1953 – Leontyne Price sang Sauguet’s “La Voyante” at the Metropolitan Opera.
1965 – The Rolling Stones began their third North American tour with a show at the Forum in Montreal.
1971 – The Rolling Stones album “Sticky Fingers” was released. It was the band’s first release on the band’s newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records.
1976 – The Rolling Stones album “Black and Blue” was released.
1978 – Sid Vicious filmed his rendition of Paul Anka’s “My Way” for the Sex Pistols’ film “The Great Rock n’ Roll Swindle.”
1981 – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins reunited in Stuttgart, Germany and recorded “The Survivors.”
1985 – The “We Are the World” album was released.
1985 – Liberace first appeared on the TV soap opera “Another World”. He also was a guest VJ on MTV later in the afternoon.
1987 – Carole King sued record company owner Lou Adler for breach of contract. King asked $400,000 in royalties the rights to her old recordings.
1988 – Prince released the song “Alphabet St.”
1997 – The Four Tops received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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