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Hip-hop duo Gnarls Barkley tops the U.K. singles and album charts simultaneously with their debut single "Crazy" and disc St. Elsewhere.
Gnarls Barkley
Ageless icon Cher wraps up her three-year long Farewell tour at the Hollywood Bowl. The extravaganza features, of all things, a dancing elephant.
Cher
Courtney Love enters a formal plea of "not guilty" to two charges of felony drug possession in Los Angeles after turning up an hour late for her court appearance.
Courtney Love
Hole
Michael Jackson pleads not guilty to a 10 count indictment which includes charges of child molestation, extortion, false imprisonment, child abduction and giving a minor an intoxicating agent.
Michael Jackson
Madonna tops the album charts with her 11th album American Life. Sniffing at the Material Madame's heels is 50 Cent, whose Get Rich or Die Tryin' leaps back up to No. 2.
Madonna
50 Cent
Earl King is buried in a raucous "jazz funeral" in New Orleans. The guitarist and singer, who died aged 69, wrote the standards "Big Chief" and "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)," which was covered by Jimi Hendrix. Both Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton send condolences.
Earl King
Paul McCartney
Eric Clapton
Jimi Hendrix
AC/DC wannabes The Datsuns win Album of the Year, Export Gold Best Group, Outstanding International Achievement and Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the New Zealand Music Awards.
The Datsuns
DJ Funkmaster Flex is ordered to pay $4000 a month in child support after a DNA test proved he had fathered a two-year-old son out of wedlock.
Funkmaster Flex
Piano girl Vanessa Carlton releases her debut album Be Not Nobody.
Vanessa Carlton
After the Rodney King verdict sparks off rioting in Los Angeles, subsequent looting finds Madonna's bustier stolen from its display case at Frederick's of Hollywood.
Michael Bolton
Madonna
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon drops out of the Billboard 200 chart for the first time in 725 weeks. It would be back.
Pink Floyd
Muddy Waters dies in Westmont, Ill., from a heart attack at age 68.
Muddy Waters
Rock critic Lester Bangs dies of too much Lester Bangs in New York.
Led Zeppelin play the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich. The audience of 77,229 sets a new record for attendance at a single-act concert.
Led Zeppelin
Young Mike Scott, later to be of the Waterboys, begins publishing a punk fanzine in Ayr, Scotland.
Mike Scott
The Waterboys
The alleged date of a great Keith Moon story. The Who drummer reportedly pays several New York cab drivers $100 each. All they have to do is block either end of the block of his hotel. He then proceeds to empty his hotel room of its contents onto the empty street below.
The Who
Keith Moon
Johnny Thunders' new band the Heartbreakers debut at New York's Club 82.
Johnny Thunders
Former Underworld DJ Darren Emerson is born in Hornchurch, England.
Darren Emerson
Twiggs Lyndon, road manager with the Allman Brothers, is arrested on charges of murder after stabbing a club manager over alleged breach of contract.
The Allman Brothers Band
Novelist and folk singer Richard Farina dies in a motorcycle accident. He was returning from a launch party for his book, Been Down So Long, It Looks Like up to Me. Tragically, today is also the 21st birthday of his wife and singing partner, Mimi.
Richard and Mimi Fariña
The Rolling Stones top the British chart with their album Aftermath. In an interview, Otis Redding declares the Stones to be his favorite group.
Otis Redding
The Rolling Stones
In the glorious Northern city of Sheffield, England, Bob Dylan begins the British tour immortalized in the film Don't Look Back.
Bob Dylan
The Beatles receive a $140,000 royalty check for the use of their name on Beatles Chewing Gum.
The Beatles
Fats Domino records "Walking to New Orleans."
Fats Domino
Frank Sinatra teams up for the first time with arranger (and future Batman theme composer) Nelson Riddle. Together, the two would make immortal albums like and Only the Lonely.
Nelson Riddle
Frank Sinatra
Kick out the jams! Wayne Kramer of the MC5 is born today in Detroit.
MC5
Wayne Kramer
Mimi Farina, sister of Joan Baez and a folk singer in her own right, is born in California.
Joan Baez
Charlie Parker makes his first commercial recording at the Decca studios.
Charlie Parker
Happy birthday to Willie Nelson. The country outlaw is born today in Abbott, Texas.
Willie Nelson
 
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