Cегодняшний день в истории рок-музыки

2zistebá:

>2Klaus V:
>>Саймон, с днём рожденья! Хоть ты и не рокер,
>>но, думаю, многие из форумчан вспомнят свою
>молодость глядя на эти видео!
>Что значит "не рокер"?! Разве Дюраны это не рок?
>Новая волна это один из видов рока.



2Klaus V:

А ты мне на это так и не ответил.

2zistebá: -А ты мне на это так и не ответил.

Ген, честно, не хотелось бы полемизировать. Рок, не рок, новая волна и т.д. Тем более, что я говорил только о Саймоне.

2Klaus V:

Но это неправильно сказать, что это не рок. Поп-музыка включает в себя элементы разных стилей, В ТОМ ЧИСЛЕ и рока.

Друзья! По причинческим технинам я буду обезинтернечен до завтрашнего дня, посему сейчас выложу информацию по следующему числу.

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Сегодня родились:

1922: Neal Hefti (an American jazz trumpeter, composer, tune writer, and arranger. He was perhaps best known for composing the theme music for the Batman television series of the 1960s)

1925: Zoot Sims (John Haley "Zoot" Sims was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor and soprano)

1937: Sonny Osborne (The Osborne Brothers, a bluegrass singer and five-string banjo player.)

1944: Denny Laine (born Brian Frederick Arthur Hines, The Moody Blues, Wings)

1945: Melba Moore (an American disco, R&B singer and actress. She is the daughter of saxophonist Teddy Hill and R&B singer Bonnie Davis)

1946: Peter Green (born Peter Allen Greenbaum, 29 October 1946, in Bethnal Green, London) is a British blues-rock guitarist and the founder of the band Fleetwood Mac)

1949: David Paton (a Scottish bass and guitar player, most notably with three different bands: Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project, and Camel)

1955: Kevin DuBrow - vocalist for Quiet Riot

1961: Randy Jackson (The Jackson 5)
1965: Peter Timmins, drummer with the Cowboy Junkies

Ушли из жизни:

1971: Duane Allman, 24

1984: Wells Kelly (drums and percussion for Orleans)

1987: Woody Herman, 74

2006: Jo Jo Laine, 54 (born Joanne LaPatrie, ex-wife of Denny Laine)

Cтали первыми в чартах:

1955: Roger Williams' "Autumn Leaves" hits #1

1966: ? and the Mysterians' "96 Tears" hits #1

1977: Paul Davis' "I Go Crazy" enters the charts

Записывались:

1930: Bing Crosby, "It Must Be True"

1957: Bobby Helms, "Jingle Bell Rock"

1965: The Beatles, "We Can Work It Out"

1976: Elvis Presley: "It's Easy For You," "Way Down," "Pledging My Love"

Выпущены:

1957: Buddy Holly, "Oh Boy!" b/w "Not Fade Away"

1977: Meat Loaf, Bat Out Of Hell

Получил золотой диск:

1970: Neil Diamomd's "Cracklin' Rosie" is certified gold

1973 – The Who’s double album, “Quadrophenia” received gold record status. It stayed on the US charts for 40 weeks and on Britain’s charts for 12 weeks.

Cобытия:

1957: After his concert at Los Angeles' Pan Pacific Auditorium, Elvis Presley meets TV star -- and, thanks to Elvis' inspiration, recording artist -- Rick Nelson for the first time. "Man, I just love your new record," says Elvis, referring to "Be-Bop Baby." The King also mentions that he's a fan of Rick's Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet show and gives the young singer some advice on touring.

1958: While still stationed in Germany with the US Army, Private First Class Elvis Presley takes in a Bill Haley show for the troops at Stuttgart.

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

1967 – During an American promotional tour, Pink Floyd appears on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. They lip-sync their single “See Emily Play,” but singer Syd Barrett keeps his mouth shut throughout the “performance.”

1969: New York underground newspaper Rat becomes the first publication to compile the various rumored "clues" to the "Paul Is Dead" phenomenon.

1976 – Elvis Presley’s final studio recording session is held at his Graceland mansion.

1983 – Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” marks its 491st week on the Billboard album chart, surpassing the previous record holder, “Johnny’s Greatest Hits” by Johnny Mathis. When it finally fell off of list in October
1988, “Dark Side” had set a record of 741 weeks on the chart.

