History Highlight:
Today in 1975, Pink Floyd released their ninth studio album, Wish You Were Here. Hailed among the greatest rock albums of all time, the record reached No. 1 in both the U.S. and U.K. and has since sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. 

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1966 - The Roger Miller Show, starring the country singer, debuts on NBC. 

1966 - The Monkees TV show makes its debut, with four actors chosen to portray a pop band based on The Beatles. While The Monkees are a fictional band, they become very real and eventually play on their own recordings instead of studio musicians. 

1969 - The Rolling Stones release Through The Past, Darkly. 

1970 - The Woody Guthrie tribute concert takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Performers include Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Richie Havens and Joan Baez. 

1975 - Thin Lizzy released their fifth studio album, Fighting. It features “Suicide” and “Rosalie.”

1980 - David Bowie released his 14th studio album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). It features “Ashes to Ashes,” “Fashion,” and the title track.

1980 - Simple Minds released their third studio album, Empires and Dance. It features “I Travel.”

1980 - XTC released their fourth studio album, Black Sea. It features "Generals and Majors," "Towers of London," "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)," and "Respectable Street."

1980 - Ozzy Osbourne released his solo debut album, Blizzard of Ozz. It features “Crazy Train,” “Goodbye to Romance,” and “Mr. Crowley.”

1984 - Billy Ocean released his fifth studio album, Suddenly. It features "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" and "Loverboy."

1985 - Starship released their debut album, Knee Deep in the Hoopla. It features “We Built This City” and “Sara.”

1985 - Rolling Stone publishes their interview with Prince, who has not spoken to the press in three years. He remains elusive but explains why he made up stories in his early years to appease and confound reporters: "I used to tease a lot of journalists early on, because I wanted them to concentrate on the music." 

1986 - Public Image Ltd. guitarist John McGeoch needed 40 stitches in his face after a two-liter wine bottle was thrown at the stage during a gig in Vienna. 

1987 - Michael Jackson began a two-month siege on top of the charts with Bad. 

1989 - Aerosmith released their tenth studio album, Pump, via Geffen Records. The album, which featured the Grammy-winning hit “Janie’s Got a Gun” and the chart-topping “Love in an Elevator.”

1989 - Bob Dylan released his 26th studio album, Oh Mercy. It features “Everything Is Broken,” “Most of the Time,” and “Political World.” 

1990 - Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac announced they were leaving the band at the end of their current tour. At the time, some believed that Nicks' and McVie's departures were hastened by bad blood in the wake of Fleetwood's memoir, Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac which revealed some "sordid revelations" about life in Fleetwood Mac. 

1995 - Lenny Kravitz released his fourth studio album, Circus. It features “Rock and Roll Is Dead,” the title track, and “Can’t Get You Off My Mind.”

1995 - Jawbreaker released their fourth studio album, Dear You. It features “Fireman” and “Accident Prone.”

1995 - Red Hot Chili Peppers released their sixth studio album, One Hot Minute. It features “Warped,” “My Friends,” and “Aeroplane.”

1996 - Jack Gillis marries Meg White. He takes her last name, and the couple forms The White Stripes. They tell reporters they are brother and sister, which goes over until a reporter for the Detroit Free Press uncovers their marriage license in 2001. 

1997 - Founder of the Polar Music record label, songwriter, producer and ABBA's manager Stig Anderson died of a heart attack. Anderson co-wrote some of ABBA's biggest hits, such as ‘Waterloo’, ‘Mamma Mia’, ‘S.O.S’, ‘Fernando’, ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Knowing Me, Knowing You’ and ‘The Name of the Game.’ His funeral was broadcast live on Swedish television an honour otherwise only reserved for distinguished statesmen or royalty. 

2000 - At the Drive-In released their third studio album, Relationship of Command. It features “One Armed Scissor.”

2003 - Johnny Cash died at the age of 71, leaving behind a legacy of foundational music, with a catalog that spanned country, folk, blues, rockabilly, and rock hits. Rising to fame in the mid-50s, the “Man in Black” would go on to release nearly 100 albums and more than 150 singles, including “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,” and “Walk The Line.” As popular as his originals were though Cash experienced a late career renaissance, thanks to his minimal and moving covers of songs like Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” and Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage.” One of the best-selling artists in the history of popular music, Cash was an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Country Hall of Fame, and Gospel Hall of Fame.  

2005 - Sigur Rós released their fourth studio album, Takk… It features "Hoppípolla."

2005 - Paul McCartney released his 13th solo studio album, Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. It features “Fine Line” and “Jenny Wren.”

2007 - The surviving members of Led Zeppelin announced they would reform for a star-studded tribute concert in London. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones would play at a show to remember the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. 

2008 - Metallica release Death Magnetic, produced by Rick Rubin. 

2012 - After years of considerable airplay and being nominated for numerous awards, Matchbox Twenty finally get their due on the charts with a No. 1 debut on the Billboard albums chart. North is their first top-charting album and their fifth studio album in the 16 years the band has been together. 

2013 - Ray Dolby, the sound engineer who invented the noise-reduction system which bears his name, died of leukemia in San Francisco, California, at age 80. 

2016 - The #HotInHerreStreamingParty hashtag takes off as Nelly fans try to help him out of a $2.4 million tax debt by repeatedly streaming his hit "Hot In Herre." Based on an estimated Spotify royalty of $0.007 per stream, it will take about 342,857,142 listens to play off the debt. 

2017 - Stevie Wonder, Demi Lovato and Dave Matthews were among the performers at the "Hand in Hand" telethon, which benefitted victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. 

2017 - Mark Ronson was being sued for alleged copyright infringement over his hit 2014 song 'Uptown Funk'. Lastrada Entertainment, which owned the rights to the Roger and Zapp 1980 funk classic 'More Bounce To The Ounce', filed the lawsuit against the English producer claiming 'Uptown Funk' copied the first 48 seconds of 'More Bounce To The Ounce'. 

Birthdays: 

Country legend George Jones was born today in 1931. 

Judy Clay (“Country Girl, City Man”) was born today in 1938.

Folk singer Maria Muldaur (“Midnight at the Oasis”) is 82.

Barry White was born today in 1944. 

Tony Bellamy of Redbone was born today in 1946.

Ali-Ollie Woodson of the Temptations was born today in 1951.

Gerry Beckley of America is 72.

Drummer Neil Peart (Rush) was born today in 1952. He passed in 2020. 

Barry Andrews, keyboard player for XTC, is 68. 

Hans Zimmer is 67.

Ben Folds is 58. 

Larry “Ler” LaLonde of Primus is 56.

Nathan Larson of Shudder to Think is 54.

Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland is 50.

2 Chainz is 47.

Ruben Studdard is 46.

Jennifer Hudson is 43.

Kelsea Ballerini is 31. 

RM of BTS is 30.

Highlights for Today in Music History are gathered from This Day in Music, Paul Shaffer's Day in Rock, Song Facts and Wikipedia.