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Jamie Foxx's Unpredictable nudges Mary J. Blige's The Breakthrough off the top of the album chart for a second time. The highest new entry is Juanita Bynum's Price of My Passion, in at No. 55.
Jamie Foxx
Mary J. Blige
Juanita Bynum
Immortal hair rockers Motley Crue receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. To honor Vince Neil's appearance in The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine perhaps?
Mötley Crüe
Vince Neil
Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus tops the U.K. singles chart for a third week with "All His Time." The new No. 1 album is Katie Melua's Call Off the Search.
Kelis
Jury selection ends in the weapons possession and bribery case being heard against Puff Daddy in Manhattan.
Organist and acid jazz pioneer Brother Jack McDuff dies aged 74.
Kevin Cadogan is fired from Third Eye Blind, shortly after the band play the Sundance Film Festival.
Third Eye Blind
A 1930 lacquered aluminum record is discovered on which Frank Sinatra sings "Roses of Picardy." It is believed to be the first ever solo recording made by Sinatra.
Frank Sinatra
A Rolling Stone poll names the Beatles as Least Welcome Comeback. Five years later they'll put them on the front cover and start fawning all over again.
The Beatles
Funky Bunch rapper Marky Mark Wahlberg is sued by a woman from Oregon who says she was trampled after the crowd rushed the stage during one of his shows.
Mark Wahlberg
Paul McCartney records a performance for MTV's Unplugged.
Paul McCartney
Alvin Robinson, whose guitar work graced several of Dr. John's '70s recordings, dies in New Orleans.
Alvin Robinson
Dr. John
Bob Dylan's one-time manager Albert Grossman dies of a heart attack while flying to London.
Bob Dylan
Country singer Roseanne Cash has her first daughter, Chelsea Jane, with her songwriter husband Rodney Crowell.
Rodney Crowell
Following his prison ordeal in Tokyo after he was busted with a half-pound of marijuana, Paul McCartney is released and flies from Japan to ... Amsterdam. Doh!
Paul McCartney
Comedian John Belushi celebrates his birthday, which was yesterday, by joining the Dead Boys onstage in Los Angeles for a "jam."
John Belushi
Dead Boys
Beatles-inspired nutcase Charles Manson is sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of seven counts of murder in the first degree and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. Three other members of his family are also given life sentences.
Charles Manson
The Beatles
On British television, producer Phil Spector appears on the program Juke Box Jury, rating the week's singles.
Phil Spector
While the Beatles perform with the Mustangs at a Baptist Youth Club Dance in England, Vee Jay signs a contract to distribute their singles in the United States.
The Beatles
The Mustangs
Janis Joplin performs in San Francisco for the first time, singing at the North Beach coffeehouse.
Janis Joplin
RCA Records release Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away," which will become the soul singer's 15th top 40 hit. Chicago house DJ and producer Farley Jackmaster Funk is born Farley Keith Williams. Respect.
Sam Cooke
Farley Jackmaster Funk
On his second day in New York, Bob Dylan hunts down his hero Woody Guthrie's family in Howard Beach. He teaches Woody's son Arlo some rudimentary harmonica.
Arlo Guthrie
Bob Dylan
Woody Guthrie
Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" enters the British pop singles charts at No. 1, an unprecedented feat.
Elvis Presley
Split Enz drummer Mal Green is born.
Split Enz
The Tubes' synth player Michael Cotton is born.
The Tubes
When singer-songwriter Andy Pratt released his album Resolution in 1976, Rolling Stone declared that he had "forever changed the face of rock." Well, Roger Daltrey covered some of his songs, at any rate. Pratt was born today in Boston.
Roger Daltrey
Andy Pratt
Blues singing giant Etta James is born in Los Angeles.
Etta James
Antonio Carlos Jobim, one of Brazil's most renowned jazz composers, is born in Rio de Janeiro. His best-known songs are "The Girl From Ipanema" and "Desafinado."
Antonio Carlos Jobim
 
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