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2012Annie Lennox, formerly of the bands The Tourists and Eurythmics, gets hitched to her third husband, this time a London doctor name of Mitch Besser.
2008The Village People get a star on the Hollywood Walk Of fame at 6529 Hollywood Blvd.
2006Willie Nelson's tour bus is stopped near Lafayette, Louisiana, and Nelson, along with four members of his band, are arrested for possession of marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.
2005Dashboard Confessional donates proceeds from its Toronto show to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
2004Britney Spears marries her fiance, dancer Kevin Federline, in a surprise ceremony held at a private home in the Studio City area with 20 to 30 people attending; the ceremony lasts about five minutes. It is Spears' second marriage in nine months.
2000Papa Roach release their breakthrough single, "Last Resort." The track will go on to top the US Modern Rock Tracks chart.
1998On the Grand Ole Opry, Jett Williams pays tribute to her late father, Hank Williams, who would have been 75 the day before. Daughter salutes father by performing "Your Cheatin' Heart," a song released after his death on New Year's Eve, 1952. "He never sang the song on the Opry. He never sang it live," Williams tells the audience.
1997Jump blues singer Jimmy Witherspoondies of throat cancer in Los Angeles, California, at age 77.
1992Earl Van Dyke, keyboardist for Funk Brothers, Motown's in-house band, dies of prostate cancer at age 62.
1985The Gladys Knight/Flip Wilson sitcom Charlie And Company premieres on CBS-TV.
1983Kiss make their first public appearance without their trademark make-up when they show up on MTV to promote their new album - and single - "Lick It Up."
1980The tenth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix' untimely death is marked by a multimedia event, featuring Experience members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, held at the Paradise Club in Amsterdam.
1979Greg Arama (bass player for The Amboy Dukes) dies in a motorcycle accident at age 29.
Jimi Hendrix Dies
1970
Jimi Hendrix is found dead in his basement. He had taken nine pills of the barbiturate vesperax, that along with alcohol, caused a fatal overdose.
Hendrix is 27 when he dies in a girlfriend's house in Notting Hill, London. The guitarist and singer had a history of drug use: a year earlier he appeared in court in Canada, where he was acquitted of possession of hashish and heroin but admitted using marijuana, cocaine and LSD. His death comes a fortnight after that of Canned Heat founder Alan Wilson - also from an overdose of sleeping pills - and within a year he will be joined by Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison (all are 27 when they die).
Hendrix had been struggling with a recent influenza-like illness, exacerbated by exhaustion caused by a lack of sleep and overwork on a recent tour of Germany with his band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He had fallen out with his manager, Michael Jeffery, and was also embroiled in two legal battles - a paternity suit and a dispute with his record label. The post mortem investigation finds that Hendrix has asphyxiated on his own vomit after taking 18 times the recommended dose of barbiturates, but despite media speculation that he has committed suicide, the coroner records an open verdict.
Despite only recording three studio albums before his death - Are You Experienced(1967), Axis: Bold as Love (1967) and Electric Ladyland (1968) - Hendrix is widely acknowledged as being one of the greatest guitar players of all time. His unique sound is partly due to his unorthodox playing style: unlike most left-handed guitarists who string their instruments in mirror image, he simply flips a regular guitar upside down. A natural showman, he is known for playing the guitar behind his head, picking out notes with his teeth, and even on occasion lighting his instrument on fire at the climax of his shows.
A year before his death, Hendrix told a reporter, "I tell you when I die I'm going to have a funeral. I'm going to have a jam session. And, knowing me, I'll probably get busted at my own funeral." This prediction almost comes true at his wake beneath the Seattle Space Needle, thanks to childhood friend and promoter Tom Hulett. After a full set from The Buddy Miles Express, Miles Davis is joined on stage by Experience members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, who improvise together into the early evening, with Hendrix's cousin Eddie Hall playing guitar.
Hendrix had been struggling with a recent influenza-like illness, exacerbated by exhaustion caused by a lack of sleep and overwork on a recent tour of Germany with his band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He had fallen out with his manager, Michael Jeffery, and was also embroiled in two legal battles - a paternity suit and a dispute with his record label. The post mortem investigation finds that Hendrix has asphyxiated on his own vomit after taking 18 times the recommended dose of barbiturates, but despite media speculation that he has committed suicide, the coroner records an open verdict.
Despite only recording three studio albums before his death - Are You Experienced(1967), Axis: Bold as Love (1967) and Electric Ladyland (1968) - Hendrix is widely acknowledged as being one of the greatest guitar players of all time. His unique sound is partly due to his unorthodox playing style: unlike most left-handed guitarists who string their instruments in mirror image, he simply flips a regular guitar upside down. A natural showman, he is known for playing the guitar behind his head, picking out notes with his teeth, and even on occasion lighting his instrument on fire at the climax of his shows.
A year before his death, Hendrix told a reporter, "I tell you when I die I'm going to have a funeral. I'm going to have a jam session. And, knowing me, I'll probably get busted at my own funeral." This prediction almost comes true at his wake beneath the Seattle Space Needle, thanks to childhood friend and promoter Tom Hulett. After a full set from The Buddy Miles Express, Miles Davis is joined on stage by Experience members Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell, who improvise together into the early evening, with Hendrix's cousin Eddie Hall playing guitar.
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