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Mariah Carey tops the American singles chart for a tenth straight week with "We Belong Together."
Mariah Carey
Country singer Mindy McCready is arrested at her Nashville home for allegedly using a fake prescription to obtain the painkiller Oxycontin.
Mindy McCready
Smash Mouth release their new album Get the Picture?. The band celebrate with a performance in a New York Toys 'R' Us.
Smash Mouth
Lynyrd Skynyrd cancel the remainder of their Party of a Lifetime tour after lead guitarist Gary Rossington's doctor tells him to take it easy. Rossington underwent open-heart surgery in February.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
At the BMI's 2003 Urban Awards, Irv Gotti is honored as urban songwriter of the year, the Neptunes are named urban producers of the year and Isaac Hayes is given a BMI Icon award.
N.E.R.D.
Isaac Hayes
Shania Twain attends her class reunion at Timmins High and Vocational School in Ontario. "I came for the same reason everybody else came," Twain tells CTV. "I wanted to see old friends."
Shania Twain
George Strait is nominated five times at this year's Country Music Association Awards, bringing his career total to a record-setting 47 nominations.
George Strait
Bruce Springsteen sues two London bootleggers who were distributing an album attributed to him titled Unearthed.
Bruce Springsteen
Billy Idol is admitted to Burbank, Calif.'s St. Joseph's Medical Center after collapsing from a drug overdose in a Los Angeles nightclub. He's released two days later.
Billy Idol
Michael Jackson performs a concert in Wales, during which he collapses three times.
Michael Jackson
Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro dies of a heart attack in Hidden Hills, Calif. He was 38.
Toto
Jeff Porcaro
Oh, what a feeling as Lionel Richie releases his album Dancing on the Ceiling.
Lionel Richie
The Osmonds split after 20 years of being together.
The Osmonds
For the Beach Boys' 15th anniversary, NBC airs the appropriately titled special The Beach Boys: It's Okay.
The Beach Boys
Clive Davis signs a young band called Aerosmith to CBS Records after seeing them play Max's Kansas City in New York. They receive $125,000 for their services.
Aerosmith
Clive Davis
Bobbie Gentry releases her No. 1 "Ode to Billie Joe."
Bobbie Gentry
The TV programs just keep getting stranger - on Piccadilly Palace, Gene Pitney faces down the Animals.
Gene Pitney
The Animals
In Britain, the Beatles release Revolver, frequently cited as the best album ever made.
The Beatles
Sonny & Cher play their first British concert at London's 100 Club.
Sonny & Cher
On American Bandstand's first anniversary show, the Coasters perform "Yakety Yak."
The Coasters
One-hit wonder Samantha Sang ("Emotion") is born in Melbourne, Australia.
Samantha Sang
Rick Derringer, who went from "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" to producing albums by the WWF wrestlers, is born Richard Zehringer in Celina, Ohio.
Rick Derringer
 
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