Live Wire: Music on Television April 9-15

Just because MTV doesn’t play music anymore doesn’t mean there’s not tons of live music on television these days. Consider our weekly feature “Live Wire,” your guide to performances, concerts and rock star appearances on the tube. All times are ET.

Live Wire Spotlight – Slash on Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m. Tuesday, ABC)

Slash will debut his new single, “You’re a Lie,” on Tuesday night’s edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live. To promote his forthcoming album, Apocalyptic Love, the guitar god will be joined by singer Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators – the same group that played on the record. The boys also will perform a mini concert for those who show up to see the band play in Hollywood. Fingers crossed that the footage of all the performances will appear Kimmel show’s website for everyone to see.

Monday, April 9

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (check local listings, syndicated): Cee-Lo Green

The Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m., CBS): Tennis

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC): Esperanza Spalding

Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m., ABC): LL Cool J

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (12:35 a.m., NBC): Pulp, Seun Kuti

Tuesday, April 10

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (check local listings, syndicated): Bonnie Raitt

Conan (11 p.m., TBS): M. Ward

The Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m., CBS): Shooter Jennings

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC): Eric Turner with Lupe Fiasco and Tinie Tempah

Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m., ABC): Slash

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (12:35 a.m., NBC): White Rabbits

Wednesday, April 11

The View (11 a.m., ABC): Trisha Yearwood

The Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m., CBS): Kaiser Chiefs

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC): Neon Trees

Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m., ABC): The Civil Wars

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (12:35 a.m., NBC): The Ting Tings

Thursday, April 12

The View (11 a.m., ABC): Shooter Jennings

The Ellen DeGeneres Show (check local listings, syndicated): Karmin

Conan (11 p.m., TBS): Arctic Monkeys

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC): Blake Shelton, Feist

Jimmy Kimmel Live (12:05 a.m., ABC): The Shins

Friday, April 13

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (11:35 p.m., NBC): Far East Movement

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (12:35 a.m., NBC): The Fray

Saturday, April 14

That Metal Show (11 p.m., VH1 Classic): George Lynch, Jeff Pilson, Mick Brown, Brian Tichy

Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m., NBC): Gotye

Austin City Limits (check local listings, PBS): John Legend and The Roots

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This Day in Music: April 4th

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Born on this day:

1915, Muddy Waters, U.S. blues singer, guitarist
1952, Dave Hill, guitarist (Slade)
1952, Gary Moore, guitarist (Skid Row, Thin Lizzy, solo)
1980, Johnny Borrell, guitarist, singer (Razorlight)

1964, The Beatles held the top five places on the Billboard U.S. singles chart: #1 “Can’t Buy Me Love,” #2 “Love Me Do,” #3 “Roll Over Beethoven,” #4 “I Want to Hold You Hand” and #5 “Please Please Me.” The group also had another nine singles on the chart, bringing their total to 14 singles on the Hot 100.

1968, after hearing the news of Martin Luther King’s assassination, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Joni Mitchell, Al Kooper and Ted Nugent congregated for an all night blues, folk and rock session at The New Generation Club in New York.

1976, the Sex Pistols played the first night of a residency at the El Paradiso club in Soho, London.

1987, U2 entered the U.S. album chart at #7 with The Joshua Tree, making it the highest new chart entry in America in seven years.

1992, Bruce Springsteen scored his third #1 album in the U.K. with Human Touch.

1999, The Corrs album Talk On Corners reached #1 on the U.K. album chart for the 10th time. The Irish group also had the #2 position with Forgiven, Not Forgotten. Both albums had spent over a year on the chart.

2008, at London’s Court of Appeal, Procol Harum singer/pianist Gary Brooker won a royalty battle over the band’s worldwide hit, “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” brought by original organist Matthew Fisher. The decision overturned a 2006 ruling that Fisher was entitled to a 40% portion of royalties after he argued he had written the song’s organ melody. The court ruled there was an “excessive delay” in the claim being made – the claim was made nearly 40 years after the song was recorded.

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This Day in Music: April 5th

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Born on this day:

1928, Tony Williams, vocals, The Platters
1942, Allan Clarke, vocals, The Hollies
1948, Dave Holland, drums, Judas Priest
1950, Agnetha Faltskog, vocals, ABBA
1964, Christopher “Kid” Reid, rapper, Kid ’n Play
1966, Mike McCready, guitar, Pearl Jam
1968, Paula Cole, singer-songwriter
1970, Miho Hatori, vocals, keyboards, Cibo Matto
1973, Pharrell Williams, singer, producer, N.E.R.D., The Neptunes

1978, Duran Duran made their live debut at The Lecture Theatre, Birmingham Polytechnic.

