I'm swiping this idea from Billboard's website. There are a bunch of things that happen somedays, but I'll limit it to those that I find interesting.

September 04

2003 - Rapper D.O. Cannon, who was signed to Murder Inc. Records, is shot to death in Queens, N.Y., according to reports. The 26-year-old Cannon, whose real name is Gerard Fields, appeared on a number of tracks on the 2002 compilation "Irv Gotti Presents ... The Remixes."

1997 - After performing during the MTV Video Music Awards pre-show in New York, Pat Smear publicly announces that he will no longer be the guitarist for the Foo Fighters, and introduces Franz Stahl as his replacement. Stahl exits the band in late 1998.

1983 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Maniac,'' Michael Sembello. The song is the second No. 1 single from the film ``Flashdance,'' following ``Flashdance ... What a Feeling,'' by Irene Cara.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Let's Get It On,'' Marvin Gaye.

1962 - The Beatles record ``Love Me Do'' at Abbey Road studios in London.

1960 - Kim Thayil, guitarist for the Seattle-based grunge-group, Soundgarden, is born in Seattle, Wash.

Nice

September 05
2006 - The Arctic Monkeys win the 2006 Nationwide Mercury Prize, the "album of the year" award for British and Irish acts. The act's debut set, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" (Domino), is named the winner at a ceremony held at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.

2002 - Country icon Willie Nelson is forced to halt a show at TJ's Tavern in Brownville, Neb., when his nose begins bleeding uncontrollably. Nelson is forced to cancel several shows over the following days to recover from a ruptured blood vessel.

2000 - Eager journalists and hardcore fans alike mingle at the Sony IMAX Theater in New York's Lincoln Square for the North American unveiling of Radiohead's long-awaited fourth album "Kid A."

1999 - Blues singer/pianist Katie Webster dies of heart failure at her home in League City, Texas. She is 63.

1997 - Sir Georg Solti, the Hungarian-born conductor who led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to international fame as its music director for more than 20 years dies at the age of 84.

1997 - R&B newcomer Erykah Badu finds her hands literally full at the 1997 Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards as she garners an unprecedented four honors. Badu is named best R&B/soul or rap new artist, R&B/soul album of the year, the solo accolade for her debut set "Baduizm," and best R&B/ soul single, solo and song of the honors for "On & On."

1992 - John Mellencamp marries model Elaine Irwin. It is the third marriage for the 40-year-old Indiana-born rocker and first for the 23-year-old model. The couple met in 1991 when Irwin appeared in the video for Mellencamp's ``Get a Leg Up.''

1976 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty,'' KC & the Sunshine Band.

1946 - Jazz and R&B singer, drummer, and bandleader Buddy Miles is born.

1946 - Singer/songwriter Loudon Wainwright III is born.

Elaine Irwin is now a Cougar.
:-P

September 06
2006 - For the first time in 30 years, Bob Dylan tops The Billboard 200 with "Modern Times." Not only is it the legendary songwriter's first album to reach the throne since "Desire" in 1976, it's also his highest debuting album and his best sales week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.

2001 - Atari Teenage Riot co-founder Carl Crack dies at the age of 30. The cause of death is not announced, though Crack is understood to have undergone treatment for psychiatric problems in the past.

2000 - Rapper DMX goes one step too far. When he fails to show up for rehearsal for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards for the second year in a row, the folks at the music cabler give him the boot as a performer. Chart-topping hip-hop star Nelly takes his place onstage the next night.

1998 - Brad Warren, of the Warren Brothers, interrupts touring to be present for the arrival of his new baby, Sage Warren, at Nashville hospital. Brad's brother and bandmate Brett performs a scheduled appearance in Portland, Ore., as a solo act.

1997 - David Bowie launches a six-week tour of North America in Vancouver, British Columbia. The tour hits clubs, ballrooms, and theaters.

1997 - Roy Husky Jr., regarded as one of country music's best upright bassists, dies of cancer at Columbia Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. Husky performed with such icons as Chet Atkins, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Vince Gill and George Jones. Husky is 41.

1990 - Guitarist Tom Fogerty dies of respiratory failure from tuberculosis. Along with his brother John, he was part of Creedence Clearwater Revival, whose two No. 1 albums were ``Cosmo's Factory'' in 1970 and ``Green River'' in 1969.

1982 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Hard to Say I'm Sorry,'' Chicago.

1971 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Go Away Little Girl,'' Donny Osmond. Steve Lawrence hit No. 1 with the song in 1963, making this the first song in the rock era to be a No. 1 hit for two people.

1957 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Diana,'' Paul Anka.

1944 - Roger Waters of Pink Floyd is born in Cambridge, England.

1925 - Jimmy Reed (Matthew James Reed Leland) is born in Dunleight, Miss.

September 10
2001 - Singer-songwriter Carolyn Dawn Johnson dominates the Canadian Country Music Awards in Calgary, with five wins.

2001 - Country singer Chris Cagle marries school teacher Elizabeth Filer, his first love, in Houston, Texas.

1999 - Louisiana Zydeco bandleader Beau Jocque dies of an apparent heart attack at his home in Kinder, La. He is 45.

1998 - Police announce that Miguel Dega, president of Spain's biggest indie label, Max Music, has been arrested on charges of kidnapping and the attempted murder of his former partner, Ricardo Campoy.

1998 - Madonna is the big winner at the MTV Video Music Awards, winning six of the 18 categories.

1998 - British glam-rock icon Gary Glitter appears in court on child pornography charges. Glitter, who had a string of U.K. hits in the '70s and early '80s, is charged under his real name of Paul Gadd with 51 counts of making indecent photographs of children. He is also charged with a number of sexual assaults on girls under the age of 16.

1998 - The Beastie Boys are presented with the Video Vanguard Award at the 15th annual MTV Video Music Awards.

1997 - In order to usher in his 80th birthday, John Lee Hooker holds a live chat on ET Online on MSN. Topics include his latest album, the nightclub he plans to open in San Francisco, general musings on his five- decade career and discussions of his upcoming star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

1996 - Rondor Music International sends a letter to the campaign officials of Republican presidential hopeful Bob Dole. The letter asks that Dole discontinue his use of the Rondor-published song, "Soul Man" as a campaign jingle. Dole's campaign violated copyright laws when, without permission, it changed the words to "Dole Man" and used the song to promote ideas not necessarily held by the original authors, David Porter and Isaac Hayes.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Delta Dawn,'' Helen Reddy. Reddy is the fifth female vocalist to record the song.

1964 - Rod Stewart records his first single, ``Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.''

1957 - Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama is born.

1950 - Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry is born in Boston.

1946 - Vocalist Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night is born in Buncrana, Ireland.

1945 - Jose Feliciano is born in Puerto Rico. He is blind at birth.

2001 - Atari Teenage Riot co-founder Carl Crack dies at the age of 30. The cause of death is not announced, though Crack is understood to have undergone treatment for psychiatric problems in the past.

So...Suicide?

That'd be my guess.

September 12
2005 - Canadian country manager, label owner and songwriter Don Grashey passes away at home in Thunder Bay, Ontario at the age of 79. His death coincides with the presentation of the 2005 Canadian Country Music Awards in Calgary, Alberta.

2005 - With four major wins, country singer George Canyon sweeps the 2005 Canadian Country Music Awards, held at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta. Canyon, who was the previous year's rising star winner, wins the top male and the fans' choice award.

2004 - Legendary studio drummer Kenneth Aaron (Kenny) Buttrey dies of cancer at his home in Nashville. He is 59 years old.

2003 - Country music icon Johnny Cash dies at 1 a.m. ET of heart failure at Nashville's Baptist Hospital, stemming from complications from diabetes. He is 71, and had been in poor health for several years. His wife, vocalist June Carter Cash, died May 15 following heart surgery.

2000 - Jazz saxophonist Stanley Turrentine passes away at a New York hospital. The 66-year-old artist, perhaps best known for his 1970 hit "Sugar," had suffered a stroke two days earlier while he was in the city for a performance at the Blue Note nightclub.

2000 - The soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" hits stores with something on it that no other soundtrack has ever had before: the authorized use of a vintage Led Zeppelin song. Zeppelin principals Robert Plant and Jimmy Page are so taken by the film that they agree to let Crowe include four of their songs in it, including "That's The Way," which appears on the soundtrack.

2000 - To trumpet its entry into the New York metropolitan market with 15 stores, retail chain Best Buy presents a free Sting concert in the city's Central Park.

1999 - A sold-out crowd of 23,000 people listen to Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews Band, Deana Carter, and Neil Young perform at Farm Aid '99.

1998 - A concert by Shania Twain is televised live on DirecTV, in what the direct broadcast satellite service claims is the first such TV event for the country star.

1998 - Vince Gill makes his 100th appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.

1997 - Swedish music veteran Stig Anderson, the man who discovered Abba, dies suddenly of a heart attack in Stockholm. He is 66.

1995 - Luciano Pavarotti is joined by U2 members Bono and the Edge, as well as singer-producer Brian Eno, in a benefit concert in Modena, Italy for the children of war-ravaged Bosnia.

1966 - The Monkees' television show premieres on NBC-TV.

1966 - ABC-TV's musical variety series, ``The Roger Miller Show,'' premieres.

1948 - Elvis Presley, age 13, moves with his parents to Memphis, Tenn.

1944 - Barry White is born in Galveston, Texas.

1943 - Maria Muldaur is born Maria D'Amato in New York City. Her biggest pop hit is ``Midnight at the Oasis,'' a top 10 single in 1974. She later becomes an inspirational recording artist.

September 13
2006 - The search for Supernova's frontman comes to an end as punk rocker Lukas Rossi is named the winning vocalist of the CBS reality show "Rock Star: Supernova."

2004 - Italian singer Giuni Russo dies after a long illness. She is 53. Russo, who was born in Palermo, Sicily, had been part of the national music scene since the 1970s

2004 - Country singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson is the top winner at the Canadian Country Music Awards (CCMA), held at Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta. The artist takes home four awards, including top album for her latest Arista Nashville set "Dress Rehearsal." Johnson performs "Die of a Broken Heart," co-written by Johnson and Shaye Smith, which wins for top song. The album's debut track, "Simple Life," grabs the year's top single and video honors.

2001 - A radio promotion in Roanoke, Va., raises $75,000 for the American Red Cross. Announcers Chuck Marsh and Roynn Jaymes of WSLC invite listeners to bid on six tickets and a backstage pass to a Kenny Chesney concert.

2001 - Whitney Houston's publicist announces that, contrary to the flood of rumors, Houston has not died from a drug overdose. Houston performed in New York City Sept. 7, as part of Michael Jackson's 30th Anniversary Celebration, but reportedly did not show up for a performance the following day.

2000 - The Inaugural Latin Grammy Awards take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Carlos Santana and Mexican rock band Mana take home the prestigious record of the year award for "Corazon Espinado." Santana, Mana and Mexican artist Luis Miguel tie with three wins each.

1999 - Country music newcomers the Wilkinsons sweep the 1999 Canadian Country Music Awards by gathering five trophies. Close behind is Canadian-born country music sensation Shania Twain with four awards.

1999 - Beverly Hills police officer Marcelo Rodriguez files a multi-million dollar lawsuit against George Michael, alleging that the singer committed slander in his song and video for "Outside," as well as through numerous television interviews. Rodriguez arrested Michael on charges of lewd behavior in a public park in April, 1998.

1996 - Rapper Tupac Shakur dies while in intensive care. The Death Row Records star had been shot four times in a gangster-style drive-by shooting in Las Vegas six days earlier.

1996 - CMT (Country Music Television) is allowed to once again broadcast in Canada. The network had been booted off the air over a broadcasting rights dispute.

1985 - Sting begins his first solo tour in San Diego.

1979 - Abba's first North American tour opens in Edmonton, Alberta.

1969 - Toronto Rock `n' Roll Revival Festival.

1962 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Sherry,'' The Four Seasons.

September 14
2003 - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion previews a slew of new songs during a surprise gig at the Mercury Lounge in New York. Among the tracks performed are "Hot Gossip," "Mars Arizona," "Don't Smile," "Been My Baby," "Help These Blues," "Grindin'" and "Halftime Loser."

2002 - Tenor saxophonist Paul Williams dies of cardiac arrest in New York. He is 87. Williams had a huge instrumental hit for Savoy Records in 1949 with "The Huckle-Buck," a honking rearrangement of Charlie Parker's "Now's the Time."

2001 - In tribute to all affected by the tragic events of Sept. 11, the Grand Ole Opry, a uniquely American institution, distributes American flags to patrons as they enter the Opry House for the show.

1999 - Sheryl Crow and friends stage a free concert for 25,000 lucky fans in New York's Central Park. Crow's guests include Sara McLachlan, Chrissie Hynde, Stevie Nicks, Eric Clapton, the Dixie Chicks and Keith Richards.

1999 - Hurricane Floyd forces the Backstreet Boys to postpone their show at National Car Rental Center in Sunrise, Fla., near Ft. Lauderdale.

1998 - R&B vocalist Johnny Adams, 67, dies in a Baton Rouge, La., hospital after a long battle with cancer. From the late '50s through the '70s, the New Orleans-born singer cut regional hits like "I Won't Cry" and "Reconsider Me" for independent Southern labels.

1998 - Shania Twain wins awards in six of the eight categories for which she is nominated in the Canadian Country Music Awards.

1996 - Singer and arranger Silas Roy Crain dies at the age of 85.

1995 - Earth, Wind and Fire is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1994 - The Temptations receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1984 - The first MTV Awards ceremonies are held at New York's Radio City Music Hall, co-hosted by Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler.

1979 - Kenny Rogers receives a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1970 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Ain't No Mountain High Enough,'' Diana Ross. The song is the first solo effort by the singer to reach No. 1.

1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Twist,'' Chubby Checker. The song is the only one to go to No. 1 in two separate runs (it hits again in 1962) and stays on the Hot 100 for 38 weeks. The song is first recorded by Hank Ballard & the Midnighters.

September 18
2005 - Dashboard Confessional donates proceeds from its Toronto show to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

2004 - Pop singer Britney Spears marries her fiance, dancer Kevin Federline, in a surprise ceremony held at a private home in the Studio City area with 20 to 30 people attending. The ceremony lasts about 5 minutes. It is Spears' second marriage in nine months.

1998 - On the Grand Ole Opry, Jett Williams pays tribute to her late father, Hank Williams, who would have been 75 the day before. Daughter salutes father by performing "Your Cheatin' Heart," a song released after his death on New Year's Eve, 1952. "He never sang the song on the Opry. He never sang it live," Williams tells the audience.

1997 - Jazz/Blues/R&B singer Jimmy Witherspoon dies of natural causes in his Los Angeles home. He is 74.

1983 - Members of Kiss appear on MTV without their trademark makeup.

1970 - Jimi Hendrix is found dead from barbiturate overdose. The Jimi Hendrix Experience is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and Hendrix is posthumously voted a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992.

1968 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Harper Valley P.T.A.,'' Jeannie C. Riley. The song had the biggest one week jump in the history of Billboard's Hot 100, going from No. 81 on Aug. 24 to No. 7 the following week.

1957 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``That'll Be the Day,'' The Crickets.

1939 - Teen idol Frankie Avalon (Francis Avallone) is born in Philadelphia.

1933 - Singer Jimmie Rodgers is born in Camas, Wash.

lol @ sep 18th

September 20
2006 - Beyonce Knowles takes home three awards at the MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards in London, but is booed by the audience when she fails to turn up and pick up her trophies. Knowles wins best song and video for "Deja Vu" and best international female act at the event, held at London's Royal Albert Hall.

2001 - Jennifer Lopez performs her first ever full show at the 10,000-seat Coliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2000 - Traditional country music singer and yodeler Don Walser receives the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award during ceremonies at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

1997 - Music Festival of India, a touring gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of India's independence gets under way at Cleveland's Masonic Temple.

1995 - Ex-10,000 Maniacs frontwoman Natalie Merchant kicks off her first solo tour in New Orleans with her first solo album ``Tigerlily'' at No. 15 on The Billboard 200.

1991 - Nirvana kicks off a six-week U.S. tour.

1976 - The Captain & Tennille's primetime music variety show premieres on ABC-TV.

1975 - The Bay City Rollers give their U.S. debut performance on Howard Cosell's ``Saturday Night Variety Show'' on ABC-TV.

1973 - Jim Croce dies in a plane crash in Natchitoches, La. He'd just completed recording his third album, ``I Got a Name,'' a week before.

1970 - Jim Morrison is found guilty in Miami of indecent exposure and profanity stemming from a local performance by the Doors.

1968 - Ben Shepherd, bassist for Seattle grunge outfit Soundgarden is born in Okinawa, Japan.

1967 - Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, the identical twin sons of singer Ricky Nelson, are born. They form the rock group Nelson and hit No. 1 in 1990 with ``(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection.''

1947 - Styx drummer John Panozzo is born.

September 24
2003 - Rising British singer/songwriter Matthew Jay dies after falling from a seventh-story window. He is 24.

2002 - Singer/songwriter Tim Rose dies in London of complications from surgery for intestinal cancer. Rose, 62, sang with Cass Elliott in folk trio the Big Three.

2002 - Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt switches gears to music as she releases her album "Bare Naked," via Jive Records.

1999 - Hank Williams is the subject of the first-ever country music symposium at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "A Tribute To Hank Williams" begins with Lucinda Williams, Kim Richey, Kathy Mattea, and Steve Earle performing the works of the late country music godfather.

1998 - Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler, 33, is sentenced to 150 days in jail for beating two women he dated and for violating his probation from an earlier domestic violence conviction.

1997 - In his second cross-genre appearance of the year, Sting performs "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" with country singer, Toby Keith at the 31st annual Country Music Association Awards. Earlier in the year, Sting performed the song "I'll Be Missing You" with rapper Puff Daddy at the MTV Video Music Awards.

1993 - Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler reaches a $2.5 million settlement in his lawsuit against the group and managers. Adler was thrown out of the band because he couldn't kick his heroin habit. The agreement was reached shortly before the lawsuit would have gone to the Superior Court jury. Adler's lawyer said the drummer sued to set aside a 1990 agreement he signed giving up his partnership interest in the band. During the trial, Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash testified that Adler was ``strung out'' when he signed the agreement.

1991 - Nirvana's breakthrough album "Nevermind" is released.

1988 - "Don't Worry, Be Happy," by Bobby McFerrin, is the first a cappella song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. McFerrin's bubbly No. 1 hit gets former president George Bush in trouble when the hopeful Republican uses the song without permission as an election campaign song.

1988 - Graham Parker opens a solo acoustic tour at the University of Rhode Island.

1978 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Kiss You All Over,'' Exile.

1968 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Hey Jude,'' The Beatles. The song is the biggest for the best-selling rock group of all time. It stays at No. 1 for nine weeks.

1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``It's All in the Game,'' Tommy Edwards.

1942 - Gerry Marsden of Gerry & the Pacemakers is born in Liverpool, England.

September 27
2006 - Bowing to the inevitable, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, pulls his legislation reforming the nation's music licensing laws from the congressional agenda, saying he doesn't see how it could get through Congress.

2005 - The White Stripes' concert at the Merriweather Post Pavilion Theatre in Columbia, Md., is streamed live online via the National Public Radio Web site, NPR.org. The show marks the first time the band has Webcast one of its performances.

2000 - Quincy Jones' Listen Up Foundation donates $25,000 to five South Central Los Angeles youth organizations. The endowments, made in the names of the five teens who make up Listen Up's From South Central To South Africa youth delegation, are presented during a reception at the Creative Artists Agency in Beverly Hills. The five teens _ Martha Gonzalez, JeJuana Johnson, Megan Yaleh Meaway, Hector Sanchez, and Omari Trice _ traveled to the Orange Farm Township, outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, one of the country's most disadvantaged communities, to build homes for three South African families.

2000 - U2 perform two songs from its upcoming album on the roof of Dublin's Clarence Hotel, a property owned by the band. The performance of the single "Beautiful Day" and album track "Elevation" is videotaped for an Oct. 6 episode of the U.K. music show "Top Of The Pops."

1998 - While talking to friend and occasional co-writer, Whisperin' Bill Anderson on his cell phone, Steve Wariner is pulled over and given a ticket for driving in an HOV lane with no passengers in his car. Wariner tells the tale on TNN's Opry Backstage show. He admits to dropping Anderson's name to the citing cop in hopes of softening the blow, but with no results.

1995 - Stung by criticism of rap label Interscope, Time Warner severs its ties with Interscope rather than release Tha Dogg Pound's first album, which soon debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

1986 - Bassist Cliff Burton of Metallica dies in a bus crash in Sweden at age 24.

1984 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Let's Go Crazy,'' Prince & the Revolution. The song is the second No. 1 hit from Prince's film ``Purple Rain.''

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``We're an American Band,'' Grand Funk. The single is pressed on gold-colored vinyl.

1963 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Blue Velvet,'' Bobby Vinton. The song comes from a Vinton album in which all the songs have the word ``blue'' in their titles.

1943 - Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

September 28
2006 - The Grascals claim the entertainer of the year trophy at the 17th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.

2004 - In a Los Angeles Times editorial, Yusuf Islam blasts the United States' system of screening airline passengers of potential terrorists as "indiscriminate" and "unjust." The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens was barred from entering the United States the previous week because his named appeared on a government security watch list.

2002 - Singer/songwriter Mickey Newbury dies at this home in Vida, Ore., after a lengthy illness. He is 62.

2001 - Celine Dion and Peter Gabriel perform at an American Red Cross benefit concert at Montreal's Molson Centre for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.

2000 - Barbra Streisand sings her farewell concert at New York's Madison Square Garden.

1999 - Jean-Michel Jarre announces during a press conference at the Cairo Opera House that he has been commissioned by the Egyptian government to create and perform "The Twelve Dreams Of The Sun," a three-act "electronic opera" to mark the millennium night in the Egyptian desert.

1997 - The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), featuring the official U.S. debut of the DVD audio format, is held in New York.

1995 - Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in a gun battle that kills his sister's fianc and riddles Brown's car with bullets in Boston's Roxbury section.

1991 - ``Ropin' the Wind'' by Garth Brooks becomes the first country music album to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's pop album chart. The album also takes the top spot on the country albums chart. In fact, Brooks' two previous albums, ``No Fences'' and ``Garth Brooks,'' hold the No. 2 and No. 5 positions on the country chart at the time of the debut.

1991 - Simon Le Bon's wife, Yasmin, gives birth to a daughter in London. She is the second child for the Duran Duran lead singer and his wife.

1991 - Jazz trumpet great Miles Davis dies of pneumonia, respiratory failure and stroke in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 65. He was considered the most famous trumpeter of his generation and the innovator of more styles than any other jazz musician.

1987 - Gladys Knight and Smokey Robinson are guests on the television game show ``$10,000 Pyramid.''

1972 - David Bowie sells out his first show in New York at Carnegie Hall.

1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own,'' Connie Francis. With the song, Francis becomes the first woman to have two consecutive singles go to No. 1.

1957 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Honeycomb,'' Jimmie Rodgers.

1995 - Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in a gun battle that kills his sister's fianc and riddles Brown's car with bullets in Boston's Roxbury section.

...

wow

Yeah...crazy huh? I like reading that stuff because it's alot of stuff you'd never hear of again.

October 03
2006 - Trey Anastasio begins an 18 consecutive hour DJs stint on Sirius Satellite Radio for "Trey Day, Vol. 2."

2006 - British alternative rock trio Muse and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke are the big winners at the fifth annual BT Digital Music Awards in London, each taking home a brace of trophies.

2006 - "Listen to Your Heart," the power-ballad written by Per Gessle and Mats Persson, scoops a raft of prestigious honors at the 2006 BMI London Awards, presented at the Dorchester Hotel. Among other honors, the track receives the organization's highest accolade, the Robert S. Musel Award, for the most-performed song of the year.

