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1998Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats and Live Aid fame begins hosting a show on the London radio station XFM. In his first broadcast, he announces (incorrectly) that Ian Dury has died.More
1995Microsoft launches the Windows 95 operating system. The start-up music is composed by Brian Eno, a pioneer in ambient music who in 1978 released an album designed to soothe travelers at airports (Ambient 1: Music for Airports).More
1990Sinéad O'Connorrefuses to perform at the Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey until they agree not to play the US national anthem before the show.More
1981Mark David Chapman, who murdered John Lennon, is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. He is repeatedly denied parole.
1979The Ramones' movie Rock & Roll High School opens in theaters. The title song becomes one of their classics, and the film gains a cult following.More
1974Paul Anka's "(You're) Having My Baby" hits #1 for the first of three weeks despite condemnation from feminist groups.More24
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2016Jeanne Martin, ex-wife of the late Dean Martin, dies of cancer at age 89. She married the singer in 1949, and gave birth to three children, including Dean Paul Martin, in addition to raising four more from Dean's first marriage. They divorced in 1972.
2014Doo-wop singer Tommy Gough (of The Crests) dies of throat cancer at age 74.
2012Country singer Randy Travis continues his string of calamitous arrests, this time for a brawl at a church in Texas where he was purportedly fighting over a woman. The incident leads to him being cited for assault, giving him another citation to add to his collection. It's still a cheaper hobby than baseball cards.
2010Teenage Dream, Katy Perry's second major-label album is released. The LP will go on to top the US album charts.
2008Barenaked Ladies frontman Ed Robertson emerges unscathed after he crashes his Cessna 206 float-plane near Bancroft, Ontario. Three other passengers, including wife Natalie, are also miraculously uninjured. The Transportation Safety Board is unable to determine the cause of the crash, but clears Robertson of any wrongdoing.
2007During a routine medical exam in Gainesville, Florida, Bo Diddleycomplains of dizziness and nausea and is admitted to a local hospital, where he is diagnosed as having had a heart attack. The rock legend had suffered a stroke only a few months earlier.
2007Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders opens Mark Lindsay's Rock And Roll Cafe in his native Portland, Oregon. The restaurant closes the next year.
2005Hal Kalin (of the Kalin Twins) dies after a car accident in Charles County, Maryland, at age 71.
2003Dick Peterson from The Kingsmen joins 753 other guitarists to perform "Louie Louie" for a charity fundraiser in Tacoma, Washington.
1999Big Band trombonist Warren Covington dies at age 78 in New York City.
1998Composer/conductor Gene Page dies after a long illness in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, at age 58. Page did arrangements for The Supremes, Whitney Houston and Barbra Streisand and many others. He also scored the 1972 Blaxploitation flick Blacula.
199853-year-old Ingrid Pedersen announces that she is the long-lost illegitimate half-sister of John Lennon, explaining that she kept her secret for so many years as a way of protecting her now-deceased adoptive parents.
1990Led by Donald Fagen of Steely Dan and his girlfriend Libby Titus, the first "New York Rock & Soul Revue" is held in Southampton, New York. The second Revue results in the popular live album The New York Rock and Soul Revue: Live at the Beacon, featuring Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs and Phoebe Snow.
1989The Who perform a special 20th anniversary charity concert of their rock opera Tommy at the Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles, featuring guests Elton John (as the Pinball Wizard), Patti LaBelle (as the Acid Queen), Steve Winwood (as the Hawker), Phil Collins (as Uncle Ernie), and Billy Idol (as Cousin Kevin).
1983Jerry Lee Lewis' fifth wife, Shawn Michelle Stevens, dies of a methadone overdose at The Killer's home in Nesbit, Mississippi, although several journalists suspect foul play. The couple had only been married three months. Lewis' fourth wife had died an accidental death only a year earlier.
Beijing 2008: Jimmy Page's Proudest Non-Zep Moment
2008
Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page perform during the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games at the National Stadium (also known as the Bird's Nest). The duo perform the Led Zeppelin classic "Whole Lotta Love."
The performance is frowned upon by many Led Zeppelin fans, who consider the collaboration between the legendary guitarist and the 2006 British X Factor winner to have tarnished the brand. For his part, Page describes the rendition of "Whole Lotta Love" as his proudest non-Zeppelin moment. He later gushes about Lewis's performance: "She's really plucky, she's superb, and she sang 'Whole Lotta Love" brilliantly. We managed to do the full length of 'Whole Lotta Love' – it wasn't edited – and she sang it beautifully."
There are some slight changes to the lyrics to make the song more appropriate for a female singer (not to mention the conservative Chinese audience), with Lewis singing the altered line "gonna give you every bit of my love" rather than the original "inch."
The performance is part of an eight-minute segment in the closing ceremony of the Beijing games, in which China formally hands over the Olympic baton to the United Kingdom for the 2012 Olympics. In a celebration of all things British, Lewis sings on stilts and Page plays his Les Paul on top of a traditional British red bus - all while soccer player David Beckham kicks a ball at the side of a stage.
Despite taking part in this unusual show, Page is not invited to perform at the lavish London 2012 opening ceremony - about which he is said to be extremely disappointed.
There are some slight changes to the lyrics to make the song more appropriate for a female singer (not to mention the conservative Chinese audience), with Lewis singing the altered line "gonna give you every bit of my love" rather than the original "inch."
The performance is part of an eight-minute segment in the closing ceremony of the Beijing games, in which China formally hands over the Olympic baton to the United Kingdom for the 2012 Olympics. In a celebration of all things British, Lewis sings on stilts and Page plays his Les Paul on top of a traditional British red bus - all while soccer player David Beckham kicks a ball at the side of a stage.
Despite taking part in this unusual show, Page is not invited to perform at the lavish London 2012 opening ceremony - about which he is said to be extremely disappointed.
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