
1967 Police raid
Keith Richards' Redlands estate, where they discover "various substances of a suspicious nature" and arrest him along with
Mick Jagger and
Marianne Faithfull. The whole thing is a setup.
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1981 Riding the (permanent) wave of their previous album,
Rush release Moving Pictures. Featuring "
Tom Sawyer," "
Limelight" and "
YYZ," it becomes the best-selling album in the Rush discography. "The Camera Eye" is the last 10-minute-long song Rush ever record in the studio.
1970 BBC's Top of the Pops broadcasts John Lennon's "
Instant Karma!" performance clip, taped just the day before.
1997
Snoop Doggy Dogg and
Sean "Puffy" Combs hold a press conference where they call for an end to the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry that has claimed the life of
Tupac Shakur. "Kids around the world are watching," Long Beach rapper Snoop says. "By calling for a truce we're giving them something to live for." The detente fails to quell the violence: Less than a month later,
The Notorious B.I.G. is killed in a shooting.
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