This Day in Music History! Jimi Hendrix on Top Gear! ALSO- Jagger apologizes to Jesse Jackson over lyrics, not sorry enough to change them. Births 1945: Robin Shaw (The Flowerpot Men) 1946: Millie Small 1949: Thomas McClary (The Commodores) 1949: Bobby Farrell (Boney M) 1951: Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon) 1951: Gavin Sutherland (The Sutherland Brothers) Deaths 1966: Johnny Kidd 1978: Johnny OKeefe 1985: Nelson Riddle Events 1967: Jimi Hendrix performs on the new BBC 1 radio show Top Gear , with Stevie Wonder, who was visiting the studios, sitting in on drums for a jam called (appropriately enough) Jammin and a version of Stevies I Was Made To Love Her. 1971: Pat Boone guest-stars on tonights The Academy episode of NBC-TVs thriller Night Gallery . 1977: Rod Stewart is named in a $15 million palimony suit by actress Britt Eklund. 1978: ABBA songwriter / musician Benny Anderson marries fellow band vocalist Anni-Frid Lyngstad in Sweden. The marriage lasts three years. (The groups other male-female pair had been married in 1971.) 1978: The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger apologizes to activist Jesse Jackson, who raised a public outcry over the lyrics of the Stones recent song Some Girls, specifically the line black girls just want to get ------ all night. Jagger refuses calls to change the lyrics. 1980: With the disco craze officially over, The Bee Gees file a $200 million mismanagement lawsuit against longtime manager Robert Stigwood and his label RSO Records, one that would within the year be settled out of court. 1991: The Fox TV network airs the special Ray Charles: 50 Years Of Music , featuring guests Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Paul McCartney, Randy Travis, Michael Bolton, and more. 1991: Michael Jackson gives Elizabeth Taylor away to Larry Fortensky during her eighth wedding, held at Jacksons California ranch, Neverland. 2002: Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones donates 100,000 pounds to the school he once attended in Dartford, England, for musical instruments and a band director. The resultant musical center is named after the singer. 2006: Before Game Three of baseballs AL Divisional Playoff in Detroit, MI, the Four Tops sing the US national anthem. Releases 1956: Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender 1969: The Beatles, Something b/w Come Together 1979: The Eagles, Heartache Tonight Recording 1941: Claude Thornhill, Autumn Nocturne 1964: The Beatles, Eight Days A Week 1965: Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Shes Just My Style, Sure Gonna Miss Her 1967: The Beatles, Blue Jay Way 1976: Salsoul Orchestra, Christmas Medley Charts 1973: Chers Half-Breed hits #1 1979: Robert Johns Sad Eyes hits #1 Certifications 1976: Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots Disco Duck is certified gold
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