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A fan tries to bite Bone Thugz-N-Harmony rapper Layzie Bone's finger off during a brawl. The fan was angry over the cancellation of a show in Palm Springs, Calif.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Layzie Bone
Dave Matthews Band plays to over 100,000 people at charity show in New York's Central Park. Warren Haynes joins them onstage for a version of Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer."
Dave Matthews Band
Warren Haynes
Neil Young
Rapper DMX debuts at the top of the chart with his album Grand Champ. It's the fifth time he's gone straight in at No. 1 in the album charts.
DMX
Young British songwriter Matthew Jay dies after falling from a seventh-story window. The 24-year-old's 2001 debut Draw was likened to Nick Drake and Badly Drawn Boy.
Matthew Jay
Ryan Adams releases Demolition, a collection of demos that never made it to his hit albums Heartbreaker and Gold.
Ryan Adams
At the Expos/Cardinal match-up tonight at St. Louis' Busch Stadium, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler throws out the first pitch.
Aerosmith
Steven Tyler
Eric Clapton is tonight's special musical guest on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live.
Eric Clapton
After suing for wrongful dismissal, Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler collects a $2.5 million settlement from the band. He alleged that his bandmates threw him out of the group for his heroin habit, after encouraging him to take the drug in the first place.
Guns N' Roses
Led by a post-sobriety Dave Mustaine, Megadeth release Rust in Piece. The thrash band's fourth album peaks at No. 23 in the Billboard album charts.
Megadeth
The group Chopped Liver make their debut on the L'Chaim to Life Telethon '89 in Israel, featuring Bob Dylan on flute and recorder, actor Harry Dean Stanton, and Dylan's son-in-law Peter Himmelman on guitar. Must have been quite a racket.
Harry Dean Stanton
Peter Himmelman
Bob Dylan
James Brown is arrested in Georgia after allegedly threatening a women's meeting with a handgun, then leading police on an hour-long car chase that covered two states. Call him the hardest-driving man in show business. Brown is given a six-year jail sentence.
James Brown
Memphis plays host to the first Elvis Presley convention. Styx release their single "Come Sail Away." It becomes their second top 10 hit, peaking at No. 8.
Elvis Presley
Styx
John Lennon appears as a guest on The Dick Cavett Show.
John Lennon
Jimi Hendrix arrives in London in the company of his new manager, Chas Chandler. Chandler was a bassist with the original Animals and discovered Hendrix playing in a Greenwich Village go-go club. On the flight to England, Hendrix changes the spelling of his name from "Jimmy" to "Jimi." Chandler immediately takes his new charge to visit a friend, the musician Zoot Money. The meeting soon becomes a jam session, witnessed by Andy Summers, a young guitarist who would later find fame with the Police. Chas isn't done yet. He books Jimi Hendrix into the Hyde Park Towers Hotel, then takes him to meet Cathy Etchingham, who later becomes Hendrix's girlfriend.
Andy Summers
The Police
Jimi Hendrix
Zoot Money
On the American albums chart, Stevie Wonder is a new entry with Uptight. The album gives a hint of the precocious genius' emerging maturity with a cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind."
Bob Dylan
Stevie Wonder
The Rolling Stones begin their sixth tour of Britain with a gig at Finsbury Park, supported by the Spencer Davis Group, Unit 4+2, Mike Sarne, the Checkmates, the Habits, the End, Ray Cameron, and the improbably named Charles Dickens.
The Spencer Davis Group
The Rolling Stones
Unit 4+2
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DJ Alan Freed's own biopic, Mister Rock and Roll - in which the famed DJ plays himself - premieres at New York's Paramount Theater, chock-full of guest appearances. Leonard Maltin says (some time after the fact) that the movie features "vintage footage of Clyde McPhatter, Frankie Lymon, Little Richard; Rocky Graziano is along for comic relief." Sounds great.
Little Richard
Frankie Lymon
Alan Freed
Clyde McPhatter
Rock photographer and Beatle spouse Linda McCartney is born in Scarsdale, N.Y. She also sang backing vocals with Wings, but let's not speak ill of the dead.
Linda McCartney
Wings
 
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