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British pop star Robbie Williams tops the U.K. album charts with Intensive Care. The No. 1 single is boy band Westlife's "You Raise Me Up."
Robbie Williams
Westlife
Zak Sally leaves the band Low, saying "There are more important things than music. Or bands." The bassist had been in the indie group for 12 years - crikey!
Low
Willie Nelson holds a fundraiser on his Austin ranch and golf course to raise money for his old pal and Texas gubernatorial candidate, the writer-songwriter-gadfly Kinky Friedman. Also in attendance: Jesse "The Body" Ventura.
Willie Nelson
Kinky Friedman
Jesse Ventura
Paul McCartney, 61, becomes a dad again as his wife Heather Mills gives birth to a baby girl, seven-pound Beatrice Milly.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
The file-sharing application Napster returns to the Internet as Napster 2.0, offering a paid-for downloading service.
Jennifer Lopez unveils her new line of perfume - Still Jennifer Lopez. She describes the scent as "very true to my passions and my relationship to the public."
Jennifer Lopez
Australian punks The Living End do a little taking care of business, signing with Universal Music Publishing.
The Living End
Guitarist Terry Corso leaves Alien Ant Farm, the punk/poppers best known for their hit cover "Smooth Criminal."
Alien Ant Farm
Over a hundred police Police are called to a Marilyn Manson concert in Kansas City after fans push down a security barrier twice and the shock-rocker abruptly ends his show.
Marilyn Manson
Fans, family and friends of the late Jam Master Jay hold a memorial in Queens a year after the Run-D.M.C. DJ's slaying.
Jam Master Jay
Run-D.M.C.
Britney Spears cancels a French concert to promote her new album In the Zone after she comes down with a flu and severe throat infection.
Britney Spears
Lionel Richie files for divorce from his second wife, Diane, citing "irreconcilable differences."
Lionel Richie
David Bowie kicks off a contest on his Web site Bowienet.com, asking users to help him finish writing the lyrics for the song "What's Really Happening." All references to laughing gnomes are immediately discarded, and the eventual winner is 20-year-old Alex Grant.
David Bowie
The creepy Fox show Millennium gets even creepier. Kiss guest-star on the show both with and without makeup.
Kiss
Bob Dylan releases Good as I Been to You, an acoustic collection of cover versions.
Bob Dylan
Linda Ronstadt performs opera for the first time in a production of La Boheme at New York's Public Theatre. The show later moves to the Anspacher Theater and runs until December 30.
Linda Ronstadt
People of a certain age actually remember what they were doing when Kiss' Phantom of the Park premiered on NBC. The legendary disaster first airs tonight.
Kiss
Poet Allen Ginsberg visits his old friend Bob Dylan and the two tape several interviews together.
Allen Ginsberg
Bob Dylan
Led Zeppelin announce that they will embark on another world tour. However, the tour is later postponed due to Robert Plant's tonsillitis.
Robert Plant
Led Zeppelin
Kath Silvia Stewart files for divorce from her husband, Sly Stone. She is given custody of Sylvester Bubb Ali Stewart, the 14-month-old member of the Family Stone. Now she just has to find him. Sly has gone into hiding, and taken his son along with him.
Sly Stone
Elton John performs at the Royal Variety Performance for Queen Elizabeth II. He's the first rocker to do so since the Beatles entertained her majesty in 1963.
The Beatles
Elton John
The No. 1 album in the U.S. today is John Lennon's Imagine.
John Lennon
Jim Morrison has legal problems of his own. A Miami court sentences him to six months in jail and a $500 fine for indecent exposure for allegedly flashing an audience.
Jim Morrison
Pink Floyd and the Sopwith Camel perform at San Francisco's Fillmore in a benefit for the radio station KPFA. The same day they appear on The Pat Boone Show. Madcap singer Syd Barrett refuses to answer Pat's questions during the program.
Pat Boone
Syd Barrett
Sopwith Camel
Pink Floyd
Brian Jones answers charges of drug possession in a London court. The Rolling Stones guitarist pleads guilty to possessing marijuana and not guilty to possessing cocaine and Methedrine. The judge sends him to prison to await sentencing on the following day.
Sopwith Camel
The Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd sign with their new managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King.
Pink Floyd
With the final mix by George Martin of "Money (That's What I Want)," work finishes on With the Beatles, the group's second album.
The Beatles
George Martin
The Crystals release their single "Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby." The No. 20 hit is the first release on the Philles label, run by producer Phil Spector.
The Crystals
Phil Spector
Drummer Chris Slade, who played with both AC/DC and Manfred Mann, is born.
AC/DC
Manfred Mann
Eddie Holland, who with his brother Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier wrote some of Motown's biggest hits, is born in Detroit.
Lamont Dozier
Eddie Holland
Otis Williams, singer with '50s R&B act the Charms ("Hearts of Stone"), is born in Texarkana, Texas.
Otis Williams
The Charms
 
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