2004 - Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Kid Rock, Fat Joe, MC Hammer and Sugar Hill Gang are among the artists who perform in all-star collaborations at the inaugural VH1 Hip Hop Honors. The event celebrates influential pioneers in the genre: DJ Hollywood, DJ Kool Herc, KRS-One, Public Enemy, Rock Steady Crew, Run-DMC, Tupac Shakur and Sugar Hill Gang. The graffiti movement is also singled out as influential to hip-hop culture.

2004 - Teenage English soul star Joss Stone become the youngest female solo artist to top the British album survey as "Mind Body & Soul" debuts at No. 1. The 17-year-old's second release, and first full-length, bows ahead of top 10 entries by Marilyn Manson, Tom Jones and Brian Wilson.

2001 - Keith Urban goes home to Australia to accept a special Aria Award _ roughly the equivalent to a Grammy in the U.S. Urban receives the Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of sales and chart success in the U.S.

2001 - Rock band Powderfinger dominates the 15th annual Australian Record Industry Association awards with six victories at Sydney's Capitol Theatre.

2000 - Benjamin Orr, former bassist and singer of the Cars, dies at his home in Atlanta from pancreatic cancer. He is 53. Born Benjamin Orzechowski, the bassist and singer formed the Cars with singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek in Boston in 1976.

2000 - 45-year-old Mark David Chapman, the man who twenty years earlier fired five shots into John Lennon's back, faces the parole board. Parole for John Lennon's murderer is denied.

1999 - 59-year old Welsh chart veteran Tom Jones does something he hasn't done for 25 years: He goes No. 1 on the U.K. album chart with "Reload," which features Jones accompanied by Robbie Williams, Stereophonics, Barenaked Ladies, the Pretenders, Natalie Imbruglia, and many others.

1997 - California rock/pop act Sugar Ray postpones its European tour after front man Mark McGrath injures his leg at the first date in Bologna, Italy.

1992 - Singer Sinead O'Connor tears up a photo of Pope John Paul II during a performance on the TV show ``Saturday Night Live.'' NBC got more than 1,000 calls protesting. O'Connor had canceled a previous scheduled appearance on the program to protest guest host Andrew Dice Clay and his comedy act.

1990 - Fort Lauderdale, Fla., record store owner Charles Freeman is convicted by an all-white jury for selling a 2 Live Crew rap album that had been ruled obscene by a federal judge. He is later fined $1,000.

1982 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Jack & Diane,'' John Cougar. The first single from the ``American Fool'' album, ``Hurts So Good,'' is still in the top 10 when ``Jack & Diane'' hits No. 1.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Half-Breed,'' Cher.

1957 - ``The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom,'' a weekly music show, premieres on ABC-TV.

1941 - Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans) is born in Philadelphia. His biggest hit is ``The Twist,'' which hits No. 1 in both 1960 and 1962, the only rock song to re-enter Billboard's Hot 100 and return to the top spot.

1940 - Singer/songwriter Alan O'Day (``Undercover Angel'') is born in Hollywood.

October 04
2006 - Barbra Streisand's tour-opening performance at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center is the highest single event gross in the 10-year history of the arena. Streisand grosses $5,265,600 from 16,510 attendants.

2001 - Rhonda Vincent and the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack are big winners at the 12th annual International Bluegrass Music Assn. Awards.

2001 - User and So Solid Crew each take home two honors at the sixth annual MOBO Awards.

2000 - The Dixie Chicks sweep the 34th Annual Country Music Assn. Awards, held at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House. The genre-defying girl group takes home four awards, including entertainer of the year, album of the year for "Fly," vocal group, and video of the year for "Good Bye Earl."

2000 - Teenage U.K. R&B vocalist Craig David wins a record three MasterCard Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards at London's Alexandra Palace. He is named best U.K. newcomer and wins awards for best R&B act and best U.K. single for "Fill Me In."

1999 - Bebop trumpeter Art Farmer dies in New York from cardiac arrest. He is 71.

1999 - Carroll County, Tennessee native, Jessica Andrews is honored by the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce during a banquet held at the Carroll County Civic Center. The country singer receives the first-ever Youth Achievement Award for her musical accomplishments and her continuing support of her community.

1997 - A relocated Farm Aid '97 takes place before a sold out crowd of more than 30,000 at the World in Tinley Park, Ill. The event, originally planned for the 70,000-capacity Texas Stadium in Irving, raises more than $ 1 million for U.S. farmers.

1996 - Jerry Rivers, fiddler for country legend Hank Williams Sr., dies of cancer at Summit Hospital in Hermitage, Tenn. The Nashville native auditioned for Williams at WSM radio in 1949 and was hired immediately to join his Drifting Cowboys band. Rivers' fiddle playing can be heard on recordings of such classics as "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Hey Good Lookin'," "Jambalaya," "Kawliga," "Cold, Cold Heart" and "Your Cheatin' Heart."

1995 - Alan Jackson wins the prestigious entertainer of the year award at the annual Country Music Association's award ceremony. Alison Krauss sweeps top female vocalist. Vince Gill wins top male vocalist.

1980 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Another One Bites the Dust,'' Queen. The song, which stays at No. 1 for three weeks, sells more copies than any other single by the group.

1970 - Janis Joplin is found dead in a room at the Landmark Motel in Hollywood from an accidental heroin overdose.

1965 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Yesterday,'' The Beatles. The song, which Paul McCartney originally called ``Scrambled Eggs,'' has been played on the radio and TV more than any other Beatles song and is the most covered song in history.

1959 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Mack the Knife,'' Bobby Darin. The song - Darin's biggest hit - earns the singer Grammy Awards as best new artist and best vocal performance by a male.

1958 - Barbara MacDonald of Timbuk 3 is born.

October 05
2005 - Badfinger drummer Michael Gibbins dies in his sleep at his home in Florida at the age of 56. The cause of death is not made public.

2003 - Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice collects the third annual Shortlist Music Prize, climaxing a four-and-a-half hour concert featuring Rice and seven of the nine nominees at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. Styled as a U.S. equivalent to Britain's Mercury Prize, the Shortlist Prize honors cutting-edge performers whose latest albums have sold less than 500,000 copies at the time of their nomination.

2001 - After months of wrangling over child support, rapper Eminem's divorce becomes official.

1998 - Without comment, the Supreme Court refuses to throw out a suit charging that composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber copied from another songwriter the "Phantom Song" from his "Phantom of the Opera." The case stems from a 1990 suit filed by U.S. liturgical composer Ray Repp that claims Webber's song copies Repp's 1978 composition "Till You."

1998 - HBO is the home of the world premiere of Janet Jackson's new music video "Every Time." The premiere takes place just before the 8 p.m. showing of "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" and serves as a prelude to HBO's premiere of the live concert special from Madison Square Garden, "Janet: The Velvet Rope."

1997 - Arthur Tracey, radio's "Street Singer" who delighted millions of listeners in the 1930s with his sweet, flexible tenor, dies at the age of 98.

1997 - Garth Brooks fans snap up more than 139,000 tickets in less than four hours, selling out eight shows at Chicago's Rosemont Horizon.

1996 - Joan Osborne, Soul Asylum, Jewel, Extra Fancy, the Presidents of the United States of America, and Dog's Eye View among others perform at the first annual "Concert to Benefit The Pedro Zamora Foundation." The show raises money for the PZF to use toward educating kids about AIDS.

1996 - Neal McCoy raises $150,000 for a charity he and wife Melinda established in 1995. Country singer Bryan White, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman, Cowboys coach Joe Avezzano and radio host Bob Kingsley pitch in for a concert at the Longview High School Coliseum in Longview, Texas. The money goes to the East Texas Angel Network (ETAN) which provides financial assistance for medical treatments and related costs to families with children suffering from serious diseases.

1992 - Eddie Kendricks, lead singer of the R&B group the Temptations during the 1960s, dies of lung cancer. Kendricks left the group in 1971 after such hits as the No. 1 songs ``My Girl'' and ``I Can't Get Next to You.''

1991 - Two albums by the group Guns N' Roses debut in the top positions on Billboard's album chart. ``Use Your Illusion II'' debuts at No. 1, followed by ``Use Your Illusion I.''

1988 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Love Bites,'' Def Leppard.

1974 - Randy Newman plays Atlanta Symphony Hall backed by an 87-piece orchestra conducted by his uncle Emil Newman.

1961 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit; ``Hit the Road Jack,'' Ray Charles. The song is Charles' second No. 1 hit.

1954 - Bob Geldof is born in Dublin, Ireland. The singer/songwriter becomes a member of the Boomtown Rats. He is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for organizing Band Aid, a British superstar benefit group that raised money for famine relief.

1943 - Steve Miller is born in Milwaukee. His biggest song is ``Abracadabra,'' which hits No. 1 for two weeks in 1982.

October 08
2004 - After nearly 60 years of recordings, Ray Charles posthumously earns the first platinum award of his career with "Genius Loves Company" during September certifications by the RIAA. The R&B veteran's final studio album debuted at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 in September, 2004, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Charles scored five gold records over the years.

1999 - Shedaisy members Kelsi, Kassidy and Kristyn Osborn make their debut on the Grand Ole Opry. The trio performs their hit "Little Goodbyes."

1998 - Bruce Springsteen gives evidence in London's High Court in his case against Masquerade Music over that company's attempt to release some of his early '70s recordings in the U.K. The artist says that he was living hand-to-mouth at the time the songs in question were written, relying on handouts from Mike Appel, his co-manager at the time.

1996 - An environmental benefit concert at the Britt Grounds in Jacksonville, Ore., featuring Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne turns ugly as protesters begin to rally. The protesters are angered by efforts to stop the logging of old growth redwoods, and in protest begin revving chainsaws and throwing firecrackers. No one is seriously injured.

1996 - Former drummer for Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Chamberlin, pleads guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with the heroin-related death of late former touring bandmate, Jonathan Melvoin.

1985 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Oh Sheila,'' Ready for the World. The group is made up of six men from Flint, Mich.

1980 - Bob Marley collapses in New York while preparing for a tour of the U.S. with Stevie Wonder. He is diagnosed as having cancer and dies seven months later.

1975 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit; ``Bad Blood,'' Neil Sedaka.

1963 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Sugar Shack,'' Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs. Billboard ranks the song as the No. 1 hit of 1963.

1953 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``St. George and the Dragonet,'' Stan Freberg.

1950 - Robert Bell of Kool & the Gang is born in Youngstown, Ohio. The group has a No. 1 song in 1981 with ``Celebration.''

1930 - Composer Toru Takemitsu is born.

October 09
2001 - U2 frontman Bono, R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, and electronica maven Moby make unannounced appearances in New York, at the second of two anti-violence benefit concerts organized by the Beastie Boys.

2000 - John Lennon's views on everything from the breakup of the Beatles to his attitude toward revolution and drugs, deemed too controversial to print 30 years before, are revealed in a the book "Lennon Remembers, The Complete Rolling Stone Interviews."

2000 - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band reunites at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium for a performance of their signature song, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." Longtime member John McEuen joins Jimmie Fadden, Jeff Hanna, Jimmy Ibbotson and Bob Carpenter for the filming of an IMAX movie, that traces the roots and branches of country music.

2000 - On what would have been Beatles frontman John Lennon's 60th birthday, the John Lennon Museum opens to the public. Braving heavy rains, about 1,200 people line up around the museum, located about 30 kilometers north of Tokyo, between 7-11 a.m., when the museum opens its doors.

2000 - Conductor Sir Simon Rattle is the big winner at the 23rd annual Gramophone Awards for classical music, presented at London's Royal Festival Hall. Rattle takes home awards for orchestral album, opera album, and record of the year (Mahler/Cooke's "Symphony No. 10" by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra).

1999 - Milt Jackson, who was for more than 50 years the premier vibraharpist in jazz and a founding member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, dies in Manhattan of liver cancer. He is 76.

1997 - Bernhard Mikulski, founder of German independent dance label ZYX, dies. He is 68. ZYX, based in Frankfurt, had earlier found international success with Italo-French dance act Gala.

1996 - A concert by Maxwell, originally booked for Atlanta's 600-seat Cotton Club is moved to the 1,500 capacity Roxy Theater to accommodate overwhelming response. Maxwell sells out at the Roxy.

1984 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Just Called to Say I Love You,'' Stevie Wonder. The song from the Gene Wilder film ``The Woman in Red'' wins an Academy Award.

1979 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough,'' Michael Jackson.

1978 - Composer Jacques Brel dies at the age of 49.

1948 - Jackson Browne is born in Heidelberg, West Germany.

1944 - John Entwistle of the Who is born in London.

1944 - Reggae star Peter Tosh is born.

1940 - John Lennon is born in Liverpool, England. One of the founding members of the Beatles, Lennon is shot to death by Mark David Chapman in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980. ``(Just Like) Starting Over'' goes on to become Lennon's biggest hit, starting its five-week run at No. 1 on Dec. 27, 1980.

October 10
2006 - 21-year-old U.K. hip-hop sensation Lily Allen makes her first U.S. appearance at New York's Hiro Ballroom. Appearing with a three-piece horn section, bassist and keyboardist, Allen blasts through an eight-song set in just under a half hour.

2006 - Sting releases "Songs From the Labyrinth," an album of 16th century lute songs.

2001 - U2 kicks off the third leg of its Elevation tour in South Bend, Ind., and invites the world to join them for free. The show is Webcast via RealNetworks and European Internet communications company Tiscali and is available to U.S. residents through the band's Web site U2.com.

2001 - London's Royal Albert Hall is reminiscent of a bygone age as former boy-band sensation Robbie Williams entertains an adoring sell-out crowd with his versions of swing classics from his latest album "Swing When You're Winning."

1998 - The deadly force of Hurricane Georges not only knocks out telephone, water, and electricity services in Puerto Rico, it also bumps the Hot Latin Tracks chart from Billboard Magazine. For the first time in its 10-year history, the chart is not published, because of damage to Broadcast Data Systems monitors caused by the storm, which hit the island late in September.

1997 - Performer and entrepreneur Jimmy Osmond, the youngest member of the Osmond family, and wife Michelle Larson welcome their second child. 6-pound, 15-ounce Zachary James is the 50th grandchild for George and Olive Osmond, the parents of the nine famed siblings.

1995 - Peter Frampton's ``Frampton Comes Alive II,'' is released. The album is the sequel to his 1965 smash ``Frampton Comes Alive'' - the best-selling live album in history.

1992 - Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash (Saul Hudson) marries Renee Suran in Marina Del Rey, Calif.

1992 - ``The Chase'' by Garth Brooks debuts at No. 1 on both Billboard's pop and country album charts, bumping Billy Ray Cyrus' ``Some Gave All'' from the top spot on each.

1979 - Film ``The Rose,'' starring Bette Midler, premieres.

1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Mr. Custer,'' Larry Verne. The novelty song is about a soldier's plea to Gen. George Custer that he doesn't want to fight at Little Big Horn.

1958 - Country singer Tanya Tucker is born.

1955 - David Lee Roth is born in Bloomington, Ind.

1943 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Sunday, Monday or Always,'' Bing Crosby.

1923 - Musician Louis Gottlieb is born.

1917 - Jazz great Thelonious Monk is born.

October 11
2006 - Singer Justin Hawkins announces that he has left British band the Darkness to continue his drug rehabilitation.

2004 - The Vote for Change tour wraps with a star-studded finale at Washington, D.C.'s MCI Center. To close the show, more than a dozen major acts team for covers of the Nick Lowe-written, Elvis Costello-popularized "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding)" and Patti Smith's "People Have the Power," backed by Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. The show caps a multiple-bill barnstorming tour through nine key presidential election swing states in an effort to remove George W. Bush from the White House via the Nov. 2 U.S. Presidential election. The evening offers mini-sets from the likes of Springsteen, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Dave Matthews Band, the Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne with Keb' Mo', Jurassic 5, John Mellencamp and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.

1999 - The City of Miami, under threat of legal action from the American Civil Liberties Union and Havana Caliente Records, allows Cuban dance band Los Van Van to perform at the James L. Knight Center.

1997 - Gregg Allman, Bo Diddley, Keb'Mo', Buddy Guy and John Hiatt are among the musicians who perform at a tribute to Muddy Waters at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

1992 - Amy Grant gives birth to a daughter, Sarah Cannon, in Nashville, Tenn. It is the third child for the Grammy-winning singer and her husband, songwriter Gary Chapman.


1987 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Lost in Emotion,'' Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam.

1976 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Disco Duck (Part 1),'' Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots. A morning DJ at Memphis, Tenn., radio station WMPS, Dees gets fired when he mentions his novelty song on the air.

1973 - Elvis and Priscilla Presley's divorce becomes final.

1966 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Reach Out, I'll Be There,'' The Four Tops.

1949 - Daryl Hall (Daryl Hohl) is born in Pottstown, Pa.

1944 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I'll Walk Alone,'' Dinah Shore.

1919 - Jazz drummer Art Blakey is born in Pittsburgh.

October 12
2003 - Rapper 50 Cent takes home all five trophies for which he is nominated at the World Music Awards, held in Monaco. Russian teen duo t.A.T.u. picks up three awards, while Norah Jones and Eminem win two.

2002 - Ray Conniff, the Grammy-winning composer and conductor who pioneered the use of vocal elements in pop arrangements, dies at an Esondido, Calif., hospital after injuring his head in a fall. He is 85. A top-selling big band leader and trombonist, Conniff made more than 100 albums, 25 of them reaching the top 40 in a career that spans six decades.

2002 - More than 25 years after his death, Elvis Presley is once again the King. RCA Records' "Elv1s 30 No. 1 Hits" boys at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 500,325 units sold. This marks the first Elvis album to ever debut at the top of the U.S. chart.

2001 - Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland quits the band. A post on the group's Web site states, "Limp Bizkit and Wes Borland have amicably decided to part ways. Both Limp Bizkit and Borland will continue to pursue their respective musical careers."

1999 - Juke joint bluesman Frank Frost, 63, dies at his home in Helena, Ark.


1999 - David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young appear at New York's Madison Square Garden to announce their forthcoming album and CSNY2K tour.

1997 - John Denver, whose 1970s hits including "Rocky Mountain High" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" gained him millions of fans worldwide, is killed when his experimental plane crashes into Monterey Bay in Northern California. He is 53.

1997 - Spanish fans of the Backstreet Boys force the cancellation of a free open-air gig by the band. By midday, more than 7,000 fans - mostly teenage girls - turn up in a central Madrid square. After city hall doctors treat 300 girls who had fainted in the heat, officials call the event off. A turn out of no more than 5,000 had been expected.

1995 - Rap musician Tupac Shakur is released from prison on $1.4 million bail, just eight months after a judge sentenced him to a jail term of up to 4 years for sexual assault. Shakur, 23, is released pending an appeal of his conviction.

1991 - Nirvana's album, "Nevermind" hits No. 1 on the Billboard Album chart, going gold. The same day, Nirvana plays "Saturday Night Live."

1985 - B-52s drummer Ricky Wilson dies of AIDS at age 32.

1978 - Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. A 1986 movie of the relationship and murder at New York's Chelsea hotel, ``Sid and Nancy'' starred Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. Vicious dies of a heroin overdose before he can be tried for the murder.

1971 - Early rock'n'roller Gene Vincent of "Be Bop A Lula" fame dies at age 36 from a ruptured stomach ulcer.

1970 - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's ``Jesus Christ Superstar'' debuts on Broadway.

1964 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Do Wah Diddy Diddy,'' Manfred Mann. The song was written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, who also wrote ``Da Doo Ron Ron.''

1957 - Little Richard publicly renounces rock `n' roll and embraces Christianity during a tour in Australia. (He returns to music five years later.)

1949 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``That Lucky Old Sun,'' Frankie Laine.

1935 - Sam Moore of Sam & Dave is born in Miami.

1925 - Singer and guitarist Guitar Gabriel (Robert Lewis Jones) is born.

October 15
2003 - The members of veteran independent rock act Dub Narcotic Sound System are involved in a car accident, forcing the hospitalization of frontman Calvin Johnson and bassist Chris Sutton.

2000 - For the fourth time in its storied career, U2 have a U.K. No. 1 single, after "Beautiful Day" surprisingly outsells Robbie Williams' and Kylie Minogue's "Kids" to take the top place on the new sales chart.

1999 - Songwriter and musician Terry Gilkyson dies in Austin, Texas. He is 83.

1998 - Puff Daddy plays his first-ever U.K. show at the official opening of the new London venue Sound Republic in Leicester Square. The invitation-only event is broadcast live by MTV U.K.

1998 - MCA Records Inc. files a breach-of-contract lawsuit against New Edition members Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ricardo Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronald DeVoe for alleged failure to deliver albums.

1997 - Virginia concert promoter Patricia Ann Richardson files suit against Snoop Doggy Dogg, his former manager Sharitha Knight, and Death Row Records for allegedly tricking her into transporting packages containing seven pounds of marijuana to a venue where Snoop Doggy Dogg was performing. Richardson claims she was stopped, searched and arrested by local, state and federal law enforcement officers at the entrance to the club.

1977 - Debbie Boone's ``You Light Up My Life'' moves from No. 3 to No. 1 in its seventh week on Billboard's Hot 100. The song, which sells more than 2 million copies, holds the top spot for 10 weeks.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Angie,'' The Rolling Stones. Tori Amos covers the song in the '90s.

1968 - Led Zeppelin makes its performance debut at Surrey University in England.

1955 - Buddy Holly (with Bob Montgomery) opens a show for Elvis Presley in Lubbock, Texas.

1953 - Tito Jackson (Toriano Jackson) is born in Gary, Ind.

1946 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Rumors Are Flying,'' Frankie Carle Orchestra.

Tito!

October 16
2002 - Dolly Parton undertakes her first tour of the U.K. and Ireland in 19 years.

2001 - Jazz vocalist Etta Jones dies of cancer in New York, the same day HighNote releases her album "Etta Jones Sings Lady Day." She is 72.

1999 - Singer Ella Mae Morse, who cut Capitol Records' first million-selling single, "Cow Cow Boogie," in 1942, dies of respiratory problems in Bullhead City, Ariz. She is 75.

1990 - Jazz drummer Art Blakey dies in New York City. Age 71.

1986 - Chuck Berry plays his 60th birthday concert in St. Louis.

1973 - Drummer Gene Krupa dies of leukemia at the age of 64.

1972 - Creedence Clearwater Revival announces its decision to split up.

1966 - Joan Baez is one of 124 anti-draft protesters arrested at a military induction center in Oakland, Calif.

1964 - Composer Cole Porter dies at the age of 71.

1956 - Elvis Presley's first film, ``Love Me Tender,'' premieres.

1951 - Little Richard holds his first recording session in Atlanta.

1938 - Christa Paffgen is born in Cologne, Germany. She takes the moniker Nico before moving to New York to do a brief stint as frontwoman for The Velvet Underground.

October 23
2005 - Rapper Cam'ron is shot during an early morning carjacking attempt in Washington, D.C. Two men pull alongside Cam'ron's 2006 Lamborghini and open fire while the artist is stopped at a traffic light at New York and New Jersey avenues. He is hit by one bullet, which travels through one of his arms and into the other. He drives himself to Howard University Hospital for treatment.

2003 - Mexican rap-rock band Molotov tops the second annual MTV Video Music Awards Latin America with four wins, including video of the year and best group.

2001 - R.E.M. plays a surprise show at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe, which guitarist Peter Buck co-owns with his wife, Stephanie Dorgan.

2000 - Heather Kinley of the Kinleys hosts the K-9 Classic Charity Golf Tournament at the Hermitage Golf Course in Old Hickory, Tenn., outside Nashville. The event benefits ACT Now (Animal Care Taskforce of Nashville, Inc.) and their programs.

1998 - Eddie Nichols, singer for swing band Royal Crown Revue, is arrested in Toledo, Ohio, for allegedly punching a sheriff in a diner. Nichols is charged with a felony and held without bail over a weekend.

1995 - Former Selena fan club president Yolanda Saldivar is convicted of murdering the Tejano star outside a Texas motel on March 31, 1995. The jury deliberated only 2 1/2 hours before handing down their guilty verdict.

