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Irv and Chris Gotti are cleared of charges that they used their record label The Inc. to launder millions in drug proceeds. Unfortunately, they still have to release Ja Rule's next album.
Irv Gotti
Country singer Lynn Anderson, whose "Rose Garden" was a chart-topper in 1970, is charged with drunk driving after Texas police find her passed out in her car on a highway shoulder.
Lynn Anderson
Snoop Dogg tops the U.S. singles chart for the first time in his career with "Drop It Like It's Hot," featuring Pharrell Williams.
Snoop Dogg
Pharrell Williams
Kevin Coyne, a cult British songwriter who was once asked to join The Doors following Jim Morrison's death, dies in Nuremberg, Germany. He was 60.
Kevin Coyne
The Doors
Alicia Keys releases her second album The Diary of Alicia Keys, featuring the single "You Don't Know My Name."
Alicia Keys
Limp Bizkit cancel the Bali, Thailand and the Philippines dates in their tour of Southeast Asia, citing fears of a terrorist attack in those areas.
Limp Bizkit
Soul icon Ray Charles announces he is recovering from hip replacement surgery in Beverly Hills, Calif. ""I feel terrific and am so thankful to the good Lord that all is going well for me," he says.
Ray Charles
Shock rocker, "School's Out" singer and legendary beer drinker Alice Cooper receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It sits between Gene Autry and Hugh Hefner's.
Alice Cooper
Switzerland investigates Marilyn Manson after the religious group Christians for Truth allege his concert in Zurich broke a law designed to protect the sanctity of Swiss religion.
Marilyn Manson
MomentsinTime.com offers up for a sale a copy of John Lennon's Double Fantasy that the Web site claims the Beatle signed for Mark David Chapman shortly before he was assassinated. The going price for the disc is $525.
John Lennon
The Beatles
Rapper Jay-Z is taken in for questioning regarding the stabbing of a record executive at a New York nightclub on December 1. The rapper's lawyers say Jay-Z has "nothing to do with" the incident and will cooperate "completely with police.
Jay-Z
Jimmy Buffett gives Mobile a hand in recovering from Hurricane Georges. Tonight he performs a benefit concert, his first in his Alabama hometown in eight years.
Jimmy Buffett
A man dies after falling from the balcony of the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan during a Rolling Stones concert.
The Rolling Stones
The Guinness Book of World Records confirms that Ace of Base's The Sign is the best-selling debut of all time, with 19 million copies sold.
Ace of Base
Great American composer Aaron Copland, who wrote "Fanfare for the Common Man," dies at age 90.
Aaron Copland
Today on Geraldo, the talk-show host welcomes Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, and Willie Nelson to talk about a subject that touches us all: sex on the road.
Willie Nelson
Paul Stanley
Gene Simmons
Annie Lennox gets so carried away singing "Missionary Man" at a Eurythmics concert in Birmingham, England, she rips her bra off before an audience of 10,000 people.
Annie Lennox
Eurythmics
Folk singer and Dylan pal David Blue dies from a heart attack while jogging in New York. He also wrote "Outlaw Man," later covered by the Eagles.
David Blue
Dylan
Eagles
Here's a musical treat for you - Stevie Wonder performing his bizarre album Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants with the National Afro-American Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Wonder's three-hour concert tonight finishes with some of his more familiar material.
Stevie Wonder
Bob Dylan teaches his band an early version of his song "Slow Train" at a soundcheck.
Bob Dylan
Ravi Shankar temporarily leaves his tour with George Harrison and enters a Chicago hospital after complaining of chest pains. He rejoins Harrison in Boston a week later.
George Harrison
Ravi Shankar
Bob Dylan fans start mailing in ticket requests for his latest tour today. Dylan sells 658,000 seats through the mail, but not before San Francisco witnesses traffic jams as people rush to send in their applications.
Bob Dylan
The Who are arrested in Montreal for allegedly wrecking a hotel suite. They spend six hours in jail and are ordered to pay a $2,100 fine. John Entwistle later writes the song "Cell Block Number Seven" about the incident.
John Entwistle
The Who
Led Zeppelin release "Black Dog" as a single in the U.S.
Led Zeppelin
Former Animal Eric Burdon launches his new initiative Curb the Clap by distributing bumper stickers. Burdon says he wants to raise awareness of the "No. 1 sickness in the record business today - VD" and raise money for the Los Angeles Free Clinic.
Eric Burdon
The Animals
Having watched them play with Eric Clapton last night in London, George Harrison joins Delaney & Bonnie to perform with them in Bristol, England, tonight. He tours the U.K. with their ensemble, marking the first series of live performances by a Beatle since 1966.
Delaney & Bonnie
The Beatles
George Harrison
Eric Clapton
Ringo Starr enters a London hospital to get his tonsils removed.
Ringo Starr
Abel Zarate, vocalist/guitarist with Latin funk heroes Malo, is born in Manila, the Philippines.
Malo
Screamin' Scott Simon of Sha Na Na is born in Boston.
Sha Na Na
Drummer Dave Munden of the Tremeloes ("Silence Is Golden") is born in Dagenham, England.
The Tremeloes
Ted Bluechel, drummer with the Association, is born in San Pedro, Calif.
The Association
Manfred Mann bassist Tom McGuinness is born in Wimbledon, England.
Manfred Mann
Staple Singers patriarch Pops - actually Roebuck Staples - is born in Winoma, Miss.
 
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