2008 – With “I’m a Fire,” Donna Summer becomes the first artist to
have a song reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart
in every decade since the chart’s 1974 debut.
2003 – Cholly Atkins, the legendary Motown choreographer, dies in
Las Vegas. He is 89.
2002 – The body of Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley is found by
police in Staley’s north Seattle apartment. The cause of death is
determined to be a drug overdose approximately two weeks
earlier.
1993 – Saxophonist Steve Douglas dies of heart failure in Los
Angeles during a recording session with Ry Cooder. He was 54.
1989 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Like a Prayer,” Madonna.
1988 – Sonny Bono is inaugurated as mayor of Palm Springs,
Calif.
1975 – The Raspberries split up
1970 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “ABC,” the Jackson 5.
1960 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Stuck on You,” Elvis Presley.
1942 – Alan Price of the Animals is born in Fatfield,
England.