1987: Rolling Stones guitarist and sometime painter Ron Wood gets his first public presentation, Decades, in London, featuring mostly portraits of Wood's famous friends over the past two decades.

1990: The inductees for the sixth annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are announced, a list which includes Wilson Pickett, Ike and Tina Turner, The Byrds, The Impressions, LaVern Baker, Jimmy Reed, and John Lee Hooker.

1995: Paul Anka guest stars on tonight's "Treehouse of Horror VI" episode of Fox-TV's The Simpsons.

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.

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.

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.

1999 – The surviving members of The Who, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle, reunited for the first time in two years for a concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to launch Pixelon, a new internet video company.

2002: Palm Springs, CA, dedicates a portion of its airport as the Sonny Bono Memorial Concourse, in honor of the famous singer who also served as the town's mayor in the late Eighties.

2003 – Research by Professor James Kellaris of the University of Cincinnati College of Business Administration, found that songs get stuck in our heads because they create a ‘brain itch’ that can only be scratched by repeating a tune over and over. Songs such as the Village People’s “YMCA” and the Baha Men’s “Who Let The Dogs Out”, owe their success to their ability to create a ‘cognitive itch’.

2003: A study by the Neilsen ratings people finds that a full third the sales of Beatles 1 were to new fans between the ages of 19 and 24, skewing the fan base even younger than it had been previously.

2005: The wax figures of the younger Beatles used in the cover of the band's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album are auctioned off for 81,500 pounds in London after being discovered languishing in the backroom of Madame Tussauds' famous wax museum.

2009 - Forbes Magazine reported that Michael Jackson had earned about 72 million dollars since his death on June 6th. That was good enough for third place on their list of dead celebrities making the most money. Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent came in first at $350 million, songwriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein were second with $235 million and Elvis Presley was fourth, earning $55 million.

Denny Laine - 67 лет!

Go Now - Denny Laine w/Wings. Несколько забавных кадров с Полом и маленькой Стеллой.


Для сравнения десятилетием ранее. Moody Blues - Go Now (Live in France, 1965)


The Note You Never Wrote (Denny Laine - vocal)


Time to Hide. Концертный вариант. На мой взгляд, гораздо драйвовее, чем записано на альбоме.

Peter Green - 65 лет! Ушедший, но чудом вернувшийся!

Albatross (1970 UK TV Performance)


Love That Burns. Кстати, слова тоже написал он. Один из самых пронзительных блюзов.(Would you love me tomorrow like you say you love me now...)


Rattlesnake Shake


The Green Manalishi

British Charts Top 5 29.10.1977

1 YES SIR I CAN BOOGIE – BACCARA
2 BLACK IS BLACK – LA BELLE EPOQUE
3 YOU'RE IN MY HEART – ROD STEWART
4 SILVER LADY – DAVID SOUL
5 THE NAME OF THE GAME – ABBA

Засилье диско и легкой попсы, но мне милее всех из них, конечно, Stewart!

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Сегодня родились:

1934: Folk singer Hamilton Camp, whose songs have been covered by Simon & Garfunkel and Quicksilver Messenger Service, is born.
1939: Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing, Jefferson Airplane)
1939: Eddie Holland, who with his brother Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier wrote some of Motown’s biggest hits, is born in Detroit.
1941: Otis Williams (The Temptations)
1946: Chris Slade (The drummer. Toomorrow, Tom Paxton, Manfred Mann, AC/DC, Frankie Miller, Denny Laine, Gary Newman, Tom Jones, Olivia Newton-John, Uriah Heep, The Firm, Asia )
1947: Timothy B. Schmidt (Poco, The Eagles)
1967: Bush’s Gavin Rossdale is born in London.

Ушли из жизни:

2003 – Steve O’Rourke, manager of Pink Floyd since 1968. He is 63. His funeral service was held on 14 November 2003 at Chichester Cathedral in Sussex, England, where, as a tribute, Pink Floyd members David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason performed together in public for the first time since October 1994. They played "Fat Old Sun" and "The Great Gig in the Sky", with Dick Parry playing the saxophone as he followed the coffin. David Gilmour's 2006 solo album On an Island was dedicated to O'Rourke's memory (as well as memories of tour manager Tony Howard and arranger/orchestrator Michael Kamen). Nick Mason's book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd was also dedicated to O'Rourke.

2007: Robert Goulet, 73. was a Canadian American entertainer as a singer and actor. He played the role of Lancelot in the Broadway musical Camelot of 1960.

