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The late Ray Charles wins eight Grammys for his album Genius Loves Company and duet with Norah Jones, "Here We Go Again," including Album of the Year and Record of the Year. Kanye West's The College Dropout wins Best Rap Album, and Best New Act are Maroon 5 who, needless to say, have been around for years.
Ray Charles
Norah Jones
Kanye West
Maroon 5
U2 top the U.K. singles chart for a sixth time with "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own." Piano trio Keane retake the No. 1 album spot with their debut Hopes and Fears.
U2
Keane
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club cancel the remainder of their tour of Great Britain and Ireland after guitarist Peter Hayes breaks his thumb.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Rapper Loon, a member of P. Diddy's Bad Boy stable, is arrested with two other men in connection with the stabbing of a security guard outside an L.A. nightclub. Loon and his pals were allegedly seeking entrance to a party held for "Get Low" stars Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz.
Loon
Diddy
Lil Jon
The Clash are named Godlike Geniuses at the NME Awards in London. Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head is best album, while the Hives are named best international band.
The Clash
Coldplay
The Hives
Country legend Waylon Jennings dies aged 64 after losing a battle with diabetes. With hits like "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" and "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," Jennings was the epitome of the outlaw country star.
Waylon Jennings
David Bowie announces that his wife, Iman, is pregnant with his baby. Back in the '70s, he named his son Zowie.
David Bowie
Iman
Michael Jackson finalizes the deal on a ranch in Santa Ynez, Calif., which he comes to call "Neverland."
Michael Jackson
The NBA All-Star Game opens with a performance of the national anthem by Marvin Gaye.
Marvin Gaye
Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant's headstone is stolen from a cemetery in Orange Park, Fla. The 300-pound slab is later found in a dry riverbed.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon becomes the longest-running rock album on the Billboard albums chart. It's been there for 402 weeks. But it still has a few years to go before it beats Johnny Mathis, whose Greatest Hits was on the chart for a whopping 490 weeks.
Pink Floyd
Johnny Mathis
Led Zeppelin fans in Singapore are disappointed when the group is forced to cancel a concert there. The reason? The conservative country's officials wouldn't let the band members off the plane because of their long hair.
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles release their definitive double-A-sided single, "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields," in the U.S. It reaches No. 1 in the States, but in their homeland it makes it only to No. 2.
The Beatles
Les Warner, occasional drummer with the Cult, is born.
The Cult
Producer Bill Szymczyk is born in Muskegon, Mich. He discovered the James Gang and produced several of the Eagles' greatest albums, including Hotel California.
Eagles
James Gang
 
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