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Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, 60, is knighted by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. The one-time Satanic Majesty brings his 92-year-old father Joe to the ceremony.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
Jennifer Lopez tapes a PSA in New York encouraging apathetic Americans to register for the vote.
Jennifer Lopez
Here's something we didn't think we'd see again in our lifetimes - a Breeders reunion. Well, sort of. Tanya Donnelly may never play with them again, but Kim and Kelley Deal perform faves like "Cannonball" tonight at Mr. T's Bowl in Los Angeles.
Kim Deal
The Breeders
Singer Richard Ashcroft - formerly of the Verve - falls offstage in Birmingham, England, breaking two ribs.
The Verve
Richard Ashcroft
Guns N' Roses announce that their long awaited Chinese Democracy is due for release in June 2001.
Guns N' Roses
In Burbank, Calif., former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty begins recording an MTV special. His 2-hour set is littered with both CCR classics and his recent solo material.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
John Fogerty
Keyboardist Ian Stewart dies in London. Stewart was a founding member of the Rolling Stones. However, Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham kicked him out of the band because he didn't have "the right look." Stewart became the band's road manager and their indispensable sideman.
The Rolling Stones
Paul McCartney & Wings perform in Birmingham, England, the latest stop on their farewell tour. Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant and John Bonham, who performed on the Wings album Back to the Egg, attend the show.
Wings
Paul McCartney
Led Zeppelin
Robert Plant
Little Richard is charged with larceny by trick in Miami Beach, Fla. The self-help group Black Inc. says that the rock performer pocketed $250 he had originally solicited for the organization. Little Richard says he's only holding on to the money until he gets a receipt. A week later charges are dropped. After all, Richard had clearly helped himself.
Little Richard
John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band release Live Peace in Toronto 1969, recorded at the Toronto Rock 'n' Revival Show on September 13. Highlights include Yoko Ono's "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand in the Snow)," which must have really put the wind up all those Chuck Berry fans.
John Lennon
The Plastic Ono Band
Chuck Berry
Yoko Ono
Rolling Stone Brian Jones is let off the hook by a London appeals court. He faced nine months in prison after being found guilty of possessing cannabis. However, three psychiatrists testify that his nerves would be unable to handle such a lengthy incarceration, and the court agrees to commute his sentence.
The Rolling Stones
Pink Floyd play London's Royal Albert Hall for the first time.
Pink Floyd
The Rolling Stones' second American album 12x5 goes to No. 3 in the charts. No. 1 are the Beach Boys with the self-explanatory Beach Boys Concert.
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Sheila E., both a percussionist for Prince and a solo hit-maker with "The Glamorous Life," is born in San Francisco. Her father is Pete "Coke" Escovedo, a drummer for Santana and his own band Azteca. Sheila also led the house band on Magic Johnson's talk show, but let's forget about that, shall we?
Prince
Azteca
Pete Escovedo
Sheila E.
KEX DJ Al Priddy is fired from the Portland, Ore., radio station. His crime? He played Elvis Presley's rendition of "White Christmas" on air. The station had banned Presley's interpretations of Christmas carols, believing that such a sexually-charged performer had no business recording religious music.
Elvis Presley
Heavy metal singer Graham Bonnett, who has appeared in the line-ups of both Rainbow and the Michael Schenker Group, is born in Skegness, England.
Rainbow
Graham Bonnet
Jane Birkin, an English actress who turned into a whispery French chanteuse after marrying composer Serge Gainsbourg, is born.
Serge Gainsbourg
Jane Birkin
Saxophonist Grover Washington Jr., whose sole hit was the 1981 No. 2 "Just the Two of Us" with Bill Withers, is born in Buffalo, N.Y.
Grover Washington Jr.
Bill Withers
The Association's keyboardist and singer Terry Kirkman is born in Salina, Kan.
The Association
Singer Connie Francis, whose Fifties hits included "Who's Sorry Now" and "Lipstick on Your Collar," is born in Newark, N.J.
Connie Francis
Legendary music publisher Dick James is born in London.
 
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