1980 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Woman in Love,'' Barbra Streisand. The single appears on the album ``Guilty,'' which sells more than 20 million copies worldwide.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Midnight Train to Georgia,'' Gladys Knight & the Pips.

1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Want to Be Wanted,'' Brenda Lee.

1959 - Novelty singer and accordionist "Weird Al" Yankovic is born in Lynnwood, Calif. Among his parodies are ``Like a Surgeon,'' a parody of Madonna's ``Like a Virgin,'' and ``Eat It,'' a parody of Michael Jackson's ``Beat It'' that sells more than 1 million copies and reaches No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

1950 - Singer Al Jolson dies at age 66. Jolson starred in ``The Jazz Singer'' in 1927, ushering in the era of talking movies.

1940 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Only Forever,'' Bing Crosby.

2005 - Rapper Cam'ron is shot during an early morning carjacking attempt in Washington, D.C. Two men pull alongside Cam'ron's 2006 Lamborghini and open fire while the artist is stopped at a traffic light at New York and New Jersey avenues. He is hit by one bullet, which travels through one of his arms and into the other. He drives himself to Howard University Hospital for treatment.

Damn...

Yeah dude...that's hardcore.

October 24
2006 - To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its best-selling album, Def Leppard reissues "Hysteria" as a two-CD package. Beyond a remastered edition of the original album, the new edition includes a bonus disc with a host of non-album tracks first issued during the period.

2002 - Christina Aguilera makes a rare live appearance at Chicago radio station B96's Halloween Bash, offering four tracks from her latest album "Stripped."

2000 - Rock band Killing Heidi and dance duo Madison Avenue, both of which are debut acts with chart-topping hits on independent labels, lead the winners at the 14th Scape Australian Record Industry Assn. (ARIA) Awards in Sydney. Killing Heidi wins ARIAs for best group, album, new artist, and rock release for "Reflector." Madison Avenue wins for record of the year, best new artist (single), and best-selling single for "Don't Call Me Baby."

2000 - Past Country Music Association entertainer of the year and ex-Hee Haw host Roy Clark, joins the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.

1996 - Motown founder Berry Gordy is honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. In the '60's, Gordy made household names of artists like Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder.

1995 - New York City declares Oct. 24 Tony Bennett Day. The crooner celebrates the occasion with a concert at the city's famous Radio City Music Hall.

1995 - Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders returns to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, to sing the national anthem in Game three of the World Series.

1995 - Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band's first studio album in four years, ``It's A Mystery,'' is released.

1992 - ``End of the Road'' by Boyz II Men logs its 11th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, tying a record for the rock era set in 1956 by Elvis Presley with the two-sided hit ``Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog.'' Boyz II Men holds the top spot for two more weeks, establishing the new record at 13 weeks. The group is displaced three months later by Whitney Houston's ``I Will Always Love You.'' In 1995, Boyz II Men ties Houston's 14-week record with ``I'll Make Love to You.''

1980 - Paul McCartney is honored by the Guinness Book of World Records for being the best-selling songwriter and recording artist in music history.

1974 - The film ``Stardust,'' starring David Essex, premieres in London.

1967 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``To Sir with Love,'' Lulu. The single is the title song to the movie starring Sidney Poitier and the singer.

1962 - James Brown records the landmark soul album ``Live at the Apollo.''

October 24

1992 - ``End of the Road'' by Boyz II Men logs its 11th week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, tying a record for the rock era set in 1956 by Elvis Presley with the two-sided hit ``Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog.'' Boyz II Men holds the top spot for two more weeks, establishing the new record at 13 weeks. The group is displaced three months later by Whitney Houston's ``I Will Always Love You.'' In 1995, Boyz II Men ties Houston's 14-week record with ``I'll Make Love to You.''



What ever happened to them?

That's a good question. I liked them actually. Very talented.

October 25
2006 - Diddy scores his first No. 1 album on The Billboard 200 since 1997 with "Press Play."

2004 - For his enduring influence and contributions to music, Stevie Wonder is named the 2004 recipient of the Billboard Century Award. Wonder follows George Harrison (who received the inaugural award in 1992), Buddy Guy, Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell, Carlos Santana, Chet Atkins, James Taylor, Emmylou Harris, Randy Newman, John Mellencamp, Annie Lennox and Sting.

2000 - Billy Ray Cyrus lends his support to two causes when his tour bus stops in 16 different locations on Nashville's Music Row throughout the day to collect food for Second Harvest Food Bank's Harvest 2000; and later the same night, headlines a concert benefiting the charity.

2000 - Mounds of pending litigation against it notwithstanding, embattled music file-swapping service Napster continues to expand with the release of a Macintosh-friendly version available for download. The new Mac version comes complete with exclusive features such as file search logs, "drag and drop" capability, and a color scheme that matches the hues on Apple's new iMac models.

1999 - Los Angeles sheriff's investigators search for Sandra Ann Rosas, the wife of Los Lobos singer-guitarist Cesar Rosas, after finding her van abandoned in La Puente, Calif., and arresting her half-brother, parolee Gabriel Gomez, for investigation of kidnapping.

1998 - R.E.M. plays an exclusive concert for BBC Radio 1 at the Radio Theater at Broadcasting House in London for an audience primarily consisting of fan club members and contest winners.

1995 - British rocker Cliff Richard receives a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Cliff is reputed to be the favorite singer of the 95-year-old Queen Mother.

1992 - Singer-songwriter Roger Miller dies in Los Angeles of cancer at age 56. The Grammy Award winner had a string of hits, including ``England Swings,'' ``Little Green Apples'' and ``King of the Road.''

1991 - Rock promoter Bill Graham dies in a helicopter crash after a Huey Lewis concert in Concord, Calif. He was 60. Among the events produced by Graham were the Live Aid concert, Amnesty International tour and US Festival. At times he managed the careers of the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison and Santana.

1988 - Chico and Bobby DeBarge are convicted in Michigan of trafficking cocaine.

1983 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Islands in the Stream,'' Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton. The song wins an American Music Award for best country single and is named vocal duet of the year and single record of the year by the Academy of Country Music.

1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Then Came You,'' Dionne Warwick & the Spinners. The song is the first No. 1 single for both Warwick and the Spinners.

1961 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Runaround Sue,'' Dion. The song is the performer's biggest hit.

1944 - Vocalist Jon Anderson of Yes is born in Lancashire, England.

1941 - Singer Helen Reddy (``Delta Dawn'') is born in Melbourne, Australia.

1912 - Country singer and comedian, Minnie Pearl is born Sarah Ophelia Colley in Centerville, Tenn.

October 26
2001 - Courtney Love plays her first-ever solo show at the Ventura Theatre in Ventura, Calif.

2000 - Ontario Attorney-General Jim Flaherty requests that Canada's federal government, which handles immigration matters, prevent Eminem from entering the country for a concert at Toronto's SkyDome. The request stems from a complaint filed to the Toronto police hate crimes squad by a community activist who claims that the Interscope rapper's lyrics advocate violence toward women.

2000 - Capitol Records honors Garth Brooks with a lavish party, marking Brooks' status as the only artist to sell more than 100 million albums in a decade and the only artist to sell 10 million copies of four different albums.

1999 - German schlager artist Rex Gildo dies from injuries he sustained three days earlier when he jumped from the second floor of his Munich flat.

1999 - Singer/songwriter Hoyt Axton, who penned Three Dog Night's smash hit "Joy To The World," dies in Victor, Mo. He is 61. Axton, largely confined to a wheelchair since a 1996 stroke, had suffered a pair of heart in the few weeks prior to his death.

1998 - John Michael Montgomery raises over $14,000 for the Jessamine Humane Society at his Putt for Paws golf tournament and concert. "We have a moral obligation to take care of these homeless animals," Montgomery says. "After all, we domesticated them."

1998 - Shock-rock glam band Marilyn Manson kicks off its highly anticipated Mechanical Animals tour in Kansas City, Mo., without incident. Civic leaders from Syracuse, N.Y., however, immediately begin raising objections to the scheduled concert in their hometown a month later.

1998 - The Recording Industry Association of America is dealt a blow in its battle against the maker of a device that plays music downloaded from the Internet using a technology called MP3, when a federal judge refuses to issue an injunction against the sale of the device.

1998 - President Clinton announces that Fats Domino, folk singer Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and opera singer Roberta Peters are to be among the dozen 1998 winners of the National Medal of Arts.

1998 - Singer/songwriter Eros Ramazzotti celebrates his 35th birthday Oct. 26 with the global release of his album "Eros Live," featuring 15 tracks recorded during his 1997-98 worldwide tour.

1996 - Veteran California Highway Patrol Officer, Ruben Rios, 53, is struck and killed by a motorist leaving Ozzy Osbourne's Ozz Fest '96. Rios had been directing the heavy post-show traffic when a motorist quickly changed lanes and struck him.

1994 - Wilbert Harrison dies of a stroke in Spencer, N.C. He was 65. The R&B singer's version ``Kansas City'' hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 1959. In 1969, he had a top 40 hit with ``Let's Work Together.''

1982 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Who Can It Be Now?'' Men at Work. The song is the 12th No. 1 single to pose a question and the first of two by the Australian band.

1978 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Hot Child in the City,'' Nick Gilder. The song takes 20 weeks from the time it enters the Hot 100 to reach No. 1, longer than any single before it.

1965 - Queen Elizabeth presents the Beatles with MBE's at Buckingham Palace in London.

1963 - Natalie Merchant, at one time the vocalist for the band 10,000 Maniacs, is born in Jamestown, N.Y.

1955 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Autumn Leaves,'' Roger Williams.

October 29
2006 - Tom Noonan, the father of The Billboard Hot 100, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 78. Noonan started at Billboard in 1949, and in the November 12, 1955 issue of the magazine introduced the Top 100, a chart that merged sales and radio data.

2003 - Italian tenor Franco Corelli, one of opera's true superstars from the '50s until his retirement in 1976, dies at a Milan hospital. He is 82. Corelli had been hospitalized since August following a stroke, and reportedly suffered from heart problems as well.

2003 - Steve O'Rourke, manager of Pink Floyd since 1968, dies in England of a stroke. He is 63.

2001 - Musician/poet Gil Scott-Heron is sentenced to one to three years in state prison in a New York court, after he failed to appear at an Oct. 1 hearing regarding the mandatory drug rehabilitation required by his plea bargain on an earlier drug possession charge.

2001 - Henry Berthold "Spike" Robinson, a Britain-based American Saxophonist admired for his liquid tone and lyrical verve, dies at the age of 71.

2000 - The Spice Girls score their ninth U.K. No. 1 single as a group, as the double-sided "Holler"/"Let Love Lead The Way" hits the top with first-week sales of 140,000 copies.

1999 - David Lee Roth files suit against Edmund Anderson, the operator of a Web site that sells Roth collectibles, charging that Anderson breached his contract with the singer.

1998 - Singer/guitarist Brian Setzer files suit against Ken Kinnally, a former member of Setzer's pre-Stray Cats group the Bloodless Pharaohs. Setzer alleges that, without his knowledge or consent, Kinnally licensed 1978 studio tracks and 1979 live recordings to Collectibles Records, which issued an album titled "Brian Setzer & the Bloodless Pharaohs."

1998 - Three ex-members of the San Francisco punk band the Dead Kennedys sue former lead singer Jello Biafra (Eric Reed Boucher), claiming he diverted money owed to his bandmates for his own use. The action is filed by East Bay Ray (Ray Pepperell), Klaus Flouride (Geoffrey Lyall), and D.H. Peligro (Darren Henley). The suit goes to trial in April 2000.

1996 - A Pasadena judge drops drug possession charges against Stone Temple Pilots' singer Scott Weiland, saying that the singer had made definite progress in rehab.

1991 - Three members of the group Pink Floyd are injured during an auto race in Mexico when their car rolls 230 feet down an embankment near San Luis Potosi. Guitarist Steve O'Rourke breaks his leg and guitarist Dave Gilmour receives minor blows to the head. Drummer Nick Mason continues the race.

1987 - Influential big band conductor Woody Herman dies of cardiac arrest. He was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award earlier in the year.

1975 - Joan Baez joins Bob Dylan as a member of his Rolling Thunder Revue.

1971 - Allman Brothers guitarist Duane Allman is killed when he crashes his motorcycle to avoid a truck in Macon, Ga.

1963 - The Hollies begin recording sessions for their first album.

1930 - The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson) is born in Sabine Pass, Texas. He later dies in the same 1959 plane crash that claims the lives of Buddy Holly and Richie Valens.

1904 - Composer Vivian Ellis is born.

October 30
2002 - Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell) is shot dead in the Jamaica section of Queens, N.Y. Two suspects are reportedly buzzed into Mizell's area recording studio where the rap pioneer is in a waiting room.

2001 - Songstress Barbra Streisand releases her first holiday album in 34 years, "Christmas Memories." The album is the artists first studio release since 1999's "A Love Like Ours."

2001 - Tim Booth announces that James' forthcoming U.K. tour is to be his last with the band. With 11 albums and 20 top-40 U.K. singles under its belt with Booth at the helm, the Manchester-based group's remaining members plan to continue making music together following the singer's departure.

1999 - Intel cybercasts the 13th annual Bridge School Benefit concert. The show features performances by the Who, Pearl Jam, and Brian Wilson, among others.

1997 - Former Zap Mama songstress Sally Nyolo embarks on her first U.S. tour in Glenside, Pa.

1997 - The Senate passes the music industry's "La Cienega" bill by a voice vote. The bill closes a loophole in the 1909 copyright Act that put into peril most pre-1978 music copyrights.

1988 - Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Seattle megagroup Nirvana, smashes his very first guitar.

1984 - Linda Ronstadt makes her operatic debut in ``La Boheme'' in New York.

1978 - NBC-TV airs the animated TV movie, ``Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park,'' in which the band Kiss foils a mad scientist.

1964 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Baby Love,'' The Supremes. The group is the first from Motown Records to have two No. 1 hits.

1951 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Cold, Cold Heart,'' Tony Bennett.

1939 - Grace Slick (Grace Wing) of Jefferson Airplane/Starship is born in Chicago.

October 31
2005 - Skitch Henderson, the Grammy-winning conductor who lent his musical expertise to Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby before founding the New York Pops and becoming the first "Tonight Show" bandleader, dies. He is 87.

2005 - John "Beatz" Holohan, drummer for Victory Records outfit Bayside, dies after an auto accident in Cheyenne, WY. He is 31. Several other members of the band and crew were also hospitalized after their tour van hits a patch of ice on the highway and flips over.

2001 - Having fully recovered from the flu that forced her to restructure the North American tour in support of her third Jive album, "Britney," Britney Spears' tour kicks off in Washington, D.C.

2000 - Travis is named the best act in the world at the Q Awards 2000, presented in London. Badly Drawn Boy wins for best new act; Coldplay's "Parachutes" is named best album. The awards are voted on by readers of Q Magazine and via a telephone system opereated by the event's sponsor.

1999 - Bryan White sings the National Anthem at the Adelphia Coliseum in Nashville prior to the match-up between the Tennessee Titans and the St. Louis Rams. Following the game, White gives his second annual Howl-O-Ween concert at the north end of the coliseum.


1998 - Kiss kicks off its Psycho-Circus tour with a Halloween extravaganza in Los Angeles that dazzles thousands of fans, many of whom arrive in costumes. Appropriately enough, the Smashing Pumpkins opens the show.

1997 - A concert by Goth stalwarts the Cure is cybercast from New York's Irving Plaza. The concert is streamed at Rocktropolis' Web site, http://www.rocktropolis.com.

1997 - Extensive counterfeiting haunts Jane's Addiction's Halloween night reunion concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. Hundreds of fans - many holding valid tickets - are turned away from the show. More than 200 counterfeit tickets are confiscated. Refunds are given to compensate valid ticket holders who are turned away.

1995 - Alice in Chains release a special vinyl edition of their album, "Alice in Chains."

1993 - Rapper Tupac Shakur is arrested and charged with shooting two off-duty police officers in Atlanta. Police said the 22-year-old rapper got into an argument with the two police officers from suburban Atlanta. They said one of the officers pulled a gun and Shakur then fired at the officers.

1992 - ``End of the Road'' by Boyz II Men logs its 12th week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, setting a new record. The previous longest-running hit of the rock era was Elvis Presley's two-sided ``Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog,'' which topped the chart for 11 weeks in 1956. ``End of the Road'' holds the top spot for one more week, setting the new record at 13 weeks. The group is displaced three months later by Whitney Houston's ``I Will Always Love You.'' In 1995, Boyz II Men ties Houston's 14-week record with ``I'll Make Love to You.''

1991 - Producer Joseph Papp dies of cancer at age 70. He created New York's Shakespeare in the Park festivals and was co-creator of ``A Chorus Line,'' the longest-running musical in Broadway history.

1985 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Part-Time Lover,'' Stevie Wonder. The song hits No. 1 22 years and three months after Wonder's first No. 1, the longest span to date.

1970 - Michelle Phillips marries actor Dennis Hopper. The marriage lasts eight days.

1966 - King Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) of the Beastie Boys is born in Brooklyn, New York.

1954 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``This Ole House,'' Rosemary Clooney.

1952 - Bernard Edwards of Chic is born in Greenville, N.C.

November 01
2006 - Apple Computer launches a new mini-store within the U.S. version of the iTunes Music Store dedicated to Latin music and entertainment. iTunes Latino features top Latin music, music videos, television shows, audiobooks and podcasts.

2004 - EMI pays tribute to Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who celebrates 50 years recording for the company. In a rare appearance at a private party at EMI's London headquarters, Rostropovich is presented with a golden Neumann microphone and a plaque commemorating the 100 recordings he has made with the company since 1954

2003 - After a dozen years as a successful country singer, Tracy Byrd's career finally gets cooking, as he serves his fans in a whole new way. Byrd launches a line of spices, rubs and marinades bearing his name and likeness. The products, which will be sold under the brand name Tracy Byrd's Tiny Town Products are available in 1,350 Wal-Mart stores.

2000 - Ben Folds Five announces that they are calling it quits. Solo works by Folds are expected.

1999 - Mjuice.com lands an exclusive download of the new Third Eye Blind single "Anything," from the band's current album "Blue." Fans obtain the free track, which times-out three weeks later, using a secured MP3 player.


1999 - Celine Dion is inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame during the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' Gold Ribbon Awards gala in Montreal. Dion joins Bryan Adams and Anne Murray for the accolade.

1998 - Madonna is on hand to present director Alan Parker with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Director's Guild of Great Britain aboard a boat on the river Thames in London.

1994 - Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" performance is released as "MTV Unplugged in New York." Two tracks not aired on the MTV Broadcast appear on the album.

1993 - Rapper Flavor Flav of the group Public Enemy is arrested for allegedly trying to shoot another man in a dispute over a woman. Police charge the rapper, whose real name is William Drayton, with attempted murder, possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.

1984 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run),'' Billy Ocean. The song is first released as ``European Queen'' in the U.K.

1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``You Haven't Done Nothin','' Stevie Wonder. The Jackson Five sing backup vocals on the song.

1968 - Alex James of Blur is born.

1962 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``He's a Rebel,'' The Crystals. The actual singers on the record aren't the Crystals, but a trio of backing singers known as the Blossoms.

1946 - Rick Grech of Blind Faith is born.

1994 - Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged" performance is released as "MTV Unplugged in New York." Two tracks not aired on the MTV Broadcast appear on the album.

This is one of my favorite live performances.

Tis a good one, and I'm not much of a Nirvana fan. Only recently have I started liking them after despising them for years.

November 02
2006 - Justin Timberlake and Gnarls Barkley each win several trophies at the 13th annual MTV Europe Music Awards, held in Copenhagen. Timberlake, who also serves as host and performer at the event, wins for best male and best pop. Gnarls Barkley wins best song for their international smash "Crazy."

2006 - Surprising no one, Shakira is the big winner at the seventh annual Latin Grammy Awards, taking home four statues during the ceremony at Madison Square Garden. The Colombian pop star wins song and record of the year awards for ``La Tortura,'' a duet with Spaniard Alejandro Sanz. She also receives trophies for female pop vocal album and album of the year for her Spanish-language ``Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1.''

2005 - Depeche Mode cancels its planned North American tour opener at Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.'s BankAtlantic Center due to power outages and curfew limitations in the area stemming from Hurricane Wilma.

2001 - With three awards each, Gorillaz's "Clint Eastwood" and Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" are the big winners of the 2001 Billboard Music Video Awards.

2000 - Whitney Houston's lawyers appear on her behalf in a Kona, Hawaii, courtroom to defend her in a marijuana possession case that stems from a January, 2000, incident at Keahole-Kona International Airport in Hawaii. It is decided that the case will be dismissed in three months if Houston stays out of trouble until then.


1998 - President Clinton gives his first in-depth interview since the White House sex scandal to Black Entertainment Television talk show host and political commentator Tavis Smiley on the network's "BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley."

1998 - Atlantic Records launches an online music video service, Instavid. The channel, located at www.atlantic-records.com, utilizes RealNetworks RealSystem G2 technology to present clips, which are synchronized with links to artist sites and retailer Total E.

1991 - Songwriter Mort Shuman dies of cancer in London at age 52. He collaborated with Doc Pomus on such hits as Elvis Presley's ``Little Sister,'' the Drifters' ``Save the Last Dance for Me'' and Dion and the Belmonts' ``A Teenager in Love.''

1985 - Stevie Wonder's "Part-Time Lover " reaches the No. 1 spot in The Billboard Hot 100. Winning this spot makes Wonder the first artist to have a single on five different Billboard charts: the Hot 100, Hot Black Singles, Hot Adult Contemporary, Hot Dance/Disco Club Play and Hot Dance/Disco 12-inch Singles.

1981 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Private Eyes,'' Daryl Hall & John Oates.

1971 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves,'' Cher.

1966 - Blues great Mississippi John Hurt dies.

1962 - Elvis Presley film ``Girls! Girls! Girls!'' premieres.

1944 - Keyboardist Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer is born in the U.K. The group's biggest album is the live triple album ``Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends; Ladies and Gentlemen ... Emerson Lake and Palmer.'' It sells more than 1 million copies and reaches No. 4.

November 03
2005 - Colombian vocalist Juanes adds more statues to his mantel with three wins during the Latin Grammy Awards ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Juanes, who is the all-time leader with nine wins going into the event, takes home awards for best rock solo vocal album for "Mi Sangre," best rock song for "Nada Valgo Sin Tu Amor" and best music video for "Volverte a Ver."

2005 - With two trophies apiece, Coldplay and Green Day are the big winners at the 12th MTV Europe Music Awards, held at the Atlantic Pavilion in Lisbon.

2005 - Alicia Keys hosts and performs at a fundraiser for the AIDS charity Keep a Child Alive at New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center. She is joined by fellow music heavyweights Usher, Paul Simon, John Mayer and Common, as well as African acts Angelique Kidjo, Baaba Maal, Femi Kuti and the Agape Children's Choir from Durban, South Africa.

2003 - "Coldplay Live 2003," a forthcoming DVD release from Coldplay, receives big screen premieres across the U.S.

2002 - Lonnie Donegan, known as the "king of skiffle' dies in his sleep in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. He is 71.


2001 - Phil Vassar is named songwriter-artist of the year at the 39th annual ASCAP Country Music Awards at Nashville's Opryland Hotel.

1998 - Music retailers around the U.S. are flooded with a monster shipment of high-profile releases. Among the most anticipated are Alanis Morissette's sophomore set "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie," Beck's "Mutations," Celine Dion's "These Are Special Times," U2's "The Best of 1980-1990," and the John Lennon boxed set "Anthology."

1997 - John Denver's last recording, "The Unplugged Collection," is released in the U.K. The album features versions of such well-known Denver compositions as "Annie's Song," "Rocky Mountain High," and "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

1996 - Blues harmonica player, William Clarke dies from a bleeding ulcer at the age of 45.

1991 - More than 300,000 people attend a free concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in memory of rock promoter Bill Graham. Among the acts performing are the Grateful Dead; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Joan Baez; Santana; and Journey (which reunited for the event).

