This Day in Music Advance for the week of August 8-15

THIS DAY IN MUSIC
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Advance for the week of August 8-15


This Day in Music
For August 8, 2005
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

1998 - The Rolling Stones perform their first concert in Russia, playing through a driving rain before an appreciative crowd estimated at 70,000.
1992 - Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses walks off stage after 55 minutes at a concert at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, complaining of a sore throat. Many of the 53,000 fans who came see the group and Metallica riot.
1987 - Less than three months after they go to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 for the first time with "With or Without You," U2 return to the top of the chart with "I Still Haven't Found what I'm Looking For," the second single from "The Joshua Tree."
1986 - David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is released from prison after serving time for drug and weapons charges.
1970 - Janis Joplin buys a headstone for the grave of blues singer Bessie Smith, one of her idols.
1969 - The cover photo is taken for the Beatles' ``Abbey Road'' LP.
1959 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``A Big Hunk O'Love,'' Elvis Presley. The song enters the Hot 100 at No. 6.

This Day in Music
For August 9, 2005
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2002 - Alicia Keys is the big winner at the second annual Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards, walking away with four honors from the event staged at Miami's Billboardlive. In addition to top new R&B/hip/hop artist, the songstress earns kudos for top R&B/hip-hop album and top R&B/hip-hop albums artist for her debut, "Songs in A Minor," and top R&B/hip-hop artist female.
1999 - Bob Herbert, who formed the Spice Girls and teen group Five, dies in a car accident in London. He is 57.
1995 - Grateful Dead singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia dies of a heart attack at a drug treatment center in San Francisco. He is 53. The Grateful Dead came out of the 1960s San Francisco counterculture scene. The band is best known for its devoted ``Dead Head'' fans and the Woodstock-style atmosphere of its sold-out concerts.
1987 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For,'' U2. The album ``The Joshua Tree'' is U2's first top 10 album in the U.S.
1978 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Three Times a Lady,'' Commodores. Band member Lionel Richie was inspired to write the song at a 37th anniversary party for his parents.
1965 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Got You Babe,'' Sonny & Cher. The song, which sells more than 1 million copies, is the duo's only No. 1 hit. A remake of the song by UB40 with Chrissie Hynde hits No. 28 in September 1985.
1963 - Singer Whitney Houston is born in New Jersey, the daughter of singer Cissy Houston and cousin of Dionne Warwick. Her first seven solo singles go top five on Billboard's Hot 100. (She was featured earlier on a Teddy Pendergrass single that failed to reach the top 40.)
1959 - Pioneer of the rap genre, Kurtis Blow, is born Curtis Walker in New York.

This Day in Music
For August 10, 2005
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2002 - Guitarist Michael Houser, a founding member of the Georgia-based jam band Widespread Panic, dies at his home in Athens from complications related to pancreatic cancer. He is 40.
2001 - Martie Seidel of the Dixie Chicks is married to Ireland-based college professor Gareth Maguire while the two are on vacation in Kailua, Hawaii.
2001 - Cyndi Thomson makes her Grand Ole Opry debut. The country newcomer performs acoustic versions of her hit, "What I Really Meant To Say," and "I Always Liked That Best," both from her debut album, "My World."
1999 - It is announced that Oasis founding member Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs has decided to leave the band. Less than three weeks later, Paul McGuigan, the Oasis bassist known as "Guigsy," hands in his resignation as well.
1997 - The Buffalo Club, Thompson Brothers, Kim Richey, and James Bonamy lead a group of artists who perform at a Democratic Party hosted by Vice President Al Gore. The party is thrown to thank local supporters.
1993 - Edward Roberts dies of cancer at age 57 in Akron, Ohio. He was a member of the 1960s singing group Ruby & the Romantics, whose hits included ``Our Day Will Come,'' ``Hey There Lonely Boy'' and ``My Summer Love.''
1986 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Papa Don't Preach,'' Madonna.
1975 - CBS-TV summer variety show ``Manhattan Transfer'' premieres.
1966 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Summer in the City,'' The Lovin' Spoonful. The song is based on a poem by Mark Sebastian, whose brother John is singer of the group.
1947 - Ian Anderson, lead singer of Jethro Tull, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. The group has two No. 1 pop albums: ``Thick as a Brick'' in 1972 and ``A Passion Play'' in 1973. The group's first 10 albums are certified gold for selling at least 500,000 copies. The 10th is also certified platinum for selling at least 1 million copies (it is released in 1976, the first year albums are able to earn the platinum designation).
1928 - Balladeer and sausage maker Jimmy Dean (Seth Ward) is born in Plainview, Texas.
1928 - Eddie Fisher is born in Philadelphia. He marries Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens. His biggest singles are the million-selling No. 1 songs ``Oh! My Pa-Pa'' and ``I'm Walking Behind You.'' He appears in the films ``All About Eve,'' ``Bundle of Joy'' and ``Butterfield 8.''
1909 - Leo Fender, founder of Fender Guitars, is born.

