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The Rolling Stones perform during the halftime show at Super Bowl XL. However, TV producers use a "dump button" to edit salacious lyrics from their songs "Start Me Up" and "Rough Justice".
The Rolling Stones
The Notorious B.I.G. continues to top the U.K. chart with "Nasty Girl," while Arctic Monkeys' debut Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Not stays atop the album chart.
Notorious B.I.G.
Arctic Monkeys
Busta Rhymes' bodyguard is shot to death after gunfire is heard during a Brooklyn video shoot for his boss' new single "Touch It." Israel Ramirez was 29.
Busta Rhymes
No Limit rapper Master P pleads guilty to failing to file a corporate income tax return for his company Bout It Incorporated in 1996.
Master P
Ex-Doors drummer John Densmore sues former bandmates Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger as well as newcomers Ian Astbury and Stewart Copeland, claiming the quartet were violating a copyright by using the name "The Doors." They later change their name to "The Doors 21st Century."
The Doors
Ray Manzarek
Ian Astbury
Stewart Copeland
Marc Anthony becomes a proud papa when his wife gives birth to Christian Anthony Minus, weighing in at seven pounds, one ounce.
Marc Anthony
Slaughter guitarist Tim Kelly dies in an automobile accident in Arizona at age 34.
Slaughter
Rudy Pompilli, sax player with Bill Haley & His Comets, dies.
Bill Haley
Spin Doctors vocalist Chris Barron is born in Hawaii.
Spin Doctors
Southern soul singer Ann Sexton, who recorded the excellent "I'm His Wife, You're Just a Friend," is born in Greenville, S.C.
Ann Sexton
Al Kooper, the session guitarist turned organist for Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," is born in Brooklyn, N.Y. A seminal rock figure of the '60s, he went on to helm the classic Super Session disc with Steve Stills and Mike Bloomfield, and to form Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Bob Dylan
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Al Kooper
Barrett Strong is born in Westpoint, Miss. As a singer, his hit "Money (That's What I Want)" provided songwriter Barry Gordy with the seed money to start Motown Records. As a songwriter, Strong wrote with Norman Whitfield such essential cuts as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," and "War."
Barrett Strong
Alex Harvey, ringleader of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, is born in Glasgow, Scotland.
Alex Harvey
 
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