1972 - Carly Simon marries James Taylor in her Manhattan apartment. They separate in 1982 and later divorce.

1969 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Wedding Bell Blues,'' The 5th Dimension.

1954 - Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard) is born in London. He forms the group Adam & the Ants in 1976. His biggest hit is the 1982 song ``Goody Two Shoes,'' which hits No. 12 on Billboard's Hot 100.

1948 - Singer Lulu (Marie McDonald Lawrie) is born in Lennoxcastle, Scotland. Her biggest hit is ``To Sir with Love,'' a No. 1 song from the 1967 movie of the same name.

1941 - Brian Poole of the Tremeloes is born in Essex, England.

November 04
2001 - Michael Jackson proves that he's "Invincible" in the U.K. as his Epic album "Invincible" goes straight to the top of the country's album chart, earning him his seventh British No. 1 album as a solo artist.

1998 - Amazon.com forms a program, "Advantage For Music," which allows unsigned artists and independent labels to sell music online.

1996 - The king of pop - Michael Jackson - announces that he and a friend, Debbie Rowe, are expecting a child, but denies a tabloid report that the couple had used artificial insemination and that Rowe had been paid to carry the baby.

1995 - Michael Jackson premieres his new single ``Earth Song'' on the German celebrity game show ``Wanna Bet?''

1987 - Bobby Nunn of the Coasters dies of a heart attack at age 61. The group's biggest hit is the No. 1 song ``Yakety Yak'' in 1958.


1978 - Boston plays in the city of Boston for the first time, a sold-out show at the Boston Garden.

1963 - The Beatles appear on London's U.K. Royal Variety Show, which is attended by the Queen Mother.

1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``It's Only Make Believe,'' Conway Twitty.

1954 - Singer, musician Chris Difford of the rock group Squeeze is born.

1954 - Pianist, Yanni is born.

1943 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Paper Doll,'' The Mills Brothers.

November 05
2003 - Blue-eyed soul icon Bobby Hatfield, one-half of the Righteous Brothers, dies of natural causes. He is 63. Hatfield is discovered in a hotel room in Kalamazoo, Mich., where he and partner Bill Medley were to perform that night on the Western Michigan University campus.

2000 - U2 races to No. 1 on the U.K. album chart with "All That You Can't Leave Behind," pocketing an eighth No. 1 on that survey and denying Blur its fifth in the process.

1999 - The members of Van Halen announce that Gary Cherone is leaving the band. The musicians and the singer maintain that the departure is without rancor.

1996 - Jazz saxophonist, Eddie Harris dies of bone cancer at County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles. Harris wrote most of the music for the much celebrated "The Cosby Show."

1995 - Queen releases its first studio album since the death of Freddie Mercury. ``Made In Heaven'' includes Mercury's final vocal track on a song titled ``Mother Love.'' The lead vocalist and sometimes pianist died Nov. 24, 1991 of AIDS.


1995 - ``The Wizard of Oz in Concert'' features Jackson Browne as the Scarecrow, Roger Daltrey as the Tin Man, Nathan Lane as the Cowardly Lion and Jewel as Dorothy for a Children's Defense Fund benefit at New York's Lincoln Center.

1989 - Pianist Vladimir Horowitz dies in his Manhattan townhouse at age 86. He wins 24 Grammys during his lifetime, more than any other classical performer or conductor except Sir Georg Solti. In 1990 he is posthumously honored with a Grammy lifetime achievement award.

1977 - Bandleader Guy Lombardo dies at age 75. Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians were one of the most popular dance bands of 1920s through '50s and remain the only dance band to sell more than 100 million records.

1963 - Singer actress Andrea McArdle is born. McArdle starred as the original "Annie" on Broadway

1960 - Singer Johnny Horton dies in an auto accident after performing at the Skyline Club in Austin, Texas, the same club where Hank Williams made his final appearance. Coincidentally, Horton's widow was once married to Williams.

1959 - Bryan Adams is born in Vancouver, Canada.

1947 - Peter Noone, the lead singer of Herman's Hermits, is born. The group's two No. 1 hits are ``Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter'' and ``I'm Henry VII, I Am.'' In the late 1980s, Noone hosted the VH1 nostalgia series "My Generation."

1946 - Gram Parsons (Cecil Connor) of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers is born in Winter Haven, Fla.

1941 - Art Garfunkel is born in New York.

1936 - Ike Turner is born in Clarksdale, Miss. He is married to Tina Turner from 1958-76. The duo's biggest hit, ``Proud Mary,'' hits No. 4 in 1971. They are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.

November 06
2003 - Justin Timberlake is the big winner at the 10th annual MTV Europe Music Awards, picking up prizes for best album, male artist and pop act. Timberlake, who performs during the show, wins for his Jive album "Justified."

2002 - R&B star Usher guest stars in an episode of the revival series "The Twilight Zone." In an episode titled "To Protect and Serve," Usher portrays a young police officer who puts his life on the line for a call girl.

2001 - In anticipation of the November 20 release of his latest solo album, Virgin establishes the online Mick Jagger Preview Jukebox. The site features 90-second clips of all the tracks on Jagger's "Goddess in the Doorway," his first solo album since 1993's "Wandering Spirit."

2000 - Alejandro Sanz picks up two of the 14 music awards at the 47th Premios Ondas, presented in Barcelona. Sanz wins the album category for "El Alma Al Aire," and the honor for best Spanish artist.

2000 - Ricochet vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Eddie Kilgallon and his wife, Terry, welcome into the world a baby daughter. Addison Marie Kilgallon weighs 7 pounds, 1 ounce and measures 19 inches.

1999 - Lee Ann Womack gets hitched. The Texas native marries her longtime beau, Frank Liddell, in a private ceremony.

1999 - Bill Miller takes home top honors at the second annual Native American Music Awards, presented at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque. Miller wins five honors, including artist of the year, songwriter, male artist, and song ("Ghostdance").

1999 - Former Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd. frontman Johnny Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten, debuts an online radio show at www.eyada.com. The show, dubbed "Rotten Radio," is taped in Lydon's living room in Los Angeles and webcast every Saturday.

1998 - Shock rocker-turned-glam poster-boy Marilyn Manson is the top winner at the 1998 Billboard Music Video Awards, nailing two for "The Dope Show," the first single and video from the group's latest release, "Mechanical Animals." "Dope Show" also wins best hard rock/metal clip.

1998 - Jazz producer Sumner "Sonny" Lester sues EMI, Capitol, and Blue Note Records, Blue Note CEO Bruce Lundvall, reissue firm Mosaic Records, and Mosaic principals Michael Cuscuna and Charlie Lourie, claiming that the labels reissued recordings allegedly held exclusively by Lester without authorization. The recordings in question include sessions by Jimmy McGriff, Junior Parker, Jeremy Steig, Chick Corea, Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, and Dizzy Gillespie.

1986 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Amanda,'' Boston. The song is from the album ``Third Stage,'' which was eight years in the making.

1975 - The Sex Pistols make their performance debut at St. Martin's School of Art in London. Ten minutes into the gig, the school's social programmer pulls the plug on the band's amplifiers.

1966 - Opening night of Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.

1964 - Singer Corey Glover of metal act Living Colour is born.

1948 - Glenn Frey of the Eagles is born in Detroit. He has two solo hits that reach No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100: ``The Heat Is On'' and ``You Belong to the City.''

1948 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Buttons and Bows,'' Dinah Shore.

November 07
2006 - Originally due in the summer of 2005, the last album from late Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard finally arrives The release date for "A Son Unique" coincides with the two-year anniversary of ODB's death at a New York recording studio.

2004 - Howard Keel, who sang and danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, dies of colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He is 85. With his full-throated baritone and 6-foot-4-inch frame, Keel was a romantic figure in such classic musicals as "Annie Get Your Gun," "Showboat," "Kiss Me Kate," "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and "Kismet."

2002 - A riot breaks out in Vancouver after Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose fails to appear for the kickoff show on the band's first North American tour since 1993. It is an ill-omen for the tour, which stutters to an abrupt halt with the cancellation of all remaining dates a month later.

2001 - Michael Jackson makes his first-ever instore appearance at the Virgin Megastore in New York's Times Square. The event is broadcast live on MTV's "Total Request Live."

2001 - Tim McGraw is named entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association Awards held at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House. Tobey Keith wins male vocalist of the year and Lee Ann Womack nabs female vocalist of the year.


2000 - Doug Nelson, the bassist in blues artist Jonny Lang's band dies after being hit by a truck while walking on a rural highway in Minnesota. Nelson, who grew up in St. Cloud, Minn., and had been a member of Lang's band for three years, is 46.

2000 - Jazz drummer Vernel Fournier dies in Jackson, Miss., of complications from a recent stroke. He is 72. A New Orleans native, Founier is know for his delicate brushwork - the art of playing drums with splayed wire bristles, creating a smooth "swishing sound."

1998 - Little Jimmy Dickens celebrates a historic milestone when he appears on the Grand Ole Opry in a performance that marks 50 years as a member of the show's cast.

1995 - Alice in Chains' "Alice in Chains" is released on CD and cassette. Previously, the album only existed in a vinyl edition, released on Halloween of 1995.

1995 - The Captain and Tennille (Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille), hitmakers from the 1970s, renew their wedding vows in Virginia City, Nevada. It is their 20th anniversary.

1992 - ``End of the Road'' by Boyz II Men logs its 13th and final week at No. 1 on The Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The previous longest-running hit of the rock era was Elvis Presley's two-sided ``Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog,'' which topped the chart for 11 weeks in 1956. The record stands for just three months as Whitney Houston's ``I Will Always Love You'' logs its 14th week at No. 1 on Feb. 20, 1993. In 1995, Boyz II Men ties Houston's record with ``I'll Make Love to You.''

1986 - Willie Nelson makes a guest appearance as a corrupt policeman on the television series ``Miami Vice.''

1979 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Pop Muzik,'' M. The performer's real name is Robin Scott. This is his only song to make the Hot 100.

1976 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright),'' Rod Stewart.

1951 - Singer/songwriter Nick Gilder ("Hot Child In The City") is born in London.

1943 - Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is born in Fort McLeod, Alberta. Her biggest pop hit is ``Help Me,'' a top 10 song in 1974.

1942 - Johnny Rivers (John Ramistella) is born in New York City. His biggest hit is ``Poor Side of Town,'' which reaches No. 1 in 1966.

1937 - Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary is born in Louisville, Ky.

1922 - Trumpeter Al Hirt is born in New Orleans.

November 08
2005 - French female artist Camille receives the Prix Constantin during a show held at the Olympia venue in Paris. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter wins for her second album "Le Fil" (Virgin). The prize jury is comprised of 18 media and retail professionals and is chaired by French rocker Alain Bashung.

2004 - Brad Paisley, Chris DuBois, Neil Thrasher, and Emmylou Harris and EMI Music Publishing are the top honorees at the 42nd Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards, held at Nashville's Opryland Hotel

2001 - Hip-hop rockers Limp Bizkit and cartoon indie-beat band Gorillaz are the big winners at the eighth annual MTV Europe Music Awards. Limp Bizkit lands a one-two punch, winning in the group and album categories for their "Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water."

2000 - The Secure Digital Music Initiative announces that two of its proposed technologies did not survive being attacked as part of the "Hack SDMI" challenge. The competition invited all comers to attempt removal of copyright protection from particular files, based on a specific set of criteria.

1999 - Trumpeter Lester Bowie, a founder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and, more recently, Brass Fantasy, dies at his home in New York, of liver cancer. He is 58.


1997 - Dr. Tommy Comeaux, a longtime fixture on the New Orleans music scene, dies when he is struck by a car while riding his bicycle. He is 45.

1997 - Country entertainer Johnny Paycheck officially joins the Grand Ole Opry. The honky-tonk ace becomes the 72nd member of the radio show's cast.

1995 - Michael Jackson and Sony Corp. of America join forces to create the world's third-largest music publishing company with more than 100,000 titles. Jackson's ATV Music catalog, which includes the classic Beatles songs, is estimated to be worth $300 million.

1983 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``All Night Long (All Night),'' Lionel Richie. Richie sings the song at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Keep on Truckin' (Part 1),'' Eddie Kendricks.

1968 - John and Cynthia Lennon are divorced after six years of marriage.

1954 - Rickie Lee Jones is born in Chicago. Her two top five albums are ``Rickie Lee Jones'' and ``Pirates.''

1949 - Pop/blues artist Bonnie Raitt is born.

1946 - Roy Wood of Electric Light Orchestra is born in Birmingham, England.

1944 - Bonnie Lynne Bramlett is born in Pontotoc County, Miss. Bramlett and husband Delaney Bramlett release several albums in the early 1970s. The couple dissolves their marriage and musical duo in 1972.

November 09
2006 - The Rolling Stones' Bigger Bang tour is a big winner at the Billboard Touring Awards at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. The awards, based on box-office figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, wrap up the third annual Billboard Touring Conference. The Stones' tour is recognized as the top tour, based on gross dollars, and top draw, based on ticket sales. The band grossed nearly $230 million for the period that the awards cover (Dec. 1, 2005-Sept. 29, 2006), and drew nearly 2 million fans to shows all over the world.

2006 - Alicia Keys joins David Bowie for a neo soul-injected take on the latter's "Changes" to close out a star-studded New York benefit for the Keep a Child Alive organization, which helps AIDS- and poverty-stricken children in Africa.

2004 - Kenny Chesney is the big winner at the Country Music Assn. (CMA) Awards, held at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Chesney, who had never previously won a CMA award, scores both the entertainer of the year and album of the year trophy. The latter is for his "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems" set.

1999 - Following up on 22-year-old vocalist/pianist Fiona Apple's 1996 debut, the oh-so-succinctly titled "Tidal," Clean Slate/Epic releases Apple's "When The Pawn Hits The Conflicts He Thinks Like A King What He Knows Throws The Blows When He Goes To The Fight And He'll Win The Whole Thing 'Fore He Enters The Ring There's Nobody To Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand And Remember That Depth Is The Greatest Of Heights And If You Know Where You Stand, Then You'll Know Where To Land And If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You'll Know That You're Right."

1998 - Rick James suffers a stroke after a blood vessel ruptures in his neck while he is head banging during a performance in Denver. A spokesman later comments, "The doctor called it a result of rock'n'roll neck, the repeated rhythmic whiplash motion of the head and neck."


1998 - Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun and Bobby "Blue" Band receive lifetime achievement awards from the Blues Foundation at a ceremony held at the House of Blues in West Hollywood.

1998 - Michael Jackson settles a lawsuit over stories and pictures in the London Daily Mirror that say his face had been disfigured by cosmetic surgery. "The photographs were taken honestly and were not tampered with, but the Mirror has since met with the plaintiff in person and acknowledges that the photographs do not accurately represent the plaintiff's true appearance," says a lawyer for the publisher.

1988 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Wild, Wild West,'' The Escape Club. A different song with the same title is also released in 1988 by Kool Moe Dee, and again in 1999 by Will Smith with Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee. That single Also tops The Billboard Hot 100.

1985 - The theme from the TV show "Miami Vice" climbs to the No. 1 spot in the Billboard Hot 100. The theme is composed by Czechoslovakian artist Jan Hammer, who composed most of the original music for the television series. Hammer's composition for the '80s pop-culture television giant remains on top for one week. The "Miami Vice" soundtrack LP also goes to No. 1 and stays there for 11 weeks, beating out the previous and long-time (1959) record holder, "The Music from Peter Gunn." Hammer receives a congratulatory phone call from Henry Mancini, composer of "The Music from Peter Gunn," for his accomplishment.

1978 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``MacArthur Park,'' Donna Summer. Richard Harris hit No. 2 with his version of the song in June 1968.

1969 - Spicy raptress, Sandy "Pepa" Denton of rap group Salt-N-Pepa is born.

1969 - Rapper Brad "Scarface" Jordan of the Geto Boys is born.

1967 - The first issue of Rolling Stone is published with John Lennon on the cover.

1966 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Poor Side of Town,'' Johnny Rivers. The song is Rivers' only top 40 song that he wrote himself.

1954 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Need You Now,'' Eddie Fisher.

1948 - REO Speedwagon drummer Alan Gratzer is born in Syracuse, N.Y.

1941 - Tom Fogerty, rhythm guitarist with Creedence Clearwater Revival, and brother of John Fogerty, is born in Berkeley, Calif.

1905 - Big band leader and trombone soloist Tommy Dorsey is born. He dies on Nov. 26, 1956.

November 10
2006 - Popular R&B singer Gerald Levert dies today of a heart attack in his hometown of Cleveland. The artist turned 40 years old in July.

2003 - The paperback edition of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's "Journals," bolstered with 14 pages of new material, including an extended narrative about a semi-fictional serial killer, is released with a front cover reproduction of Cobain's red Mead notebook bearing his hand-written caveat, "if you read, you'll judge."

2003 - It is an evening of standing ovations at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, as performers from the worlds of country and rock gather to pay tribute to the late Johnny Cash. The evening features heartfelt renditions of Cash songs performed by friends and family of the entertainer, who passed away in September.

2002 - Funk Brothers keyboardist Johnny Griffith dies in Detroit. He is 66.

2001 - Country singer Chalee Tennison marries guitarist Mark Gillespie following a three-year courtship. The marriage is Tennison's fourth and Gillespie's first.


2000 - Billy Gilman's "One Voice" video is the big winner for the 2000 Billboard Music Video Awards, presented at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City, Calif. The clip sweeps all four categories in which it is nominated: best country new artist clip, best contemporary Christian clip, best contemporary Christian new artist clip, and best jazz/AC new artist clip.

2000 - Singer/songwriter Billy Yates makes his Grand Ole Opry debut. He performs his single "What Do You Want From Me Now."

1998 - On their way to perform at the 1998 MTV Europe Music Awards at Milan's Fila Forum, British girl group All Saints are held up for six hours in London by a walkout of Milan airport employees.

1998 - Alanis Morissette's sophomore effort "Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie" charges strongly from the gate, although the Canadian superstar's follow-up to the 28 million-selling "Jagged Little Pill" does not go on to pull the record-breaking numbers many predict. The album moves 469,000 copies during its first week of sale.

1997 - Guitarist Tommy Tedesco, a legendary studio musician who lent his talents to records by Phil Spector, the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as such TV themes as "Bonanza" and "M*A*S*H," dies at his home in Northridge, Calif. He is 67.

1994 - Singer Carmen McRae dies of a stroke following complications from a respiratory illness in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 72. She had been honored in January as a ``master of jazz'' by the National Endowment for the Arts.

1992 - Axl Rose is found guilty of property damage and assault at a 1991 Guns N' Roses concert in Maryland Heights, Mo. He is given two years probation and ordered to pay $50,000 to community groups.

1988 - Steve Miller begins his first tour in six years in Burlington, Vt.

1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet,'' Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

1965 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Get Off My Cloud,'' The Rolling Stones. The song is the group's second No. 1 single.

1958 - Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls are injured in an auto accident in Arkansas. Their chauffeur dies in the accident.

1956 - Billboard's annual DJ's Poll finds that Elvis Presley is the most-played male artist and country artist.

1948 - Greg Lake, singer and guitarist with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, is born in Bournemouth, England. EL&P's most successful album was the 1974 release ``Welcome Back, My Friend, to the Show That Never Ends - Ladies and Gentlemen,'' which reaches No. 4.

1941 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Piano Concerto in B Flat,'' Freddy Martin Orchestra.

November 11
2005 - Billy Joel announces his return to the road as a solo headlining artist for the first time in nearly eight years.

2003 - Van Morrison is ordered in London's High Court to pay 40,000 pounds ($67,000) in damages to a hotel owner over the cancellation of a scheduled gig. Gary Marlow, landlord of the Crown Hotel in Wiltshire, England, had sued the veteran singer and his production company Exile for up to 400,000 pounds ($670,000), claiming the hotel's business was ruined as a result of the cancellation in August the previous year.

1999 - Britney Spears is the big winner at the 1999 MTV Europe Music Awards, held at the Point in Dublin. The teen artist wins best female, best pop, best breakthrough artist and best song for "...Baby One More Time."

1998 - Madrid band Jarabe De Palo tops the 45th Premios Ondas in Barcelona, winning for best album ("Depende") and best video. Other winners include Alejandro Sanz for best song ("Corazon") and Ella Baila Sola, best group. The Ondas are organized by media group Prisa through Radio Barcelona.

1997 - Following in the footsteps of Garth Brooks, Metallica holds a free concert in Philadelphia to celebrate the release of its newest album "Re-Load."


1985 - After 18 years and several name changes, the group Starship scores its first No. 1 hit with "We Built This City," a song originally written by Martin Page for his band Q-Feel.

1972 - Bassist Berry Oakley of the Allman Brothers Band is killed in a motorcycle accident in Macon, Ga., three blocks from the site of Duane Allman's motorcycle death the previous year.

1965 - The Velvet Underground makes its performance debut at a high school dance in Summit, N.J.

1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Tom Dooley,'' The Kingston Trio. The song is a century-old Blue Ridge Mountains tune originally called ``Tom Dula.''

1945 - Guitarist Chris Dreja, a founding member of the Yardbirds, is born in Surbiton, Surrey, England.

1945 - Guitarist Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge is born in New York City.

November 12
2005 - Adding another chapter to her 2005 comeback story, Mariah Carey walks away the big winner at the third annual Vibe Awards. Carey nets artist of the year, album of the year ("The Emancipation of Mimi"), R&B voice of the year and best R&B song ("We Belong Together").

2003 - Drummer Tony Thompson dies in an Encino, Calif., hospital. Thompson is survived by his wife, Patrice Jennings, and her two children.

2001 - Singer Ronald Cheng, son of Universal Music Asia chairman Norman Cheng, is fined HK $5,000 ($641) and has his driver's license suspended for six months after he pleads guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of alcohol. Cheng was arrested Oct. 5 after his car collided with a taxi in Hong Kong. His blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit.

1999 - British rock star Gary Glitter, born Paul Francis Gadd, 55, pleads guilty at Bristol Crown Court in England, to 54 counts of taking and possessing indecent photographs of underage children. Glitter is sentenced to four months in jail after admitting to the offenses that took place between January 1997 and November 1997.

1999 - Kid Rock and Lauryn Hill top the 1999 Billboard Music Video Awards, held at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel.


1998 - Madonna draws the best female and the best album ("Ray of Light") honors at the 1998 MTV Europe Music Awards in Milan.

1997 - Taiwanese singer, songwriter and producer Chang Yu-Sheng, best known for his hit Mandarin song "My Future Is Not A Dream," dies three weeks after being injured in an auto accident. Cause of death is attributed to complications arising from a lung infection.

1997 - More than $2 million are raised at the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund's 1997 Children's Choice Award dinner honoring Grammy-winning producer/songwriter David Foster. Performers and guests include Az Yet, All-4-One, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman and Cindy Crawford.

1997 - Rainer Ptacek, the subject of the star-studded Atlantic tribute album "The Inner Flame," dies after a two-year struggle with brain cancer. He is 46. Ptacek is best known for his work with Robert Plant.

1984 - Madonna releases her sophomore album, "Like A Virgin." It becomes the Material Girl's biggest album. The title track spends six weeks at No. 1 on Billboard singles chart and spawns the top 5 singles "Material Girl," "Angel" and "Dress You Up." It also launches an army of lingerie-clad pre-teen Madonna wannabes.

1970 - The Doors play their last concert with Jim Morrison in New Orleans.

1955 - Fats Domino is named the favorite Rhythm & Blues artist in Billboard's annual DJ's Poll.

1955 - Chuck Berry is named the most promising Rhythm & Blues artist in Billboard's annual DJ's Poll.

1945 - Neil Young is born in Toronto.

1939 - Ruby Nash Curtis of Ruby and the Romantics is born in Akron, Ohio. The group has a No. 1 hit in 1963 with ``Our Day Will Come.''

