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Ian McCulloch is found guilty of breaching the peace in Glasgow, Scotland. The Echo& the Bunnymen singer began swearing and shoving two fans after he discovered them sharing a toilet cubicle in his backstage dressing room. One can only imagine what they were up to.
Echo & the Bunnymen
Ian McCulloch
Willie Nelson is charged with drugs possession after being pulled over in Louisiana for a routine check. Police allegedly find 0.7g of marijuana and 91 grams of magic mushrooms on the country stoner's bus.
Willie Nelson
Scottish no-fi performer Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly has two guitars and a trumpet stolen after a gig in Wales. Someone please return this stuff before he decides to make a hambone record.
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Lil' Kim begins her jail sentence after being found guilty of perjury. The pint-sized rapper is set to serve 366 days behind bars.
Lil' Kim
Willie Hutch, who wrote Jackson 5 hits like "I'll Be There," and penned the soundtrack to blaxsploitation movie The Mack dies aged 59 in Dallas.
Willie Hutch
The Jackson 5
Britpoppers Embrace enter the No. 1 spot in the UK album charts with their comeback album Out of Nothing. Trance techno star Eric Pridz also debuts at No. 1 in the singles chart with "Call On Me."
Embrace (UK)
Skeeter Davis, a country singer who went to No. 1 in 1963 with "The End of the World," dies aged 72. Davis also performed on the Grand Ole Opry show for over 40 years.
Skeeter Davis
Skeeter Davis&NRBQ
Madonna calls for world peace during an address to a conference on Jewish mysticism in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Madonna
Jack Bruce, former bassist with Cream, undergoes a success liver transplant after being diagnosed with cancer.
Jack Bruce
Cream
Slim Dusty, one of the leading lights of the Australian country music scene, dies aged 76. During his time with EMI, he released 105 albums.
Slim Dusty
Rick and Barbara Springfield release a statement following his arrest on charges of spousal assault saying they "will continue their relationship and raise their family."
Rick Springfield
Wyclef Jean testifies in the court case between Lauryn Hill and four musicians who say they didn't receive credit for their work on her album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Wyclef Jean
Lauryn Hill
Bob Dylan releases Oh Mercy, generally considered to be his best album in ages.
Bob Dylan
Pink Floyd release A Momentary Lapse of Reason. The comeback album is the band's first since the departure of Roger Waters and the subsequent lawsuit over the use of the band name.
Roger Waters
Pink Floyd
Bob Dylan rehearses for the first Farm Aid at Los Angeles' Universal Studios.
Bob Dylan
Another Beatles reunion scare, as the New York Post announces, "The Beatles are back!" The premature announcement is based on rumors surrounding a benefit concert for Cambodian boat people. Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, and James Taylor are among the participants at the first No Nukes concert in New York.
Bruce Springsteen
The Beatles
Jackson Browne
James Taylor
Readers of The New York Times open their papers today to discover a full-page ad placed by promoter Sid Bernstein asking the Beatles to reunite. Bernstein had organized the Beatles shows at Shea Stadium in the mid-'60s. But his intentions are honorable. He asks the band to do it as a "symbol of hope."
The Beatles
Max Weinberg plays with the E Street Band for the first time at Philadelphia's Main Point.
Max Weinberg
Gram Parsons, 26, dies in Joshua Tree, Calif. The authorities are uncertain whether the former Byrd, Flying Burrito Brother, and solo artist died of heart failure or a drug overdose. Things take a stranger turn when his body is later stolen by his manager and a former Byrds roadie and cremated at Joshua Tree. The town would later lend its name to a best-selling U2 album.
The Byrds
Flying Burrito Brothers
U2
Gram Parsons
Neil Young's After the Gold Rush album enters the charts.
Neil Young
The Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya Ya's Out, the live album commemorating their riotous 1969 North American tour, goes to No. 1 in the U.K.
The Rolling Stones
Perhaps the best-looking person ever to pick up a saxophone, Candy Dulfer ("Lily Was Here") is born in Amsterdam.
Candy Dulfer
In the studio, recording starts on the Beatles song "Piggies," a track that would inspire Charles Manson.
Charles Manson
The Beatles
John Lennon flies to Spain to shoot the Richard Lester film How I Won the War.
John Lennon
John Lennon gives his permission for his drawing titled "The Fat Budgie" to be printed up on Christmas cards.
John Lennon
Marianne Faithfull goes to No. 9 in the U.K. with the Jagger/Richards composition "As Tears Go By."
Marianne Faithfull
Acid house DJ Marshall Jefferson, who's been known to drop Led Zeppelin in the middle of a scorching set, is born in Chicago. Respect.
Marshall Jefferson
Led Zeppelin
Bye bye, Elvis. The Memphis Flash leaves Brooklyn, N.Y.'s naval base as a young soldier to be stationed in Germany.
Elvis Presley
Rock siren Lita Ford ("Kiss Me Deadly") is born in London.
Lita Ford
Quite a day for drummers, as Rusty Egan of Visage is born.
Visage
Daniel Lanois, who has produced memorable albums for U2 (The Joshua Tree), Bob Dylan (Time out of Mind), and Peter Gabriel (So), is born in Hull, Quebec.
Peter Gabriel
U2
Daniel Lanois
Bob Dylan
Status Quo drummer John Coghlan is born in Dulwich, England.
Status Quo
Soul belter Freda Payne, best remembered for 1970's "Band of Gold," is born in Detroit.
Freda Payne
Cassandra Elliot, better known to folk rock fans as Mama Cass, is born in Baltimore.
Mama Cass
Brian Epstein, the Beatles' future manager, is born in Liverpool, England.
The Beatles
Soul vocalist Brook Benton, who arrived with 1959's "It's Just a Matter of Time," then scored a No. 4 in 1970 with "Rainy Night in Georgia," is born in Camden, S.C.
Brook Benton
 
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