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Grizzled rock legend Neil Young has brain surgery after suffering an aneurysm.
Neil Young
French rock star Bertrand Cantat, lead singer with Noir Desir, is found guilty of killing his girlfriend, the actress Marie Trintigant, and sentenced to eight years in prison.
Janet Jackson tells TV talk show host David Letterman that her breast-baring Super Bowl stunt was "an accident." "It was supposed to kind of happen like that, but I wasn't supposed to come out of it the way I did," she says, confusingly.
Janet Jackson
Prince kicks off his Musicology tour in Los Angeles. The purple midget says it's the last time he will play his hits live.
Prince
Jon Bon Jovi becomes a dad for the fourth time - officially. His wife gives birth to a son, Romeo Jon.
Bon Jovi
Jon Bon Jovi
Britpoppers Blur preview tracks from their new album Think Tank during a TV taping in front of invited fans. Audience members later describe the new songs as "crap" and "like Supergrass."
Blur
Damon Albarn
Supergrass
Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean puts his Orlando home on the market. The six-bedroom mansion has a $1.95 million price tag.
Backstreet Boys
A judge overturns a conviction against a record store owner who sold 2 Live Crew's album As Nasty As They Wanna Be.
2 Live Crew
At this year's Oscars, Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle win the Best Original Song award for "A Whole New World." The tune is from the animated Disney film, Aladdin.
Peabo Bryson
Regina Belle
Lee Atwater, Republican National Committee chairman and mean blues guitarist, dies at age 40. He had recently released his album, Red Hot & Blue: Lee Atwater and Friends. The "friends" include Isaac Hayes, Sam Moore, and B.B. King.
Isaac Hayes
B.B. King
Carly Simon takes home the Best Original Song statuette at the Oscars presentation. She wins for "Let the River Run," which is featured in the film Working Girl.
Carly Simon
Madame Tussaud's unveils its wax replica of Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson
Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins - a duo who were neither twins nor named Thompson - is found collapsed on his hotel room floor. He is suffering from exhaustion.
The Thompson Twins
The Bee Gees are sued by a Chicago antiques dealer who claims that their hit "How Deep Is Your Love" plagiarizes two songs of his own. The Bee Gees claim they never heard the songs before, but he wins the case. The verdict is overturned in 1983.
The Bee Gees
Mantovani, who graced thousands of elevators with his unusually sweet orchestrations, dies at age 74.
Mantovani
Synergy! Dr. Hook appear on Rolling Stone's cover shortly after making a splash with their hit "The Cover of Rolling Stone." Just like the lyrics in the song, the band members buy five copies of the magazine to give to their mothers.
Dr. Hook
In Bombay, India, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page record versions of "Four Sticks" and "Friends" with the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. Unfortunately, differing music theories lead to the sessions being scrapped. Says Plant, "It's very hard for them to cope with the Western approach to music with their counting of everything, their times, and so on."
Jimmy Page
Robert Plant
Ed Sullivan's latest innovation is to have pop stars serenade servicemen in VA hospitals during the height of the Vietnam War. On his show he broadcasts in-ward performances by Bobbie Gentry and Gladys Knight & the Pips.
Bobbie Gentry
Here's something you don't see every day - a blueswoman. And one born after 1910 at that. But that's guitarist Sue Foley for you, whose birthday is today.
Sue Foley
Glen Campbell gets his big break when the Smothers Brothers make him the host of the Summer Replacement Variety Hour.
Glen Campbell
Mr. Chariots of Fire and electronica godfather Vangelis is born in Valos, Greece, as Evangelos Papathanassiou. Bless you!
Vangelis
Pearl Bailey, a jazz singer whose album For Adults Only was banned from airplay in 1959, is born in Newport News, Va.
Pearl Bailey
 
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