1980, R.E.M. played their first ever gig when they appeared at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Athens, Georgia. For more on this story, see This Day in Music Spotlight.

1981, Canned Heat singer Bob “The Bear” Hite died of a heart attack at age 36. The band played at both the 1967 Montery Pop Festival and the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

1984, Marvin Gaye’s funeral took place at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles. Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Berry Gordy and other Motown singers, writers and producers attended the service.

1994, Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home in Seattle. Cobain’s body wasn’t discovered until April 8, by an electrician who had arrived to install a security system, who initially believed that Cobain was asleep, until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin. A suicide note was found that said, “I haven’t felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing ... for too many years now.”

1998, British drummer Cozy Powell was killed when his car smashed into crash barriers on a motorway in Bristol, England. Powell had worked with Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Black Sabbath, Rainbow and the ELP spin-off Emerson, Lake & Powell. Plus he did session work with Donovan, Roger Daltrey, Jack Bruce, Jeff Beck, Gary Moore and Brian May.

2006, Gene Pitney was found dead at age 65 in his bed in a Cardiff hotel. The American singer was on a U.K. tour and had shown no signs of illness. Pitney helped The Rolling Stones break the American market with his endorsement of the band. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote his hit “That Girl Belongs to Yesterday,” which became the Stones duo’s first composition to reach the American charts. He scored the 1962 U.S. #4 single “Only Love Can Break a Heart,” plus more than 15 other U.S. and U.K. Top 40 hits.

2007, Former KISS guitarist Mark St. John died from an apparent brain hemorrhage at the age of 51. St. John was KISS’s third official guitarist, having replaced Vinnie Vincent in 1984 and appeared on the album Animalize.

2008, Apple’s iTunes overtook Wal-Mart to become the largest music retailer in the U.S. Market research firm NPD said iTunes surpassed Wal-Mart in January and February if 12 downloads are considered equal to the sale of one CD album. At that point, iTunes had sold more than four billion songs since its launch in 2003.

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This Day in Music: April 20th

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Born on this day:

1948, Craig Frost, keyboardist, Grand Funk Railroad
1951, Luther Vandross, singer
1971, Mikey Welsh, bassist, Weezer

1957, Elvis Presley started an eight-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with “All Shook Up,” which sold more than 2 million copies and became the biggest single of 1957.

1959, In the U.S., Goldband Records released “Puppy Love” by a 13-year old Dolly Parton. The song was recorded two years earlier when she was just 11 years old. The song didn’t chart but was a hit in 1960 for Paul Anka and in 1972 for Donny Osmond.

1968, Deep Purple made their live debut in Tastrup, Denmark.

1985, The charity record “We are the World” by USA For Africa hit #1 on the U.K. singles chart. The U.S. artists’ answer to Band Aid had an all-star cast including Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Daryl Hall, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, Kim Carnes, Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon, plus Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, who composed the track.

1991, Steve Marriott, former guitarist and singer with The Small Faces and Humble Pie, died in a fire at his home in Arkesden, Essex.

1992, A Concert For Life took place at London’s Wembley Stadium as a tribute to Queen singer Freddie Mercury and for AIDS awareness. Acts appearing include Liza Minelli, Elton John, Roger Daltrey, Tony Iommi, David Bowie, Mick Ronson, James Hetfield (Metallica), George Michael, Seal, Paul Young, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfield, Robert Plant, Joe Elliot and Phil Collen (from Def Leppard), and Axl Rose and Slash.

1993, Aerosmith released Get a Grip, which became their first album to debut at #1 and sold 7 million copies in the U.S. It also won the band two Grammys. For more on this story, see today’s This Day in Music Spotlight.

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This Day in Music: April 19th

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Born on this day:

1928, Alexis Korner, blues singer, guitarist, broadcaster
1942, Alan Price, keyboardist (The Animals, Alan Price Set)
1944, Bernie Worrell, keyboardist (Parliament Funkadelic)
1947, Mark Volman, vocalist (The Turtles)

1965, The film The T.A.M.I. Show (Teen Age Music International) featuring a star list of performers, including The Rolling Stones, James Brown, The Supremes, The Miracles, and Chuck Berry, opened in Britain to limited distribution under the title Teenage Command Performance. The movie would not be properly released in the U.K. until the following year.

