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In Music History
1998 Lynyrd Skynyrd release their fourth live album, Lyve from Steel Town.
1998 50 Cent makes his major-label debut, dropping a verse on the Onyx song "React." Over the next few years, he gets shot nine times, appears on the 8 Mile soundtrack, and releases his Dr. Dre-produced hit single, "In Da Club."
1997 Jazz trumpeter Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham dies at age 91.
1995 Stone Roses guitarist John Squire smashes his collarbone in a cycling accident, causing the band to pull out of major gigs.
1993 Aerosmith appear at the Landon Arena in Kansas, the first night on their 169-date Get A Grip world tour.
1993 Jamiroquai kick off a 13-date UK tour at Royal Holloway College in Egham.
1992 Freedom Williams quits C and C Music Factory and files a $10 million fraud and breach of contract suit in New York against the group.
1990 Soul II Soul's Vol. II (A New Decade) starts a 3-week run at #1 on the UK album chart.
1990 Mariah Carey makes the Hot 100 for the first time when her debut single, "Vision Of Love," enters at #73. In August, the song goes to #1, as do her next four singles.
1987 Spanish classical guitarist Andres Segovia dies at age 94.
1986 Blues singer ZZ Ward is born Zsuzsanna Ward outside of Philadelphia.
1986 Randy Travis releases his debut album, Storms Of Life. Thanks to the #1 Country hits "On The Other Hand" and "Diggin' Up Bones," it goes on to sell over 3 million copies, establishing Travis as a star.
1984 Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go" hits #1 on the UK singles chart.
1984 Joe Perry and Brad Whitford return to Aerosmith, reuniting their original lineup as they kick off their Back In The Saddle Tour in Concord, New Hampshire. Their comeback starts in earnest two years later when they all get sober and the rap reworking of "Walk This Way" takes off.
1983 The 12-inch remix of "The Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats goes to #1 on the Billboard Dance chart. MTV begins playing the huzzah-worthy video, and the song soon rises up the Hot 100.More
Whitney Houston Releases Hit-Filled Second Album
1987Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney, is released. It contains four #1 hits, including the enduring "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
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2020 The music industry recognizes "Blackout Tuesday" in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Using the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused, many record labels and artists cease operations, while broadcasters and streaming services change their programming in support of efforts to address racism and injustice on a wide scale, and more specifically to end police brutality against African Americans.More
2018 BTS become the first K-pop band to top the US albums chart when Love Yourself: Tear debuts at #1.
2006 Muscle Shoals Sound Studios is added to the National Historic Register.More
2002 Eminem's The Eminem Show hits #1 on both the UK and US album charts.
2001 A cover of the chart-topping 1974 Labelle hit "Lady Marmalade" by Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott, Pink, Mya and Lil' Kim takes the song back to the top spot, making Lil' Kim the first female rapper to appear on a Hot 100 #1 hit.
1989 Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman, 52, marries 18-year-old Mandy Smith in a 15-minute civil ceremony held at a registry office in Suffolk, England. The only witnesses are Smith's sister and Wyman's son. A proper celebration takes place three days later.More
1944 Marvin Hamlisch is born in New York City. The composer will not only win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Chorus Line in 1975, but will snag multiple Emmy, Grammy, Tony, and Academy Awards for his work for stage and screen (The Way We Were, The Sting).
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