This Day in Music

2002 - Ray Brown, a legendary jazz bassist who played with giants Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson, and his one-time wife Ella Fitzgerald in a career that spanned more than half a century, dies in his sleep at the age of 75.

2001 - Yoko Ono visits the Beatle's hometown of Liverpool, England, to attend a ceremony announcing the renaming of the Liverpool Airport as the Liverpool John Lennon Airport in honor of her late husband.

1999 - Mark Sandman, lead singer of idiosyncratic rock band Morphine, dies from a heart attack onstage at the Diardini del Principe music festival in Palestrina, Italy. He is 47.

1999 - Latin pop star Enrique Iglesias gives a free public performance in front of the Lincoln Center Plaza in New York.

1998 - A bipartisan group of Michigan legislators is successful in defeating a restrictive live music performance bill. S.B. 1100, introduced earlier in the year, would have allowed Michigan community governments to determine whether a live performance at a music venue is harmful to minors and to restrict access to minors unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian.

1992 - Mick Jagger's daughter Jade gives birth to a daughter. She is the first grandchild for the 48-year-old Rolling Stone.

1991 - Several people are injured at a Guns N' Roses concert in Maryland Heights, Mo., a St. Louis suburb. Lead singer Axl Rose is charged with third-degree assault and property damage but doesn't turn himself in for a year.

1984 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "When Doves Cry," by the artist then known as Prince. The song is the first single released from Prince's "Purple Rain" LP and his biggest hit, selling more than 2 million copies and topping the pop chart for five weeks.

1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Will It Go Round in Circles," Billy Preston.

1963 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Easier Said Than Done," The Essex. The members of the group are all U.S. Marines, including lead singer Anita Humes.

1956 - Elvis Presley records "Don't Be Cruel," "Hound Dog" and "Anyway You Want Me" in New York. It marks the first time he uses the Jordanaires as background singers. The two-sided hit "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" tops Billboard's Hot 100 for 11 weeks, setting a record in the rock era that stands until 1992.

1943 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer," The Song Spinners.