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5 years ago
King Diamond, supported by Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats and Idle Hands, play at The Riviera, Chicago, Illinois, USA.Alec Benjamin plays at Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne, Germany, Europe, supported by Boy In Space.
Booker T. Jones plays at Le Poisson Rouge, New York City, USA.
Boz Scaggs plays at Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre At The Count Basie Center For The Arts, Red Bank, New Jertsey, USA.10 years ago
Compilation album The Art Of Paul McCartney, featuring new cover versions of McCartney songs by The Cure, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Billy Joel, Roger Daltrey, B.B.King, Smokey Robinson, Barry Gibb and others, is released.
The Guardian newspaper reports that the family of deceased reggae star Bob Marley has teamed up with a private equity firm to launch Marley Natural, a cannabis product offering "heirloom Jamaican cannabis strains" inspired by the ones Marley enjoyed.
During an interview for People magazine in New York City, USA, country music star Ty Herndon reveals that he is gay.
It is announced that Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid 30 has become the fastest-selling single of the year so far. The single is an all-star charity fund-raiser to raise money to fight the Ebola crisis in Western Africa.
London-based rapper 
On their 
25 years ago
Doug Sahm, guitarist, singer and songwriter with the Sir Douglas Quintet and Tex-Mex supergroup The Texas Tornados is found dead from a heart attack, aged 58, in a hotel room in Taos, New Mexico, USA.
75 years ago
Hank Williams releases a new single My Bucket's Got A Hole In It/I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, on MGM Records, in the USA.
Mule Train by Vaughn Monroe enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA, where it will peak at No10 during a nine-week run.
Dear Hearts And Gentle People by Dinah
Shore on Columbia
Records enters the Billboard chart in the USA. It will peak at No7 during a
sixteen week stay on the chart.
100 years ago
The Third Annual Chicago Radio Show of 1924, a week-long trade fair, opens at The Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, USA, featuring over 250 exhibits of radio receivers, parts, and receiver accessories, including exhibits from Italy, Japan, Germany, and France. 25,000 visitors attend each day.
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