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This Week in Music History
Posted at 6:24 am By: jamie | Filed Under Music News
April 13, 2000: Metallica alienates their fans while making themselves the poster boys for short-sightedness when they sue Napster for copyright infringement.
April 12, 1980: ‘Grease’ closes after 3,388 performances, having made $8 million. At the time it is the longest-running Broadway musical ever.
April 12, 1954: Bill Haley and His Comets record ‘Rock Around the Clock,’ widely considered the first rock ‘n’ roll song to go No. 1.
April 11, 1981: Eddie Van Halen weds Valerie Bertinelli. They will split after 24 years together.
April 10, 1992: Just six days after his marriage to Malika Souiri, Sam Kinison is killed near the Arizona-California border when a drunk driver hits his Trans-Am.
April 8, 1989: For the third time in history, the pop music landscape is so barren that a Swedish group ascends to the top of the US singles chart, as Roxette’s ‘The Look’ goes No. 1, shaming the legacies of ABBA and Blue Swede.
April 8, 1977: The Clash mixes the attitude and energy of punk with musicianship and brains to unleash their brilliant self-titled debut on the people of England. It will be two years before the album reaches America.
April 8, 1962: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards meet Elmo Lewis at the Ealing Blues Club in London. “Elmo” turns out to be Brian Jones. The three will soon quit their respective bands to form the Rolling Stones.
April 7, 1997: Liam Gallagher of the band Oasis weds actress Patsy Kensit. The following January, Lisa Moorish, the lead singer of Kill City, bears Gallagher a child. After their divorce in 2000, Kensit tells the press she cried every day of the marriage.
April 5, 1994: After having recorded three great albums, including one that changes the sound of rock, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain kills himself in the room over his garage with a shotgun blast to the head.
April 5, 2006: Less than three months into his second marriage to Kim Mathers, rapper Eminem files for yet another divorce.
April 2, 1998: Having never recovered from the shame of being exposed as a fraud, Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli is found dead of what police determine was an accidental drug overdose.
April 1, 1985: Emboldened by the success of his solo EP ‘Crazy from the Heat,’ David Lee Roth quits Van Halen after 11 years that produced six classic albums.
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