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Today In Music History: Fight The Power, Until You Get Caught

Posted at 6:16 AM on September 2, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Singer Rosalind Ashford of Martha and the Vandellas is 66.

Today in:

1978 - George Harrison married Olivia Trinidad Arias, a secretary at his Dark Horse Records company.
1989 - Singer Ric Ocasek of The Cars married model Paulina Porizkova (por-is-KOH'-vah).
1989 - Ozzy Osbourne was arrested for allegedly trying to kill his wife, Sharon, after a drinking binge. The case was dropped after he went into rehab and the couple reconciled.
1995 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened in Cleveland. The event featured a concert with Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, and several others.
2005 - Kanye West went off the script during an NBC telethon to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina. He said, among other things, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

Today in 2006, lead singer of the Isley Brothers, Ronald Isley was sentenced to three years in a US prison for multiple counts of tax fraud. The 64-year-old was also ordered to pay more than $3.1 million to the US tax service for "pathological" evasion. What else to playe for Ronald Isley this morning than the Isley Brothers' "Fight The Power"?

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