This Day in Music
For August 11, 2005
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2003 - Phish bassist Mike Gordon is arrested in Wantagh, N.Y., and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and trespassing in a closed area. At a concert by the Dead at Jones Beach's Tommy Hilfiger Theater, police were alerted that a nine-year-old girl was missing. The child was later found with Gordon in an enclosed boathouse near the backstage area of the venue, for use by state employees only.
1997 - Four Elvis confidants known as "The Memphis Mafia" commemorate the 20th anniversary of the King's passing with a webcast interview. In the chat, hosted live at http://www.natsatinc.com, Lamar Fike, Marty Lacker, Marty Red and Sonny West discuss Presley's humble beginnings, the women in his life, his fame and his drug problems.
1996 - Rafael Jeronym Kubelick, a former director and conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, dies in Lucerne, Switzerland at the age of 82.
1981 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Endless Love,'' Diana Ross & Lionel Richie. The song holds onto the top spot for nine weeks, making it the most successful duo, most successful Motown single and most successful soundtrack single of all time.
1974 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``The Night Chicago Died,'' Paper Lace. The song is written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander.
1966 - The Beatles arrive at Chicago's O'Hare Airport to start their last tour of the United States.
1964 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Everybody Loves Somebody,'' Dean Martin. The song becomes the theme song to NBC's ``The Dean Martin Show'' the following year.
1955 - Joe Jackson is born in Burton-on-Trent, England. His biggest hit is ``Steppin' Out,'' a No. 6 song in 1982.
1949 - Eric Carmen is born in Cleveland. He is the lead singer of the Raspberries from 1970-74. His biggest solo hit is the million-selling ``All By Myself,'' which stays at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot 100 for three weeks in 1976.

This Day in Music
For August 12, 2005
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2004 - African author, composer and singer Gnonnas Pedro dies of prostate cancer in a hospital of Cotonou, the capital of the West African country Benin. Pedro, 61, was one of the five singers of pan-African band Africando. Pedro had been diagnosed with cancer nine months earlier. During that nine-month period, he undergoes surgery in France three times, the last time on August 6. When the final surgery fails, he decides to live out his remaining time in his homeland.
1999 - A record-setting 15-show stand by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., comes to a close after grossing about $19 million.
1999 - The state of Missouri celebrates Porter Wagoner Day, the country star's birthday (1927) in Howell County, Mo.
1999 - Representatives from the National Organization for Women's (NOW) New York chapter demonstrate outside the office of Woodstock '99 promoter/producer John Scher to protest the violence against women that allegedly occurred at the July 23-25 event. Several rapes and numerous accounts of sexual harassment and assault were reported after the event.
1998 - Scott Weiland, the lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots, pleads guilty to felony heroin possession and is sentenced to three months in a drug treatment facility.
1997 - Blues great Luther Allison, diagnosed with lung cancer and brain tumors July 10, dies in Wisconsin. Allison is 57.
1997 - Trisha Yearwood fans in Lynden, Wash., get an added treat when the singer is joined on stage by her occasional duet partner and friend, Garth Brooks. The two sing their hit song "In Another's Eyes."
1967 - Fleetwood Mac makes its performance debut. Windsor Jazz & Blues Festival, England.
1961 - Roy Hay, guitarist with Culture Club, is born in Southend, Essex, Great Britain.
1958 - Billboard magazine introduces the ``Hot 100'' singles chart.
1949 - Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits is born in Glasgow, Scotland. The group's biggest hit is ``Money for Nothing,'' which Knopfler writes with Sting. The song tops Billboard's Hot 100 for three weeks in 1985.
1927 - Country singer Porter Wagoner is born. His No. 1 country singles are ``A Satisfied Mind,'' ``Misery Loves Company'' and ``Please Don't Stop Loving Me.''
1877 - The first sound recording is made. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison records ``Mary Had a Little Lamb.''

