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2017During Jason Aldean's headlining set at the Route 91 Harvest festival on the Las Vegas strip, Stephen Paddock opens fire from his suite at the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 58 and injuring over 500 in the deadliest mass shooting in US history.More
2011After 28 years and two children together, Gene Simmons (62) and Shannon Tweed (54) finally get married. Their wedding song is "At Last," sung by their daughter Sophie.More
1991The world's most valuable golf glove - the original, crystal-studded one Michael Jackson wore - is stolen from the Motown Museum in Detroit. MC Hammer sets up a phone line and offers a $50,000 reward for the glove's return, but it's recovered by police two days later.
1983"Total Eclipse Of The Heart," written by Jim Steinman, hits #1 in the US, making Bonnie Tyler the first Welsh singer to top the chart.
1976David Bowie retreats to West Germany in an attempt to clean up his cocaine addiction. While in Germany, Bowie works with Iggy Pop and Brian Eno. The song "Heroes" comes from this stay.
1965At a concert at Carnegie Hall, Bob Dylan introduces his new band. Formerly Ronnie Hawkins' backup band, they were known as the Hawks, but soon became The Band.
1962The Beach Boys release their first album, Surfin' Safari, which includes their debut single, "Surfin'." The album climbs to #32 in the US.More
1947Bing Crosby broadcasts the first ever pre-recorded radio show when he airs his Philco Radio Time show on the ABC network using a magnetophon, a Nazi recording technology discovered and brought to America by US Army Corps Officer John Thomas "Jack" Mullin. The magnetophon leads to the evolution of multi-track recording technology, which revolutionizes the music industry. Crosby becomes an investor in the technology, which he uses so he doesn't have to always do his shows live.
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In Music History
2018Peggy Sue Gerron, subject of the Buddy Holly hit "Peggy Sue," dies at 78.
2018The French singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour dies at 94. His compositions include "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "If You Go Away."
2012Chris Thile, the mandolin player known for his work with Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers, wins a Genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. The foundation typically accepts nominees through anonymous selection, and when Thile receives the congratulatory phone call, he thinks its a political robo-call until his agent looks up the number.
2011Meat Loaf performs at the AFL Grand Final in Melbourne between Collingwood and Geelong. Suffering from a hemorrhaging vocal cord, he struggles through the 12-minute set and is blasted in the press. The singer responds by calling AFL organizers "the cheapest people I've ever seen in my life."More
2010Justin Timberlake portrays Napster co-founder Sean Parker in the Oscar-nominated film The Social Network, which depicts the founding of Facebook.
2007Outside the Soho Revue Bar in London, Laura Marling and her band perform a set in front of shocked and ecstatic fans. The club won't allow the 17-year-old Marling inside to perform because it violates their strict 18 & over policy, so she takes it to the streets. She later returns to the club in February 2008 for an encore of sorts, performing indoors and onstage to celebrate the release of her debut, Alas, I Cannot Swim, and her 18th birthday.
2004Bruce Palmer (bassist for Buffalo Springfield) dies of a heart attack in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, at age 58.
2002Ms. Dynamite is the big winner at the UK Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards, where she is named Best Newcomer and UK Act of the Year, and her song "It Takes More" wins Best Single. She fades fast, releasing only one more album in the '00s.
2002The White Stripes play a free show in New York's Union Square Park, treating a large lunchtime crowd to a set full of covers and nuggets from the group's three albums.
2002Barry White's label reveals that the singer has been hospitalized with kidney failure.
1998John Fogerty gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
1996Fountains of Wayne release their self-titled debut album, which took just five days to record.
1996A collection of live Nirvana performances is released on the album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah.
1995Farm Aid 8 takes place in Louisville, Kentucky, with Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Hootie & the Blowfish and The Dave Matthews Band raising over $1 million to support American farmers.
Midnight Oil Offer Overdue Apology At Sydney Olympics
2000
Australian rock band Midnight Oil play their hit "Beds Are Burning" at the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Sydney. Their black outfits are emblazoned with the word "sorry," a symbolic olive branch towards the Aboriginals who were forced from their lands by a government that refuses to apologize.
Midnight Oil's performance is also a personal message to Prime Minister John Howard, who has refused to offer an apology to the native inhabitants on behalf of Australia. Ironically, "Beds Are Burning" - which deals with Aboriginal land rights - is his favorite Oils song. The incendiary track was the breakout single from their 1987 album, Diesel and Dust, which was inspired by the band's tour of struggling indigenous communities in the Australian Outback.
More than a decade later, the topic of reconciliation is still a hot-button issue among Australians. Several protests are planned on behalf of the Aborigines for the Olympics ceremony - until the event's organizers make it clear the issue will not be ignored. The opening ceremony pays tribute to indigenous culture and features Aborigine sprinter Cathy Freeman (who wins the gold medal in the 400-metre final) lighting the Olympic Flame. Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, also mentions the cause in his opening and closing speeches.
As a crowd of over 100,000 stood in support of Midnight Oil's performance, as Prime Minister Howard remained seated, the band realized they were delivering a message far beyond their five-man outfit: "It wasn't Midnight Oil's gesture," Oils vocalist Peter Garrett recalled in 2016. "It was really a gesture for everybody who felt that way."
More than a decade later, the topic of reconciliation is still a hot-button issue among Australians. Several protests are planned on behalf of the Aborigines for the Olympics ceremony - until the event's organizers make it clear the issue will not be ignored. The opening ceremony pays tribute to indigenous culture and features Aborigine sprinter Cathy Freeman (who wins the gold medal in the 400-metre final) lighting the Olympic Flame. Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, also mentions the cause in his opening and closing speeches.
As a crowd of over 100,000 stood in support of Midnight Oil's performance, as Prime Minister Howard remained seated, the band realized they were delivering a message far beyond their five-man outfit: "It wasn't Midnight Oil's gesture," Oils vocalist Peter Garrett recalled in 2016. "It was really a gesture for everybody who felt that way."
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