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Rapper Paul Wall tops the U.S. charts with his debut The People's Champ. The second highest new entry is rock band Switchfoot, whose Nothing Is Sound bows at No. 3.
Paul Wall
Switchfoot
Singer Cat Stevens ("Wild World"), who changed his name to Yusuf Islam after becoming a Muslim, is denied entry into the United States after his name is found on an anti-terrorist watch list. Stevens denies links to the terror group Hamas.
Cat Stevens (Yusuf)
Barenaked Ladies and Toronto settle an 8-year-old feud as the band accepts the key to the Canadian city. In 1992, the group was denied permission to play a free show because the city's mayor said its name "objectified women."
Barenaked Ladies
Bono
Bono appears on Capitol Hill in an effort to get American lawmakers to agree to his debt relief plan for the Third World.
Bono
The Red Hot Chili Peppers film their show in Portland, Ore., tonight for inclusion on a DVD.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Diana Ross is arrested at London's Heathrow Airport after allegedly assaulting a security guard. Ross was apparently peeved at being searched before she boarded a plane.
Diana Ross
Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur leaves the grunge band to embark on a solo career. She changes her mind and joins the Smashing Pumpkins instead.
The Smashing Pumpkins
Auf Der Maur
Hole
Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher walks out on the band in the middle of their American tour. He's reported to have fought with his brother, singer Liam Gallagher, and is tired of "touring sh*tholes."
Oasis
Liam Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
Rod Stewart's "Motown Song" reaches its chart pinnacle of No. 10. It's only slightly worse than the current No. 1: Color Me Badd's "I Adore Mi Amor."
Rod Stewart
Color Me Badd
Status Quo (anybody remember "Pictures of Matchstick Men"?) play four British arenas in 11 hours. The Guinness Book of World Records is on hand to confirm that, yep, it's a record.
Status Quo
Bassist Jaco Pastorius of Blood, Sweat & Tears dies after being beaten up in Florida. He had been trying to break in to Fort Lauderdale's Midnight Club. He was 35.
Jaco Pastorius
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Bob Dylan rehearses for the first Farm Aid in Champaign, Ill.
Bob Dylan
Having left his longtime label MCA, Elton John signs a contract with David Geffen's new label Geffen Records, which gains exclusive rights to release his recordings worldwide. The six-year relationship is not a happy one, with Elton enjoying only two top 10 hits during this period.
Elton John
U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim makes an appeal to the Beatles to reunite to benefit the Vietnamese boat people.
The Beatles
Pink Floyd give their album Meddle a quadraphonic mix at London's Command Studios.
Pink Floyd
Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum gives its Beatles statues their fifth hair and clothes makeover in four years, in keeping with the lads' taste for hippie fashions. On the American charts, the boys currently sit at No. 12 with "Revolution."
The Beatles
Crossover country artist Faith Hill is born in Jackson, Miss. She's put up for adoption and spends her childhood growing up in a town called Star. Sounds like a Behind the Music to us.
Faith Hill
The Moody Blues play their first major gig at London's Royal Albert Hall as part of a bill called Brian Epstein's Evening of Popular Music. They share manager Epstein with the Beatles.
The Moody Blues
The Beatles
Motorhead drummer "Filthy" Phil Taylor is born in Chesterfield, England.
Motörhead
Kiowa Indian Jesse Ed Davis, a guitarist whose work can be heard on albums by Eric Clapton, John Lennon, and Neil Diamond, is born in Oklahoma.
John Lennon
Eric Clapton
Neil Diamond
If you see songwriter-turned-monk Leonard Cohen begging at your door, wish him an unhappy birthday. Maybe he'll write a song about it.
Leonard Cohen
 
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