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Milking the publicity for all its worth, Madonna tells NBC's Dateline that she thinks all the hoopla around her adoption of a Malawian infant is "racist." "A lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child," she says. Outside, it's America.
Madonna
My Chemical Romance wonder what the f*ck just happened as their massively hyped album The Black Parade is beaten to the No.1 spot by the soundtrack to TV's Hannah Montana. Kidz rule!
My Chemical Romance
Hannah Montana
Elton John begs his record label to drop him, claiming they barely promoted new album The Captain & The Kid. "F*ck Universal," he tells the audience at a New York show. "Please drop me. I'm 58 and I don't care anymore."
Elton John
Grocery clerk Paul McPike sues Green Day, alleging he wrote their hit "American Idiot" way back in 1992. "It was just disbelief every time I heard it on the radio," says McPike. A feeling very similar to what you're experiencing reading this.
Green Day
Bruce Springsteen and Michael J. Fox perform "Light of Day," the title track of the 1987 movie starring Fox, during a Parkinson's Disease benefit at New Jersey's Stone Pony.
Bruce Springsteen
Prodigy of Queensbridge rap duo Mobb Deep is arrested and charged after police discover marijuana, crack and an illegal handgun in two vans belonging to him and his entourage.
Mobb Deep
Prodigy of Mobb Deep
Florence Greenberg dies. The record executive was responsible for discovering the Shirelles and the Kingsmen, among others. She was 82.
The Kingsmen
The Shirelles
Megadeth release Youthanasia, filled with such optimistic thrash gems as "Addicted to Chaos." The album peaks at No. 4 in the Billboard charts.
Megadeth
Whilst filming the risible Hearts of Fire in Canada, Bob Dylan performs with the Paul James Band in a bar in Markham, Ontario.
Paul James
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan plays the first night of his Slow Train Coming tour in San Francisco, playing an entire set of all-new religious material. He's booed.
Bob Dylan
The Festfolk Quartet, which would later become Abba, perform their first concert at a restaurant in Gothenburg, Sweden. According to the Expressen newspaper, the group "are as well matched on stage as they are off it."
ABBA
George Harrison releases his soundtrack to the psychedelic film Wonderwall. It's the first-ever Beatles solo release.
George Harrison
The Beatles
A Rolling Stones gig in Rochester, N.Y., comes to an abrupt halt after seven minutes when 3,000 fans try to bum-rush the stage.
The Rolling Stones
The Beach Boys land in London for their first promotional visit to the U.K.
The Beach Boys
On The Ed Sullivan Show tonight, you can watch the Dave Clark Five perform "Glad All Over." Comparing them to his bete-noirs the Rolling Stones, Sullivan declares the Five "nice, neat boys." They would perform more times on his show than any other rock act.
The Dave Clark Five
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles kick off their first headlining tour of England at Cheltenham's Odeon Theatre, supported by Peter Jay & the Jaywalkers, the Brook Brothers, and the Vernon Girls. Some rabid fans line up for more than two days to snag tickets.
The Beatles
The Brook Brothers
Having just released their first single in England, the Beatles return to their Star-Club stomping grounds in Hamburg for a two-week residency. In 1977, a bootleg of their concerts there was released as Live! At the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany 1962.
The Beatles
Eddie MacDonald, bass player for the Alarm, is born in St. Asaph, Wales.
The Alarm
Kool & the Gang keyboardist Ronald Bell is born in Youngstown, Ohio.
Kool & the Gang
Traffic bass player Rick Grech is born in Bordeaux, France. He also appeared on albums by Blind Faith and Family.
Traffic
Family
Blind Faith
Barry Sadler, the Special Forces staff sergeant who went to No. 1 with "The Ballad of the Green Berets" smack dab in the middle of the Vietnam War, is born in Carlsbad, N.M. In 1988 he was shot in the head by burglars in his home in Guatemala and suffered brain damage.
Sgt. Barry Sadler
Zeffrey "Andre" Williams is born in Chicago. His spoken-word single "Bacon Fat" is considered one of the first rap singles. He also worked as a Motown producer, co-writing Alvin Cash & the Crawlers' "Twine Time" and Stevie Wonder's first single, "Thank You for Loving Me."
Andre Williams
Stevie Wonder
 
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