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Rapper Beanie Sigel is cleared of attempted murder charges. He was alleged to have shot a man in 2003.
Beanie Sigel
Green Day top the UK charts with their punk-rock concept album American Idiot. The No. 1 single is DJ Eric Prydz’s "Call On Me."
Green Day
Metallica's James Hetfield puts his restored black 1967 Chevrolet Camaro up for sale - on eBay!
Metallica
"Addicted to Love" singer Robert Palmer, known for his sharp suits, sexy videos and fronting mid-'80s supergroup Power Station, dies of a heart attack in Paris. He was 54.
Robert Palmer
The Power Station
Kenny Rogers announces he's putting his 360-acre Beaver Dam Farms estate in Georgia up for auction.
Kenny Rogers
Paul's daughter Mary McCartney marries Alistair Donald. The father of the bride drives her to the church in Sussex, England.
Paul McCartney
The Grateful Dead unveil their new line of ties at a New York art gallery.
The Grateful Dead
Southside Johnny films his video for "It's Been a Long Time" at Asbury Park, N.J.'s Stone Pony. Sure enough, Bruce Springsteen turns up. And he brings Little Steven Van Zandt with him. Then Jon Bon Jovi appears. The four Jersey dudes end up jamming together for more than an hour.
Bruce Springsteen
Southside Johnny
Jon Bon Jovi
Paul McCartney begins his Get Back tour - in which he plays several Lennon/McCartney compositions live for the first time - at the Drammenshallen, in Dramen, Norway.
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Keith Richards releases his first solo album, Talk Is Cheap, as people wonder if the Rolling Stones will ever get back together again. We needn't have worried.
The Rolling Stones
Keith Richards
Having been delayed by nearly a year, Mick Jagger's longform video Running Out of Luck finally arrives in stores to scant notice.
Mick Jagger
The Clash release their first single in America. "I Fought the Law," a cover of the Bobby Fuller Four number, fails to chart.
Bobby Fuller Four
The Clash
John Lennon releases his solo album Walls and Bridges. Featuring the Elton John-assisted single "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night," it becomes his last album of original material for six years.
Elton John
John Lennon
According to Tamla-Motown, label act the Jackson 5 have sold 10 million singles in the space of nine months. The feat becomes a world record.
The Jackson 5
Promoter Bill Graham opens the Fillmore West in San Francisco. It quickly becomes the epicenter of the city's psychedelic-band boom.
Rolling Stone Brian Jones is found guilty of marijuana possession. A judge fines him $150.
The Rolling Stones
The Beatles record sound effects for use on "Glass Onion," but never end up using them.
The Beatles
Queen Elizabeth II awards the Beatles the Order of the British Empire. John Lennon later returns his to protest poor sales of "Cold Turkey," Vietnam, and whatever else was bugging him that morning.
John Lennon
The Beatles
No. 1 on the singles chart is Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman."
Roy Orbison
The Kinks release their single "You Really Got Me." It becomes their first American hit, peaking at No. 7.
The Kinks
Bob Dylan gets a steady gig. He spends the next two weeks at Gerde's Folk City in New York's Greenwich Village, opening for the Greenbriar Boys, a local bluegrass group.
Greenbriar Boys
Bob Dylan
Tupelo, Miss., declares today Elvis Presley Day in honor of its most famous son.
Elvis Presley
Fats Domino enters the charts with "Blueberry Hill." The song later goes to No. 2, his biggest hit to date.
Fats Domino
Los Lobos guitarist/singer/songwriter Cesar Rosas is born in Hermosillo, Mexico.
Los Lobos
Cesar Rosas
Stuart Tosh of the Alan Parsons Project (oh yes) is born in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Alan Parsons
Look at her, she's Sandra Dee. No she isn't. She's Olivia Newton-John. And she's born today in Cambridge, England.
Olivia Newton-John
Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry is born in Washington, England. And we'll bet he was smooth as f*ck when he was doing it.
Roxy Music
Bryan Ferry
Woman that rocks (even though it was a long time before all that) Bessie Smith dies in a car crash. One of the first great blues and jazz singers, she became known as "the Empress of the Blues."
Bessie Smith
George Chambers, who played bass with the great black rock band the Chambers Brothers, is born in Flora, Miss.
The Chambers Brothers
The great cowboy singer Marty Robbins is born in Glendale, Ariz. In 1959 he went to No. 1 with the immortal "El Paso."
Marty Robbins
 
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