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Seth
Green (actor) is 36 “Scott Evil”
in Austin Powers
John
Williams (composer) is 78- Wrote
the music for Star Wars
Ted
Koppel (former ABC News anchor) is 70- Former
anchor of Nightline
Nick
Nolte (actor) is 69 “Coach Pete Bell”
in Blue
Chips and a DUI specialist

Robert
Klein (comedian) is 68- Born in the Bronx,
New York
Dan Seals
(country singer) is 62- Part of the
duo England Dan and John Ford
Coley
Mary
Steenburgen (actress) is 57 “Clara Clayton”
in Back to the
Future Part
III
John
Grisham (author) is 55 - Has sold more than a
quarter of a billion book worldwide
Vince
Neil (singer) is 49- Frontman
for Motley Crue
Gary
Coleman (actor) is 42“ Arnold Jackson”
on Diff’rent Strokes
Mary
McCormack (actress) is 41 “Kate Harper”
on The West Wing
Phoenix
(bassist) is 33 - Bassist for
Linkin Park
Karle
Warren (actress) is 18 “Lauren Cassidy”
on Chasing Amy
In 1963…On tour with Helen
Shapiro in Carlisle, England, The Beatles were refused
entry into a local ballroom because they were wearing leather
jackets.
In 1964…Responding
to claims
that The Kingsmen's incomprehensible "Louie Louie" was pornographic, the
song's
publisher, Max Firetag, offered one-thousand dollars to anyone who could
point out
the lyrics' supposedly “suggestive”
elements.
In 1969…George
Harrison's tonsils
were removed at London's University College
Hospital. The tonsils were destroyed so they
could not be sold.
In 1969…Eric
Clapton,
Ginger Baker
and Steve Winwood announced the formation of a new group. With the
addition of
Family’s Rich Grech on bass, the quartet became Blind Faith.
In 1971…The Bob
Dylan
documentary Eat the Document premiered at New York's Academy of Music.
In 1972…The
official Beatles Fan
Club disbanded.
In 1972…London's
Royal Albert Hall
cancelled a performance of Frank
Zappa's classical opus "200 Motels." They
claimed the lyrics were obscene.
In 1975…Queen’s
single “Killer
Queen” was released. It was their first hit.
In 1980…In London,
David Bowie and his
wife, Angie, were divorced after nearly ten years of marriage. David won
custody of
their nine-year-old son, Zowie.
In 1982…Cher opened
on Broadway
in Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy
Dean, Jimmy Dean.
In 1988…The Who –
minus deceased
drummer Keith Moon – reunited for their 25th anniversary.
In 1990…Del Shannon,
best
remembered for his 1961 number one "Runaway," died from a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound in Santa Clarita, California.
In 1999…Universal
Music,
Warner Music, BMG, Sony Music and EMI officially unveiled Project
Madison. The system was developed
by IBM to
permit fast, secure distribution of full-length, CD quality albums on
the
Internet.
In 2003…The Black
Crowes
singer Chris Robinson launched a solo tour in Denver, Colorado.
In 2004…Barbershop
2, starring
rapper-actors Ice Cube and Queen
Latifah, was number one at the box office in
its opening weekend.
In 2004…OutKast won
Album of the Year at
the GRAMMYs
for Speakerboxxx/The Love
Below. Coldplay's Clocks was named Record of the Year. Beyonce won five
awards, including Best Female
R&B Vocal and Best Contemporary R&B Album
for Dangerously in Love.
In 2005…The Doobie
Brothers'
drummer Keith Knudsen died of pneumonia at the age of 56 in San
Francisco.
In 2006…U2 won five
GRAMMY awards
including Album of the Year for How to Dismantle an
Atomic Bomb. John Legend won Best New Artist,
and Sly Stone appeared onstage for the first time since 1993. Madonna
had hernia surgery
shortly after her opening performance.
In 2006…Barry
Manilow’s
Greatest Songs of the Fifties topped the U-S album charts.
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