Cтали первыми в чартах:

1951: No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Cold, Cold Heart,” Tony Bennett
1965: Patty Duke's "Say Something Funny" enters the charts

Записывались:

1955: Elvis Presley, "When It Rains, It Really Pours"
1960: Elvis Presley: "Milky White Way," "His Hand In Mine," "I Believe In The Man In The Sky," "He Knows Just What I Need," "Surrender," "Mansion Over The Hilltop"
1968: The MC5, Kick Out The Jams It was recorded live at Detroit's Grande Ballroom over two nights, Devil's Night and Halloween, 1968. In 2003, the album was ranked number 294 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. (However, the original Rolling Stone review by Lester Bangs was unfavorable, calling it "ridiculous, overbearing, [and] pretentious".)

Cобытия:

1961 The Crystals release their single “Oh Yeah, Maybe Baby.” The No. 20 hit is the first release on the Philles label, run by producer Phil Spector.

1963 With the final mix by George Martin of “Money (That’s What I Want),” work finishes on With the Beatles, the group’s second album.

1964 No. 1 Chart Toppers Pop Hit: “Baby Love,” The Supremes. The group is the first from Motown Records to have two No. 1 hits.

1966 Pink Floyd sign with their new managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King.

1967 Rolling Stones leader Brian Jones, already deep in drug addiction, pleads guilty in a London court to possession of cannabis and not guilty to possession of cocaine and methedrine. He spends the night in Wormwood Scrubs prison and is released on bail the next day after being sentenced to nine months, a sentence which will eventually be suspended.

1967 Pink Floyd and the Sopwith Camel perform at San Francisco’s Fillmore in a benefit for the radio station KPFA. The same day they appear on The Pat Boone Show. Madcap singer Syd Barrett refuses to answer Pat’s questions during the program.

1970 A Miami court sentences Doors leader Jim Morrison to six months in prison and a fine of $500 for allegedly exposing himself during a concert there in March of the previous year. The case is still on appeal when Morrison dies the following July.

1970 Davy Jones guest-stars as himself in tonight's "The Teen Idol" episode of ABC-TV's Make Room For Granddaddy.

1972 Elton John becomes the first rock star since the Beatles to perform for Queen Elizabeth II at her annual Royal Command Variety Performance in London.

1973 On their first visit to the UK, The Osmonds are mobbed by 10,000 fans at London's Heathrow Airport.

1974 Upon learning that her husband, funk-rocker Sly Stone, has abducted their 14-month-old son Sylvester Bubb
Ali Stewart, wife Kathy Silvia files for divorce.

1976 Led Zeppelin announces that they will embark on another world tour. However, the tour is later postponed due to Robert Plant’s tonsillitis.

1977 Poet Allen Ginsberg visits his old friend Bob Dylan and the two tape several interviews together.

1978 KISS' ill-advised live-action kiddie movie KISS Meet The Phantom Of The Park premieres on NBC-TV. Their career would never fully recover.

1979 Bianca Jagger, Mick's first wife, is granted a divorce after eight years of marriage.

1982 Paul Weller announces he’s breaking up the Jam. Ballsy move.

1984 Barry Manilow beats Diana Ross' old Radio City Music Hall record of $1.8 million with his series of sold-out concerts there.

1984 Acclaimed soprano Linda Ronstadt finally stars in her first opera -- a production of "La Boheme" at New York's Public Theatre.

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

1995 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces its upcoming induction of David Bowie, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Pink Floyd, The Shirelles, Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, and the Velvet Underground.

1997 All three of the Bee Gees walk off the set of Clive Anderson's BBC-TV talk show All Talk after Anderson disparages their disco era and refers to them as "tossers."

1998 KISS, both with their signature makeup and without, appear on tonight's "...Thirteen Years Later" episode of Fox-TV's Millennium.

1998 David Bowie kicks off a contest on his Web site Bowienet.com, asking users to help him finish writing the lyrics for the song “What’s Really Happening.” All references to laughing gnomes are immediately discarded, and the eventual winner is 20-year-old Alex Grant.

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.”

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. He was 37.

2003 Lionel Richie divorces his second wife, Diane Alexander.

2005 Willie Nelson holds a fundraiser on his Austin ranch and golf course to raise money for his old pal and Texas gubernatorial candidate, the writer-songwriter-gadfly Kinky Friedman. Also in attendance: Jesse “The Body” Ventura.

