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Fedde LeGrand tops the UK chart with "Put Your Hands Up for Detroit." Girls Aloud top the album chart with their The Sound Of hits compilation.
Girls Aloud
Disco stars Sister Sledge ("We Are Family") visit London's Houses of Parliament to campaign against rising gun crime in the U.K.
Sister Sledge
Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers is found dead in his hotel room in Kalamazoo, Mich., where the duo were on tour. The vocalist, who with Bill Medley sang "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" and "Unchained Melody," was 63.
The Righteous Brothers
Suede aka The London Suede, whose Dog Man Star was one of the most gloriously excessive albums of the '90s, announce they are splitting to pursue solo projects.
Suede
The London Suede
Johnny Cash enjoys a posthumous triumph at the Country Music Awards. The late Man in Black wins Album of the Year, Single of the Year and Music Video of the Year for "Hurt."
Johnny Cash
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are forced to abandon a U.K. concert after a giant crack appears in the floor of the venue.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
OutKast return to the top of the album charts with Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. The highest new entry is The Strokes, whose Room on Fire nestles at No. 4.
OutKast
The Strokes
Pudgy pop pervert Har Mar Superstar is named the new spokesperson for Vladivar Vodka. The first TV advertisement finds him riding a pink unicorn.
Har Mar Superstar
Jimmie Davis, who allegedly wrote the song "You Are My Sunshine" and became governor of Louisiana, dies at age 101.
Jimmie Davis
Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, who scored a No. 1 hit with "The Ballad of the Green Berets," dies four days after his 49th birthday in Tennessee.
Sgt. Barry Sadler
Abba top the British singles chart with "The Name of the Game."
ABBA
The Who perform in Newcastle, England, to support their Quadrophenia album. During the performance, a backing tape turns out to be 15 seconds behind Keith Moon's vigorous drumming. In his frustration, Pete Townshend storms off stage and doesn't come back until a half-hour later.
Pete Townshend
Keith Moon
The Who
Led Zeppelin release "Immigrant Song" as a single in the U.S.
Led Zeppelin
Brian Wilson joins the Beach Boys for a rare live performance at Los Angeles' Whisky-a-Go-Go club. However, the volume level damages his right ear and he totters several times during the concert before being helped backstage.
The Beach Boys
Brian Wilson
In today's English Jewish Chronicle, Princess Margaret says, "I think the Beatles believe that MBE stands for Mister Brian Epstein." Well, you can't expect the inbred to have much of a sense of humor.
The Beatles
Decca Records releases the Who's new single, "My Generation." The words still haunt Pete Townshend decades later.
The Who
Pete Townshend
The No. 1 single in Britain is Sandie Shaw's "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me."
Sandie Shaw
This morning's English Daily Mirror extols the virtues of the Fab Four. "You have to be a real sour square not to love the nutty, noisy, happy, handsome Beatles," the paper says in an editorial. "If they don't sweep your blues away, brother, you're a lost cause. If they don't put a beat in your feet, sister, you're not listening." We believe the person who wrote that now works for Before They Were Rock Stars.
The Beatles
Country singer Johnny Horton dies in a car crash, having just come from a show at the Skyline in Austin, Texas. His biggest hit was the 1959 No. 1 "The Battle of New Orleans." Ironically, Horton was married to Billy Jean Jones, the widow of Hank Williams. Williams also played his last concert at the Skyline.
Johnny Horton
Hank Williams
Here's a cautionary tale. In 1985, Bryan Adams was recording superb singles like "Summer of '69." By 1996, he was writing stuff like "Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You." Please don't end up like Bryan, who is born today in Kingston, Ontario.
Bryan Adams
Air Supply guitarist David Moyse is born.
Air Supply
Guitarist Don McDougal of the Guess Who is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The Guess Who
Peter Noone, singer of Herman's Hermits, is born in Manchester, England. Says here his band members thought he resembled Sherman from Rocky & Bullwinkle. Just thought we'd pass that on.
Herman's Hermits
Peter Noone
Country's very own Don Quixote, Gram Parsons is born in Winter Haven, Fla. His real name was Cecil.
Gram Parsons
Prolific songwriter and showman George M. Cohan dies. His life story was made into the film Yankee Doodle Dandy starring James Cagney.
James Cagney
George M. Cohan
Art Garfunkel, who can sing a bit, is born in Queens, N.Y. He didn't realize "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" was about him, you know.
Art Garfunkel
Rock 'n' roll pioneer and wife-beater Ike Turner is born in Clarksdale, Miss.
Ike Turner
 
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