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2015Marilyn Manson is sucker punched by a fellow patron at a Denny's in Alberta, Canada. The rocker, who stopped by the restaurant for a late-night meal after a show promoting his Pale Emperor album, denies claims that he insulted the assailant's girlfriend and spurred the incident.
2012The single "Boyfriend" by Justin Bieberdebuts at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It's the third-highest first-week sale at 600,000 copies sold. Lots of teenage girls want to be Bieber's girlfriend.
2008After years of quiet courtship, Jay-Zand Beyoncé get married in a secret ceremony, becoming the most powerful couple in entertainment.More
1987Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," written by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond and used in the movie Mannequin, hits #1 in the US.
1981Styx hits #1 in the US with Paradise Theatre, a concept album based on the rise and fall of a theatre in Chicago.More
1973A taped Elvis Presley concert entitled Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii is telecast on NBC and proves to be a huge success. The total worldwide audience for the show, the first commercial worldwide satellite broadcast, amounts to over a billion people.
1964The Beatles hold the top five spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the following singles:
5) "Please Please Me"
4) "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
3) "She Loves You"
2) "Twist And Shout"
1) "Can't Buy Me Love"
5) "Please Please Me"
4) "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
3) "She Loves You"
2) "Twist And Shout"
1) "Can't Buy Me Love"
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In Music History
2017Pepsi posts a commercial featuring the Skip Marley protest song "Lions" that is pulled the next day amid controversy that it makes light of actual protests.More
2014Richard Marx and Cynthia Rhodes announce the end of their 25-year marriage that included the birth of three sons. The pair met in 1983 when both were working on the film Staying Alive (Marx on the soundtrack, Rhodes as a dancer).
2009Cleveland's Public Hall, site of historic concerts by The Beatles (1964) and The Doors (1968), is center stage again as the site of the 24th annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The class of 2009 includes performer inductees Jeff Beck, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Metallica, Run-DMC and Bobby Womack; Early Influence inductee Wanda Jackson; Sidemen inductees Bill Black, DJ Fontana and Spooner Oldham.
2008New Kids on the Block announce their upcoming reunion tour during NBC's Today show in New York City.
2008Procol Harum's Gary Brooker wins an appeal in London to an earlier ruling, which stated that Harum organist Matthew Fisher was entitled to 40 percent of the royalties from the band's 1967 smash "A Whiter Shade Of Pale." Though the new ruling notes that Fisher wrote the organ line and should be co-credited, it also overturns the royalty award by noting that Fisher waited 38 years to sue.
2008The Martin Scorsese-directed Rolling Stones concert documentary Shine A Light hits theaters. The next week, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Jack White appear on the cover of Rolling Stone with the headline, "Blues Brothers."
2007An article is published in New Musical Express quoting Keith Richards as saying, "I snorted my father." Richards later claimed it was an April Fool's joke.
2005A man who won an out-of-court settlement in 1994 against the singer for a similar charge testifies in Michael Jackson's current molestation trial.
2003The Rolling Stones make their stage debut in India, performing at Bangalore Palace in the middle of a monsoon!
1996Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia's ashes are scattered in the Ganges river in India by Dead guitarist Bob Weir and Garcia's widow, Deborah.
1996More trouble for Wilson Pickett, who after serving a one-year jail sentence in 1994 is arrested at his New Jersey home and charged with possession of two grams of cocaine. Still on probation, he enters a rehab center in August.
1992Beastie Boys make their first concert appearance playing instruments at a show at The Palladium in Los Angeles.
1978Loretta Lynn sings "One's On The Way" on episode #308 of The Muppet Show. Because the Muppet Theatre is supposedly being fumigated, the entire show takes place at a railroad station.
1974R&B singer Andre Dalyrimple is born in Georgia. Along with his three brothers, he'll form the group Soul For Real, known for their 1994 hit "Candy Rain."
1973R&B singer Kelly Price is born in Queens, New York.
Martin Luther King Jr. Is Killed
1968
US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is killed after being shot on a Memphis motel balcony. King's life inspires a number of songs, including U2's "Pride (In The Name Of Love)."
Three days after King's assassination, Nina Simone performs a song written in tribute, "Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)." Further musical tributes are conflated with the death of Senator Robert Kennedy, who is killed two months later: The Rascals' "People Got to Be Free," inspired by King and Kennedy, goes to #1 in August; later in the year Dion has a hit with "Abraham, Martin and John," a song about King, Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. Even Elvis gets in on it, with a King/Kennedy song called "If I Can Dream."
The most trenchant tributes to King come more than a decade after his death, when his legacy is unbound from Kennedy's. Stevie Wonder leads a successful campaign to get King's birthday declared a national holiday, with his 1980 track "Happy Birthday" written in King's honor. U2 learns about King in 1983 when they visit the Chicago Peace Museum, leading to two songs on their album The Unforgettable Fire: "MLK" and "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" (Bono references the shooting as "Early morning, April 4" in the lyric, although it actually happened at 6 p.m.).
In ensuing years, songwriters of all stripes lionize King. Public Enemy pleads his case in "By the Time I Get to Arizona"; Rage Against the Machine calls him a "Renegade of Funk." The folk music community, a powerful voice for King's work during his lifetime, also comes through, with Patty Griffin's "Up to the Mountain" reflecting on his famous speech. Hip-Hop is sprinkled with references to King, with the Game/Nas collaboration "Letter to the King" explaining how they came around after years of youthful indifference. "You the first real Braveheart, we miss you," Nas raps.
The most trenchant tributes to King come more than a decade after his death, when his legacy is unbound from Kennedy's. Stevie Wonder leads a successful campaign to get King's birthday declared a national holiday, with his 1980 track "Happy Birthday" written in King's honor. U2 learns about King in 1983 when they visit the Chicago Peace Museum, leading to two songs on their album The Unforgettable Fire: "MLK" and "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" (Bono references the shooting as "Early morning, April 4" in the lyric, although it actually happened at 6 p.m.).
In ensuing years, songwriters of all stripes lionize King. Public Enemy pleads his case in "By the Time I Get to Arizona"; Rage Against the Machine calls him a "Renegade of Funk." The folk music community, a powerful voice for King's work during his lifetime, also comes through, with Patty Griffin's "Up to the Mountain" reflecting on his famous speech. Hip-Hop is sprinkled with references to King, with the Game/Nas collaboration "Letter to the King" explaining how they came around after years of youthful indifference. "You the first real Braveheart, we miss you," Nas raps.
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