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Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille is sentenced to 80 days behind bars after he pleaded no contest to DUI and causing injury. DeVille was arrested after running into a parked car in August.
C.C. DeVille
Poison
Courtney Love plays a rare live show in San Diego but unfortunately doesn't do anything outrageous or appear to be inebriated.
Courtney Love
Metallica cancel their South American tour this month, blaming physical injury and mental exhaustion. Says James Hetfield, "we are fried... both in body and in mind."
Metallica
Britrock stalwarts Shed Seven ("Going for Gold") announce they will split after one last U.K. tour.
Shed Seven
Bruce Springsteen pledges money to help save the Bottom Line, a storyed New York club faced with eviction. In the past, the folk venue has played host to such names as Springsteen, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder and Bonnie Raitt.
Bruce Springsteen
Neil Young
Stevie Wonder
Bonnie Raitt
Rosey Nix Adams, the daughter of June Carter Cash and step-daughter of Johnny Cash, and bluegrass fiddler Jimmy Campbell are found dead in Tennessee from monoxide poisoning.
Johnny Cash
June Carter Cash
Jimmy Campbell
Latin butt-wiggler Shakira is appointed a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
Shakira
Ben Moody, Evanescence's founding guitarist , walks out on the Goth rockers in the midst of their European tour. Singer Amy Lee fumes, ""You don't do that to your band. You wouldn't do that to your friends or your family. You don't do that to anyone."
Evanescence
Duran Duran cancel their tour after Simon LeBon shreds a vocal cord.
Duran Duran
When 12,000 people turn up to see Bryan Adams at Glasgow, Scotland's Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre, he breaks the record for the largest all-standing indoor concert.
Bryan Adams
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces that it's inducting the Who, Simon & Garfunkel, the Kinks, the Platters, Hank Ballard, Bobby Darin, the Four Seasons, the Four Tops, Holland/Dozier/Holland, Carole King, and Gerry Goffin.
The Platters
Bobby Darin
Hank Ballard
Holland-Dozier-Holland
Gerry Goffin
Carole King
Simon & Garfunkel
The Four Seasons
The Who
The Four Tops
The Kinks
Opening arguments are heard in the case of Fantasy Records vs. John Fogerty. The label claims Fogerty's solo recording "The Old Man Down the Road" sounds a little too much like his Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Run Through the Jungle," for which it owns the copyright.
John Fogerty
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Paul McCartney is the recipient of a rhodium disc from the Guinness Book of World Records. The award celebrates his status as the world's best-selling songwriter.
Paul McCartney
The September release of In Through the Out Door, Led Zeppelin's first new album in three years, buoys sales of their back catalog. Today, all nine of their albums are among Billboard's top 200 albums. Led Zeppelin IV occupies the No. 90 spot, with In Through at No. 1.
Led Zeppelin
In Toronto, Keith Richards pleads guilty to heroin possession. The judge gives him a one-year suspended sentence and orders him to play a benefit for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.
Keith Richards
Bob Dylan re-records "Hurricane" after earlier versions of his song about the imprisoned boxer misidentified a bystander in the bar where Hurricane Carter was alleged to have shot two men. It's his final session for the Desire album.
Bob Dylan
At Long Island, N.Y.'s Nassau Coliseum, James Taylor, Pete Seeger, and John McLaughlin perform at the First Planetary Celebration to promote awareness of global responsibility. The gig attracts only 4,500 people.
John McLaughlin
Pete Seeger
James Taylor
John Lennon sues the U.S. government, accusing it of tapping his phone.
John Lennon
At the Marlborough Street Magistrate Court in London, Rolling Stone Keith Richards is slapped with a $500 fine and given a conditional discharge on three firearm offenses and four drug charges. His girlfriend Anita Pallenberg is given a conditional discharge after she was found in possession of 25 Mandrax tablets. The pair were busted at their Chelsea home on June 26.
The Rolling Stones
Keith Richards
Beatles manager Brian Epstein arranges to bring his band's heroes the Four Tops over to England for a tour.
The Beatles
The Four Tops
James Brown performs at the Apollo in New York. In the process he records his best-selling album Live at the Apollo, Volume I.
James Brown
Perry Lee Tavares, aka "Tiny," of the Tavares vocal group of brothers is born in New Bedford, Mass.
Tavares
Edgar Broughton, the blues guitarist who led the band that bore his name, is born in England.
Edgar Broughton
Steppenwolf drummer Jerry Edmonton is born in Canada.
Steppenwolf
R&B singer Bettye Swann ("Make Me Yours") is born in Shreveport, La.
Bettye Swann
Lewis Hamlin, a trumpeter in James Brown's band, is born in Baltimore.
James Brown
Hellooooo, bay-beh! Jiles Richardson, aka DJ and recording star the Big Bopper ("Chantilly Lace"), is born in Sabine Pass, Texas.
Big Bopper
 
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