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December, 25

  • 1999 Sawyer Brown singer Mark Miller hosts cable channel Shop At Home’s “Hope for the Holidays” initiative benefiting St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. All proceeds from all merchandise sold on the channel for the day go to St. Jude’s. Miller contributes an acoustic, self-accompanied performance of “Oh What a Night in Bethlehem,” from the group’s Christmas album, “Hallelujah He Is Born.”
  • 1998 Bryan MacLean, guitarist and singer of folk-rock group Love, dies in Los Angeles of an apparent heart attack. He is 52. Love was one of the seminal bands of the ‘60s Sunset Strip club scene in L.A., along with the Doors, the Byrds, and Buffalo Springfield.
  • 1995 Mariah Carey’s “Daydream” takes Billboard’s No. 1 position on the charts.
  • 1978 Public Image Ltd. makes its debut performance at the Rainbow Theatre in London.
  • 1977 Harlem’s Apollo Theater re-opens.
  • 1957 Shane McGowan of the Pogues is born in Kent, England.
  • 1954 Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics is born in Aberdeen, Scotland.
  • 1948 Country music singer Barbara Mandrell is born in Houston. She appears with her sisters in the “Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters” TV show from 1980-82. Her No. 1 country singles include “Sleeping Single in a Double Bed” and “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool.” The Country Music Association names her Entertainer of the Year in 1980 and 1981.
  • 1946 Country rocker Jimmy Buffet is born in Mobile, Ala.
  • 1937 O’Kelly Isley of the Isley Brothers is born in Cincinnati.