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Soul dynamo Wilson Pickett, who pumped out hits like "In the Midnight Hour" and "Mustang Sally," dies after suffering a heart attack. He was 64.
Wilson Pickett
Guitarist Kristen Hall announces she is leaving Jon Bon Jovi's favorite C&W trio Sugarland to focus on the lucrative business of writing songs.
Sugarland
Kristen Hall
Green Day top the U.S. album charts for a second week with American Idiot. The highest new entry is the soundtrack for Samuel L. Jackson's Coach Carter, in at No. 30.
Green Day
Samuel L. Jackson
Country singer Jimmy Dean, 75, says he was dropped by Sara Lee as the spokesman for Jimmy Dean sausages. "The company told me that they were trying to attract the younger housewife," he says, "and they didn't think I was the one to do that."
Jimmy Dean
Christina Aguilera and Ruben Blades perform at the second night of the Caracas Pop Festival 2001in Venezuela.
Christina Aguilera
Carl Perkins dies in Nashville aged 65. Perkins' biggest hit was "Blue Suede Shoes." Although he never received the recognition accorded to Elvis Presley, his guitar-playing and songwriting defined the rockabilly genre and influenced the Beatles.
Elvis Presley
The Beatles
Carl Perkins
The Supreme Court rules that Tom Waits can keep the $2.5 million settlement he received in his suit against Frito-Lay. Waits alleged that the chip company had used a Waits sound-alike in one of their commercials, implying that the bohemian vagabond endorsed their product.
Tom Waits
Fleetwood Mac perform at an inaugural concert for President Bill Clinton, playing his campaign theme "Don't Stop."
Bill Clinton
Fleetwood Mac
AC/DC play the Rock in Rio festival in Brazil. Also on the bill are Ozzy Osbourne, the Scorpions and Whitesnake. Over 342,000 metal fans are estimated to attend.
Whitesnake
Ozzy Osbourne
AC/DC
Scorpions
Pink Floyd hold a press launch for Animals at London's Battersea Power Station.
Pink Floyd
Aretha Franklin performs at an inaugural concert for President Jimmy Carter, singing "God Bless America."
Aretha Franklin
Promoter Bill Sargent offers the Beatles $30 million to reform. They turn him down.
The Beatles
Fans going to see Bob Dylan and the Band perform in Miami's Sportsatorium find themselves involved in a nine-mile-long traffic jam. Many don't actually arrive at the venue until the concert is halfway over.
The Band
Bob Dylan
The case brought by Paul McCartney to dissolve the Beatles ends at London's High Court. The judge would pass a ruling in McCartney's favor in March.
The Beatles
Paul McCartney
The court hears the Beatles' recording of "Helter Skelter" at the trial of Charles Manson. Manson claimed to have heard secret messages in the music that led him to order the murders of actress Sharon Tate and others.
Charles Manson
The Beatles
Bob Dylan's hour-long phone interview with A.J. Weberman turns nasty and is later released on Folkways as Bob Dylan vs. A.J. Weberman. Weberman was one of the first self-styled "Dylanologists," and pioneered the art of poring through a celebrity's trash in order to glean information about them.
Bob Dylan
The Beatles record the rhythm track, John Lennon's vocal and the clock alarm for use in "A Day In The Life."
The Beatles
John Lennon
The Beatles make their first national UK TV appearance on ITV's Thank Your Lucky Stars.
The Beatles
Ralph Peer dies in Hollywood. He was the producer during the 1923 session when Fiddlin' John Carson recorded "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane," generally regarded as the first country record.
Fiddlin' John Carson
UB40 keyboardist Michael Virtue is born in Birmingham, England.
UB40
Contemporary Christian music superstar Carman is born in Trenton, N.J. as Dominic Licciardello.
Carman
Vocalist/guitarist Dewey Bunnell of America is paradoxically born in Yorkshire, England.
America
Hot Chocolate guitarist Harvey Hinsley is born in Northampton, England.
Hot Chocolate
Appalachian singer and actress Dolly Parton is born in Locust Ridge, Tenn.
Dolly Parton
Original Deep Purple vocalist Rod Evans is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Deep Purple
The Lovin' Spoonful's Zalman Yanovsky is born in Toronto. Having left the group in shame after turning his drug dealer into the police, Yanovsky recorded the bizarre solo album Alive and Well in Argentina and faded from the scene.
The Lovin' Spoonful
Sixties pop starlet Shelley Fabares ("Johnny Angel") is born in Santa Monica, Calif.
Shelley Fabares
Janis Joplin is born at 9:45 AM at St. Mary's Hospital in Port Arthur, Texas.
Janis Joplin
Richard Lester, the director of A Hard Day's Night, is born in Philadelphia.
 
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