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Featured Events
2015Gwen Stefani files for divorce from Gavin Rossdale, her husband since 2002. She soon starts dating Blake Shelton, her co-star on the TV competition The Voice.
1991Pearl Jam play the club RKCNDY in Seattle. The show is filmed and used to create their first video - for the song "Alive." The audio from the show is used in the video, as the band hates the idea of lip-syncing.More
1971Paul McCartney puts Wings in flight, announcing the formation of his first post-Beatles band. Members are Paul, his wife Linda, former Moody Blues singer Denny Laine on guitar, and Denny Seiwell on drums.
1963The Beatles play The Cavern Club in Liverpool for the last time. They played the first of their 292 shows there in 1961 when they made their debut performance.
1926Tony Bennett is born Anthony Dominick Benedetto in Astoria, Queens, New York. In 1962, he will perform "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" for the first time, and it becomes his signature song.
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In Music History
2019Henri Belolo, who co-founded The Village People and co-wrote many of their hits, dies at 82.
2016Days after performing at Portland's Moda Center, Modest Mouse singer Isaac Brock causes a 5-vehicle accident when he falls asleep at the wheel and crashes into a pickup truck. No serious injuries are reported.
2016Ricci Martin, youngest son of Dean Martin, is found dead in his Utah home at age 62.
2014Rosetta Hightower (lead singer of The Orlons) dies at age 70.
2012Stevie Wonder announces that he will be divorcing Kai Millard Morris, his second wife of eleven years. The couple reveal that they've been living separately for two years and cite the boring "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the split.
2010Bobby Hebb ("Sunny") dies at 72.
2010Madonna launches her "Material Girl" line of clothing, shoes, jewelry and handbags at Macy's. The line is targeted to teenage girls and based in part on some of Madonna's various looks. Assisting the 51-year-old singer with the project is her 13-year-old daughter, Lourdes.
2006Arthur Lee (frontman for Love) dies of acute myeloid leukemia at age 61.
1999Country legend Patsy Cline is awarded a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1996The Bayside Boys remix of "Macarena," originally a Spanish-language dance song from Los Del Rio, hits #1 on the Hot 100, where it stays for 14 weeks.
1993Boston Ventures, the group to whom Berry Gordy had sold Motown in 1988 for $61 million, sells the label and its holdings to Dutch conglomerate Polygram for $325 million.
1986The News Of The World breaks the story that Rolling Stones's bass player Bill Wyman, 49, is dating Mandy Smith, 16, and that they had been together since she was 13. No charges are pressed against Wyman, and in 1989, the couple gets married in a union that lasts less than a year.
1985Holly Blake-Arnstein (of the girl group Dream) is born in Tarzana, California.
1985Tears For Fears' "Shout" hits #1 in the US for the first of three weeks. It's the English synthpop duo's second chart-topper, following "Everybody Wants To Rule The World."
1979Talking Heads release their third album, Fear of Music. Produced by Brian Eno, it's full of one-word titles, including "Heaven," "Air" and "Drugs."
Def Leppard Unleash Hysteria
1987After years of delays, Def Leppard's Hysteria album is released in the US.
Thanks in large part to producer Mutt Lange, Def Leppard hit it big with their 1983 album Pyromania. The follow-up, however, proves a struggle. Lange is exhausted after working on The Cars' Heartbreak City album, so the Leppers bring in Jim Steinman - the guy responsible for Meat Loaf's hits - to produce. This pairing doesn't pan out, and in late 1984, Steinman is dismissed and the work is scrapped. The new year is marked by tragedy when on December 31, 1984, drummer Rick Allen loses an arm after crashing his Corvette. As Allen recovers and learns to play with one arm (using a modified drum kit with electronic foot pedals), Mutt Lange returns to the fold and they basically start over. Two years later, Hysteria is finally done. It shoots to #1 in the UK its first week of release and makes a slow climb to the top in America, where it tops the chart in July 1988 after the hot, sticky-sweet "Pour Some Sugar On Me" becomes a breakout hit. It's another Mutt Lange masterpiece, and a massive seller, eventually shifting over 25 million copies worldwide. Seven singles from the album make the Hot 100, including "Love Bites," which goes to #1.
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