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New song by 50 Cent performing Remain Calm with Snoop Dogg and Precious Paris.

1st song off of 50 Cent's upcoming Gangsta Grillz mixtape "The Lost Tape" out for download on May 15th.

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1995, Oasis released “Some Might Say” which went on to give the band their first U.K. #1 single.

Nigma- Aformes (Official video) / Νίγκμα 2011- Αφορμές
Artist: Νίγκμα
Digital single: Αφορμές
Lyrics: Άρης Καλιμέρης / Aris Kalimeris
Music: Σπύρος Μεταξάς / Spiros Metaksas
Label: Lyra record - Ege 2011 Greece
Director: Βασίλης Κεχαγιάς / Vasilis Kexagias

web: www.nigma.gr

iTunes: Nigma "Αφορμές" (Aformes)

1983, David Bowie started a three-week run at #1 on the U.K. album chart with the Nile Rodgers-produced Let’s Dance, featuring the title track which made #1 on the U.S. and U.K. singles chart and “China Girl.”

1983, U2 kicked off their 48-date War North American tour at The Carolina Concert for Children benefit, Chapel Hill, Carolina.

1988, Roy Orbison celebrated his 52nd birthday at a Bruce Springsteen concert, during which the audience sang “Happy Birthday” to him.

1991, Founder member of The New York Dolls Johnny Thunders died of a drug overdose. He renamed himself Johnny Thunders, after a comic book of the same name. The influential New York Dolls formed in 1972 and made just two albums before breaking up.

1992, George Michael announced he was donating $500,000 royalties from the sale of “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me,” to various British and American charities.

2001, During a U.K. tour, Coldplay appeared at The Music Hall, Aberdeen in Scotland.

1991, Dave Matthews Band played their first-ever live show when they appeared at The Earth Day festival in Charlottesville, Virginia.

2001, Destiny’s Child went to #1 on the U.K. singles chart with “Survivor.” Their second chart topper, they were the first U.S. female band to have more than one U.K. #1. The song won the trio a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Group.

2003, Songwriter Felice Bryant died of cancer. She wrote many hits with her husband Boudleaux, including “Bye Bye Love,” “All I Have To Do Is Dream” and “Wake Up Little Susie” for the Everly Brothers and “Raining in My Heart” for Buddy Holly. Other acts to record their songs include Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Tony Bennett, Simon & Garfunkel, Sarah Vaughan, Grateful Dead, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Ruth Brown, Cher, R.E.M. and Ray Charles.

Born on this day:
1924, Ira Louvin, country singer, mandolin player
1947, Iggy Pop, vocals, The Stooges
1947, John Weider, guitar, bass, vocals, Eric Burdon and the Animals
1959, Jerry Only, bass, vocals, The Misfits
1959, Robert Smith, guitar, vocals, The Cure
1966, Michael Franti, singer, songwriter
1970, Glen Hansard, vocals, guitar, The Frames, The Swell Season
1978, Branden Steineckert, drums, Rancid, The Used

1967, Working at EMI Studios in London, The Beatles completed the sessions for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by recording a short section of gibberish which would play in the LP’s run-out groove. They record assorted noises and voices, which engineer Geoff Emerick then cut-up, randomly re-assembled and edited backwards. At John Lennon’s suggestion, this was preceded by a high-pitch, 15 kilocycle whistle audible only to dogs.

1969, In her only London appearance, Janis Joplin appeared at The Royal Albert Hall supported by Yes.

1973, Tony Orlando & Dawn started a four week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Tie a Yellow Ribbon (Round the Old Oak Tree),” which became the biggest seller of 1973, selling more than 6 million copies. The song is based on a true story of a prisoner who wrote to his wife asking her to tie a yellow ribbon around an oak tree in the town square of White Oak, Georgia, if she still loved him.

1978, Sandy Denny, former singer of Fairport Convention and Fotheringay, died at age 31 from a traumatic, mid-brain hemorrhage. Denny had previously been injured in a fall down a staircase, and a month later collapsed at a friend’s home, dying four days later in hospital.

1990, Paul McCartney played to an audience of 184,000 at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, creating a new world record for the largest crowd attending a rock concert.

1990, Sinead O’Connor began a four-week stay at #1 in the U.S. singles chart with her version of the Prince song “Nothing Compares 2 U.” The track also was a chart-topper in 18 other countries.

1993, Former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman married for the third time, tying the knot with 33-year-old fashion designer Suzanne Accosta in the medieval French village of Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

2000, Neal Matthews of The Jordanaires, who sang on Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Hound Dog,” and also worked with Ricky Nelson, Patsy Cline, Red Foley, Johnny Horton, Jim Reeves, George Jones, Marie Osmond, Tom Jones and Merle Haggard, died of a heart attack.

2007, Doris Richards, the mother of Keith Richards, died at age 91 of cancer. Doris bought the future Rolling Stone his first guitar for his 15th birthday. Keith learned some chords from her father, Gus Dupree, a musician who instilled in him an early passion for music.

Born on this day:
1923, Tito Puente, Latin jazz musician
1948, Craig Frost, keyboards, Grand Funk Railroad, Bob Seger
1951, Luther Vandross, R&B singer
1967, Mike Portnoy, drums, Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold
1971, Mikey Welsh, bass, Weezer

1957, Elvis Presley started an eight-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with “All Shook Up,” which sold more than 2 million copies and became the biggest single of 1957.

1959, In the U.S., Goldband Records released “Puppy Love” by a 13-year old Dolly Parton. The song was recorded two years earlier when she was just 11 years old. The song didn’t chart but was a hit in 1960 for Paul Anka and in 1972 for Donny Osmond.

1968, Deep Purple made their live debut in Tastrup, Denmark.

1985, The charity record “We are the World” by USA For Africa hit #1 on the U.K. singles chart. The U.S. artists’ answer to Band Aid had an all-star cast including Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Daryl Hall, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, Kim Carnes, Ray Charles, Billy Joel and Paul Simon, plus Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, who composed the track.

1991, Steve Marriott, former guitarist and singer with The Small Faces and Humble Pie, died in a fire at his home in Arkesden, Essex.

1992, A Concert For Life took place at London’s Wembley Stadium as a tribute to Queen singer Freddie Mercury and for AIDS awareness. Acts appearing include Liza Minelli, Elton John, Roger Daltrey, Tony Iommi, David Bowie, Mick Ronson, James Hetfield (Metallica), George Michael, Seal, Paul Young, Annie Lennox, Lisa Stansfield, Robert Plant, Joe Elliot and Phil Collen (from Def Leppard), and Axl Rose and Slash.

1993, Aerosmith released Get a Grip, which became their first album to debut at #1 and sold 7 million copies in the U.S. It also won the band two Grammys.