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Featured Events
2017The Katy Perry song "Chained to the Rhythm" hits #4 on the Hot 100, making guest vocalist Skip Marley the first of the Marleys to land a Top 10 on that tally.More
2003Evanescence release their first album, Fallen, featuring the hits "Bring Me To Life" and "Going Under."
1993Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown and Victoria Adams are among 400 hopefuls at a London dance studio auditioning for producers who are forming a new group. They are selected, and along with Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton, become the Spice Girls.More
1984The Police play the final concert of their Synchronicity tour in Melbourne, Australia. It is their last show, except for a few special events together, until 2007.
1966John Lennon is quoted in the London Evening Standard saying, "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now." The remark goes mostly unnoticed, but causes a big stink when it is reprinted in a US publication four months later.
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In Music History
2019Keith Flint of The Prodigy is found dead at his home in Essex, England. Cause of death is determined to be suicide by hanging. He was 49.
2016Shakira makes her feature-film debut, voicing the pop star Gazelle in the Disney animated movie Zootopia. She also contributes the song "Try Everything" to the soundtrack.
2011Johnny Preston ("Running Bear") dies of heart failure at age 71.
2010Redbone co-founder Lolly Vegas, who wrote and sang their hit "Come and Get Your Love," dies of lung cancer at age 70.
2009John Cephas of Cephas & Wiggins dies at age 78.
2004John McGeoch, a Scottish guitarist who played with Magazine, PiL and Siouxsie and the Banshees, dies at age 48.
2003Bruce Springsteen plays Hank Ballard's 1960 hit "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go" at his show in Jacksonville, Florida, to honor Ballard, who died two days earlier.
2001Glenn Hughes, the biker in The Village People, dies of lung cancer at age 50.
2001Michael Jackson and friend Macaulay Culkin spend the night shopping at a London record store, which stays open after hours to accommodate the pair.
1999Cowboy singer Eddie Dean dies of emphysema at age 91.
1998Bad Religion's breakthrough album, Stranger Than Fiction, released almost four years earlier, is certified gold by the RIAA, becoming the band's only album to achieve this certification in the United States.
1996Grand Ole Opry icon Minnie Pearl dies at 83.
1996The Beatles song "Real Love," compiled from a John Lennon demo recording, is released in the UK.
1994Kurt Cobain of Nirvana spends 20 hours in a coma after overdosing on Rohypnol (a prescription sedative) and champagne.
1993Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown welcome a baby girl, Bobbi Kristina.
Bee Gees Write The Hits
1978The #3 "Sometimes When We Touch" by Dan Hill is the only song in the Top 5 not written by a member of The Bee Gees. Andy Gibb's "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" is #1, with "Stayin' Alive" at #2, "Night Fever" at #5 and Samantha Sang's "Emotion," written by Robin and Barry Gibb, at #4.
By the end of 1978, there are 19 #1 songs, and six of them are written by at least one Gibb brother, including the top two: "Night Fever" (eight weeks at #1) and "Shadow Dancing" by Andy Gibb (seven weeks at #1). The following year, three Gibb co-writes reach the top spot.
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