2007 After losing the top spot to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain the year before, Elvis Presley once again tops Forbes Magazine's list of highest-earning dead celebrities. John Lennon is second on the list; fellow ex-Beatle George Harrison is fourth.

Grace Slick - Happy Birthday! Forever Young!

КРОЛИК БЕЛЫЙ! Куда ж без него!


Кстати, вопрос к аудитории - на кого смотрит Грейс, исполняя первый куплет? =)))

Chris Slade - 65!

Именно этот барабанщик был пульсом AC/DC в Тушино 28 сентября 1991 года!

AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Live 1991 Moscow)


AC/DC - FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK (Live 28-09-1991 Moscow) ...we were living for that day...


Говорят, женщинам, всё-таки, больше нравятся бритые мужики...?

Gavin Rossdale сегодня празднует 45! Вокалист и гитарист группы BUSH ("Куст" по-нашему, если не пользоваться сленговым словарём ха-ха). Были вполне годной граджевой группой, если бы не одно НО - они были островитяне. А на острове, как мы с вами знаем, правили OASIS энд компани. Поэтому "кучкисты" (или "кустисты") подались в США, и правильно сделали - там всё пошло как надо! Именинник сейчас муж Гвен Стефани, которая, без сомнений, не говорит ("Don't Speak" No Doubt)

Радио "Максимум" году так в 1997 вот эту вещь ежедневно крутило около 08:45 по рабочим дням. Э-э-эХ! My twenties(((

Bush - Swallowed

Bush - Little Things (Live 1996)


выглядят как boysband))

2Klaus V:

>Chris Slade - 65!
Он и с Пейджем в The Firm играл, и недавно даже с нашими PLumbum DreamZ

2 ledzep: - Он и с Пейджем в The Firm играл, и недавно даже с нашими PLumbum DreamZ

Да-а-а! Он самый!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Сегодня родились:

1912: Dale Evans
1922: Illinois Jacquet
1927: Anita Kerr
1934: Ray Smith
1937 – Folk singer Tom Paxton, who went from being a topical rabble-rouser to children’s performer, is born in Chicago.
1944 – Author and songwriter Kinky Friedman, whose compositions include “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore,” is born in Rio Duckworth, Texas.
1945 – Roxy Music bassist Rik Kenton is born
1945 – Russ Ballard, who as the lead singer for Argent, wrote “God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll to You,” is born in Waltham Cross, England.
1952 – Bernard Edwards of Chic is born in Greenville, N.C.
1961 – U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. is born in Dublin
1963 – Johnny Marr, who played guitar with the Smiths and Electronic, is born in Manchester, England.
1965 – Annabella Lwin of Bow Wow Wow (“I Want Candy”) is born in Burma.
1966 – King Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) of the Beastie Boys is born in Brooklyn, New York.
1968 – Cookin’ up rhymes like a pound of bacon – Vanilla Ice is born in Miami Lakes, Fla. Sorry about the frightening image of Vanilla Ice above, but it is Halloween.


Ушли из жизни:

1966 Alma Cogan (Dreamboat)
1968: Malcolm Hale (Spanky and Our Gang)
2002: Claude Johnson (Don and Juan)
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 longestrunning musical in Broadway history.
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.
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.

Cтали первыми в чартах:

1964: The Supremes' "Baby Love" hits #1
1964: Barbra Streisand's LP People hits #1

Записывались:

1930: Count Basie, "Somebody Stole My Gal"
1958: The Flamingos, "I Only Have Eyes For You"
1960: The Everly Brothers, "Ebony Eyes"
1960: Elvis Presley: "In My Father's House," "Joshua Fit the Battle," "Swing Down, Sweet Chariot," "I'm Gonna Walk Dem Golden Stairs," "If We Never Meet Again," "Known Only to Him," "Crying In The Chapel," "Working On The Building"
1961: Bobby Darin, "Irresistible You"
1963: Bob Dylan, "Restless Farewell"

Были изданы:
1995 – Alice in Chains release a special vinyl edition of their album, “Alice in Chains.”

Получил золотой диск:
1970: James Taylor's LP Fire and Rain is certified gold
1972: Curtis Mayfield's "Freddie’s Dead" is certified gold

Cобытия:

1952: When his original guitarist has a stroke just before a New Year's Eve gig, popular St. Louis boogie-woogie pianist Johnnie Johnson hires for his group The Sir John's Trio a 26-year old hairdresser named Chuck Berry.

