Willis is the first songwriter to go public with his case, which deals with a 1978 law that reverts copyrights to songs back to their original owners 35 years after. They keep it a secret for months, and don't have a ceremony until September 30, 2019.Ģ015 REO Speedwagon guitarist Gary Richrath, who wrote their hits "Ridin' the Storm Out" and " Take It On The Run," dies at age 65.Ģ013 Hozier releases " Take Me to Church," the lead single from his self-titled debut album.Ģ013 After winning a landmark lawsuit, The Village People lead singer Victor Willis regains the copyright to 33 songs he co-wrote for the band. More more featured eventsĢ019 Eddie Money dies of esophageal cancer at 70.Ģ018 Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin get married at a New York City courthouse.
Moreġ969 At the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival, host Kim Fowley starts a rock tradition when he asks the crowd to hold up lighters for Eric Clapton and John Lennon. No arrests are made in the case.ġ982 After co-producing her previous release, Never For Ever, British singer-songwriter Kate Bush returns as sole producer with The Dreaming.
Worldwide, it sells over 30 million copies, second only to " White Christmas." Moreġ996 Tupac Shakur, age 25, dies six days after being shot while riding in a car driven by his label boss, Suge Knight. It sells a record 600,000 copies the first day in Britain alone, where it becomes the best selling single of all time. Moreġ997 Elton John's rewritten version of " Candle In The Wind" that he played at Princess Diana's funeral a week earlier is released as a single. The film centers around a fictional band called Stillwater, and rather than being based on one band in particular, Stillwater feels like every '70s arena band rolled into one. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of writer and director Cameron Crowe's time spent interviewing rock bands for Rolling Stone in the '70s, when he was just a teenager. 2011 The B-52s play their first ever show in Idaho, finally performing their song " Private Idaho" in the state that inspired it.Ģ000 Almost Famous is released in theaters across the US.
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