November 13
2004 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan and one of the most eccentric personalities in hip-hop, dies of a drug overdose in New York. He would have turned 36 two days later. The rapper, whose real name was Russell Tyrone. Jones, was having difficulty breathing and complained of chest pains earlier in the day, according to his spokesperson. Later autopsies show a fatal mixture of cocaine and the prescription drug Tramadol, a synthetic opiate that is usually prescribed to treat severe pain.

2002 - Trumpeter and big-band leader William "Bill" Berry dies in Los Angeles after a yearlong battle with lung cancer. He is 72.

2000 - Trisha Yearwood donates a Starlight Fun Center to Vanderbilt University Children's Hospital. The mobile entertainment center includes a TV monitor, VCR and Nintendo 64 game unit, and can be rolled up next to a child's bed.

2000 - Alejandro Sanz caps a triumphant week when he wins awards for Spanish male artist and Spanish album at the Premios Amigo. The week before Sanz won identical awards at the 47th Premios Ondas.

2000 - The Beatles sanction their first official Web site, www.thebeatles.com. The site launches in conjunction with the U.K. release of "1," a compilation of 27 British and U.S. No. 1 tracks.

1999 - Donald Mills, the last surviving member of legendary family vocal group the Mills Brothers, dies in Los Angeles due to complications from pneumonia. He is 84.

1998 - Pianist Kenny Kirkland, 43, dies in New York of a heart attack. Kirkland was in the jazz bands of Wynton and Branford Marsalis. In 1985, he joined Sting's band, and in the '90s was in the "Tonight Show" band.

1997 - Things get ugly for the Spice Girls in Barcelona at the 44th Premios Ondas Awards. The industry crowd boos throughout the cheeky quintet's lip-synched performance of "Spice Up Your Life," after it is announced that the Girls would not perform while photographers were present.

1997 - Celine Dion, best known for singing in English and French, releases her first single in Japanese. The single, "Be The Man," is released in Japan only and is the theme to the Japanese TV drama "Eve."

1997 - Ray Charles conducts his first-ever online chat at www.rhino.com. The pop music legend fields questions about his recently released, five-CD boxed set, "Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection."

1995 - Rapper M.C. Hammer plays a benefit in Moscow for Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's political party, Our Home Is Russia.

1987 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Think We're Alone Now,'' Tiffany. Tiffany Darwish was born Oct. 2, 1971, making her the first artist with a No. 1 hit to be born in the 1970s.

1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Whatever Gets You Through the Night,'' John Lennon. Elton John plays piano and organ and sings backing vocals on the song.

1963 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Deep Purple,'' Nino Tempo & April Stevens. The duo is a brother-sister team.

1921 - Composer Joonas Kokkonen is born.

November 14
2004 - French film score composer Michel Colombier dies at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., following a six-month battle with cancer. He is 65.

2003 - Jay-Z's "The Black Album," which he says is his final bow, has a rare Friday release Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam.

2000 - As promised, the Offspring give away $1 million of its own money to a lucky fan. Two finalists in the band's online giveaway, where fans who downloaded the song "Original Prankster" were automatically entered, appear on MTV's "Total Request Live" to compete in a trivia contest to determine who will take the prize. 14-year-old Ashley Hitchcock wins, correctly identifying Noodles as the oldest member of the band.

1999 - EMI Music Distribution begins offering retailers a $3 rebate on each unit sold of the latest Garth Brooks album "In... The Life Of Chris Gaines," in order to boost sales. In exchange for the rebate, retailers are asked to lower the price of the Capitol album - which lists for $17.98 on CD - as low as possible.

1997 - Though it's not a sell-out, the Bee Gees' show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas still manages to gross a stunning $1,681,100. Tickets ranging in price from $50-$300 give the Arena its highest gross of the year.

1995 - Controversial rappers Tha Dogg Pound enter The Billboard 200 chart at No. 1 with ``Dogg Food.'' Rappers rule the week's Top 10 with Cypress Hill's ``Cypress Hill III'' debuting in third, and Eight Ball and MG debuting at No. 8 with "On Top of the World."

1995 - The Rolling Stones release their acoustic ``Stripped'' album.

1982 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Up Where We Belong,'' Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes. The single wins an Oscar as the theme of ``An Officer and a Gentleman.''

1972 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Can See Clearly Now,'' Johnny Nash.

1961 - The Elvis Presley film ``Blue Hawaii'' premieres.

1940 - Freddie Garrity of Freddie & the Dreamers is born in Manchester, England.

November 15
2005 - Alabama, Glen Campbell and DeFord Bailey are inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame during the Country Music Association Awards in New York.

2003 - Alejandro Fernandez, Bacilos and Mana are the big winners at Mexico's second Premios Oye! in Mexico City, taking home two awards each. Fernandez is named best ranchero act, and his "Nina Amada Mia" wins best popular (regional Mexican) song. Bacilos wins best pop group and best pop song for "Caraluna." Mana wins best rock group; its "Revolucion de Amor" is voted album of the year.

2000 - Due to the throat troubles of their frontmen, Chino Moreno and Fred Durst, Deftones and Limp Bizkit, respectively, cancel separate shows north of the U.S. border. Deftones were to play to several thousand fans at the Aberdeen Pavillion in Ottawa, while Durst et al were to rock Vancouver with its Anger Management Tour.

2000 - The man who nearly a year earlier broke into the home of and stabbed former Beatle George Harrison is found not guilty by reason of insanity in the U.K.'s Oxford Crown Court. Michael Abram is ordered confined to a mental hospital indefinitely for his attack on Harrison and his wife, which left the former with a punctured lung.

1999 - People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue rates Tim McGraw as the sexiest man in country music. McGraw says as long as his wife, Faith Hill thinks he's sexy, that's all that matters to him.

1997 - Saul Chaplin, a composer and arranger who shared in three Oscars for scoring the musicals "An American in Paris," "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," and "West Side Story," dies at the age of 85 from injuries incurred from a fall.

1990 - German producer Frank Farian confirms for the first time that Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan - who make up the duo Milli Vanilli - never sang on their debut record, ``Girl You Know It's True.'' Farian says the duo lip-synch the words whenever they perform live.

1978 - Echo & the Bunnymen give their performance debut at Eric's Club in Liverpool, England.

1962 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Big Girls Don't Cry,'' The 4 Seasons. The single reaches No. 1 one month after the group's song ``Sherry'' drops from the top spot after five weeks.

1932 - Petula Clark is born in Surrey, England.

1932 - Clyde McPhatter is born in Durham, N.C. He joins the Dominoes in 1950 and leaves in June 1953 to form the Drifters. His biggest solo pop hit is the 1958 top 10 hit ``A Lover's Question.'' He dies of a heart attack on June 13, 1972, and is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

November 16
2005 - Pink Floyd, the Kinks and the Eurythmics are among the honorees inducted into the U.K. Music Hall of Fame. The second annual show, which takes place in a ceremony at London's Alexandra Palace, features some momentous reunions, including the gathering of the original Kinks and a performance by the classic line-up of Black Sabbath, featuring Ozzy Osbourne.

2002 - Blues pianist/vocalist Mose Vinson dies of diabetes at his home in Memphis. He is 85.

2001 - Havana's National Theatre debuts "Se Seco el Arroyito" (the Brooklet Dried Up), a musical written by Cuba's veteran "sonero," Compay Segundo.

2000 - Madonna and Eminem top the winners at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2000, presented at Stockholm's Globen venue. Madonna's worldwide smash "Music" helps her pick up prizes for best dance artist and best female artist, while Eminem wins for best hip-hop artist, and sees his "The Marshall Mathers LP" named best album.

2000 - In an effort to raise awareness of the Clearwater Project Of Higher Ground For Humanity (HGH) Jewel makes a concert available for online streaming exclusively at the Netaid.org Web site. HGH is a non-profit organization founded by Jewel and her mother/manager, Lendra Carroll in 1999 to help bring safe, clean water to remote areas of the world.


2000 - English pianist Russ Conway dies after a long fight with cancer. He is 75. Conway was Britain's best-selling artist of 1959, when he had consecutive No. 1 singles with "Side Saddle" and Roulette," as well as three other top-10 hits.

2000 - Kid Rock sideman Joe C. (Joseph Calleja) dies in his sleep at his home in Taylor, Mich. He is 26. Calleja had suffered from Celiac Disease, an intestinal disorder, since he was a child.

1998 - Gospel Music Hall of Fame member J.D. Sumner dies of a heart attack in his hotel room in Myrtle Beach, S.C. He is 73. A Grammy-and Dove-winner, Sumner was the leader of the Stamps, who became well known for their performances with Elvis Presley.

1998 - Skatalites founding member and saxophonist Roland Alphonso slips into a coma after suffering a seizure on November 2 while onstage at the Key club in West Hollywood, Calif.

1998 - Discount department store chain Kmart launches an online music store, Music Favorites. Offering more than 100,000 music titles, the site is located at www.MusicFavorites.com.

1998 - It is announced that Spice Girl Emma "Baby Spice" Bunting will appear in a new musical version of "The Sleeping Beauty" for the BBC.

1998 - Jewel ushers in her second album, "Spirit," with a cybercast performance and interview.

1996 - All 3,500 tickets for Michael Jackson's January 3, 1997 show at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu sell out in under four hours. The tickets go so fast that tickets for a second show go on sale immediately.

1996 - Country singers Lorrie Morgan and Jon Randall carry through with their wedding plans at Morgan's home outside Nashville. Her son, Jesse Keith Whitley, gives the bride away, while daughter Morgan Whitley serves as her attendant at the private ceremony with only a small group of family and friends. The couple honeymoon in New York City.

1995 - As part of the shaping of Time Warner's merger with Turner, Michael Fuchs is ousted from his position as head of Time Warner's record labels as well as cable channel HBO.

1980 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Lady,'' Kenny Rogers. The song is written and produced by Lionel Richie.

1970 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Think I Love You,'' The Partridge Family. The song reaches the top spot exactly two months and four days after ``The Partridge Family'' TV show debuts.

1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Stay,'' Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs. The song is the shortest No. 1 single in the rock era, at one minute and 37 seconds.

1950 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Harbor Lights,'' Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye.

1940 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Only Forever,'' Bing Crosby.

November 17
2006 - U2's Bono and the Edge team with Pearl Jam and join Aussie acts Jet, Paul Kelly, Eskimo Joe, Evermore and the John Butler Trio at a Make Poverty History concert in Melbourne. The event draws 14,000 to the Myer Music Bowl, and is broadcast to thousands more on giant screens through Melbourne, Brisbane and two major Victorian regional towns Geelong and Bendigo.

2006 - Ruth Brown, the vivacious R&B singer whose early hits established Atlantic Records, dies of complications following a stroke and a heart attack in Henderson, Nev. She was 78. Brown suffered a stroke in 2000 and had been in declining health ever since.

2006 - Icelandic rock act the Sugarcubes take the stage in Reykjavik for the first time in 14 years. The group, whose most famous alumnus is Bjork, reassembles to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its debut single, "Birthday."

2003 - Arthur Conley, known for his 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music," dies in Ruurlo, The Netherlands, after a battle with cancer. He is 57.

2003 - Country songwriter/vocalist Don Gibson dies of natural causes in Nashville. He is 75. Gibson made his mark in 1956 on MGM with the hit self-penned ballad "Sweet Dreams," which Faron Young and Patsy Cline also took into the top-10.


1998 - Tori Amos releases "Tori Amos: The Complete Collection: 1992-1998," a compilation of her videos. The collection contains 16 clips from the artist's four solo albums. Included are classics such as "Silent All These Years," "God," and "Caught A Lite Sneeze" as well as videos hitherto aired only in Europe, like the stark black-and-white "Cornflake Girl," and the slyly inventive "Professional Widow."

1998 - Retailers in the U.S. are hit with a wave of superstar releases on what the industry dubs "Super Tuesday." Among the sets released are Garth Brooks' "Garth Brooks: Double Live," Whitney Houston's "My Love is Your Love," Mariah Carey's "#1's," Jewel's "Spirit," and three soundtracks associated with the animated film "The Prince of Egypt."

1984 - Ten weeks after its first appearance in the Hot 100 at number 80, Wham!'s single, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" reaches the No. 1 spot. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley hold their lead for three weeks.

1980 - John Lennon's Grammy-winning ``Double Fantasy'' two-record set is released.

1975 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``That's the Way (I Like It),'' KC & the Sunshine Band.

1965 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Hear a Symphony,'' The Supremes.

1953 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Rags to Riches,'' Tony Bennett.

1938 - Gordon Lightfoot is born in Orillia, Ontario. His biggest hit is the million-selling No. 1 single ``Sundown'' in 1974.

November 18
2006 - With the aid of a private jet, Jay-Z plays seven 30-minute shots across the country in one day in advance of the release of his comeback album, "Kingdom Come."

2004 - Broadway composer and jazz pianist Cy Coleman dis of a heart attack in Manhattan. He is 75. Coleman is best known for composing Broadway standards like "Witchcraft," "Big Spender" and "The Best Is Yet to Come."

2004 - No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani makes her solo television performance debut when she opens the American Music Awards broadcast on ABC. She joins performers Kenny Chesney, Josh Groban, Toby Keith, Jessica Simpson, Usher, Kanye West and Gretchen Wilson.

2004 - With three trophies, OutKast is the big winner at the 11th annual MTV Europe Music Awards, held in Rome. The Atlanta-based duo of Big Boi and Andre 3000 win for best group, while the No. 1 Hot 100 hit "Hey Ya!" (LaFace/Zomba) takes best video and best song.

2003 - Police and prosecutors raid Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch in Los Olivos on a $3 million arrest warrant for child molestation.


2003 - Tori Amos, having sifted through her Atlantic back catalog to pick the tracks that will comprise her first best-of compilation, releases the 20-track "Tales of a Librarian." The set comes packaged as a two-disc with a bonus DVD.

2000 - Kenny Rogers kicks off his 2000 Christmas tour in Dalton, Ga.

1999 - Doug Sahm, the rock guitarist known as "Sir Doug," dies in Taos, N.M. He is 58. Although he only had one big hit, "She's About A Mover" in 1965, he followed it with a long recording career, appearing on albums by the Grateful Dead and Willie Nelson and bringing such stars as Bob Dylan and Dr. John to his own recording sessions.

1997 - An AC/DC five-CD boxed set, "Bonfire," is released in the U.S. The set is intended as an honor to the band's original singer Bon Scott. "Bonfire" comes as a bonus to hard-core fans because it is the first time any of the act's work with Scott has been released since his death on Feb. 19, 1980.

1997 - John Denver's last recording, "The Unplugged Collection," is released in the U.S. The album features versions of such well-known Denver compositions as "Annie's Song," "Rocky Mountain High," and "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

1994 - Cab Calloway dies in a Delaware nursing home. He is 86. The big band leader never recovered from a stroke he suffered June 12 at his home. He is probably best known for his trademark ``hi-de-ho'' song ``Minnie the Moocher.'' He was also featured in the movie ``The Blues Brothers.'' In October he was honored at a White House ceremony by President Clinton for his contribution to the arts.

1990 - Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones marries model-actress Jerry Hall in Bali, Indonesia. The couple has two children and has been together for 12 years. In 1999, the couple's union is dissolved after allegations that Jagger fathered a child by Brazilian model Luciana Morad.

1987 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Mony Mony,'' Billy Idol. Idol's version of the song reaches the top of the charts 13 years after Tommy James and the Shondells make it a hit.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Photograph,'' Ringo Starr. The song is written by Starr and former Beatle mate George Harrison.

1963 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I'm Leaving It Up to You,'' Dale and Grace.

1960 - Kim Wilde is born in Chiswick, England, the daughter of singer Marty Wilde. Her biggest hit is ``You Keep Me Hangin' On,'' a No. 1 song in 1987.

1956 - Fats Domino sings ``Blueberry Hill'' on TV's ``Ed Sullivan Show.''

1936 - Doo-wop singer Hank Ballard is born in Detroit.

November 19
2004 - Vines lead singer Craig Nicholls reveals that he has Asperger Syndrome, a neurobiologcal disorder that causes autistic-like episodes and severe communication difficulties.

1999 - It is announced that pop singer Jewel has pulled the plug on her anticipated New Year's Eve concert in Anchorage, Alaska, citing, among other things, worries over possible Y2K problems. But many Alaskans say the real problem is jacked-up ticket prices. At the time of the cancellation, only 1,000 of 8,000 available tickets ($65-$99) have been sold.

1998 - Motley Crue fans are able to fulfill all their fashion needs when the bands new retail store, S'Crue, opens at 7201 Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles. The store stocks merchandise from the band's worldwide tours, clothing from both the clothing lines by bassist Nikki Sixx and vocalist Vince Neil and all Motley Crue albums.

1998 - Songwriters/producers/musicians Vada Nobles, Johari Newton, Tejumold Newton, and Rasheem Pugh file lawsuit against Lauryn Hill alleging that the Ruffhouse/Columbia artist failed to give them proper writing and producing credits or pay them royalties for their work on the hit album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."

1997 - The U.S. premiere of Sir Paul McCartney's "Standing Stone" is played in Carnegie Hall by St. Luke's Orchestra under the baton of Laurence Foster.


1997 - Johnny Cash is listed in serious but stable condition at Baptist Hospital in Nashville after contracting double pneumonia. The 65-year-old country legend suffers from Shy-Drager Syndrome, a form of Parkinson's Disease.

1996 - Raul Malo, lead singer of the Mavericks, and wife Betty welcome their second son into the world at 1:49 p.m. at a Nashville-area hospital. Victor Antonio Malo weighs 7 pounds, 4 ounces and is born on brother Dino's first birthday.

1995 - Bruce Springsteen's 13th album, ``The Ghost of Tom Joad,'' is released.

1993 - Nirvana records an MTV unplugged concert in New York. The show is shot in one take - imperfections and all - and is aired one month later.

1990 - The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences strips the 1989 best new artist Grammy from the group Milli Vanilli because Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan didn't actually sing on their debut album, ``Girl You Know It's True.'' It is the first time a Grammy has ever been taken back.

1979 - Chuck Berry is released from Lompoc Prison, Calif., after serving a sentence for income tax evasion.

1971 - B.B. King marks his 25th anniversary in music by opening a European tour in London.

1968 - The Supremes perform at the Royal Variety Show in London, with Queen Elizabeth in attendance.

November 20
2005 - Madonna adds a ninth U.K. No. 1 album to her career tally, joining her 11th No. 1 single to complete her domination of the British sales charts. "Confessions on a Dance Floor" goes straight to No. 1 on the album survey, while "Hung Up" starts a second week at the singles chart peak.

2005 - Singer/songwriter Chris Whitley dies at the age of 45 after battling lung cancer.

2003 - 50 Cent scores three awards at the inaugural Vibe Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. Receiving statuettes for artist of the year, dopest album ("Get Rich or Die Tryin'") and hottest hook ("In Da Club"), the rapper heads a winners' circle that includes double honorees Beyonc and Jay-Z.

2003 - Producer Phil Spector pleads not guilty in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson. Spector is formally charged with one count of murder by the Los Angeles County District Attorney.

2001 - Country chanteuse Deana Carter releases her first holiday album, "Father Christmas,'' on her own Deanatone Records.

2000 - Aretha Franklin, Snoop Dogg, and Brian McKnight are among the performers who take part in the third annual "Soul Train" Christmas Starfest at the Santa Monica (Calif.) Civic Auditorium. The show features top R&B artists performing holiday favorites.

1999 - Patty Loveless kicks off the holiday season by traveling aboard a CSX Transportation train bearing gifts to families along a route from Pikeville, Ky., Loveless' hometown, to Kingsport, Tenn. The transportation system has distributed 15 tons of gifts annually to people living in Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Tennessee and Western Virginia.

1999 - R&B superstar Brandy appears in her first television special. The hour-long program, billed as "Brandy In Concert: A Special For The Holidays," features songs taped at a recent concert at Chicago's Rosemont Theatre.

1998 - Skatalites saxophonist Roland Alphonso, 67, dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He had been in a coma after suffering a seizure earlier in the month.

1998 - Alanis Morissette does an in store performance for the opening of a Tower records store in Buenos Aires. Proceeds from the sale of her album for the day are donated to a local children's hospital.

1998 - A three-day World Conference on Music and Censorship begins in Copenhagen with aims to establish a support organization for musicians, similar to writers' free speech body PEN.

1997 - Celebrated music journalist Robert Palmer dies in a New York hospital. He is 52. Palmer, who endured a long bout with liver disease, was awaiting a possible transplant.

1995 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Exhale (Shoop Shoop),'' Whitney Houston.

1991 - Randy Jackson is sentenced in Los Angeles to a month in jail for violating probation. The 30-year-old brother of superstar Michael Jackson had pleaded no contest in January to charges of beating his wife.

1979 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),'' Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer. The song is the fourth No. 1 for both women, including a duet Streisand had with Neil Diamond.

1967 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Incense and Peppermints,'' Strawberry Alarm Clock.

1952 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``It's in the Book,'' Johnny Standley.

1947 - Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh is born in New York. As a solo artist he has four top 20 albums, including ``The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get,'' which reaches No. 6 on Billboard's pop album chart.

1946 - Guitarist Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tenn.

November 21
2006 - The Black Eyed Peas take home three awards at the 2006 American Music Awards, held at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium and broadcast live on ABC. The Peas, which accept the awards via satellite from Costa Rica, are named favorite group in the soul/R&B and rap/hip-hop categories, and pick up honors for favorite album ("Monkey Business") in the rap/hip-hop genre.

2002 - R&B singer/pianist Hadda Brooks dies in an L.A. hospital following open-heart surgery. She is 86.

2001 - Former pop star and U.K. music entrepreneur Jonathan King is sentenced to seven years in jail for a series of sexual assaults against schoolboys. The pop mogul, who broke into the music industry with his worldwide hit single "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" in 1965, discovered and named such successful acts as Genesis and 10CC.

2000 - The Backstreet Boys' "Black & Blue" debuts with one of the biggest initial retail shipments ever, with about 6 million units.

2000 - To celebrate the release of their new album "Black & Blue," the Backstreet Boys are on hand at a fan-packed Times Square in New York to tape MTV's "Total Request Live."

1998 - Danish pop act Aqua and Delhi-based quartet Silk Route top the third annual Channel V Awards in Delhi, India. Aqua wins best international song and video for "Barbie Girl" and album for "Aquarium." Silk Route wins best Indian newcomer, Indian group and Indian song for "Dooba Dooba."

1997 - Coolio and seven members of his band 40 Thevz are arrested and charged with theft and assault in a boutique in the town of Boblingen, Germany. The eight are charged with assaulting a female clerk in a clothing store and stealing clothing worth $2,000.

1995 - Rappers 2pac Shakur and Tha Dogg Pound get into the holiday spirit by giving out 2,000 turkeys in Los Angeles.

1995 - The 60-track "The Beatles Anthology I" is released including the previously unreleased track ``Free As A Bird."

1991 - The rock group Aerosmith makes a guest appearance on an episode of the Fox TV animated comedy series ``The Simpsons'' titled ``Flaming Moe's.''

1975 - Elton John receives a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

1965 - Bjork Gudmundsdottir, lead singer of the Sugarcubes and later solo artist, is born in Reykjavik, Iceland.

1963 - The Elvis Presley film ``Fun in Acapulco'' premieres.

1941 - Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack) is born in New Orleans.

November 22
2005 - Tim McGraw, the Black Eyed Peas, Green Day, Destiny's Child and Kelly Clarkson triumph, each taking two trophies away from the 33rd annual American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

2001 - Jazz impresario Norman Ganz dies in Geneva, Switzerland, of cancer. He is 83.

2000 - Ted Gardner, former manager of Tool, sues the members of the L.A. band, their corporation, and their publishing company, alleging breach of contract and fraud.

1997 - Michael Hutchence, lead singer of Australia's premiere pop phenomenon, INXS, is found hanging in his fifth floor suite at the Ritz- Carlton hotel in Sydney.

1997 - Bar/None artist Epick Soundtracks is found dead in London. He is 37. The artist was a member of influential band the Swell Maps.


1986 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Human,'' Human League.

