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1944Marvin Hamlisch is born in New York City. The composer will not only win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Chorus Line in 1975, but will snag multiple Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and Academy Awards for his work for stage and screen (The Way We Were, The Sting).
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2003A painting of Kylie Minogue wearing gold hot pants causes tempers to fray among drivers in Brighton. Artist Simon Etheridge put up the almost life-size picture in his own Art Asylum gallery as part of a Festival and since then motorists have caused regular traffic hold-ups as they stopped to take a second look.
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2000Western swing bandleader Adolph Hofner dies less than a week before his 84th birthday.
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Whitney Houston Releases Hit-Filled Second Album
1987
Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney, is released. It contains four #1 hits, including the enduring "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
Houston's debut, Whitney Houston, made her a superstar, a title the 23-year-old singer secures on her sophomore effort. It contains four #1 hits, each composed by a different set of songwriters:
"So Emotional" - Written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, the team that wrote "Like A Virgin" for Madonna and "True Colors" for Cyndi Lauper.
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" - Written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, who record as Boy Meets Girl. They wrote Houston's earlier hit, "How Will I Know."
"Didn't We Almost Have It All" - Written by Michael Masser and the lyricist Will Jennings, who later writes the words for the titanic hit "My Heart Will Go On."
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go" - Written by the soul singer Chuck Jackson and Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn.
Like her debut, Whitney is produced by Narada Michael Walden, performed by a team of top session musicians, and released with Arista Records' promotional machine behind it (Arista head Clive Davis champions Houston wholeheartedly). The results are similar: #1 in most territories and worldwide sales estimated at 20 million.
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