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Singer, actress, drug survivor and onetime Mick Jagger girlfriend Marianne Faithfull announces she is being treated for breast cancer.
Marianne Faithfull
Kanye West tops the U.S. album chart with Late Registration. The highest new entry is the Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang, in at No. 3.
Kanye West
The Rolling Stones
U.K. hardcore band Million Dead announce they are splitting.
Million Dead
The union of Britney Spears and her former dancer Kevin Federline is blessed with a boy, who they then curse with the name Preston Michael Spears Federline. Send your shower gifts of Cheet-Os and Ding-Dongs to the usual address.
Britney Spears
Britney Spears performs a surprise show at Las Vegas' Palms hotel/casino, singing three songs from a forthcoming album.
Britney Spears
Gerry Marsden, 60, of Merseybeat legends Gerry & the Pacemakers ("You'll Never Walk Alone") undergoes a triple heart bypass, but is expected to make a full recovery.
Gerry & the Pacemakers
Gerry Marsden
If you're the type of person afraid of frolicking in the autumn sunshine, you might have watched tiny country sprite Billy Gilman perform "One Voice" on Live With Regis & Kathie Lee.
Billy Gilman
In Michigan, Eminem makes a deposition in his mother's defamation case against him. She says he wrongly accuses her of being a "drug-addled pill-popper." T
Eminem
VH1 and Rolling Stone hold a fund-raiser for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Among the performers are Sheryl Crow, who open the show with "The Long and Winding Road"; Paul Simon; Glenn Frey and Don Henley, who play a selection of Eagles hits; and Crosby, Stills & Nash, who lead the entire lineup through a finale of "Teach Your Children."
Glenn Frey
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Eagles
Don Henley
Paul Simon
Sheryl Crow
Melrose Place fans celebrate the show's 200th episode. What they don't celebrate is guest star Sean Lennon, whose performance of three songs gets in the way of all the bed-hopping.
Sean Lennon
In Hartford, Conn., David Bowie plays the opening night of his Outside tour with acolytes Nine Inch Nails in support.
Nine Inch Nails
David Bowie
At a Sotheby's auction, the star lot is Paul McCartney's handwritten lyrics for "Getting Better." It sells for $249,000.
Paul McCartney
Talking about his new album Under the Red Sky, Bob Dylan describes the title track as "intentionally broad and short, so you can draw all kinds of conclusions."
Bob Dylan
Here's something you'll never see again. It's the first annual MTV Video Music Awards and there isn't a Wayans brother in sight. Tonight's big winner? Jazz guy Herbie Hancock, for his innovative "Rockit" clip. The first Video Vanguard Awards go to the Beatles and David Bowie.
David Bowie
The Beatles
Herbie Hancock
Latin big-band leader Perez Prado dies in Mexico City at age 72.
Perez Prado
Director Alan Parker begins production on Pink Floyd the Wall. The film was originally to interpolate live footage of the band performing at Earls Court, but instead tells the story of a confused rocker portrayed by Boomtown Rat Bob Geldof. Roger Waters was so unhappy with the experience he sings on The Final Cut's "Not Now John," "Not now John, we've gotta get on with the film show/ Hollywood waits at the end of the rainbow/ Who cares what it's about, as long as the kids go?"
Roger Waters
Bob Geldof
Pink Floyd
The Final Cut
The Grateful Dead play a concert at the foot of Egypt's Great Pyramid. There's more than just T-shirt sales at stake. The band intends to get the Arabs and Israelis to settle their differences to music. Using King Cheops' tomb as an echo chamber, the Dead play with a team of Nubian drummers in heat that ends up welding their speaker cabinets together. Accompanist Ken Kesey said that the 700-strong audience of "government operatives and spoiled Saudis" enjoyed the show.
The Grateful Dead
People ask "How many more years to punk rock?" as Eric Clapton's "I Shot the Sheriff" goes to No. 1, while Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends - Ladies and Gentlemen is a new entry on the albums chart.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Eric Clapton
Genesis play their first paying gig at an English cottage owned by Peter Gabriel's former Sunday school teacher. Hence the name.
Genesis
Peter Gabriel
In one of the daffier examples of government policy, 40 foreign officials of the U.S. Information Agency attend a Blood, Sweat & Tears concert in Washington, D.C. The reason? It seems the concert will familiarize them with cultural developments in the U.S. Yeah, right.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
The Archies premieres on CBS. Producer Don Kirshner later succeeds on sending the Archies' single "Sugar Sugar" to No. 1. Not bad for a group that was a cartoon.
The Archies
What's next for the Who's Pete Townshend? He tells Rolling Stone today that he's working on a rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy. The pinball bit must have come later.
The Who
Pete Townshend
It's announced that Beatles manager Brian Epstein will record his own album, reading from his book A Cellarful of Noise.
The Beatles
In the U.K., the No. 1 single is the Beatles' "She Loves You." It becomes England's best-selling single until the record is broken by Paul McCartney's "Mull of Kintyre" in 1977.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
ABC invites Pete Seeger to appear on the network's Hootenanny, hoping the folk icon will break a boycott of the program by fellow folk singers. However, he refuses after being asked to sign an oath of loyalty to the U.S. We hope that ABC's policy on musical guests has changed since then.
Pete Seeger
That good-looking fellow in a-ha, Morten Harket is born in Konigsberg, Norway.
Morten Harket
Free guitarist Paul Kossoff (that's the band Free) is born in Hempstead, England.
Free
Paul Kossoff
Mae Boren Axton, mother of Hoyt and author of "Heartbreak Hotel," is born in Bardwell, Texas.
Hoyt Axton
 
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