On this day today:
1941 - Bob Dylan is born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota.
1944 - Patti LaBelle is born Patricia Louise Holt in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1956 - Larry Blackmon (frontman for Cameo) is born in New York City.
1969 - The Guess Who make their first appearance on American television, performing "These Eyes" and "Laughing" on American Bandstand.
1975 - Earth, Wind & Fire's "Shining Star," a song that reflects the band's values of clean living and spiritual well-being, reaches #1 in America.
1977 - Marc Bolan plays his last show with T. Rex.
1977 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer launch an extravagant, 11-month tour at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, featuring a 70-piece orchestra, 63 roadies, a choir, and a karate instructor for drummer Carl Palmer. Despite its grandeur, the tour turns out to be a financial catastrophe.
1982 - An 11-minute film featuring Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr is shown at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
1991 - After a limited rollout in major cities, beginning with Los Angeles, Madonna's groundbreaking and candid concert documentary Truth or Dare hits theaters.
1997 - The Spice Girls' debut album, "Spice," secures the top spot on the US charts, establishing them as the first British act to achieve a #1 debut album in the country.
1997 - Hanson achieves a breakthrough with their debut single, "MMMbop," which climbs to the #1 spot, becoming an unforgettable earworm in music history.
2000 - 50 Cent survives being shot nine times while sitting in the backseat of a parked car. Despite the ordeal, he is later released from his label, Columbia Records. Joining G-Unit, he eventually rises to superstardom, with the shooting incident becoming a prominent part of his biography.
2003 - Paul McCartney made his first ever live performance in Russia when he appeared in-front of 20,000 fans in Red Square.
2007 - Amy Winehouse, Madonna, and Arctic Monkeys were honored at this year's Ivor Novello Awards. Winehouse received the award for Best Contemporary Song for her hit "Rehab," Madonna won the International Hit of the Year for "Sorry," and Arctic Monkeys took home the Best Album award for "Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not."
2012 - Billboard announces that Lionel Richie's album Tuskegee is the second-best-selling album of 2012 so far, just behind Adele's 21. Remarkably, the soul/R&B singer and former Motown artist, who started his career in 1967, continues to resonate with contemporary audiences five decades later.
2023 - Tina Turner dies at 83 after a long illness.