1956 Tommy Steele takes UK rock and roll into chart for the first time with 'Rock with the Cavemen'

1959 Bobby Rydell scores first his as 'We Got Love' enters US chart

1963: The Beatles return from a tour of Sweden to find 50,000 screaming fans waiting for them at London's Heathrow Airport, the surest proof yet that Beatlemania is a national phenomenon. Waiting at the airport is American TV host Ed Sullivan, who notices the furor. "Who are those guys?" he asks a bystander, who tells him they are "England's foremost singing group." Having never heard them, Sullivan nevertheless immediately contacts manager Brian Epstein to book the band for three appearances on his CBS show early in 1964.

1964: Ray Charles is arrested at Boston's Logan Airport for possession of heroin, his third drug since 1958. The singer is ordered to rehab in order to avoid jail time.

1964: For the first time since January 1964, the Beatles do not have a song currently on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. No less than 14 singles hit the charts in the previous ten months.

1964: Joan Baez sings three songs with Bob Dylan at tonight's concert in New York: "Mama, You Been On My Mind," "With God On Our Side," and "It Ain't Me, Babe."

1964 – Bob Dylan performs a Halloween concert at New York’s Philharmonic Hall. CBS is recording the show for a possible live album. Dylan shows off a new composition called “Advice to Geraldine on Her Miscellaneous Birthday.”

1965: Lead singer Wayne Fontana leaves his group, The Mindbenders.

1967: The Stooges make their live debut at a Detroit, MI, Halloween party.

1967 – Having spent a night at Wormwood Scrubs Prison, Rolling Stone Brian Jones is ordered to spend nine months in jail after pleading guilty to marijuana possession. He appeals the judge’s decision and is released on bail.

1968 – Linda Eastman arrives in England to take up living with Paul McCartney.

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

1974 – Led Zeppelin officially launches their Swan Song label with a party at England’s Chislehurst Caves. Attendees include the Pretty Things – who are signed to Swan Song – Bill Wyman, and Groucho Marx. In typical Zep style, the caves are lined with naked women. Cute.

1975 – The Marshall Tucker Band performs at a campaign fund-raiser for presidential candidate Jimmy Carter.

1976: Elvis Presley makes his last recording, singing Jim Reeves' "He'll Have To Go" over a pre-recorded backing track in the Jungle Room of his Graceland home.

1992 – Tonight on ABC, stay-at-home trick-or-treaters can watch the Halloween Jam at Universal Studios, featuring AC/DC, the Black Crowes, Ozzy Osbourne, and Slaughter, En Vogue… what… ok… back to OZZY.
You have to have OZZY at a Halloween gig. Awesome!

1992 Pearl Jam sets a first week sales record by selling 950,000 copies of the "Vs." album.

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.

1995: James Brown is charged with assault at his home in Aiken, SC, after allegedly striking his wife Adrienne with a mirror.

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.

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.

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.

2000: Napster announces a deal with entertainment giant BMG to make its illegal file-sharing software into a paid subscription service.

2003 – On the final night of her Farewell tour, Cher is named the year’s biggest touring female by Billboard. She grossed $145 million and drew 2.2 million fans to over 200 concerts.

2003 – The Flaming Lips are forced to cut short a concert in Birmingham, England, after one of their dancing pandas collapses onstage.

2003 – Jane’s Addiction play a surprise “flash mob” gig outside London’s Brixton Academy immediately after their Halloween show there. Fans were invited to the karaoke-styled set via text message.

2005: The Isley Brothers' Ron Isley is sentenced to 26 years in federal prison on tax evasion charges.

2005: The white suit John Lennon wore on the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road sells at a Las Vegas Amnesty International charity auction for $118,000.

2007: Elvis Presley tops the annual Forbes magazine list of most profitable dead celebrities, his estate having taken in $49 million over the past year. John Lennon makes the #2 spot; George Harrison, James Brown, and Bob Marley also make the list.

2008 - A couple who admitted supplying drugs including cocaine and ecstasy to singer Amy Winehouse were warned they faced a jail term as they appeared in Snaresbrook Crown Court, England. The charges related to video footage which appeared to show Winehouse smoking a crack pipe. The singer was arrested and questioned over the images but she was not charged.

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