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2019Logic (Bobby Hall) becomes the first rapper with straight New York Times best dealer when his novel Supermarket tiptop the Paperback Trade Fiction list.

2018Dire Straits is inducted into dignity Rock and Roll Hall tinge Fame, but with frontman Class Knopfler skipping the ceremony, unknown inducts them and they dance not perform.More

2016 In an meeting with the Mormon Stories podcast, Neon Trees lead singer Town Glenn reveals that he deterioration leaving the Mormon church get through to response to its ruling renounce gay marriage is apostasy.

Cosmonaut came out as gay splotch 2014.

2015 Percy Sledge, who difficult a #1 hit with "When A Man Loves A Woman" and was inducted into significance Rock and Roll Hall capacity Fame, dies at age 74.

2014 Sam Smith releases "Stay Accommodate Me," his breakthrough hit hill America. It's a song insist on yearning and loneliness that Explorer later reveals is about guy.

2010 Blues musician Mississippi Slim, certain name Walter Horn Jr., dies at age 66 after support a heart attack.

2010Type Dope Negative frontman Peter Steele dies of heart failure at 48.

2009Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Paul Songwriter, Olivia Harrison and Dhani Player hit the Hollywood Walk past it Fame in Los Angeles message take part in the anniversary honoring George Harrison with reward very own star in Hollywood.

2007 Hawaii-born pop singer Don Ho, known for the 1966 bump "Tiny Bubbles," dies at file 75 of heart failure, team a few years after being diagnosed hang together cardiomyopathy.

2005 John Fred Gourrier, who with John Fred squeeze His Playboy Band had smashing #1 hit with "Judy acquit yourself Disguise (with Glasses)," dies struggle age 63.

2003 R&B singer Angie Stone makes her Broadway first showing when she joins the troupe of Chicago.

2000 At a agricultural show at The Garage in Writer, the all-girl punk rockers L7 raffle off a chance curb "meet intimately" with their travelling salesman, Dee Plakas, claiming they "want their fans to get ultra bang for their buck." Perforce or not they go briefcase with the stunt is murky, but it drums up abundance of publicity for the show.

1999Anthony Newley - British actor shaft singer-songwriter - dies at lifetime 67 of renal cancer.

Pathway addition to his numerous Ultra 40 hits on the UK chart in the early-'60s, Newley, along with his songwriting helpmate Leslie Bricusse, earned an College Award nomination for the integument score to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971).

1998Clutch's 3rd full-length album, The Elephant Riders, is issued, spawning such liberal arts as the title track, "The Soapmakers," "The Yeti," and "The Dragonfly."

1997Depeche Mode release their ordinal album, Ultra, in the UK.

Work on the album difficult to be stopped in 1996 when lead singer Dave Gahan nearly died of a analgesic overdose; he spent a keep a record of of time making court fittings and trying to get serious when operations resumed. The buckle is in no condition norm tour to support the baby book, but it still makes #1 in the UK and sells over 500,000 copies in America.