1982 - The British rock group Japan announces it is breaking up.

1971 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Theme from `Shaft','' by Isaac Hayes. The single is the third No. 1 hit to win an Academy Award for best song.

1964 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Leader of the Pack,'' The Shangri-Las. The group is made up of two sets of sisters from Queens, New York - Mary and Betty Weiss and twins Marge and Mary Ann Ganser.

1950 - Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads is born in Coronado, Calif.

November 23
2006 - Jazz vocalist Anita O'Day, whose "Let Me Off Uptown" was a million-seller, dies in West Los Angeles at the age of 87.

2004 - Sony Classical releases Robert Downey Jr's "The Futurist," which includes eight songs penned by the actor.

2001 - 51-year-old Juan Hinojosa, a drummer and founding member of the Tejano band Los Fabulosos Cuatro, dies along with his 28-year-old son in a traffic accident in Texas.

2000 - Twelve-year-old Billy Gilman sings "One Voice" during festivities at the Dallas Cowboys-Minnesota Vikings football game. Gilman is joined by Jessica Simpson for the half-time show.

1998 - A businessman convicted of second-degree murder in the drowning of the ex-wife of Jackson 5 member Tito Jackson is sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Donald Bohana, 61, listens as Jackson family members urge a lengthy prison sentence for the boyfriend convicted of killing Delores "DeeDee" Jackson.


1995 - Michael Jackson is crowned best male artist and Bjork best female artist at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards in Paris.

1992 - Country music singer Roy Acuff dies of heart failure at age 89. In 1991 President George Bush presented Acuff with a National Medal of Art and in 1962 he became the first living artist elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame.

1979 - Marianne Faithfull is arrested at the Oslo, Norway, airport for possession of marijuana.

1976 - Jerry Lee Lewis is arrested outside of Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion after waving a pistol and demanding to see ``The King.''

1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Are You Lonesome Tonight,'' Elvis Presley. The song is the King's 14th chart topper.

1954 - Bruce Hornsby is born in Williamsburg, Va. His biggest hit is the No. 1 song ``The Way It Is'' in 1986.

1944 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``You Always Hurt the One You Love,'' Mills Brothers.

November 24
2001 - Melanie Thornton, an American pop singer who made a name for herself in Germany with the duo La Bouche, is among the victims of an airliner crash in Switzerland. She is 34.

1991 - Kiss drummer Eric Carr dies in New York of cancer at 41. Doctors removed a cancerous tumor in Carr's heart in April but the cancer had already spread to his lungs. He joined Kiss in 1982 when founding drummer Peter Criss left the group.

1991 - Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies of AIDS-related pneumonia at 45. Queen's biggest hits were the No. 1 songs ``Another One Bites the Dust,'' which sold more than 2 million copies, and the million-selling ``Crazy Little Thing Called Love.'' The group is also well known for the double-sided hit ``We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You.''

1991 - Cyndi Lauper is married in Manhattan to actor David Thornton.

1985 - Blues singer Big Joe Turner dies. His biggest hits are ``Chains of Love,'' ``Honey Hush'' and ``Shake, Rattle and Roll.''


1985 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Separate Lives,'' Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin. Songwriter Stephen Bishop is nominated for an Oscar for the song, which appears in the movie ``White Nights.''

1968 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Love Child,'' Diana Ross & the Supremes. The group introduces the song on ``The Ed Sullivan Show.''

1961 - Howlin' Wolf arrives in London for his first European tour.

1955 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Sixteen Tons,'' Tennessee Ernie Ford.

November 25
2006 - Regional Mexican singer Valentin Elizalde is shot dead in the early morning hours in Reynosa, Mexico. He is 27. Elizalde had just finished playing a concert at a palenque, and had entered his SUV when he was gunned down by more than 70 machine gun bullets.

2005 - Country music makes itself comfortable all around New York when the Country Music Association holds its 39th annual CMA Awards show at Madison Square Garden.

2005 - Country superstar Garth Brooks, who retired from music in 2001, returns to the spotlight with the release of the "Limited Series" boxed set, which is to be available exclusively through Walmart and Sam's Club stores, as well as Walmart.com. The set goes on to break numerous sales records.

2000 - Kenny Chesney ends his 2000 tour with a sold out concert in Johnson City, Tenn. During the evening, Chesney invites opening act Phil Vassar to the stage. Vassar suspects an end-of-tour prank, but Chesney presents the singer/songwriter with a trophy proclaiming new artist Vassar "Top of the Class of 2000."

1999 - Clint Black is on hand to help the Salvation Army launch its annual holiday fundraising drive. Black entertains during the third annual "National Kettle Kick-off," a half-time event at the Dallas Cowboys' football game.


1998 - Spin magazine editor Craig Marks tells police that shock rocker Marilyn Manson's bodyguards pinned him against a wall and hauled him up into the air. Marks claims he was invited backstage to talk with Manson after the artist performed at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. Manson allegedly threatened Marks. "He said `You know I can kill you, your family and everyone you know,'" Marks claims.

1997 - The sixth album from late rapper 2Pac, "R U Still Down? (Remember Me)," is released posthumously.

1997 - After much delay, Garth Brooks' seventh album "Sevens" is finally released.

1997 - Blues singer-guitarist Fenton Robinson dies of complications from Brain cancer in Rockford, Ill. He is 62.

1997 - The original lineup of the Zombies - Colin Blunstone, Rod Argent, Chris White, Hugh Grundy, and Paul Atkinson - play onstage for the first time in 30 years. The reunited members perform their hits "She's Not There" and "Time Of The Season" to a cheering crowd in London's Jazz Cafe.

1997 - Barbara, one of the most revered French "chanteuses" of the century, dies in a Paris hospital of complications following respiratory problems. She is 67.

1984 - ``Do They Know It's Christmas?'' - a benefit single that becomes the U.K.'s biggest single ever - is recorded by 36 artists in London.

1981 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Physical,'' Olivia Newton-John. The song, which sells more than 2 million copies, tops Billboard's Hot 100 for 10 weeks, making it the biggest hit of the year.

1976 - The Band holds its acclaimed farewell performance at San Francisco's Winterland, with performances by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters and others. The event is filmed and made into a movie by Martin Scorsese titled "The Last Waltz."

1961 - The Everly Brothers are inducted into the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, reporting to Camp Pendleton, Calif., for duty.

1952 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Why Don't You Believe Me,'' Joni James.

November 26
2006 - Tony Sylvester, founding member of the R&B trio Main Ingredient, dies in New York at the age of 66.

2006 - Raul Velasco, the legendary host of Mexican TV show "Siempre En Domingo" and champion of countless artists, dies of natural causes in his home in Mexico City. He is 73 years old.

2003 - James Carter, an ex-convict whose 1959 field recording was a key track on the award-winning "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, dies in Chicago of complications related to a stroke. He is 77. Carter was a member of a Mississippi chain gang when folklorist Alan Lomax recorded him leading other convicts on the holler "Po Lazarus."

2002 - One of country music's longest-running road shows comes to a close when the Statler Brothers play their last concert performance in the 10,000-seat Salem Civic Center in Salem, Va.

2001 - People magazine picks country singer Brad Paisley as one of its "Sexy Men 2001."


2001 - Manuel Garcia, Many Chao, and U2 each win two awards at Spain's fifth Premios Amigo ceremony in Madrid.

2001 - Vasco Rossi and Elisa take top honors at the second Italian Music Awards, at Milan's Rolling Stone club.

1999 - 98 Degrees melds music and commerce in a novel way when the teen act performs several of its songs and sells some exclusive band merchandise on the Home Shopping Network.

1997 - One day after its release, Garth Brooks' "Sevens" breaks a record by placing 12 of its 14 songs in the Hot Country Singles and Tracks Chart in Billboard Magazine. The previous record holder? Garth Brooks' "Fresh Horses" with eight tracks.

1994 - The Boyz II Men song ``I'll Make Love to You'' logs its 14th and final week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart to tie Whitney Houston's ``I Will Always Love You'' as the longest-running No. 1 song in the rock era. The Houston song bested Boyz II Men's previous 13-week champ, ``End of the Road.'' The song that knocks ``I'll Make Love to You'' from the No. 1 spot is ``On Bended Knee,'' also by Boyz II Men.

1982 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Truly,'' Lionel Richie. The song is the first No. 1 hit for Richie since he left the Commodores.

1968 - Cream plays its farewell concert. The sellout performance is held at London's Royal Albert Hall.

1962 - The Beatles record ``Please Please Me.''

1950 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Thing,'' Phil Harris.

1938 - Tina Turner is born Annie Bullock in Nutbush, Tenn. She is married to Ike Turner from 1958-76. The duo has a successful musical career and is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Her biggest album is the million-selling 1984 release ``Private Dancer,'' which tops Billboard's chart for five weeks and includes ``What's Love Got to Do with It,'' which tops the singles chart for three weeks. The 1993 film ``What's Love Got to Do with It'' is based on Turner's life.

1933 - Robert Goulet is born in Lawrence, Mass. He is awarded a Grammy as the best new artist of 1962. His best-selling album is the million-selling 1964 release ``My Love Forgive Me,'' which reaches No. 5.

November 27
2006 - Alan "Fluff" Freeman, one of the most genuinely and universally admired broadcasters in British radio history, dies at the age of 79.

2000 - Fugitive Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's luck runs out in Philadelphia, after police arrest him at an area McDonald's. ODB had been on the lam since October, when he fled a court-ordered stint at a drug treatment facility in Pasadena, Calif. The rapper also faces outstanding cases in three New York counties for unrelated charges, including possession of crack cocaine and illegally wearing a bulletproof vest.

2000 - The Beatles return to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with a collection of their 27 chart-topping hits, appropriately titled "1." The collection, which debuts at No. 1 in the U.K. a week earlier, sells nearly 595,000 copies in the U.S. during its first week.

2000 - Having been found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Sandra Rosas, wife of Los Lobos' Cesar Rosas, Gabriel Gomez, the victim's half-brother, leads police to a shallow grave in a nearby canyon. Dental records are used to ID Rosas body.

1999 - Influential independent rock icons Pavement announce that they have broken up. During their show at London's Brixton Academy, bandmember Stephen Malkmus tells the crowd that the show will be the band's last.


1997 - Reba McEntire joins the Dallas Cowboys at the team's Thanksgiving Day Game to benefit the Salvation Army. McEntire debuts her single "What If" for the annual fund-raising drive. Proceeds from the song's release go to the Salvation Army.

1997 - Icelandic singer Bjork is admitted to the hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland, with a high fever. The singer is forced to cancel many upcoming performance dates due to a kidney infection.

1995 - "One Sweet Day," Mariah Carey's duet with Boyz II Men enters the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart at No. 1. Carey becomes the first recording artist in history to have two consecutive singles debut at No. 1 following ``Fantasy,'' also from her No. 1 album "Daydream."

1986 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``You Give Love a Bad Name,'' Bon Jovi.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Top of the World,'' Carpenters. Richard Carpenter writes the song with John Bettis, who also writes the lyrics for such Carpenter hits as ``Goodbye to Love'' and ``Yesterday Once More.''

1966 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Winchester Cathedral,'' The New Vaudeville Band. Composer Geoff Stephens sings the song through a megaphone, giving it a 1930s vaudeville style.

1942 - Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle. The Jimi Hendrix Experience is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and Hendrix is posthumously voted a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992.

No love in 2 months. :(

Today the song "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred (http://datadragon.com/cgi-bin/detail.pl?id=112) topped the charts and stayed there for 4 weeks. (1992)

steve is in Pittsburgh this week, Kansas city last week, but I don't know what his excuse is otherwise.

I will text him to visit more often.

he was here on the 30 i think he just posted on the longest thread.about everyone going gay without him.

Sorry, I didn't think anyone actually read this thread anymore. No one ever mentioned anything about it. I'll bring it back.

Well...disregard. I would, but my source doesn't work anymore.

fale

Stupid Billboard.com.

After a few month hiatus...it's back!


September 22
2002 - Sting receives an Emmy for the A&E documentary, "Sting in Tuscany: All This Time." He dedicates his award to his "dear late friend Timothy White."

2001 - Isaac Stern, one of the last great violinists of his generation, a fiddler who saved Carnegie Hall from the wreckers and a mentor to generations of classical musicians who followed him, dies of heart failure at a New York hospital at the age of 81.

2000 - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper Flesh-N-Bone (Stanley Howse) is sentenced to 10 years in prison in a Los Angeles court for assault with an AK-47 rifle and possessing a gun, which is illegal for an ex-convict. Howse faced nearly 20 years in prison, but received a lesser sentence after his attorneys present evidence that he was an abused child.

1999 - Diana Ross is held in police custody at London's Heathrow Airport for several hours following an incident involving a member of the airport's security staff. Ross is arrested then cautioned and released following an allegation of assault on a female security officer during routine security checks prior to boarding a plane.

1999 - Vince Gill competes with himself in the vocal event category at the Country Music Association Awards in Nashville. Gill is up with Patty Loveless for "My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man," and with Sara Evans for "No Place that Far."

1998 - White Zombie calls it a night. Bassist Sean Yseult confirms that the 13-year-old hard rock group has decided to break up.

1995 - Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System agree to a $7.5 million merger.

1990 - Nirvana plays the Motor Sports International Garage with Mudhoney's Dan Peters on Drums. Peters quickly leaves the band.

1980 - Geffen Records is formed.

1975 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I'm Sorry,'' John Denver.

1967 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Letter,'' The Box Tops. The Arbors took the song to No. 20 in 1969 and Joe Cocker hit No. 7 with it in 1970.

1965 - The Supremes make studio recording of ``I Hear a Symphony.'' The song tops Billboard's Hot 100 for two weeks in November.

1960 - Joan Jett is born in Philadelphia. Her first solo hit, ``I Love Rock 'N Roll'' sells more than one million records and stays at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for seven weeks.

1949 - David Coverdale of the groups Whitesnake and Deep Purple is born in Saltburn-on-Sea, England.

September 23
2004 - Grand Ole Opry star Roy Drusky dies following a lengthy illness. He is 74. Atlanta-born Drusky studied veterinary medicine at Emory University before embarking on a music career. He placed 42 songs on Billboard's country singles chart between 1960 and 1977, including "Anymore," "Three Hearts in a Tangle," "Dixie Lily" and "Yes, Mr. Peters," a duet with Pricilla Mitchell that spent two weeks at No. 1 in 1965.

2000 - Tim McGraw is featured on the cover of TV Guide, due to his various nominations for the 34th Annual CMA Awards.

1998 - The first ever Lilith Fair concert outside North America takes place at London's Royal Albert Hall. Before the sold-out show, Lilith founder Sarah McLachlan tells a press conference that plans are underway to bring the Fair to Europe as a touring package the following year.

1998 - Nearly 36 million viewers tune in for the 32nd Annual CMA Awards live on CBS television.

1997 - Elton John's record-setting Bernie Taupin-reworked single "Candle in the Wind 1997," is released in America on Rocket Records/A&M. Profits from sale of the single go to the charity fund set up in the name of Diana, Princess of Wales, who died earlier in the year.

1997 - Elektra Entertainment releases "The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne," the first-ever anthology of the singer/songwriter's work.

1997 - The Rolling Stones' Bridges to Babylon Tour opens in Chicago. Opening acts for the North American tour, include Sheryl Crow, Dave Matthews Band, Smashing Pumpkins, Jamiroquai, Blues Traveler and Foo Fighters.

1997 - MCA Records reissues Average White Band's label debut "Show Your Hand" as part of the band's 25th anniversary.

1995 - Lawrence ``Booker T.'' Laury dies in Memphis at age 81. The boogie woogie/barrelhouse blues pianist performed regularly from the '20s to the '50s. His only U.S. album, ``Nothin' But The Blues,'' was released when he was 80.

1986 - Freddie Jackson, James Brown and Melba Moore headline an anti-crack rally at New York's Plaza Hotel.

1980 - David Bowie opens in the title role of ``The Elephant Man'' on Broadway.

1974 - Average White Band drummer Robbie McIntosh dies at a Los Angeles party of a heroin overdose.

1970 - Alt-Punk folk-rocker and self-made success story, Ani DiFranco is born is born in Buffalo, New York.

1956 - Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees begins his television career as a child actor with the premiere of NBC's ``Circus Boy'' series.

1949 - Bruce Springsteen is born in Freehold, N.J. His album ``Born in the U.S.A.'' tops Billboard's Top Pop Albums chart for seven weeks. He records with his backup group, the E Street Band, from 1973-1989. Covers of three of his songs reach the top five: Manfred Mann's Earth Band hits No. 1 with ``Blinded by the Light'' in 1977, the Pointer Sisters hit No. 2 with ``Fire'' in 1979, and Natalie Cole hits No. 5 with ``Pink Cadillac'' in 1988.

1947 - Jazz musician, Don Grolnick is born.

1943 - Julio Iglesias is born in Madrid, Spain. His biggest pop hit is ``To All the Girls I've Loved Before,'' a duet with country singer Willie Nelson that hits No. 5 in 1984.

1930 - Ray Charles (Ray Charles Robinson) is born in Albany, Ga. He goes blind after suffering glaucoma at age 7. His biggest hit is ``I Can't Stop Loving You,'' which hits No. 1 on The Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in 1962. His 1954 song ``I've Got a Woman'' receives a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1990.

1926 - Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane is born. The jazz legend is presented a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992 for being ``probably the most persuasive spokesman for, and influential figure in, the jazz avant garde.''

September 24
2003 - Rising British singer/songwriter Matthew Jay dies after falling from a seventh-story window. He is 24.

2002 - Singer/songwriter Tim Rose dies in London of complications from surgery for intestinal cancer. Rose, 62, sang with Cass Elliott in folk trio the Big Three.

2002 - Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt switches gears to music as she releases her album "Bare Naked," via Jive Records.

1999 - Hank Williams is the subject of the first-ever country music symposium at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "A Tribute To Hank Williams" begins with Lucinda Williams, Kim Richey, Kathy Mattea, and Steve Earle performing the works of the late country music godfather.

1998 - Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler, 33, is sentenced to 150 days in jail for beating two women he dated and for violating his probation from an earlier domestic violence conviction.

1997 - In his second cross-genre appearance of the year, Sting performs "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" with country singer, Toby Keith at the 31st annual Country Music Association Awards. Earlier in the year, Sting performed the song "I'll Be Missing You" with rapper Puff Daddy at the MTV Video Music Awards.

1993 - Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler reaches a $2.5 million settlement in his lawsuit against the group and managers. Adler was thrown out of the band because he couldn't kick his heroin habit. The agreement was reached shortly before the lawsuit would have gone to the Superior Court jury. Adler's lawyer said the drummer sued to set aside a 1990 agreement he signed giving up his partnership interest in the band. During the trial, Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash testified that Adler was ``strung out'' when he signed the agreement.

1991 - Nirvana's breakthrough album "Nevermind" is released.

1988 - "Don't Worry, Be Happy," by Bobby McFerrin, is the first a cappella song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. McFerrin's bubbly No. 1 hit gets former president George Bush in trouble when the hopeful Republican uses the song without permission as an election campaign song.

1988 - Graham Parker opens a solo acoustic tour at the University of Rhode Island.

1978 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Kiss You All Over,'' Exile.

1968 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Hey Jude,'' The Beatles. The song is the biggest for the best-selling rock group of all time. It stays at No. 1 for nine weeks.

1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``It's All in the Game,'' Tommy Edwards.

1942 - Gerry Marsden of Gerry & the Pacemakers is born in Liverpool, England.

September 25, 2008



2003 - Aftermath/Interscope artist 50 Cent dominates the Music of Black Origins (MOBO) Awards in London. The rapper is on hand to collect awards for best hip-hop artist, album ("Get Rich or Die Tryin'") and single ("In Da Club").

2001 - For the first time ever, the Recording Academy agrees to accept a downloadable single for Grammy consideration. Virgin Records releases two singles, "Dig In," by Lenny Kravitz and "God Gave Me Everything" by Mick Jagger are released to digital retailers via Liquid Audio.

2001 - Rapper Erick Sermon sustains serious injuries when, according to his publicist, he is involved in an auto accident. It is announced by police one week later that the injuries are actually the result of a plunge out a third-story window.

2001 - The voice of Bob Marley ushers satellite radio onto the air, promising listeners greater variety on the dial _ for a price _ with the launch of XM Satellite Radio.

2001 - Modern rock act the Verve Pipe plays a benefit concert at Schuba's in Chicago. All proceeds benefit the American Red Cross.


2000 - A collection of 1965 writings by Janis Joplin to then-fiance Peter DeBlanc go up for auction on eBay. The collection, which includes 57 letters, five cards, a telegram, a college essay and drawings, is sold by DeBlanc's ex-wife, Mary Sullivan.

1998 - It is announced that Johnny Cash has suffered a recurrence of pneumonia, less than a year after nearly dying from the ailment. Cash, 66, receives treatment at a Nashville hospital.

1995 - Mariah Carey's ``Fantasy'' becomes the second single ever to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The only other artist to accomplish that feat is Michael Jackson with ``You Are Not Alone.''

1990 - Dave Grohl, former drummer of the Washington DC band Scream, joins Nirvana.

1980 - Drummer John Bonham of Led Zeppelin is found dead in his bed after a drinking binge.

1975 - R&B performer Jackie Wilson collapses from a stroke onstage at the Latin Casino in Camden, N.J. He spends the rest of his life in hospitals and dies in 1984.

1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Rock Me Gently,'' Andy Kim. He wrote the 1969 No.1 song ``Sugar, Sugar'' with Jeff Barry for the Archies.

1968 - Rap/television/film star Will Smith (a.k.a. the Fresh Prince) is born.

1964 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Oh, Pretty Woman,'' Roy Orbison.

1954 - Elvis Presley performs live on ``Grand Ole Opry,'' singing ``Blue Moon Of Kentucky.''

1936 - Bluesman Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes is born.

1933 - Erik Darling of the Rooftop Singers (``Walk Right In'') is born in Baltimore.

September 26, 2008
2003 - British singer Robert Palmer, best known for his dapper dressing style and his iconic videos in the 1980s for songs like "Addicted to Love," dies. He is 54. Palmer, who had lived in Switzerland for the previous 16 years, dies in Paris after a quiet dinner and a movie.

2000 - Songwriter Carl Sigman dies of natural causes. He is 91. A member of the Songwriters' Hall of Fame, Sigman authored chestnuts such as "Love Story (Where Do I Begin)," "Ebb Tide," "It's All in The Game," "What Now, My Love?," and "Pennsylvania 6-5000."

2000 - 98 Degrees' new album, "Revelation," receives a premiere in U.S. Wal-Mart stores via an exclusive satellite broadcast concert.

2000 - To launch Creed singer Scott Stapp's With Arms Wide Open Foundation, the band and Wind-Up Records release a limited edition single of Creed's hit song "With Arms Wide Open." A donation of $3 from the sale of each single, which is limited to 65,000 copies, goes directly to With Arms Wide Open.

1998 - MTV Russia debuts at midnight with "Prodigy Live in Moscow," a concert taped in spring 1997. The first Russian video on the network is Mummy Troll's "Vladivostock 2000."


1998 - BlackHawk member Dave Robbins loses his father, William Robbins Jr., when the elder Robbins suffers a massive heart attack. Robbins is buried in Forest Park, Ga. Fortunately, Robbins was able to spend time with his father the night before his death, following BlackHawk's performance at the North Georgia State Fair in Marietta, Ga.

1998 - After sustaining a pulled ligament from a misplaced cable during his performance at the Trump Marina Theater in Atlantic City, N.J., Prince (who at the time is still going by The Artist Formerly Known As Prince) postpones his remaining tour dates.

1997 - The initial 300,000-unit shipment of Elton John's "Candle In The Wind 1997" sells out in Japan on its first day of release. The single, retailing for 1,300 yen ($10.66) racks up unusually high sales for a foreign release.

1970 - Motown Records announces the Jackson 5 have sold 10 million records in nine months.