1968, John Lennon, George Harrison and their wives left the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s ashram in Rishikesh, India two weeks before their study was complete. Ringo and Paul had already left.

1969, Smile, the band that would later be known as Queen, appeared at the Revolution Club in London.

1974, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band appeared at the State Theatre, New Brunswick, New Jersey. The gig was unadvertised by the promoter, who gambled that word-of-mouth would be enough to fill the 550-seat venue, but only 250 people attended.

1980, 32-year old vocalist Brian Johnson replaced the late Bon Scott in AC/DC.

1988, Sonny Bono was inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California.

2000, Phil Collins won ?250,000 in a high court case over royalties with two former members of his band. The judge ruled that the two musicians had been overpaid in error but because they had no other income they would not have to pay it back.

2002, Police investigated how tracks from the forthcoming Oasis album, Heathen Chemistry, had been illegally circulated on the Internet. They believed the person responsible had access to the band’s private recording sessions.

2005, It was announced that two 30-second television commercials designed to attract vacationing families to experience the “real” Elvis Presley at Graceland would air nationally in the U.S. starting in April 2006. It was the first time in the history of Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. that the company had used television advertising to promote Graceland tourism.

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This Day in Music: April 16th

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Born on this day:

1939, Dusty Springfield, singer (For more on Dusty Springfield, see today’s This Day in Music Spotlight.)
1947, Gerry Rafferty, singer, songwriter
1963, Jimmy Osmond, singer
1964, Dave Pirner, singer, songwriter, Soul Asylum

1956, Buddy Holly’s first single, “Blue Days, Black Nights” was released.

1967, Cream appeared on the bill at the Daily Express “Record Star Show” at Wembley’s Empire Pool, London.

1969, Elektra Records dropped Detroit’s MC5 after the band took out an advertisement in a local underground paper in protest of a Michigan department store’s refusal to stock their album, Kick Out the Jams.

1972, The Electric Light Orchestra made their debut at The Fox & Greyhound in Croydon, London.

1985, During the North American leg of their Unforgettable Fire tour, U2 played the first of three nights at The Centrum, in Worcester, Massachusetts.

1994, Prince had his first U.K. #1 with “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” (his 37th single release). It was his first release since changing his stage name to an unpronounceable symbol.

1996, KISS appear in full make-up at the 38th Grammy Awards, where they use the opportunity to announce a reunion tour. It would mark the first time all four original members had appeared together in more than 15 years.

1999, Skip Spence, an original member of Jefferson Airplane and founding member of Moby Grape, died at age 52 of lung cancer in a San Francisco hospital. He had battled schizophrenia and alcoholism for more than 30 years.

2005, OK Computer by Radiohead is voted the best album of all time in a poll by U.K. TV station Channel 4. U2 were in second place with The Joshua Tree and Nirvana third with Nevermind.

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This Day in Music: April 16th

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Born on this day:

1939, Dusty Springfield, singer (For more on Dusty Springfield, see today’s This Day in Music Spotlight.)
1947, Gerry Rafferty, singer, songwriter
1963, Jimmy Osmond, singer
1964, Dave Pirner, singer, songwriter, Soul Asylum

1956, Buddy Holly’s first single, “Blue Days, Black Nights” was released.

1967, Cream appeared on the bill at the Daily Express “Record Star Show” at Wembley’s Empire Pool, London.

1969, Elektra Records dropped Detroit’s MC5 after the band took out an advertisement in a local underground paper in protest of a Michigan department store’s refusal to stock their album, Kick Out the Jams.

1972, The Electric Light Orchestra made their debut at The Fox & Greyhound in Croydon, London.

1985, During the North American leg of their Unforgettable Fire tour, U2 played the first of three nights at The Centrum, in Worcester, Massachusetts.

1994, Prince had his first U.K. #1 with “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” (his 37th single release). It was his first release since changing his stage name to an unpronounceable symbol.

1996, KISS appear in full make-up at the 38th Grammy Awards, where they use the opportunity to announce a reunion tour. It would mark the first time all four original members had appeared together in more than 15 years.

