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2016Fox airs a live version of Grease, the hit Broadway musical-turned-movie, starring Julianne Hough.More
195917-year-old Bob Dylan (known then as Robert Zimmerman) sees Buddy Hollyperform at the Duluth Armory in Minnesota. Three days later, Holly dies in a plane crash.
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2017Deke Leonard of Man dies at age 72.
2015Neo soul singer D'Angelo makes his debut appearance on SNL, performing "Really Love" and "The Charade" from his latest album, Black Messiah. His band, the Vanguard, wore t-shirts with the slogans "Black Lives Matter" and "I Can't Breathe" in reference to the controversial deaths of unarmed black men Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of white policemen in 2014. The singer also donned a hooded sweatshirt as a nod to Trayvon Martin, who suffered a similar fate in 2012.
2010The Record Academy honors Leonard Cohen with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. During his acceptance speech, Cohen comments on his surprise at receiving a Grammy, joking that he "was always touched by the modesty of [the Recording Academy's] interest in my work."
2009Dewey Martin (drummer for Buffalo Springfield) dies at age 68. The cause of death is unknown, but he had been suffering from health problems for the last few years.
2008Britney Spears' family helps orchestrate an intervention that lands her in the psychiatric ward of UCLA's hospital. She's taken by ambulance, which gets a police escort and draws a frenzy of media attention. The next day, her father is named as her conservator, as a court rules that Britney cannot care for herself. She is released a few days later and starts getting her life back together. Later in February, her saga is detailed in Rolling Stone; she appears on the cover with the headline, "Britney Spears: Inside An American Tragedy."
2001After Barry Mason, who co-wrote the Tom Jones hit "Delilah," tells The Sun that the song was inspired by a woman named Delia from Llandudno in North Wales, the UK newspaper asks readers to help track her down. The search is aborted when Mason's ex-wife - who co-wrote the song - calls in to explain that "Delia" does not exist, and that the name came from the story of Samson and Delilah.
1999Cher sings the national anthem at Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami; Stevie Wonderperforms at the halftime show.
1998The Bruce Springsteen "Come Together" benefit concert, organized for the family of a New Jersey police officer killed in the line of duty, turns into an impromptu E Street Band reunion that also features Southside Johnny and other Jersey musicians.
1993Michael Jackson performs with 3,500 local children at the Superbowl XXVII in Pasadena, California.
1988Herb Alpert performs the US national anthem at Superbowl XXII in San Diego, California; Chubby Checker performs at the halftime show.
1985Barbara Cowsill (The Cowsills)
1985John Fogerty plays his first live show in years, performing with Albert Lee and Booker T. Jones at the A&M Soundstage in Hollywood. It harkens a return for Fogerty, who two weeks earlier released Centerfield, his first album in 10 years.
1981Justin Timberlake is born in Memphis, Tennessee.
Beyonce, Taylor Swift Break Grammy Award Records
2010
Taylor Swift and Beyonce sweep the Grammy Awards with record-breaking wins. Earning Album of the Year for Fearless at age 19, Swift is the youngest artist to ever win the award. Beyoncé wins six out of ten nominations - including Song of the Year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) " - giving her the most wins in one night of any female artist.
It's been four months since Beyoncé and Taylor Swift shared the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards after the notorious Kanye Westcontroversy. Beyoncé invited the first-time Moonman winner onstage to finish her acceptance speech for Best Female Video, which was cut short earlier in the night by West's outburst that the "Single Ladies" singer deserved the prize. Tonight is just as exciting for the pair, but for happier reasons. Swift nabs four awards: two for "White Horse" (Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song) and two for Fearless (Best Country Album and Album of the Year). She performs her pop hit "Today Was a Fairytale."
Beyoncé wins six awards: three for "Single Ladies" (Song of the Year, Best R&B Song, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance), and more for I Am… Sasha Fierce (Best Contemporary R&B Album), "Halo" (Best Female Pop Vocal Performance) and "At Last" (Best Traditional R&B Performance). She also performs "If I Were a Boy" and a cover of Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know."
Other big wins include Kings of Leon for "Use Somebody" as Record of the Year and Zac Brown Band for Best New Artist. Michael Jackson, who died June 25, 2009, is honored with a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award and several artists perform his hit songs throughout the evening. Folk rocker Leonard Cohen is also recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award for a career spanning nearly half a century. "I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award." Cohen says in his acceptance speech. "In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest to my work."
Beyoncé wins six awards: three for "Single Ladies" (Song of the Year, Best R&B Song, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance), and more for I Am… Sasha Fierce (Best Contemporary R&B Album), "Halo" (Best Female Pop Vocal Performance) and "At Last" (Best Traditional R&B Performance). She also performs "If I Were a Boy" and a cover of Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know."
Other big wins include Kings of Leon for "Use Somebody" as Record of the Year and Zac Brown Band for Best New Artist. Michael Jackson, who died June 25, 2009, is honored with a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award and several artists perform his hit songs throughout the evening. Folk rocker Leonard Cohen is also recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award for a career spanning nearly half a century. "I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award." Cohen says in his acceptance speech. "In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest to my work."
