gear he left behind.
2011Barbara Orbison, the second wife and widow of Roy Orbison, dies 23 years to the day after her husband.
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2009President Obama greets honorees Bruce Springsteen and Robert DeNiro during the reception for the Kennedy Center Honors in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC.
2009Weezer's tour bus crashes, forcing them to cancel the rest of their tour. Frontman Rivers Cuomo is injured, but is back in action six weeks later.
2006On her third wedding anniversary to Elvis Costello, Diana Krall gives birth to twin boys, Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James.
2000Tina Turner wraps up her wildly successful Millennium 2000 Twenty Four Seven tour with a show in Anaheim, California. She claimed it would be her last stadium tour, but it is not - she hits the road again in 2008.
1995Michael Jackson collapses in a New York theater during a rehearsal for an upcoming TV special and is hospitalized.
1989The Grateful Dead play the Earthquake Relief Fund Benefit at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum to help raise funds for victims of the Loma Prieta earthquake. They open their act, fittingly, with "Shakedown Street."
1988Guitarist Bill Harris (of The Clovers) dies of pancreatic cancer in Washington, DC, at age 63.
1986Ringo becomes the first Beatle to use his name in an advertisement, for Sun Country wine cooler.
1975Tyrone Davis' "Turning Point" enters the R&B charts.
1970Ulf Ekberg (of Ace Of Base) is born in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Travis Tritt Reunites Eagles
1993
At a video shoot for Travis Tritt's remake of the Eagles' "Take It Easy," the Eagles themselves reunite and decide to re-form for new songs and a tour.
The Eagles ceased operations in 1980, but their manager, Irving Azoff, never gave up hope. The five members - Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Don Felder and Timothy B. Schmit - have all released successful solo albums, but it's clear that demand for their services is waning. Azoff lights the candle by arranging an Eagles tribute album called Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles, with some proceeds going to Henley's Walden Woods Project. A host of country music luminaries participate: Vince Gill does "I Can't Tell You Why"; Tanya Tucker covers "Already Gone"; Clint Black goes with "Desperado."
But it's Tritt's cover of "Take It Easy" that is the standout track. When Azoff asks him to shoot a video to promote it, Tritt tells him the only way he'll do it is if the Eagles appear in it, which is exactly what happens.
All the band has to do is take part in the shoot, a laid-back affair when they play some pool and hang out with Tritt while he strums the song - they don't even have to lip-synch. Any animosities are overwhelmed by the camaraderie the band shares after over a decade apart - they are clearly having fun.
The shoot leads to a full-blown reunion, which in 1994 becomes the live album Hell Freezes Over and subsequent tour, one of the most successful in history.
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