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Guitarist Dante DeCaro leaves much-hyped Canadian rockers Hot Hot Heat. The band say they will persevere with the follow-up to their debut Make Up the Breakdown.
Hot Hot Heat
Fifties vocalist Julie London dies in Los Angeles.
Julie London
Former Alice Cooper guitarist Glen Buxton dies at age 49.
Alice Cooper
Lee Allen, whose wailing sax graces such prime slices of R&B as Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti," dies in Los Angeles at age 68.
Lee Allen
Little Richard
Police arrest 15 youths at Earth, Wind & Fire's concert at Madison Square Garden. The kids are charged with robbing fans on their way to the gig.
Earth, Wind & Fire
For the second episode of Saturday Night Live, the musical guests are Simon & Garfunkel, temporarily reunited for this TV appearance.
Simon & Garfunkel
Al Green's ex-girlfriend Mary Woodson pours a pot of boiling grits on the soul singer in the bathroom of his Memphis home. She then shoots herself. Green suffered second-degree burns on his back, neck, and arms, and later underwent a religious conversion.
Al Green
Police raid John Lennon and Yoko Ono's apartment in London and arrest the couple. They are charged with possession of marijuana.
Yoko Ono
John Lennon
John Lennon stars as Private Gripweed in Richard Lester's film How I Won the War, which opens tonight at London's Premiere Theatre.
Cilla Black
John Lennon
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play before 14,500 people at the Paris Olympia less than a week after they've formed. The band is the support for French superstar Johnny Hallyday.
Johnny Hallyday
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, who doesn't play on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, is born in New Orleans.
Wynton Marsalis
Doobie Brothers drummer Keith Knudsen is born in Ames, Iowa. He joined the band in 1974.
The Doobie Brothers
Songwriter Laura Nyro, whose dark mysteriousness was a handy prototype for Kate Bush and Tori Amos, is born in the Bronx, N.Y. Her song "Stoned Soul Picnic" became a No. 3 hit for the Fifth Dimension.
Laura Nyro
The 5th Dimension
Kate Bush
Tori Amos
Russ Gugiere, guitarist/vocalist with the Association ("Along Comes Mary"), is born in Portsmouth, N.H.
The Association
Songwriter Cynthia Weil is born in New York. A staff lyricist for Don Kirshner's Aldon Music, she wrote such classics as "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and "On Broadway."
 
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