1966 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Cherish,'' the Association. The group's record company is afraid radio stations would think the song was too long, so the running time is listed as three minutes, which is 13 seconds short of the truth. David Cassidy of TV's ``The Partridge Family'' takes the song to No. 9 in 1971.

1955 - Singer Eddie Fisher marries singer/actress Debbie Reynolds.

1948 - Olivia Newton-John is born in Cambridge, England.

1945 - Vocalist Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music is born in Durham, England.

September 27th

2006 - Bowing to the inevitable, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, pulls his legislation reforming the nation's music licensing laws from the congressional agenda, saying he doesn't see how it could get through Congress.

2005 - The White Stripes' concert at the Merriweather Post Pavilion Theatre in Columbia, Md., is streamed live online via the National Public Radio Web site, NPR.org. The show marks the first time the band has Webcast one of its performances.

2000 - Quincy Jones' Listen Up Foundation donates $25,000 to five South Central Los Angeles youth organizations. The endowments, made in the names of the five teens who make up Listen Up's From South Central To South Africa youth delegation, are presented during a reception at the Creative Artists Agency in Beverly Hills. The five teens _ Martha Gonzalez, JeJuana Johnson, Megan Yaleh Meaway, Hector Sanchez, and Omari Trice _ traveled to the Orange Farm Township, outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, one of the country's most disadvantaged communities, to build homes for three South African families.

2000 - U2 perform two songs from its upcoming album on the roof of Dublin's Clarence Hotel, a property owned by the band. The performance of the single "Beautiful Day" and album track "Elevation" is videotaped for an Oct. 6 episode of the U.K. music show "Top Of The Pops."

1998 - While talking to friend and occasional co-writer, Whisperin' Bill Anderson on his cell phone, Steve Wariner is pulled over and given a ticket for driving in an HOV lane with no passengers in his car. Wariner tells the tale on TNN's Opry Backstage show. He admits to dropping Anderson's name to the citing cop in hopes of softening the blow, but with no results.


1995 - Stung by criticism of rap label Interscope, Time Warner severs its ties with Interscope rather than release Tha Dogg Pound's first album, which soon debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

1986 - Bassist Cliff Burton of Metallica dies in a bus crash in Sweden at age 24.

1984 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Let's Go Crazy,'' Prince & the Revolution. The song is the second No. 1 hit from Prince's film ``Purple Rain.''

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``We're an American Band,'' Grand Funk. The single is pressed on gold-colored vinyl.

1963 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Blue Velvet,'' Bobby Vinton. The song comes from a Vinton album in which all the songs have the word ``blue'' in their titles.

1943 - Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive is born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

September 28th

2006 - The Grascals claim the entertainer of the year trophy at the 17th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.

2004 - In a Los Angeles Times editorial, Yusuf Islam blasts the United States' system of screening airline passengers of potential terrorists as "indiscriminate" and "unjust." The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens was barred from entering the United States the previous week because his named appeared on a government security watch list.

2002 - Singer/songwriter Mickey Newbury dies at this home in Vida, Ore., after a lengthy illness. He is 62.

2001 - Celine Dion and Peter Gabriel perform at an American Red Cross benefit concert at Montreal's Molson Centre for victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S.

2000 - Barbra Streisand sings her farewell concert at New York's Madison Square Garden.


1999 - Jean-Michel Jarre announces during a press conference at the Cairo Opera House that he has been commissioned by the Egyptian government to create and perform "The Twelve Dreams Of The Sun," a three-act "electronic opera" to mark the millennium night in the Egyptian desert.

1997 - The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), featuring the official U.S. debut of the DVD audio format, is held in New York.

1995 - Singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in a gun battle that kills his sister's fianc and riddles Brown's car with bullets in Boston's Roxbury section.

1991 - ``Ropin' the Wind'' by Garth Brooks becomes the first country music album to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's pop album chart. The album also takes the top spot on the country albums chart. In fact, Brooks' two previous albums, ``No Fences'' and ``Garth Brooks,'' hold the No. 2 and No. 5 positions on the country chart at the time of the debut.

1991 - Simon Le Bon's wife, Yasmin, gives birth to a daughter in London. She is the second child for the Duran Duran lead singer and his wife.

1991 - Jazz trumpet great Miles Davis dies of pneumonia, respiratory failure and stroke in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 65. He was considered the most famous trumpeter of his generation and the innovator of more styles than any other jazz musician.

1987 - Gladys Knight and Smokey Robinson are guests on the television game show ``$10,000 Pyramid.''

1972 - David Bowie sells out his first show in New York at Carnegie Hall.

1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own,'' Connie Francis. With the song, Francis becomes the first woman to have two consecutive singles go to No. 1.

1957 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Honeycomb,'' Jimmie Rodgers.

September 29


2003 - California country singer Wesley Tuttle dies of heart failure at a nursing home in Sylmar, Calif. He is 85.

2003 - DMX guest stars on an episode of the UPN sitcom "Eve." Starring fellow rapper Eve, the series is set in Miami, where DMX's character plays "the best tattoo artist in Miami."

2002 - Jazz pianist Ellis Larkins dies of pneumonia in Baltimore. He is 79. As a vocal accompanist, Larkins backed Ella Fitzgerald on two celebrated albums in the '50s; he also worked with Mildred Bailey, Joe Williams, and Helen Humes.

1998 - The family of Frank Sinatra files suit against Newark, Calif.-based discount clothing company Ross Stores Inc. for copyright infringement. The suit alleges that an album of 75 songs, "The Sinatra Collection," which the chain sells at its 500 Ross Dress For Less stores nationwide, is unauthorized.

1997 - Blues Traveler bassist Bobby Sheehan is arrested for cocaine possession in Winnipeg. He is later released on $5,000 bond.


1997 - Epic's Sons of the Desert are caught in a hotel fire during the group's first trip to New York City. The group's bassist Doug Virden sees smoke and flames and reports the blaze at the front desk.

1996 - Alanis Morissette finishes her first U.S. tour in Houston, Texas.

1994 - The Pointer Sisters receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star on Hollywood Boulevard was originally set to be unveiled in January, but an earthquake struck Los Angeles three days before the scheduled ceremony. The Pointers are the first African-American female music group to receive the honor.

1987 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Didn't We Almost Have It All,'' Whitney Houston.

1977 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band,'' Meco. The 15-minute song is a disco version of several themes from the top movie of 1977.

1963 - The Rolling Stones open their first British tour supporting the Everly Brothers and Bo Diddley at the New Victoria Theatre in London.

1963 - Solo artist and singer/bassist for the groups Primus and Sausage, Les Claypool is born in Richmond, Calif.

1942 - Jean-Luc Ponty is born in Avranches, France.

1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis is born in Ferriday, La. His parents later mortgage their home to buy him his first piano.

September 30
2006 - Farm Aid co-founders Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young are joined by Dave Matthews, Steel Pulse, Gov't Mule, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gov't Mule, Steve Earle and Allison Moorer for the organization's 21st anniversary concert at the Tweeter Center in Camden, N.J.

2003 - Rockabilly singer/guitarist Ronnie Dawson dies at his East Dallas home after a yearlong fight with throat cancer. He is 64.

1998 - Blues guitar prodigy Jonny Lang, rock guitarist Slash, punk rocker Joey Ramone, and Cheap Trickster Rick Nelson are among the musicians who guest-star on "The Drew Carey Show." On the program, Carey's band is looking for a lead guitarist, and a string of axemen audition for the gig - including Ramone, even though he didn't play guitar in the Ramones.

1997 - U2 cause controversy during its show in Tel Aviv, Israel, with frontman Bono appealing for the release from imprisonment of nuclear secrets traitor Mordechai Vanunu.

1997 - Patty Loveless releases her ninth album "Long Stretch of Lonesome."

1997 - Randy Travis becomes the first artist to ink a deal with DreamWorks Records Nashville. His signing instantly raises the stock of the new country label.

1997 - Fleetwood Mac's reunion show at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., grosses a house record of $1,094,520.

1993 - George Harrison and David Crosby make guest appearances on the fifth season premiere of the Fox animated comedy series ``The Simpsons.''

1992 - Songwriter Paul Jabara dies of AIDS-related causes in Los Angeles at age 44. He wrote disco-era classics like the Academy Award-winning ``Last Dance'' (performed by Donna Summer), ``It's Raining Men'' (by the Weather Girls) and ``No More Tears'' (a duet by Summer and Barbra Streisand).

1991 - Entertainer Liza Minnelli receives a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Her mother, Judy Garland, has three stars on the famous boulevard.

1983 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Total Eclipse of the Heart,'' Bonnie Tyler.

1971 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Maggie May,'' Rod Stewart.

1965 - Donovan makes his U.S. television debut on the ``Shindig'' musical variety show.

1947 - Marc Bolan (Marc Feld) of T. Rex is born in London.

1943 - Marilyn McCoo of the 5th Dimension is born in Jersey City, N.J.

1935 - Singer Johnny Mathis is born in San Francisco. He gets a track scholarship to San Francisco State College and is invited to the Olympic try-outs, but chooses a singing career instead. His most successful song is ``Chances Are'' in 1957. He also has a No. 1 duet with Deniece Williams in 1978 with ``Too Much, Too Little, Too Late.''

October 1

2002 - U.K. artist Ms. Dynamite takes three honors at the seventh annual Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards at the London Arena. Dynamite, winner of the year's Mercury Music Prize, is named best newcomer and U.K. act of the year, and her song, "It Takes More," wins best single.

2002 - The White Stripes play a free show in New York's Union Square Park, treating a large lunchtime crowd to asset full of covers and nuggets from the group's three albums.

1996 - The Nirvana live album, "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah," is released, featuring performances recorded between 1989 to 1994.

1995 - Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Hootie & The Blowfish and the Dave Matthews Band raise close to $1 million at the Farm Aid concert in Louisville, Ky.

1991 - A white crystal-beaded glove worn by entertainer Michael Jackson is stolen from the Motown Museum in Detroit. Rapper M.C. Hammer offers a $50,000 reward for the return of the memento.


1988 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Don't Worry Be Happy,'' Bobby McFerrin. The single wins Grammy Awards as song of the year and record of the year.

1977 - Singer Mary Ford dies. She had several million-selling hits with husband Les Paul. Their biggest hit, ``Vaya Con Dios,'' topped the pop charts for 11 weeks. Their song ``How High the Moon,'' No. 1 for nine weeks, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1979.

1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit; ``I Honestly Love You,'' Olivia Newton-John. The single is Newton-John's first No. 1 hit.

1965 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Hang on Sloopy,'' The McCoys.

1958 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``It's All in the Game,'' Tommy Edwards.

1935 - Singer/actress Julie Andrews is born in Walton-on-Thames, England.

October 2

2005 - Shirley Horn, the Grammy-winning jazz vocalist and pianist known for her intimate, whispery vocals and top-drawer piano playing, dies at Gladys Spellman Nursing Home in Cheverly, Md., following an extended battle with diabetes. She is 71.

2003 - Radiohead makes it a hat-trick of wins when it wins the "best act in the world today" award for the third-year running at the Q Awards in London. However, the band sends a silent video message to accept the accolade, pouring scorn on award organizers Q Magazine, which called the band "miserable" in a review of its latest album, "Hail to the Thief." The message ends, "Radiohead aren't talking to Q."

2003 - The Del McCoury Band wins top honors at the 14th annual International Bluegrass Music Awards in Louisville, Ky. The group takes home the entertainer of the year award for the eighth time. Band members Mike Bub and Jason Carter win in the instrumentalist categories for bassist and fiddler of the year, respectively.

2002 - At the 2002 Jammy Awards, Trey Anastasio picks up two awards, his band Phish wins one.

2001 - Jazz composer, arranger, conductor, and teacher Manny Albam dies of cancer at his home in Croton-On-Hudson, N.Y. He is 79. Albam's career spanned decades in which he worked with such jazz luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie.


1999 - David Bowie offers a virtual guided tour of the controversial art show "Sensation: Young British Artists From The Saatchi Collection," at www.davidbowie.com.

1998 - Cowboy singing icon Gene Autry dies after a long illness. He is 91. Inspired by the music of country star Will Rogers, the Texas-born musician became a radio star during the '30s on WLS Chicago's "Barn Dance" and the first great "Sagebrush Troubadour" via a series of Republic Pictures Westerns.

1998 - Paul McCartney conducts an "incognito" live Internet Q&A session and "music remix" in the guise of the Fireman at www.fire-man.com.

1997 - Juanita L. Evans files suit against Wu-Tang members RZA and Method Man, rapper Redman, and a Pennsylvania university and its student government. Evans claims that she was distracted by Redman and therefore did not see Method Man when he leaped off stage and landed on her. Evans was knocked unconscious.

1995 - Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" reaches the top of the Billboard 200 in its 15th week giving the Maverick label, founded by Madonna, its first No. 1. She's the third female artist to have a debut album reach No. 1 in the '90s.

1985 - Bruce Springsteen's ``Born in the USA'' tour ends with the last of four shows at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.

1976 - Joe Cocker appears on NBC-TV's ``Saturday Night Live.'' He performs a duet of ``Feelin' Alright'' with John Belushi in which Belushi does a memorable Cocker imitation.

1971 - Tiffany (Tiffany Renee Darwish) is born in Norwalk, Conn.

1951 - Sting (Gordon Sumner) is born in Wallsend, England. He becomes the lead singer and bass guitarist of the Police. He gets his nickname because of a yellow and black jersey he likes to wear.

1945 - Don McLean is born in New Rochelle, N.Y. His biggest hit is ``American Pie,'' which hits No. 1 for four weeks in 1972. The song is inspired by the death of Buddy Holly, ``the day the music died.'' Madonna eventually covers the song for the soundtrack of her film "The Next Best Thing."

October 3

2006 - Trey Anastasio begins an 18 consecutive hour DJs stint on Sirius Satellite Radio for "Trey Day, Vol. 2."

2006 - British alternative rock trio Muse and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke are the big winners at the fifth annual BT Digital Music Awards in London, each taking home a brace of trophies.

2006 - "Listen to Your Heart," the power-ballad written by Per Gessle and Mats Persson, scoops a raft of prestigious honors at the 2006 BMI London Awards, presented at the Dorchester Hotel. Among other honors, the track receives the organization's highest accolade, the Robert S. Musel Award, for the most-performed song of the year.

2004 - Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Kid Rock, Fat Joe, MC Hammer and Sugar Hill Gang are among the artists who perform in all-star collaborations at the inaugural VH1 Hip Hop Honors. The event celebrates influential pioneers in the genre: DJ Hollywood, DJ Kool Herc, KRS-One, Public Enemy, Rock Steady Crew, Run-DMC, Tupac Shakur and Sugar Hill Gang. The graffiti movement is also singled out as influential to hip-hop culture.

2004 - Teenage English soul star Joss Stone become the youngest female solo artist to top the British album survey as "Mind Body & Soul" debuts at No. 1. The 17-year-old's second release, and first full-length, bows ahead of top 10 entries by Marilyn Manson, Tom Jones and Brian Wilson.


2001 - Keith Urban goes home to Australia to accept a special Aria Award _ roughly the equivalent to a Grammy in the U.S. Urban receives the Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of sales and chart success in the U.S.

2001 - Rock band Powderfinger dominates the 15th annual Australian Record Industry Association awards with six victories at Sydney's Capitol Theatre.

2000 - Benjamin Orr, former bassist and singer of the Cars, dies at his home in Atlanta from pancreatic cancer. He is 53. Born Benjamin Orzechowski, the bassist and singer formed the Cars with singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek in Boston in 1976.

2000 - 45-year-old Mark David Chapman, the man who twenty years earlier fired five shots into John Lennon's back, faces the parole board. Parole for John Lennon's murderer is denied.

1999 - 59-year old Welsh chart veteran Tom Jones does something he hasn't done for 25 years: He goes No. 1 on the U.K. album chart with "Reload," which features Jones accompanied by Robbie Williams, Stereophonics, Barenaked Ladies, the Pretenders, Natalie Imbruglia, and many others.

1997 - California rock/pop act Sugar Ray postpones its European tour after front man Mark McGrath injures his leg at the first date in Bologna, Italy.

1992 - Singer Sinead O'Connor tears up a photo of Pope John Paul II during a performance on the TV show ``Saturday Night Live.'' NBC got more than 1,000 calls protesting. O'Connor had canceled a previous scheduled appearance on the program to protest guest host Andrew Dice Clay and his comedy act.

1990 - Fort Lauderdale, Fla., record store owner Charles Freeman is convicted by an all-white jury for selling a 2 Live Crew rap album that had been ruled obscene by a federal judge. He is later fined $1,000.

1982 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Jack & Diane,'' John Cougar. The first single from the ``American Fool'' album, ``Hurts So Good,'' is still in the top 10 when ``Jack & Diane'' hits No. 1.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Half-Breed,'' Cher.

1957 - ``The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom,'' a weekly music show, premieres on ABC-TV.

1941 - Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans) is born in Philadelphia. His biggest hit is ``The Twist,'' which hits No. 1 in both 1960 and 1962, the only rock song to re-enter Billboard's Hot 100 and return to the top spot.

1940 - Singer/songwriter Alan O'Day (``Undercover Angel'') is born in Hollywood.

October 4

2006 - Barbra Streisand's tour-opening performance at Philadelphia's Wachovia Center is the highest single event gross in the 10-year history of the arena. Streisand grosses $5,265,600 from 16,510 attendants.

2001 - Rhonda Vincent and the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack are big winners at the 12th annual International Bluegrass Music Assn. Awards.

2001 - User and So Solid Crew each take home two honors at the sixth annual MOBO Awards.

2000 - The Dixie Chicks sweep the 34th Annual Country Music Assn. Awards, held at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House. The genre-defying girl group takes home four awards, including entertainer of the year, album of the year for "Fly," vocal group, and video of the year for "Good Bye Earl."

2000 - Teenage U.K. R&B vocalist Craig David wins a record three MasterCard Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards at London's Alexandra Palace. He is named best U.K. newcomer and wins awards for best R&B act and best U.K. single for "Fill Me In."


1999 - Bebop trumpeter Art Farmer dies in New York from cardiac arrest. He is 71.

1999 - Carroll County, Tennessee native, Jessica Andrews is honored by the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce during a banquet held at the Carroll County Civic Center. The country singer receives the first-ever Youth Achievement Award for her musical accomplishments and her continuing support of her community.

1997 - A relocated Farm Aid '97 takes place before a sold out crowd of more than 30,000 at the World in Tinley Park, Ill. The event, originally planned for the 70,000-capacity Texas Stadium in Irving, raises more than $ 1 million for U.S. farmers.

1996 - Jerry Rivers, fiddler for country legend Hank Williams Sr., dies of cancer at Summit Hospital in Hermitage, Tenn. The Nashville native auditioned for Williams at WSM radio in 1949 and was hired immediately to join his Drifting Cowboys band. Rivers' fiddle playing can be heard on recordings of such classics as "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Hey Good Lookin'," "Jambalaya," "Kawliga," "Cold, Cold Heart" and "Your Cheatin' Heart."

1995 - Alan Jackson wins the prestigious entertainer of the year award at the annual Country Music Association's award ceremony. Alison Krauss sweeps top female vocalist. Vince Gill wins top male vocalist.

1980 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Another One Bites the Dust,'' Queen. The song, which stays at No. 1 for three weeks, sells more copies than any other single by the group.

1970 - Janis Joplin is found dead in a room at the Landmark Motel in Hollywood from an accidental heroin overdose.

1965 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Yesterday,'' The Beatles. The song, which Paul McCartney originally called ``Scrambled Eggs,'' has been played on the radio and TV more than any other Beatles song and is the most covered song in history.

1959 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Mack the Knife,'' Bobby Darin. The song - Darin's biggest hit - earns the singer Grammy Awards as best new artist and best vocal performance by a male.

1958 - Barbara MacDonald of Timbuk 3 is born.

October 5

2005 - Badfinger drummer Michael Gibbins dies in his sleep at his home in Florida at the age of 56. The cause of death is not made public.

2003 - Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice collects the third annual Shortlist Music Prize, climaxing a four-and-a-half hour concert featuring Rice and seven of the nine nominees at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. Styled as a U.S. equivalent to Britain's Mercury Prize, the Shortlist Prize honors cutting-edge performers whose latest albums have sold less than 500,000 copies at the time of their nomination.

2001 - After months of wrangling over child support, rapper Eminem's divorce becomes official.

1998 - Without comment, the Supreme Court refuses to throw out a suit charging that composer Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber copied from another songwriter the "Phantom Song" from his "Phantom of the Opera." The case stems from a 1990 suit filed by U.S. liturgical composer Ray Repp that claims Webber's song copies Repp's 1978 composition "Till You."

1998 - HBO is the home of the world premiere of Janet Jackson's new music video "Every Time." The premiere takes place just before the 8 p.m. showing of "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" and serves as a prelude to HBO's premiere of the live concert special from Madison Square Garden, "Janet: The Velvet Rope."


1997 - Arthur Tracey, radio's "Street Singer" who delighted millions of listeners in the 1930s with his sweet, flexible tenor, dies at the age of 98.

1997 - Garth Brooks fans snap up more than 139,000 tickets in less than four hours, selling out eight shows at Chicago's Rosemont Horizon.

1996 - Joan Osborne, Soul Asylum, Jewel, Extra Fancy, the Presidents of the United States of America, and Dog's Eye View among others perform at the first annual "Concert to Benefit The Pedro Zamora Foundation." The show raises money for the PZF to use toward educating kids about AIDS.

1996 - Neal McCoy raises $150,000 for a charity he and wife Melinda established in 1995. Country singer Bryan White, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman, Cowboys coach Joe Avezzano and radio host Bob Kingsley pitch in for a concert at the Longview High School Coliseum in Longview, Texas. The money goes to the East Texas Angel Network (ETAN) which provides financial assistance for medical treatments and related costs to families with children suffering from serious diseases.

1992 - Eddie Kendricks, lead singer of the R&B group the Temptations during the 1960s, dies of lung cancer. Kendricks left the group in 1971 after such hits as the No. 1 songs ``My Girl'' and ``I Can't Get Next to You.''

1991 - Two albums by the group Guns N' Roses debut in the top positions on Billboard's album chart. ``Use Your Illusion II'' debuts at No. 1, followed by ``Use Your Illusion I.''

1988 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Love Bites,'' Def Leppard.

1974 - Randy Newman plays Atlanta Symphony Hall backed by an 87-piece orchestra conducted by his uncle Emil Newman.

1961 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit; ``Hit the Road Jack,'' Ray Charles. The song is Charles' second No. 1 hit.

1954 - Bob Geldof is born in Dublin, Ireland. The singer/songwriter becomes a member of the Boomtown Rats. He is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for organizing Band Aid, a British superstar benefit group that raised money for famine relief.

1943 - Steve Miller is born in Milwaukee. His biggest song is ``Abracadabra,'' which hits No. 1 for two weeks in 1982.

October 6

2006 - Mumbai-based EMI Virgin India Ltd announces that it will recall all copies of Slayer's most recent album "Christ Illusion" following protests by a Christian group, Mumbai-based Catholic Secular Forum (CSF).

2004 - Maverick broadcaster Howard Stern announces he will abandon terrestrial airwaves in 2006, when he'll begin a five-year deal with Sirius Satellite. After months of surprisingly clandestine negotiations, the self-proclaimed "King of All Media" breaks the news to his listeners and co-workers during his morning broadcast.

2000 - Three investors in Steven Seagal's as-yet-unreleased album sue the actor, alleging that he has no intention of completing the project. Michael Vanderhoof, Michael Khaled, and Donald Danks claim they put a total of $600,000 into the recording of the album and the making of an accompanying documentary film.

1999 - Renowned Portuguese fado singer Amalia Rodrigues dies in Lisbon. She is 79.

1998 - Country group Alabama joins the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hollywood mayor Johnny Grant honors band members Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, Jeff Cook and Mark Herndon during a special ceremony. The new star is located at 7060 Hollywood Boulevard on the block which includes stars for Paul Newman, Sophia Loren, the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder and Miles Davis.