This Day in Music
For August 13, 2005
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2000 - As Andy Griggs waits to open a show for Reba McEntire at the Milwaukee State Fair, he gets quite a surprise. A local radio DJ asks the crowd to serenade Griggs in observance of his 27th birthday. The entire audience sings, Griggs gets cakes, balloons and gifts, and his band and crew bombard him with Silly String.
1999 - Scott Weiland, lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots, is sent to jail for again violating his probation by continuing his illegal drug use. He had been receiving outpatient treatment for drug addiction but in July he is treated at the Daniel Freeman Hospital in Marina del Rey for an overdose on heroin.
1996 - The band 311 puts on a free "choose or loose" concert in California. The show is to heighten youth interest in the political world. The free show is held just outside the Republican National Convention in San Diego.
1996 - Composer David Tudor dies at the age of 70.
1995 - Four days after Jerry Garcia's death, the largest of many memorials draws 20,000 fans to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
1990 - Rhythm and blues singer Curtis Mayfield is paralyzed from the waist down after being struck by a lighting rig before an outdoor concert in Brooklyn, N.Y.
1982 - Soul star Joe Tex (Joseph Arrington Jr.) dies of a heart attack at age 49. Three of his songs top Billboard's R&B/soul singles chart.
1979 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Good Times,'' Chic. The song was written by band members Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, who between them have write No. 1 songs for Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Duran Duran and Madonna.
1965 - Jefferson Airplane makes its performance debut at the Matrix Club in San Francisco.
1965 - The Beatles arrive in New York to start their third U.S. tour.
1960 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``It's Now or Never,'' Elvis Presley. The song sells more than 20 million copes worldwide, making it Presley's biggest-selling single.
1951 - Dan Fogelberg is born in Peoria, Ill. His biggest hit is ``Longer,'' a No. 2 song in 1980. His first eight albums are certified gold (500,000 copies sold) or platinum (1 million copies sold).

This Day in Music
For August 14, 2005
From VNU Entertainment News Wire

2004 - Jam-band juggernaut Phish begins its two-day Coventry festival. It the band's plan to have Coventry be their last show.
2003 - Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland is sentenced to three years probation in Pasadena, Calif., following a May arrest on two felony drug possession charges.
2002 - Drowning Pool vocalist Dave Williams is found dead in his bunk on the band's tour bus. Despite speculation that the 30-year-old singer's death was alcohol or drug related, a later toxicology report confirms that he died of a heart problem.
1999 - In an unprecedented show of popularity, popsters Backstreet Boys sell all 765,000 tickets for their North American tour in just one day, generating an estimated $30 million. Tickets for the 11-week, 39-city arena tour sell out as soon as they go on sale - the vast majority within an hour.
1999 - Tracy Byrd and his band The Only Way to Fly are on hand to entertain at the Republican Party of Iowa Straw Poll in Ames, Iowa. At the invitation of Texas Governor George W. Bush, Byrd and band play country music for Bush supporters outside the Hilton Coliseum.
1999 - The Red Hot Chili Peppers perform with local Russian artists during a free music festival in Moscow's Red Square. The "MTV Live With the Red Hot Chili Peppers" event marks the first time the band has performed in Russia.
1998 - A Virginia judge issues three arrest warrants for Wu-Tang member Ol' Dirty Bastard, a.k.a. Big Baby Jesus - one for each of the scheduled court dates that the rapper skipped. The dates are in relation to an earlier shoplifting charge.
1998 - Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev is among the 15,000 visitors at the 10th Popkomm music fair. Gorbachev promotes the album "Russian Memories" by Ermitage, a.k.a. Munich-based Hungarian composer Leslie Mandoki. Sales of the CD benefit Gorbachev's Green Cross charity, which supports humanitarian and ecological projects.
1998 - PBS premiers a documentary on Robbie Robertson's Indian heritage. "Robbie Robertson: Making A Noise - A Native American Musical Journey" features tracks from the artist's current Capitol release, "Contact From The Underworld of Redboy," as well as footage of him in concert and in the studio. Robertson, who earlier in the year was presented with a Lifetime Achievement award at the first Native American Music Awards, is a tireless advocate of American Indian rights.
1995 - Members of the Grateful Dead meet and decide to cancel their fall tour in the wake of Jerry Garcia's death.
1992 - Tony Williams, former lead singer of the Platters, dies in Manhattan.
1992 - Wayne Newton files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The singer, a former owner of the Alladin Hotel in Las Vegas, is one of the highest paid performers on the Vegas strip.
1991 - Tony Orlando and wife Francine's first child, Jenny Rose, is born in Los Angeles.
1985 - Michael Jackson outbids Paul McCartney and Yoko Ono, at $47.5 million, to obtain catalog rights to 250 songs written by John Lennon and McCartney.
1976 - Nick Lowe's debut solo single, ``So It Goes,'' is released.
1967 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``All You Need Is Love,'' The Beatles. The group's manager, Brian Epstein, dies of an accidental drug overdose while the song is No. 1.
1941 - David Crosby is born David Van Courtland in Los Angeles. He is a member of the Byrds, then teams up with Stephen Stills and Graham Nash to form Crosby, Stills & Nash in 1968. The group wins the best new artist Grammy in 1969. CSN's two top 10 songs are ``Just a Song Before I Go'' and ``Wasted on the Way.''
1940 - Dash Crofts of Seals & Crofts is born in Cisco, Texas. The group has three top 10 hits, all of which reach No. 6: ``Summer Breeze'' in 1972, ``Diamond Girl'' in 1973 and ``Get Closer'' in 1976.