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Bon Scott, vocalist for AC/DC, died of alcohol poisoning at the age of 33. The band reached #35 in the US and #38 in the UK in 1979 with "You Shook Me All Night Long".

The third time would be the charm for a Topeka based group called Kansas. After scoring Top 40 hits with "Carry On Wayward Son" (#11) and "Point Of Know Return" (#28), "Dust In The Wind" entered the Billboard chart on its way to becoming the group's only Top 10 hit.

The Long Beach, California band called War started a two-week run at #1 on the Billboard album chart with "The World Is A Ghetto". The LP was their third to make the chart after the departure of lead singer Eric Burdon.

"Careless Whisper" by Wham! began a three week stay at the top of the Billboard chart. An 18-year-old George Michael had written the melody four years earlier while riding on a bus.

After smoking three packs of cigarettes a day for many years, Nat King Cole died of lung cancer at the age of 47. His daughter Natalie had just turned 15 the previous week. Nat originally played piano in Jazz bands, but stepped to the front of the stage for good when "Mona Lisa" became a number one hit in 1950. Cole continued his hit streak with "Unforgettable" (#12 in 1951), "A Blossom Fell" (#2 in 1955), "Send For Me" (#6 in 1957), "Looking Back" (#5 in 1958), "Ramblin' Rose" (#2 in 1962) and "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" (#6 in 1963). He hit the charts again in 1991 when his voice was dubbed into a duet with Natalie on an updated version of "Unforgettable", which rose to #14.

Frank Zappa appears on the TV show Miami Vice, playing a crime boss named Mr. Frankie who was pushing something called "weasel dust."

The Beach Boys visit the San Diego Zoo petting area, where photos are taken that will eventually end up on the cover of their "Pet Sounds" album. The zoo superintendent would later accuse members of the band of misbehaving and mistreating some of the animals, and declared, "The Beach Boys are not welcome back and never will be."

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Jimi Hendrix was presented with a key to the city of Seattle. He also played a free show for students at Garfield High School, where he was given an honorary diploma. Hendrix was thrown out of the school at the age of 16, apparently for holding the hand of a white girl in class.

The Turtles release their biggest hit, "Happy Together", which will reach #1 in the US and #12 in the UK. In a rare move for the time, the members of the band were allowed to record the track instead of studio musicians. In 1999, BMI included the song in the list of the most-performed songs in the United States in the 20th century and, in 2007, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.