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May, 9

  • 2000 Backstreet Boys and Christina Aguilera each took home two trophies at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards, in Los Angeles. Backstreet Boys snag favorite pop group and favorite CD honors for “Millennium,” while Aguilera wins favorite new female artist and favorite single for “Genie In A Bottle.”
  • 2000 Rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow, a protégé of hop-hop impresario Sean “Puffy” Combs, is hit with a $6 million civil suit charging assault by a basketball rival. Robert Steinmentz alleges Barrow threw a basketball at his face from five feet away during a game at a New York sports club, and then began punching him.
  • 1998 Blues singer/harmonica player Lester Butler, 39, dies of a drug overdose in Los Angeles. Butler gained prominence as the front man for the Red Devils, who played a long residency at the King King in L.A. in the early ‘90s.
  • 1998 Just a day short of six-weeks-old, young Emma McBride makes her first visit to the Grand Ole Opry with her mother, country singer Martina McBride. As mom sings “Valentine,” young Emma rests in the wings in Grandmother Jean Schiff’s arms.
  • 1998 Puff Daddy and Jimmy Page are musical guests on “Saturday Night Live.” The two perform their collaboration “Come To Me,” which borrows heavily from Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.”
  • 1964 Chuck Berry starts his first U.K. tour in London, supported by the Animals, Carl Perkins and the Nashville Teens.
  • 1949 Billy Joel is born in Hicksville, Long Island, N.Y. He receives a Grammy Legends Award in 1990. His three No. 1 hits are “We Didn’t Start the Fire” in 1990, “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” in 1980 and “Tell Her About It” in 1983.
  • 1944 Richie Furay of Buffalo Springfield and Poco is born in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
  • 1942 Singer Tommy Roe is born in Atlanta. His No. 1 hits are “Dizzy” in 1969 and “Shelia” in 1962.
  • 1937 Dave Prater of Sam & Dave is born in Ocilla, Ga. The group’s biggest hit is the 1967 No. 2 song “Soul Man.” He dies in a car accident on April 9, 1988.
  • 1914 Grand Ole Opry member and Country Music Hall of Famer Hank Snow turns 83.