1998 - Loud Records and members of Loud/RCA rap group the Wu-Tang Clan are sued by a woman claiming battery, false imprisonment, and defamation, among other allegations. Bridget Gray, an actress and dancer, seeks compensatory and punitive damages for an August 1997 incident in which she alleges that members of the Wu-Tang Clan made derogatory comments and held her against her will while she was hired to appear in a video for the group.

1998 - Gospel star Kirk Franklin and Interscope Records are hit with a $75 million lawsuit by Linda Searight, the founder of God's Property, a gospel group that has recorded and performed with Franklin. Searight claims she was cheated out of payment for her involvement in God's Property.

1996 - Country music artists Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, having recently met and worked together on a joint tour, are married in Rayville, La. Guests at the ceremony include fellow country stars Mark Chesnutt, Mark Collie, Tracy Lawrence and Jeff Carson. The two postpone their honeymoon in order to resume their joint tour four days later.

1995 - "Grind," the first track from Alice in Chains' eponymous album is released to radio via satellite uplink to stem the excessive spread of taped copies of the song. Earlier in October, the song had been leaked to radio prematurely.

1991 - Actress Elizabeth Taylor marries Larry Fortensky. It is Taylor's eighth marriage and Fortensky's third. The ceremony is held at entertainer Michael Jackson's 2,700-acre estate near Los Angeles.

1985 - Bandleader Nelson Riddle dies.

1983 - Barry Manilow plays a charity concert at London's Royal Albert Hall attended by Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

1970 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Cracklin' Rosie,'' Neil Diamond.

1947 - Bob Weir (Robert Hall) of the Grateful Dead is born in San Francisco.

1926 - Violinist Cyril Reuben is born.

October 7


2000 - Chris LeDoux gets his new liver. The cowboy singer, diagnosed two months earlier with primary sclerosing cholangitis, undergoes transplant surgery at the Nebraska Health System hospital in Omaha, Neb.

2000 - Howard Stern is named nationally syndicated personality of the year at the 2000 Billboard/Airplay Monitor Radio Awards, presented in New York at the close of the publication's annual three-day seminar.

2000 - Phish, on the verge of an extended career hiatus, wraps its 2000 touring efforts with a sold out show in Mountain View, Calif. The band grossed $22.3 million in 2000.

1999 - For the first time since 1995, a Garth Brooks album fails to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Brooks' ambitious but puzzling attempt to reinvent himself as an Australian rock star is overshadowed by a real rock band from Florida. Creed's "Human Clay" beats out Brooks' "Garth Brooks in... The Life of Chris Gaines," for the top spot.

1999 - Don Henley and Eagles Ltd. file a federal suit against Lovearth, a Sarasota, Fla.-based Internet company, alleging that its registration of the domain names don-henley.net, don-henley.org, donhenley.org, theendoftheinnocence.com, and e-a-g-l-e-s.com constitutes copyright infringement.


1999 - Backstreet Boys and Korn are multiple winners at the inaugural ARTISTdirect Online Music Awards at the House of Blues in West Hollywood.

1997 - Continuing a verbal sparring match which started earlier in the month, Elton John replies to Keith Richards' charge that John's only claim to fame is "writing songs for dead blondes." John shoots back, "He's so pathetic, poor thing. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young."

1996 - Bruce Springsteen, continuing his rash of amazing ticket sales for his solo acoustic tour, sells out at the 2,600 capacity Charlotte's Ovens Auditorium in eight minutes flat.

1996 - Michael Jackson plays his first tour in Africa or the Arab world. Jackson performs at the El Menzah Stadium in Tunis where he plays to more than 60,000 spectators. No one under 14 years of age is allowed to attend the concert.

1996 - A number of the NFL's top quarterbacks join the "Rock the Vote" roster of recording artists working to educate Americans about current political issues. Jeff Blake of the Cincinnati Bengals, Drew Bledsoe of the New England Patriots, Jim Kelly of the Buffalo Bills, Rick Mirer of the Seattle Seahawks, and Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers participate in public announcements in which each player appears in his team jersey delivering voter registration information.

1995 - Peter Frampton kicks off a tour in Boston three days before the release of ``Frampton Comes Alive II,'' the sequel to his 1975 smash ``Frampton Comes Alive'' - the best-selling live album in history.

1986 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``When I Think of You,'' Janet Jackson. With this song, Michael and Janet Jackson become the first siblings to both have solo No. 1 singles.

1976 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``A Fifth of Beethoven,'' Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band. The song is a disco-tinged instrumental version of ``Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor.''

1959 - Opera star Mario Lanza dies of a heart attack at the age of 38.

1951 - John Mellencamp is born in Seymour, Ind. He is given the name Johnny Cougar by David Bowie's manager, Tony DeFries, and records under the name until 1982.

1941 - Martin Murray of the Honeycombs is born in London.

October 8

2004 - After nearly 60 years of recordings, Ray Charles posthumously earns the first platinum award of his career with "Genius Loves Company" during September certifications by the RIAA. The R&B veteran's final studio album debuted at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 in September, 2004, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Charles scored five gold records over the years.

1999 - Shedaisy members Kelsi, Kassidy and Kristyn Osborn make their debut on the Grand Ole Opry. The trio performs their hit "Little Goodbyes."

1998 - Bruce Springsteen gives evidence in London's High Court in his case against Masquerade Music over that company's attempt to release some of his early '70s recordings in the U.K. The artist says that he was living hand-to-mouth at the time the songs in question were written, relying on handouts from Mike Appel, his co-manager at the time.

1996 - An environmental benefit concert at the Britt Grounds in Jacksonville, Ore., featuring Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne turns ugly as protesters begin to rally. The protesters are angered by efforts to stop the logging of old growth redwoods, and in protest begin revving chainsaws and throwing firecrackers. No one is seriously injured.

1996 - Former drummer for Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Chamberlin, pleads guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with the heroin-related death of late former touring bandmate, Jonathan Melvoin.


1985 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Oh Sheila,'' Ready for the World. The group is made up of six men from Flint, Mich.

1980 - Bob Marley collapses in New York while preparing for a tour of the U.S. with Stevie Wonder. He is diagnosed as having cancer and dies seven months later.

1975 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit; ``Bad Blood,'' Neil Sedaka.

1963 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Sugar Shack,'' Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs. Billboard ranks the song as the No. 1 hit of 1963.

1953 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``St. George and the Dragonet,'' Stan Freberg.

1950 - Robert Bell of Kool & the Gang is born in Youngstown, Ohio. The group has a No. 1 song in 1981 with ``Celebration.''

1930 - Composer Toru Takemitsu is born.

October 9


2001 - U2 frontman Bono, R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, and electronica maven Moby make unannounced appearances in New York, at the second of two anti-violence benefit concerts organized by the Beastie Boys.

2000 - John Lennon's views on everything from the breakup of the Beatles to his attitude toward revolution and drugs, deemed too controversial to print 30 years before, are revealed in a the book "Lennon Remembers, The Complete Rolling Stone Interviews."

2000 - The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band reunites at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium for a performance of their signature song, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." Longtime member John McEuen joins Jimmie Fadden, Jeff Hanna, Jimmy Ibbotson and Bob Carpenter for the filming of an IMAX movie, that traces the roots and branches of country music.

2000 - On what would have been Beatles frontman John Lennon's 60th birthday, the John Lennon Museum opens to the public. Braving heavy rains, about 1,200 people line up around the museum, located about 30 kilometers north of Tokyo, between 7-11 a.m., when the museum opens its doors.

2000 - Conductor Sir Simon Rattle is the big winner at the 23rd annual Gramophone Awards for classical music, presented at London's Royal Festival Hall. Rattle takes home awards for orchestral album, opera album, and record of the year (Mahler/Cooke's "Symphony No. 10" by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra).


1999 - Milt Jackson, who was for more than 50 years the premier vibraharpist in jazz and a founding member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, dies in Manhattan of liver cancer. He is 76.

1997 - Bernhard Mikulski, founder of German independent dance label ZYX, dies. He is 68. ZYX, based in Frankfurt, had earlier found international success with Italo-French dance act Gala.

1996 - A concert by Maxwell, originally booked for Atlanta's 600-seat Cotton Club is moved to the 1,500 capacity Roxy Theater to accommodate overwhelming response. Maxwell sells out at the Roxy.

1984 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Just Called to Say I Love You,'' Stevie Wonder. The song from the Gene Wilder film ``The Woman in Red'' wins an Academy Award.

1979 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough,'' Michael Jackson.

1978 - Composer Jacques Brel dies at the age of 49.

1948 - Jackson Browne is born in Heidelberg, West Germany.

1944 - John Entwistle of the Who is born in London.

1944 - Reggae star Peter Tosh is born.

1940 - John Lennon is born in Liverpool, England. One of the founding members of the Beatles, Lennon is shot to death by Mark David Chapman in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980. ``(Just Like) Starting Over'' goes on to become Lennon's biggest hit, starting its five-week run at No. 1 on Dec. 27, 1980.

October 10

2006 - 21-year-old U.K. hip-hop sensation Lily Allen makes her first U.S. appearance at New York's Hiro Ballroom. Appearing with a three-piece horn section, bassist and keyboardist, Allen blasts through an eight-song set in just under a half hour.

2006 - Sting releases "Songs From the Labyrinth," an album of 16th century lute songs.

2001 - U2 kicks off the third leg of its Elevation tour in South Bend, Ind., and invites the world to join them for free. The show is Webcast via RealNetworks and European Internet communications company Tiscali and is available to U.S. residents through the band's Web site U2.com.

2001 - London's Royal Albert Hall is reminiscent of a bygone age as former boy-band sensation Robbie Williams entertains an adoring sell-out crowd with his versions of swing classics from his latest album "Swing When You're Winning."

1998 - The deadly force of Hurricane Georges not only knocks out telephone, water, and electricity services in Puerto Rico, it also bumps the Hot Latin Tracks chart from Billboard Magazine. For the first time in its 10-year history, the chart is not published, because of damage to Broadcast Data Systems monitors caused by the storm, which hit the island late in September.


1997 - Performer and entrepreneur Jimmy Osmond, the youngest member of the Osmond family, and wife Michelle Larson welcome their second child. 6-pound, 15-ounce Zachary James is the 50th grandchild for George and Olive Osmond, the parents of the nine famed siblings.

1995 - Peter Frampton's ``Frampton Comes Alive II,'' is released. The album is the sequel to his 1965 smash ``Frampton Comes Alive'' - the best-selling live album in history.

1992 - Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash (Saul Hudson) marries Renee Suran in Marina Del Rey, Calif.

1992 - ``The Chase'' by Garth Brooks debuts at No. 1 on both Billboard's pop and country album charts, bumping Billy Ray Cyrus' ``Some Gave All'' from the top spot on each.

1979 - Film ``The Rose,'' starring Bette Midler, premieres.

1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Mr. Custer,'' Larry Verne. The novelty song is about a soldier's plea to Gen. George Custer that he doesn't want to fight at Little Big Horn.

1958 - Country singer Tanya Tucker is born.

1955 - David Lee Roth is born in Bloomington, Ind.

1943 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Sunday, Monday or Always,'' Bing Crosby.

1923 - Musician Louis Gottlieb is born.

1917 - Jazz great Thelonious Monk is born.

October 11

2006 - Singer Justin Hawkins announces that he has left British band the Darkness to continue his drug rehabilitation.

2004 - The Vote for Change tour wraps with a star-studded finale at Washington, D.C.'s MCI Center. To close the show, more than a dozen major acts team for covers of the Nick Lowe-written, Elvis Costello-popularized "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding)" and Patti Smith's "People Have the Power," backed by Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. The show caps a multiple-bill barnstorming tour through nine key presidential election swing states in an effort to remove George W. Bush from the White House via the Nov. 2 U.S. Presidential election. The evening offers mini-sets from the likes of Springsteen, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Dave Matthews Band, the Dixie Chicks, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne with Keb' Mo', Jurassic 5, John Mellencamp and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds.

1999 - The City of Miami, under threat of legal action from the American Civil Liberties Union and Havana Caliente Records, allows Cuban dance band Los Van Van to perform at the James L. Knight Center.

1997 - Gregg Allman, Bo Diddley, Keb'Mo', Buddy Guy and John Hiatt are among the musicians who perform at a tribute to Muddy Waters at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

1992 - Amy Grant gives birth to a daughter, Sarah Cannon, in Nashville, Tenn. It is the third child for the Grammy-winning singer and her husband, songwriter Gary Chapman.


1987 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Lost in Emotion,'' Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam.

1976 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Disco Duck (Part 1),'' Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots. A morning DJ at Memphis, Tenn., radio station WMPS, Dees gets fired when he mentions his novelty song on the air.

1973 - Elvis and Priscilla Presley's divorce becomes final.

1966 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Reach Out, I'll Be There,'' The Four Tops.

1949 - Daryl Hall (Daryl Hohl) is born in Pottstown, Pa.

1944 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I'll Walk Alone,'' Dinah Shore.

1919 - Jazz drummer Art Blakey is born in Pittsburgh.

October 12

2003 - Rapper 50 Cent takes home all five trophies for which he is nominated at the World Music Awards, held in Monaco. Russian teen duo t.A.T.u. picks up three awards, while Norah Jones and Eminem win two.

2002 - Ray Conniff, the Grammy-winning composer and conductor who pioneered the use of vocal elements in pop arrangements, dies at an Esondido, Calif., hospital after injuring his head in a fall. He is 85. A top-selling big band leader and trombonist, Conniff made more than 100 albums, 25 of them reaching the top 40 in a career that spans six decades.

2002 - More than 25 years after his death, Elvis Presley is once again the King. RCA Records' "Elv1s 30 No. 1 Hits" boys at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 500,325 units sold. This marks the first Elvis album to ever debut at the top of the U.S. chart.

2001 - Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland quits the band. A post on the group's Web site states, "Limp Bizkit and Wes Borland have amicably decided to part ways. Both Limp Bizkit and Borland will continue to pursue their respective musical careers."

1999 - Juke joint bluesman Frank Frost, 63, dies at his home in Helena, Ark.


1999 - David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young appear at New York's Madison Square Garden to announce their forthcoming album and CSNY2K tour.

1997 - John Denver, whose 1970s hits including "Rocky Mountain High" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" gained him millions of fans worldwide, is killed when his experimental plane crashes into Monterey Bay in Northern California. He is 53.

1997 - Spanish fans of the Backstreet Boys force the cancellation of a free open-air gig by the band. By midday, more than 7,000 fans - mostly teenage girls - turn up in a central Madrid square. After city hall doctors treat 300 girls who had fainted in the heat, officials call the event off. A turn out of no more than 5,000 had been expected.

1995 - Rap musician Tupac Shakur is released from prison on $1.4 million bail, just eight months after a judge sentenced him to a jail term of up to 4 years for sexual assault. Shakur, 23, is released pending an appeal of his conviction.

1991 - Nirvana's album, "Nevermind" hits No. 1 on the Billboard Album chart, going gold. The same day, Nirvana plays "Saturday Night Live."

1985 - B-52s drummer Ricky Wilson dies of AIDS at age 32.

1978 - Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. A 1986 movie of the relationship and murder at New York's Chelsea hotel, ``Sid and Nancy'' starred Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb. Vicious dies of a heroin overdose before he can be tried for the murder.

1971 - Early rock'n'roller Gene Vincent of "Be Bop A Lula" fame dies at age 36 from a ruptured stomach ulcer.

1970 - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's ``Jesus Christ Superstar'' debuts on Broadway.

1964 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Do Wah Diddy Diddy,'' Manfred Mann. The song was written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, who also wrote ``Da Doo Ron Ron.''

1957 - Little Richard publicly renounces rock `n' roll and embraces Christianity during a tour in Australia. (He returns to music five years later.)

1949 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``That Lucky Old Sun,'' Frankie Laine.

1935 - Sam Moore of Sam & Dave is born in Miami.

1925 - Singer and guitarist Guitar Gabriel (Robert Lewis Jones) is born.

October 13

2002 - Spanish sisterly trio Las Ketchup adds the U.K. to its list of European conquests as its novelty hit "The Ketchup Song (Asereje)" goes straight to No. 1 on the U.K. singles chart.

2001 - Complaining of tightness in his chest, and under the advice of his doctor, Merle Haggard cancels the balance of his U.S. touring plans through Nov. 3. Haggard has a history of coronary artery disease.

2000 - Carlos Santana is presented with the key to the city of Tijuana, Mexico. Santana, who grew up in the city, plays the Coors Amphitheater in nearby Chula Vista, Calif., later that night.

2000 - Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Ben Harper, Patti Smith, and Company Flow are among the entertainers on hand at New York's Madison Square Garden, adding some musical muscle to a rally for Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader. The event draws a sold-out crowd of 18,000 that include the Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, as well as a pair of U.K. musicians: Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Billy Bragg.

1999 - Internet music start up Myplay.com launches, joining a highly competitive online music industry.


1998 - The Frasier Fair - a definite male response to the ever-increasing popularity of the Lilith Fair - kicks off in San Diego with founder Steve Poltz, John Doe, ex-Toad the Wet Sprocket member Glen Phillips, and Pete Droge. The festival is named after the title character of the contemporary NBC Sitcom "Frasier" who, incidentally was at one time married to a frigid woman named Lilith.

1997 - Billy Joel fans in the U.S. get their first chance to hear one of the piano man's classical works when National Public Radio's "Performance Today" program debuts his piece "Reverie."

1997 - Matchbox 20 (which in early 2000 changes its name to matchbox twenty) embarks on its first headlining tour in Las Vegas with opening act Lila Haydn & Her Band.

1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Nothing from Nothing,'' Billy Preston.

1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Save the Last Dance for Me,'' The Drifters.

1959 - Marie Osmond is born in Ogden, Utah. She co-hosts a variety show with her brother Donny from 1976-78. Her biggest solo hit is ``Paper Roses,'' a million-selling No. 1 country single that reaches No. 5 on the pop charts.

1941 - Paul Simon is born in Newark, N.J. He teams up with boyhood schoolmate Art Garfunkel to form one of pop music's most successful duos. Simon & Garfunkel's biggest hit is the million-selling ``Bridge Over Troubled Water,'' which tops Billboard's Hot 100 for six weeks. Their first Grammy comes for the 1968 Record of the Year, ``Mrs. Robinson.'' The duo is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.

October 14

2006 - Baldemar Huerta, also known as Freddy Fender, who hit big in 1975 with "Before The Next Teardrop Falls," dies in Corpus Christi, Texas at the age of 69.

2005 - Wyclef Jean and Norah Jones make available for download "Any Other Day," a song they recorded in tribute to hurricane victims."

2004 - Ludacris, Public Enemy and Mase are among the acts that perform at Race to the Polls, a voter awareness concert at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.

2003 - Ozzy Osbourne seeks treatment for Parkinson's Disease-like tremors and postpones a fall European tour, The veteran rock artist says in a statement, "I have been in Boston for the last three weeks, having medical tests for a tremor which has become markedly worse over the last two years."

2003 - Barbra Streisand releases her 60th album on Columbia Records. The set finds the chanteuse covering 12 songs made popular in movies from 1935-1988. "The Movie Album" comprises all-new recordings personally selected by Streisand and recorded with a full band and a 75-piece orchestra.


2003 - Celine Dion releases "Une Fille Et 4 Types, her first French-language album in five years.

2000 - Trace Adkins goes back to his hometown, Sarepta, La., to attend his 20-year high school reunion.

1998 - B.B. King picks up a lifetime achievement award at the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

1997 - Sir Paul McCartney's symphonic poem "Standing Stone" gets its world debut by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. The piece earns the former Beatle six curtain calls. Critics, however, call it dull and forgettable.

1997 - For the first time ever, the soundtrack to the classic film "Casablanca" is released. The 20 track CD includes Max Steiner's score, dialog from the film, and its most famous song, "As Time Goes By."

1996 - Ms. Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, the daughter of Madonna and the pop/movie star's personal trainer, Carlos Leon, is born at 4:01 p.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.

1993 - Rolling Stone magazine ranks the video for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" as the No.1 video in video history in "The 100 Top Music Videos." The video also wins nine MTV awards, more than any video in history.

1990 - Leonard Bernstein dies in New York at age 72. The composer and conductor had announced his retirement less than a week earlier. He wins his first Grammy Awards for the 1961 albums ``Humor in Music'' and ``Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf.'' He goes on to win 11 more Grammys and in 1985 is presented a Grammy lifetime achievement award.

1988 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Red Red Wine,'' UB40. The song reached No. 34 when the group first released the single in 1984. It is written by Neil Diamond.

1979 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Rise,'' Herb Alpert. The single is Alpert's first to hit the Hot 100 in five years.

1977 - Bing Crosby dies of a heart attack at the age of 76. Crosby sold more than 300 million records and was featured in more than 50 movies. His recording of ``White Christmas'' tops Billboard's pop chart for a combined 14 weeks during three different years and sells more than 30 million records.

1940 - Cliff Richard (Harry Rodger Webb) is born in Lucknow, India.

October 15

2003 - The members of veteran independent rock act Dub Narcotic Sound System are involved in a car accident, forcing the hospitalization of frontman Calvin Johnson and bassist Chris Sutton.

2000 - For the fourth time in its storied career, U2 have a U.K. No. 1 single, after "Beautiful Day" surprisingly outsells Robbie Williams' and Kylie Minogue's "Kids" to take the top place on the new sales chart.

1999 - Songwriter and musician Terry Gilkyson dies in Austin, Texas. He is 83.

1998 - Puff Daddy plays his first-ever U.K. show at the official opening of the new London venue Sound Republic in Leicester Square. The invitation-only event is broadcast live by MTV U.K.

1998 - MCA Records Inc. files a breach-of-contract lawsuit against New Edition members Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ricardo Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronald DeVoe for alleged failure to deliver albums.


1997 - Virginia concert promoter Patricia Ann Richardson files suit against Snoop Doggy Dogg, his former manager Sharitha Knight, and Death Row Records for allegedly tricking her into transporting packages containing seven pounds of marijuana to a venue where Snoop Doggy Dogg was performing. Richardson claims she was stopped, searched and arrested by local, state and federal law enforcement officers at the entrance to the club.

1977 - Debbie Boone's ``You Light Up My Life'' moves from No. 3 to No. 1 in its seventh week on Billboard's Hot 100. The song, which sells more than 2 million copies, holds the top spot for 10 weeks.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Angie,'' The Rolling Stones. Tori Amos covers the song in the '90s.

1968 - Led Zeppelin makes its performance debut at Surrey University in England.

1955 - Buddy Holly (with Bob Montgomery) opens a show for Elvis Presley in Lubbock, Texas.

1953 - Tito Jackson (Toriano Jackson) is born in Gary, Ind.

1946 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Rumors Are Flying,'' Frankie Carle Orchestra.

October 16

2002 - Dolly Parton undertakes her first tour of the U.K. and Ireland in 19 years.

2001 - Jazz vocalist Etta Jones dies of cancer in New York, the same day HighNote releases her album "Etta Jones Sings Lady Day." She is 72.

1999 - Singer Ella Mae Morse, who cut Capitol Records' first million-selling single, "Cow Cow Boogie," in 1942, dies of respiratory problems in Bullhead City, Ariz. She is 75.

1990 - Jazz drummer Art Blakey dies in New York City. Age 71.

1986 - Chuck Berry plays his 60th birthday concert in St. Louis.


1973 - Drummer Gene Krupa dies of leukemia at the age of 64.

1972 - Creedence Clearwater Revival announces its decision to split up.

1966 - Joan Baez is one of 124 anti-draft protesters arrested at a military induction center in Oakland, Calif.

1964 - Composer Cole Porter dies at the age of 71.

1956 - Elvis Presley's first film, ``Love Me Tender,'' premieres.

1951 - Little Richard holds his first recording session in Atlanta.

1938 - Christa Paffgen is born in Cologne, Germany. She takes the moniker Nico before moving to New York to do a brief stint as frontwoman for The Velvet Underground.