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Music History-April 30

2008 – Mariah Carey marries rapper-actor Nick Cannon in a secret ceremony at Carey’s house in Eleuthera, Bahamas.

2006 – Madonna makes her festival debut at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.

1999 – Darrell Sweet of Nazareth suffers a fatal heart attack as the band arrives at an amphitheater in New Albany, Ind., to begin the second leg of its U.S. tour. He is 51.

1993 – Elton John’s “Simple Life,” from his 1992 album “The One,” enters Billboard’s Top 40. With this charting single, John breaks Elvis Presley’s longstanding record with 24 consecutive years of Top 40 hits.

1983 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Beat It,” Michael Jackson.

1983 – Blues musician Muddy Waters (born McKinley Morganfield) dies in his sleep at his home in Westmont, Ill., at the age of 68.

1983 – The original Manfred Mann reunites for a London concert.

1979 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Reunited,” Peaches & Herb.

1965 – The Kinks begin their first U.K. tour.

1948 – Guitarist Wayne Kramer of MC5 is born in Detroit.

1943 – Singer Bobby Vee (Robert Velline) is born in Fargo, N.D.

1941 – Johnny Farina of Santo & Johnny is born in Brooklyn, N.Y.

1933 – Country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson is born in Abbott, Texas.

1931 – Folk singer-songwriter Peter La Farge (Oliver Albee La Farge) is born in Fountain, Colo.

1925 – Country singer Johnny Horton is born in Los Angeles.

Music History-April 29th

April 292007 – Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich dies in a Moscow cancer hospital. He is 80.

2007 – Rage Against The Machine plays its first show in seven years to close the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif.

1999 – Following his reunion with Pamela Anderson Lee, Tommy Lee quits Mötley Crüe to devote time to his new band, Methods of Mayhem, and his family.

1998 – Steven Tyler sustains a serious knee injury at Aerosmith’s concert in Anchorage, Alaska. The band postpones the 14 remaining dates of its North American tour.

1995 – Rapper Tupac Shakur marries Keisha Morris inside the Clinton Correctional Facility, while Shakur is serving a four-and-a-half-year jail term for sexual assault.

1993 – Guitarist Mick Ronson, 46, best known for his work with David Bowie, dies of liver cancer in London.

 

1992 – Singer Paula Abdul marries actor Emilio Estevez in Santa Monica, Calif.

1984 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now),” Phil Collins.

1979 – Singer Jo O’Meara of S Club 7 is born in London.

1979 – Matt Tong (Matthew Chee HungTong) of Bloc Party is born in Dorset, England.

1976 – Bruce Springsteen tries to climb over the fence at Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate in an attempt to see Presley. He is escorted off the premises by guards.

1973 – Mike Hogan of the Cranberries is born in Limerick, Ireland.

1972 – No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Roberta Flack.

1968 – Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and his wife, Marilyn Rovell, welcome their first child, daughter Carnie Wilson (later of Wilson Phillips) in Bel Air, Calif.

1968 – The musical “Hair” opens at the Biltmore Theater on Broadway.

1949 – Francis Rossi of Status Quo is born in London.

1947 – Tommy James (Thomas Jackson) of Tommy James and the Shondells is born in Dayton, Ohio.

1938 – Klaus Voormann of Manfred Mann is born in Berlin, Germany.

1934 – Blues musician Otis Rush is born in Philadelphia, Miss.

1928 – Carl Gardner of the Coasters is born in Tyler, Texas.

1899 – Jazz musician Duke Ellington (Edward Kennedy Ellington) is born in Washington, D.C.

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