1999, Skip Spence, an original member of Jefferson Airplane and founding member of Moby Grape, died at age 52 of lung cancer in a San Francisco hospital. He had battled schizophrenia and alcoholism for more than 30 years.

2005, OK Computer by Radiohead is voted the best album of all time in a poll by U.K. TV station Channel 4. U2 were in second place with The Joshua Tree and Nirvana third with Nevermind.

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This Day in Music: April 15th

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Born on this day:

1944, Dave Edmunds, guitarist, singer, Rockpile
1965, Linda Perry, singer, songwriter, 4 Non Blondes
1967, Frankie Poullain, bassist, The Darkness
1968, Ed O’Brien, guitarist, Radiohead

1966, Buffalo Springfield made their live debut opening for The Byrds at a concert in San Bernardino, California.

1967, The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and “Special Guest Star” Engelbert Humperdinck U.K. package tour appeared at the Odeon, Blackpool. Tickets cost 5 and 10 shillings ($0.70 and $1.40).

1972, Roberta Flack started a six-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with the Ewan MacColl song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (#14 in the UK). The song was featured in the Clint Eastwood film Play Misty For Me.

1982, Billy Joel spent a month in the hospital after breaking his left wrist when his motorbike hit a car in Long Island, New York.

1987, Queen were presented with an award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music at the 32nd Annual Ivor Novello Awards held in London.

2001, Punk pioneer Joey Ramone, singer of The Ramones, died at age 49 after losing a long battle with lymphatic cancer. On November 30, 2003, a block of East 2nd Street in New York City was officially renamed Joey Ramone Place. For more on this story, see today’s This Day in Music Spotlight.

2009, Former Beatle George Harrison was honored with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Paul McCartney attended the unveiling outside the landmark Capitol Records building, joining Harrison’s widow Olivia and son Dhani. Eric Idle, Tom Petty and actor Tom Hanks also attended the ceremony.

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This Day in Music: April 14th

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Born on this date:

1932, Loretta Lynn, singer
1942, Tony Burrows, singer, The Flower Pot Men, Edison Lighthouse
1945, Ritchie Blackmore, guitarist, Deep Purple, Rainbow
1946, Patrick Fairley, bassist, Marmalade
1948, Larry Ferguson, keyboardist, Hot Chocolate
1969, Martyn Le Noble, bassist, Porno for Pyros

1956, Decca Records signed auditioning country singer Bobby Helms. The following year Helms released the massive holiday hit, “Jingle Bell Rock.”

1963, The Beatles popped in on the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond-on-Thames to check out the then-unsigned Rolling Stones.

1965, Elvis Presley’s Girl Happy opened in theaters in the U.S. The movie co-starred Shelley Fabares and The Addams Family’s Uncle Fester, Jackie Coogan.

1967, Polydor Records released the Bee Gees’ “New York Mining Disaster 1941” with a promotional slogan declaring them “the most significant talent since The Beatles.” The record became a Top 20 hit in the U.K. and U.S.

1969, The Beatles’ recording of “The Ballad of John and Yoko” took place with just two members, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Paul played bass, drums and piano with John on guitars and lead vocals. The song was banned from many radio stations as being blasphemous on account of the use of the word, “Christ.”

1970, Creedence Clearwater Revival made their live U.K. debut, playing the first of two nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

1971, the Illinois Crime Commission issued a list of “drug-oriented records,” including “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane, “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum and The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”

1973, Led Zeppelin started a two-week run on the top of the U.K. album chart with Houses of the Holy, also a #1 in the U.S. The young girl, featured on the cover of the album climbing naked up Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland, was six-year-old Samantha Gates.

1975, The Rolling Stones announced the replacement for departed guitarist Mick Taylor: former Faces guitarist and Jeff Beck Group bassist Ronnie Wood.

1983, Pretenders bass player Pete Farndon died from a drug overdose. He had been sacked from the group on June 14, 1982 (two days before Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott was found dead of heart failure). (For more on this story, see the This Day in Music Spotlight.)

1986, at the height of the backwards-masking hysteria, evangelist Jim Brown claimed that the theme to the children’s TV show, Mr. Ed, contained hidden Satanic messages.

1994, Kurt Cobain was cremated at the Bleitz Funeral Home in Seattle. The death certificate listed Cobain’s occupation as “Poet/Musician” and his type of business as “Punk Rock.”

