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On This Day in Eagle Classic Hitstory...

September 5

1912
Experimental composer and Sonic Youth fan John Cage is born in Los Angeles.

1939
Folk singer John Stewart, who wrote "Daydream Believer" for the Monkees and hit No. 5 himself with "Gold," is born in San Diego.
John Stewart "Gold"

1945
Al Stewart, the soft-voiced singer who hit with "Year of the Cat" and once hired a young Tori Amos, is born in Glasgow, Scotland.

1946
Jazz and R&B singer, drummer, and bandleader Buddy Miles, who played with Electric Flag, Santana, Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, and even the California Raisins, is born in Omaha, Neb.

1946
Singer/songwriter Loudon Wainwright III is born in Chapel Hill, N.C.

1946
Freddie Mercury, vocalist for Queen, is born in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" Live Aid 1986

1964
Techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson, who recorded the definitive "Big Fun" as Inner City, is born in Brooklyn, N.Y.

1964
"And I Love Her" by The Beatles peaks at #12 on the pop singles chart while "If I Fell" peaks at #53.

1964
The Animals' "The House Of The Rising Sun" hits #1 on the pop chart.

1964
Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" is released. It will become their first number 1.

1965
The Rolling Stones fly to Los Angeles to record "Get Off My Cloud" and other tunes.

1966
John Lennon flies to Germany to begin filming How I Won the War with director Richard Lester. He begins to wear the granny glasses of his character, Pvt. Gripweed.

1968
Herbert Khaury, known better as Tiny Tim, sues Bouguet Records for $1 million in damages when the record label releases early recordings of Khaury whithout his permission.

1969
Folk/bluesman Josh White dies in Manhasset, N.Y., at age 61.

1970
Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen enters the LP charts. The live album commemorates his debauched tour of the U.S. with Leon Russell. It becomes Cocker's biggest album, peaking at No. 2.

1972
The London Art Spectrum, held at the Alexandria Palace, is the showcade for five of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's avant-guarde films: Cold Turkey, The Ballad of John and Yoko, Give Peace a Chance, Instant Karma, and Up Your Leg.

1976
No. 1 Hit: "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty," KC & the Sunshine Band.

1978
Joe Negroni, a baritone with Frankie Lymon's Teenagers, dies in New York four days short of his 38th birthday.

1981
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" by Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks peaks at #3 on the singles chart; The Greg Kihn Band's "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)" peaks at #15 and Foreigner's "Urgent" peaks at #4.

1981
Bruce Springsteen joins The Pretenders on stage in Pasadena for a version of "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher."

1986
Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" wins and MTV award for Best Video.

1987
American Bandstand was cancelled after 30 years on the air.

1987
Bob Dylan performs the first gig of his Temples in Flames tour in Tel Aviv, Israel.

1990
B.B. King receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

1991
R.E.M. wins 5 MTV Video Music awards, including video of the year for "Losing My Religion."

1992
John Mellencamp and model Elaine Irwin get married at a cabin near Seymour, Indiana, where Mellencamp grew up. They had met during the filming of his video, "Get A Leg Up" and she had appeared on the cover of his album, Whenever We Wanted.

1992
Elton John's The One peaks at #8 on the LP charts.

1993
Guitarist Dave Navarro joins the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

1994
Rod Stewart and wife Rachael Hunter become parents to son Liam McAllister.

1996
Capitol Records releases The Beatles Anthology video tape set - which consists of 10 hours of material.

1997
R&B newcomer Erykah Badu finds her hands literally full at the 1997 Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards as she garners an unprecedented four honors. Badu is named best R&B/soul or rap new artist, R&B/soul album of the year, the solo accolade for her debut set Baduizm, and best R&B/ soul single, solo, and song of the honors for "On & On."

1997
Sir Georg Solti, the Hungarian-born conductor who led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to international fame as its music director for more than 20 years dies at the age of 84.

1999
Blues singer/pianist Katie Webster dies of heart failure at her home in League City, Texas. She is 63.

2000
Eager journalists and hardcore fans alike mingle at the Sony IMAX Theater in New York's Lincoln Square for the North American unveiling of Radiohead's longawaited fourth album Kid A.

2000
Oasis guitarist/songwriter Noel Gallagher splits with his wife, Meg Matthews, the inspiration for the song "Wonderwall."

2000
Tori Amos is a mother. Her first daughter is born in London, weighing in at 7 lb., 1 oz.

2002
Country icon Willie Nelson is forced to halt a show at TJ’s Tavern in Brownville, Neb., when his nose begins bleeding uncontrollably. Nelson is forced to cancel several shows over the following days to recover from a ruptured blood vessel.

2003
Greendale, the inscrutable Neil Young-directed film that accompanies Neil Young's inscrutable concept album of the same name, premieres at the Toronto Film Festival.

2003
The judge in Beanie Sigel’s attempted murder case revokes bail after hearing testimony that the Roc-a-fella rapper is threatening witnesses.

2005
Rocker Sheryl Crow announces she's engaged to multiple Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.

2006
Diddy, formerly P. Diddy, formerly Puff Daddy, has two new upcoming releases. He reveals via a MySpace video that his girlfriend Kim Porter is expecting twins.

2006
The popular networking site MySpace announces it will begin selling music online, offering the first serious challenge to Apple's dominance of the download market.

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