Music
Throwback Thursday: Britney Spears Received Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame
On this day in music history…
1962
The Four Seasons started a five week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” the group’s second No.1 of the year.
1966
Musician Jeff Buckley was born on this day. He was an American singer-songwriter who became widely known for his stirring cover of the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah.”
1974
ABBA played their first gig outside Sweden, opening at the Kalkonerteater in Copenhagen on their first European tour. (Video above is from a different concert)
1979
The Commodores went to No.1 on the US singles chart with “Still,” the group’s second US No.1 single.
1987
The Madonna compilation album You Can Dance was released.
1989
Steel Magnolias, starring Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts, opened in theaters nationwide. “Jambalaya (On The Bayou)” is performed during an on-screen wedding reception.
1997
The Woman In Me made Shania Twain the first female country artist to have an album certified for shipments of 10 million copies.
1998
Whitney Houston released “My Love is Your Love.”
2000
Cher made her first appearance on NBC-TV’s sitcom Will and Grace, in the episode “Gypsies, Tramps and Weed.”
2003
Britney Spears, at 21 years old, became the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The only other performer to get a Hollywood star at her age was Little House on the Prairie actress Melissa Gilbert.