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Mutya Buena announces she is leaving the popular U.K. R&B trio Sugababes. "I think there comes a time when everyone wants to re-evaluate their life and what they want out of it," she says.
Sugababes
A report by Human Rights Watch claims the music of Eminem and Dr. Dre was used to torture detainees at a secret CIA-run prison near Afghanistan. Damn, must have been the funkest torture session ev-ah!
Dr. Dre
Eminem
Sir Elton John marries his longtime partner David Furnish at a civil union service in Windsor, England.
Elton John
Sensitive singer/guitarist Howie Day is arrested at Boston's Logan Airport after becoming abusive on an airplane. He blames his rowdiness on mixing a sleeping pill with alcohol.
Howie Day
Starsailor wrap up their Silence is Easy European tour with a show in Belfast. The UK rockers perform John Lennon's "You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away" and "Jealous Guy."
Starsailor
John Lennon
Gary Jules and Michael Andrews are the UK's Christmas No. 1 after topping the singles charts with their cover of Tears for Fears' "Mad World." The Darkness enter the chart at No. 2 with "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)."
Gary Jules
Tears for Fears
The Darkness
Reggae DJ Dirtsman is shot and killed by four gunmen after an attack on his house in Spanish Town, Jamaica.
Dirtsman
Blues guitarist Albert King dies from a heart attack in Memphis.
Albert King
Carlos Santana becomes the proud father of Angelica Faith.
Santana
Bassist Paul Jeffreys, who performed with the English '70s group Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, dies when a Pan Am jet crashes on the village of Lockerbie in Scotland. A terrorist bomb destroyed the plane.
Steve Harley
California governor Jerry Brown holds a fundraiser at the San Diego Sports Arena, with performances from the Eagles, Chicago and Brown's girlfriend Linda Ronstadt. A second show in Las Vegas helps to swell his campaign coffers by $450,000.
Chicago
Linda Ronstadt
Eagles
Rod Stewart settles out of court with drummer Mickey Waller, who claims he was not paid royalties for his work on 1974's Smiler album.
Rod Stewart
Ray Jackson dies after suffering burns in a fire at his home. He was 31. The Memphis guitarist wrote the hits "Who's Makin' Love" and "I Don't Want to Be Right."
Memphis
Vocalist Charlie Fuqua, one of the legendary Ink Spots, dies in New Haven, Conn.
The Ink Spots
"Hey Old Man," the first single by the Festfolk Quartet - later known as ABBA - reaches No. 5 in Sweden.
ABBA
Janis Joplin and her Kozmic Blues Band perform at the Stax/Volt Yuletide Thing at Memphis' Mid South Coliseum.
Jan
The Rolling Stones release their psychedelic stinker Their Satanic Majesties Request in the United States. The album reaches No. 2 in the American album charts, below the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour. The Beatles themselves hold a costume party at London's Royal Lancaster Hotel to celebrate their Mystery Tour film's transmission on the BBC.
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Ode to a High Flying Bird, a picture book tribute to Charlie Parker by Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, is published in England. Watts remembered, ""It was only available for a year, and no one would stock it at the time. It came out when the Lennon book, In His Own Write, did - the same publisher that did Lennon's book did my book. But the stores wouldn't take mine because of what it was. A lot of people ask me about it. It's got all of Parker's life in it, all wrapped around this fictitious bird. It's written for kids, you'd get through it in a minute..."
Charlie Watts
The Rolling Stones
John Lennon
Charlie Parker
The Beatles perform their first Christmas show at the Gaumont Theatre in Bradford, England.
The Beatles
The production chief of Paramount Studios petitions the army to defer Elvis Presley's induction by two months so he can finish filming King Creole. When Presley himself makes the request, the draft board agrees. However, they then come under fire from those protesting Presley's special treatment.
Elvis Presley
Quiet storm soul vocalist Betty Wright is born in Miami. Her biggest hit was 1971's "Clean Up Woman."
Betty Wright
Quiet Storm
Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is born in Hawthorne, Calif.
The Beach Boys
English blues guitarist Albert Lee is born in Leominster.
Albert Lee
R&B singer Gwen McCrae is born in Pensacola, Fla. As well as marrying her manager, "Rock Your Baby" singer George McCrae, she also scored a No. 9 hit in 1975 with "Rockin' Chair."
Gwen McCrae
George McCrae
Memphis soul singer Carla Thomas, who recorded several charting duets with Otis Redding, is born.
Otis Redding
Carla Thomas
 
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