This Week in Music History
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May 12, 1971: The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias. Two years after Bianca rides a horse through Studio 54 in 1977, she will ride out of Mick’s life.
May 13, 2000: After a seven-year stretch of self-indulgence that gives typesetters fits, The artist formerly known as Prince announces he’s dropping the custom-designed glyph he had adopted as his name.
May 13, 1950: Steveland Hardaway Judkins is born. By the time he is 27, he will have recorded nine No. 1 singles under the name Stevie Wonder.
May 14, 1998: As he lay on his deathbed following a heart attack, Frank Sinatra turns to his wife Barbara and says his final words, ‘I’m losing.’
May 15, 1970: The Carpenters release the album that will ultimately get them named best new artists of 1970 at the Grammys, their sophomore effort ‘Close to You.’ The album’s title track eventually goes No. 1.
May 16, 2006: During a night of club hopping with fellow fundie Paris Hilton, oil heir Brandon “Greasy Bear” Davis goes into a tirade about Lindsay Lohan as TMZ’s cameras roll.
May 16, 1966: Born on this date is a woman who spent her adolescence crushing on Jimmy “Dyn-o-mite!” Walker, was a hugely successful pop star and had her top ripped off at the Super Bowl. Her name ain’t baby, it’s Janet. Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.
May 17, 2006: Rock legend Sir Paul McCartney and wife Heather Mills announce their split after nearly four years of marriage. In a joint statement the pair say, “Our parting is amicable and both of us still care about each other very much.” It will get appreciably less amicable in the months to follow.
May 18, 2006: Allegedly angry about Axl Rose dating his brother’s ex-wife, Tommy Hilfiger hits the rocker while at The Plumm, a nightclub in New York City. “Axl … had the good sense not to retaliate,” says club owner Noel Ashman. “He would have done some serious damage to Hilfiger.”
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