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Featured Events
2007US President George W. Bush is denied a luxury suite at the Imperial Hotel in Vienna when Mick Jagger, in town with The Rolling Stones on a tour, books it first.
1982Kelly Clarkson is born in Fort Worth, Texas.
1979Ray Charles sings "Georgia On My Mind" at a ceremony where it is named the official state song of Georgia.
1976With rumors of a Beatles reunion swirling, Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels goes on camera to offer the guys $3,000 (union scale) to reunite on the show. Paul McCartney and John Lennon are watching at Lennon's New York City apartment and consider showing up on a lark, but pass up the opportunity.
1975Pete Ham of Badfinger hangs himself in his London home. 27-year-old Ham, who was the group's lead singer and primary songwriter, was despondent over the business dealings that saw the band's album Wish You Were Here pulled from stores and his income cut off. He leaves behind a pregnant girlfriend who gives birth to a daughter the following month.
1961Bob Dylan makes his recording debut when he plays harmonica on the Harry Belafonte song "Calypso King." Dylan makes $50 for the session.
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In Music History
2017Ed Sheeran's "Shape Of You" tops Australia's singles chart (ARIA) for the 14th week, breaking the record set by Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" in 1995.
2016Waitress, a musical about a pregnant woman trying to escape an abusive marriage by winning a pie-baking contest, opens on Broadway. The most popular number is "She Used To Be Mine," which inspires covers from several fans.More
2016Philadelphia soul singer Billy Paul dies of cancer at age 81. His biggest hit, "Me And Mrs. Jones," was written by the team of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. The pair release a statement upon Paul's death saying, "Billy's voice combined both jazz, R&B and soul vocals, making him one the great artists to come out of Philly and to be celebrated worldwide."
2012The Beach Boys begin their 50th anniversary tour, which reunites Brian Wilson with fellow founders Mike Love and Al Jardine, along with longtime members Bruce Johnston and David Marks.
2009Robin Thicke performs his smash hit "Lost Without U" after The Oprah Show on the "Oprah Fridays Live" segment. So many viewers complain about missing the performance that Oprah brings Robin back for an unprecedented repeat performance only one month later.
2008Jane's Addiction reunite to rock the NME Awards.
2006Country singer-songwriter Bonnie Owens, former wife of Buck Owens and, later, Merle Haggard, dies at age 76.
2006Billy Joel becomes the first non-athlete to earn a banner at Madison Square Garden when he sells out the venue for the 12th time on his tour. His #12 hangs alongside retired greats who played in the Garden like Willis Reed, Walt Frazier and Mark Messier.More
2003The Fox TV network airs the 2-hour special The Michael Jackson Interview: The Footage You Were Never Meant to See. The show contains footage of Michael Jackson's home movies, and is the superstar's rebuttal to the documentary Living with Michael Jackson, which aired in February on ABC. In that one, Jackson talks about sharing his bed with children.
2002Pop singer Jewel breaks a collarbone and a rib when she is thrown from a horse at the Texas ranch of her boyfriend, rodeo star Ty Murray.
2001R&B singer Al Hibbler ("Unchained Melody") dies at age 85 in Chicago, Illinois.
1996After being forced to cancel shows, Stone Temple Pilots issue a statement saying that lead singer Scott Weiland has "become unable to rehearse or appear for these shows due to his dependency on drugs. He is currently under a doctor's care in a medical facility." Weiland sees this as a betrayal, and his relationship with his bandmates turns rocky.
1992David Bowie marries his second wife, the Somalian-born supermodel and entrepreneur Iman, in a private ceremony in Switzerland. The couple relocate to New York City soon after, and in 2000, Iman gives birth to Alexandria Jones - Bowie's second child (his son, the film director Duncan Jones, was born to his first wife, Angela Barnett, in 1971).
Barbra Streisand Is Born
1942
Barbra Streisand is born in Brooklyn, New York City.
As one of the top-selling music artists of all time and an Academy Award-winning actress she is pop culture royalty, but Barbara Joan Streisand was born from humble beginnings in Brooklyn, where her dad was a high school teacher and her mom the school's secretary. Losing her dad to an epileptic seizure before her first birthday instills a deep-seated need to escape the resulting financial hardships to find a more glamorous life. By the time she's 13, she records her first demo tape with the help of her mom, a talented soprano singer. After winning a talent contest at a gay nightclub, she nixes the extra "a" from her name and becomes Barbra Streisand.
Before she can record her first album in 1963, Streisand turns a small role as a secretary in the Broadway play I Can Get It For You Wholesale into a Tony-nominated performance. The buzz surrounding her talent boosts sales of her forthcoming Barbra Streisand Album into the Top 10. She wins three Grammy Awards for Best Album, Best Female Vocal Performance, and Record of the Year for "Happy Days Are Here Again."
In the ensuing decades, she earns icon status with eight more Grammy Awards, ten chart-topping albums, five #1 singles, and star turns in classic films like The Way We Were, Hello, Dolly!, and Funny Girl, the latter earning her an Academy Award for Best Actress. When she wins her second Academy Award for "Evergreen," the theme to A Star Is Born, a 1976 film she also starred in, she becomes the first woman in Oscar history to be honored as a composer. Continuing a series of record-breaking firsts, she also becomes the first woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Director for 1983's Yentl, a project that also makes her the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major film. If that's not enough, she's inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame four times.
In her private life, she marries twice, to Elliot Gould (with whom she has her only child, Jason Gould) and James Brolin.
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