1985 - Wham! become the first-ever Western pop act to have an album released in China.
1987 - Aretha Franklin and George Michael hit No.1 on the US singles chart with "I Knew You Were Waiting". With this song Aretha set a record for the artist with the longest gap between US No.1 singles: it had been 19 years, 10 months from her last No.1 hit, "Respect", in June 1967.
1995 - Oasis drummer Tony McCarrol is fired from the band over the phone. McCarrol later sued Oasis for millions in unpaid royalties and in 1996 agreed to a one-off sum of close to $1 million.
1996 - Bernard Edwards, bass guitarist for Chic and producer for the likes of ABC, Power Station, Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, and Debbie Harry, dies of pneumonia in a Tokyo Hotel room while touring Japan.
2006 - The line "One life, with each other, sisters, brothers" from U2's "One" was voted the UK's favorite song lyric in a poll by VH1.
Todays Birthdays include...Echo & the Bunnymen bassist Les Pattinson (60); Happy Mondays and Black Grape dancer Mark "Bez" Berry (54); former Everclear drummer Greg Eklund (48); and singer/songwriter Madeleine Peyroux (44).
