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Shots are fired by an unknown assailant at Bret Michaels' tourbus in Chicopee, Mass. The Poison singer, who was on the bus at the time, is hit by falling glass but escapes serious injury.
Bret Michaels
Poison
The Los Angeles Times reports that Phil Spector told his chauffeur, "I think I killed somebody," the night actress Lana Clarkson died in his California mansion.
Phil Spector
Australian police drop charges of malicious damage against Coldplay's Chris Martin. Martin had apologized for breaking the car windscreen belonging to a photographer trying to take pictures of the singer and girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow.
Coldplay
Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst requires seven stitches to his face after being hit by a flying object during the New York stop of their Back 2 Basics tour with Korn.
Limp Bizkit
Korn
Fugitive from justice Ol' Dirty Bastard appears onstage with his group the Wu-Tang Clan at a performance at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. The rapper had escaped from a Pasadena, Calif., rehabilitation center weeks earlier and is wanted by police. "I can't stay onstage too long tonight," says ODB. "The cops is after me. Y'know, the whole f*ckin' world is still after me."
Wu-Tang Clan
Ol' Dirty Bastard
On its first day of release, The Beatles Anthology I sells 450,000 copies.
The Beatles
Jimmy Page begins a British tour at the Birmingham Hummingbird.
Jimmy Page
Pink Floyd release their live album Delicate Sound of Thunder.
Pink Floyd
Joni Mitchell marries bass player Larry Klein at her manager's Malibu, Calif., home.
Joni Mitchell
In Lakeland, Fla., Bob Dylan wraps up his Shot of Love tour with one of his longest shows ever. He plays 28 songs and six encores. It's also the first time he plays "Every Grain of Sand."
Bob Dylan
Don Henley is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and possession of marijuana, cocaine, and Quaaludes after paramedics treat a 16-year-old girl suffering from drug intoxication at his Los Angeles home.
Don Henley
At London's National Film Theater, the documentary Van Morrison in Ireland premieres.
Van Morrison
Punk band Chelsea, featuring Billy Idol on vocals, play their last-ever gig at London's Nashville club. Billy Idol departs with the band's Tony James to start Generation X.
Generation X
Chelsea
Billy Idol
Topping the Swedish charts is Abba's Frida Lyngstad with her solo album Frida Alone.
ABBA
Song parodist Allan Sherman, who once rewrote the musical My Fair Lady as a Jewish satire, dies of respiratory problems at age 48.
Allan Sherman
Blur bassist Alex James is born.
Blur
Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage. John Lennon has a Nagra tape recorder sent to the hospital so he can record the last heartbeats of his son, who is named John Ono Lennon II.
Yoko Ono
John Lennon
The Who release their album The Who Sell Out. The between-song jingles give some hint of the band's ambition, which also manifests itself in the mini-rock opera "Rael."
The Beatles
The Beatles are in an editing suite on London's Old Compton Street putting together their Magical Mystery Tour film.
The Beatles
Icelandic chanteuse - now there's an epithet she's never heard before - Björk is born in Reykjavik.
Björk
Questions in the House of Commons about the Beatles. A conservative MP asks the home secretary whether the Fab Four should still be allowed police protection from their screaming fans.
The Beatles
Call this Ray Charles' heyday. He has four singles on the Billboard Hot 100 "Georgia on My Mind" (No. 5), "Ruby" (No. 51), "Hard Hearted Hannah" (No. 66), and "Come Rain or Come Shine" (No. 95).
Ray Charles
Livingston Taylor, folk singer and younger brother of James, is born in Boston. In 1978 he went to No. 30 with "I Will Be in Love With You."
James Taylor
Livingston Taylor
Randy Zehringer, brother of Rick Derringer and drummer in his band the McCoys ("Hang On Sloopy"), is born in Celina, Ohio.
Rick Derringer
The McCoys
Lonnie Jordan, the singer/keyboardist who founded Latin funkers War, is born in San Diego.
Lonnie Jordan
War
If you believe what it says here, birthday boy Gordon Jones has played saxophone for Gwar, co-wrote Bobby Brown's "I Really Love You Girl," and sang bass on Arvo Part's Litany. Can anyone confirm this remarkable fellow's existence?
GWAR
Bobby Brown
David Porter, who wrote hits like "Hold On! I'm Coming" and "Soul Man" with Isaac Hayes, is born in Memphis.
Isaac Hayes
David Porter
Dr. John, the New Orleans pianist with plenty of gris-gris and - at one time - a lot of heroin in his veins, is born today.
Dr. John
New Orleans
 
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