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This Day in Music: April 13th

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Born on this date:

1940, Lester Chambers, singer, The Chambers Brothers
1944, Brian Pendleton, guitarist, The Pretty Things
1944, Jack Casady, bassist, Jefferson Airplane
1945, Lowell George, singer, guitarist, Little Feat
1946, Al Green, singer
1951, Max Weinberg, drummer, bandleader, The E Street Band, The Max Weinberg 7

1957, Elvis Presley hit #1 in the U.S. with the Otis Blackwell composition, “All Shook Up.” The song knocked Perry Como’s “Round and Round” off the top of the charts and would remain there for eight weeks.

1959, Canadian rockabilly artist Ronnie Hawkins recorded “Forty Days,” a reworking of Chuck Berry’s “Thirty Days.”

1965, The Beatles recorded the song “Help!” during an evening recording session at EMI Studios in London.

1967, Nancy and Frank Sinatra were at U.K. #1 on the U.K. singles chart with “Somethin’ Stupid,” making them the only father-daughter duo to have a chart-topping single.

1969, Diana Ross made her first TV appearance as a solo act, performing on the Dinah Shore special, Like Hep. Other guests included comedians Lucille Ball and Dick Martin.

1974, Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band on the Run album was at #1 on the U.S. album charts. It was McCartney’s third American chart-topping album, which went on to sell over six million copies worldwide.

1980, after nearly 4,000 performances, the musical Grease closed on Broadway.

1985, the weekly TV program Grand Ole Opry Live began broadcasting on The Nashville Network (TNN) in the U.S. (For more on this story, see the This Day in Music Spotlight.)

1993, the first “Aerosmith Day” was observed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

2005, Johnnie Johnson, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame pianist who worked with Chuck Berry, died at the age of 80.

2008, producer and drummer Clifford Davies, who had worked with Ted Nugent from 1975 to 1982, was found dead (aged 59) from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his home in Atlanta. It was reported that Davies was “extremely distraught” over outstanding medical bills.

2009, Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was the most played song in public places in the past 75 years, according to a chart compiled for BBC Radio 2. Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was at #2, followed by “All I Have to Do is Dream” by The Everly Brothers, Wet Wet Wet’s 1994 hit, “Love is All Around,” and Bryan Adams’ 1991 hit “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You.”

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This Day in Music: April 12th

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Born on this day:

1933, Tiny Tim, singer, “Tiptoe Through The Tulips”
1944, John Kay, Steppenwolf
1949, Donald Ray Mitchell, Was Not Was
1950, David Cassidy, singer,
1978, Guy Berryman, Coldplay

1954, Bill Haley & His Comets recorded “Rock Around the Clock” at Pythian Temple studios in New York City. Written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers, the song was first recorded by Italian-American band Sonny Dae and His Knights. Considered by many to be the song that put rock and roll on the map around the world, Haley’s version was used over the opening titles of the film Blackboard Jungle and went on to become a worldwide #1.

1966, Jan Berry, of Jan & Dean, was almost killed when he crashed his Porsche into a parked truck a short distance from Dead Man’s Curve in Los Angeles. Partially paralyzed and suffering brain damage, Berry was able to walk again after extensive therapy.

1967, Mick Jagger was punched in the face by an airport official during a row at Le Bourget Airport in Paris. Jagger lost his temper after the Stones entourage was being searched for drugs, resulting in them missing their flight.

1973, the film That’ll Be the Day, featuring David Essex, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, and Billy Fury, from a screenplay written by Ray Connolly, premiered in London. For more on this story, see This Day in Music Spotlight.

1975, David Bowie announced his second career retirement, saying, “I’ve rocked my roll. It’s a boring dead end, there will be no more rock‘n’roll records from me.”

1989, Two DJs on Los Angeles station KLOS ask “whatever happened to David Cassidy?” The singer called the station and the presenters invited him onto their show. Cassidy played three songs live on air and was subsequently signed by a new record label.

1990, The Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Centre announced that Asteroids 4147-4150, would be named Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr after the four members of The Beatles.

1995, two weeks after her death, George W. Bush, (then the governor of Texas), declared "Selena Day" in Texas. The Mexican American singer Selena was murdered aged 23 by the president of her fan club Yolanda Saldivar on 31st March 1995.

1998, Pulp went to #1 on the U.K. album chart with This is Hardcore.

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