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The Beatles' label Apple Records sues EMI for 30 million pounds ($53.1 million) in unpaid royalties.
The Beatles
DMX is arrested for driving 104 mph in a 65 mph zone, a mere week after he pled guilty to charges of DUI and reckless endangerment. May we suggest the growly rapper hire a chauffeur?
DMX
Remember when all Whitney Houston wanted to do was dance with somebody? She rams her car into a bus while pulling out of a Georgia shopping center. No one is hurt.
Whitney Houston
Ludacris tops the chart with his fourth album The Red Light District. Actress Lindsay Lohan enters at No. 4 with her singing debut, confusedly called Speak. No Lindsay, it's sing.
Ludacris
Lindsay Lohan
"Let's Get the Party Started" singer and animal activist Pink calls for illusionists Siegfried and Roy to give their elephant to an wildlife sanctuary. The four-ton Giddah has been languishing since Roy was mauled by a tiger.
P!nk
Rapper Trick Daddy, awaiting trial on drug possession, assault and weapons charges, performs at a children's holiday party sponsored by the City of Miami.
Trick Daddy
The noble art of fiddling loses one of its better practitioners when Johnny Cunningham dies of a heart attack in New York. The Celtic musician was 46.
Johnny Cunningham
Mariah Carey invites 16-year-old Becca Solodon to open for her on tonight's Charmbracelet tour stop in Santa Barbara, Calif. Carey decided to make the aspiring singer's dreams come true after learning she suffered from soft tissue sarcoma cancer.
Mariah Carey
To Fatboy Slim, a son. His wife Zoe Ball gives birth to Woody Cook at London's Portland Hospital.
Fatboy Slim
Garth Brooks stuns fans when he announces on TNN's Crook & Chase program that he might retire at the end of 2000. He says he wants to compose songs, write film scripts and spend more time with his family.
Garth Brooks
Reclusive ABBA singer Agnetha Faltskog marries Swedish surgeon Tomas Sonnenfeld.
Agnetha Faltskog
ABBA
Jackie Brenston, who sang on one of the earliest rock 'n' roll sides "Rocket 88" backed by Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm, dies in Memphis. No. 1 in the U.K. singles chart today is Pink Floyd with "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2."
Ike Turner
Jackie Brenston
Rocket 88
New York rockabilly performer Joey Castle dies from brain cancer, aged 36.
Joey Castle
New York
The Sex Pistols are denied visas that would get them into the United States. They have to cancel their appearance on Saturday Night Live. Elvis Costello would later memorably fill in for them in an incident recounted on VH1's TV Moments Debuts.
The Sex Pistols
Elvis Costello
At London's Shepperton Studios, the Who perform a Artist Pages-only gig that appears in their documentary The Kids Are Alright.
The Who
The Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick appears on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in blackface for a performance of the group's "Crown of Creation." Lest her gesture be misinterpreted, she gives a black power salute at the end of the song. TV execs cancel Laugh-In next season.
Jefferson Airplane
Grace Slick
The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones enters St. George's Hospital in London after collapsing. He is described as "tired and suffering from overstrain."
The Rolling Stones
At Abbey Road, the Beatles record the trumpets and cellos they use on "Strawberry Fields Forever."
The Beatles
In their year-end poll, Billboard declares the top pop tune of 1958 to be Domenico Modugno's "Volare."
Domenico Modugno
Sammy Davis Jr. hosts a syndicated radio roundtable on rock 'n' roll. Columbia Records executive and gang leader Mitch Miller says the genre is "the comic book of music." But MGM Records president Arnold Maxim warns, "I don't see any end to rock 'n' roll in the near future."
Mitch Miller
Sammy Davis Jr.
Paul Simonon, bassist with the Clash, is born in Brixton, England.
The Clash
Believe it or not, that guy in Nash Bridges once thought he could sing a little. Don Johnson's "Heartbeat" even went to No. 5. So we celebrate the tanned actor's birthday today.
Don Johnson
Swing genius Glenn Miller dies after his plane is shot down over the English Channel during World War II.
Glenn Miller
The great jazz pianist Fats Waller dies of pneumonia on a train bound from Los Angeles to New York.
Fats Waller
Occasional Supreme Cindy Birdsong is born in Camden, N.J.
The Supremes
Soul singer Jesse Belvin is born in San Antonio, Texas. As well as scoring a minor hit with "Guess Who" in 1959, he co-wrote the Penguins' hit "Earth Angel" and was instrumental in developing the West Coast R&B sound.
Jesse Belvin
The Penguins
DJ Alan Freed, who is credited with coining the term "rock 'n' roll," is born in Johnstown, Pa.
Alan Freed
Archetypal French chanteuse Edith Piaf, a.k.a. "The Little Sparrow," is born in Paris.
Edith Piaf
 
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