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8 DECEMBER

In Music History

2022 Celine Dion reveals that she suffers from a rare neurological disease called Stiff Person Syndrome that can cause debilitating spasms. She's forced to cancel the rest of her tour.

2019 Juice WRLD, a 21-year-old rapper known for his hit "Lucid Dreams," dies after suffering a seizure onboard a private jet.

2017 Johnny Mathis releases The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection. The 68-disc box set includes 67 remastered albums, including two that have never been released in their entirety: I Love My Lady, a 1981 album written and produced by Chic founders Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, and The Island, a Brazilian-flavored album produced by Sérgio Mendes in 1989.

2016 Still fecund at 73, Mick Jagger welcomes his eighth child, a son named Deveraux. The mother is Jagger's girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick.

2013 Metallica play Antarctica as part of a promotion sponsored by Coca-Cola Zero. A documentary and audio download of the event are later issued under the title Freeze 'Em All.

2013 Muscle Shoals alum John Wyker dies of congestive heart failure age 68. His band Sailcat had a huge hit in 1972 with "Motorcycle Mama."

2011 In Las Vegas, Sinead O'Connor gets married for the fourth time, this time to a drug counselor named Barry Herridge. The couple split up a few weeks later.

2011 Bob Burnett (of The Highwaymen) dies of brain cancer at age 71.

2007 Thanks to an appearance on Oprah where she declares it one of her "favorite things," the Josh Groban Christmas album Noël goes to #1 in America, where it becomes the top-selling album of 2007.More

2004 Dimebag Darrell is shot dead on stage while performing with his band Damageplan at Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio. The murderer, Nathan Gale, kills three others before being shot dead by a police officer.More

2003 On the same day "Changes," his duet with his daughter Kelly, is released, Ozzy Osbourne crashes his quad bike, breaking several bones, including his collarbone, and fracturing vertebrae. Some good news: Ozzy's injuries aren't life-threatening, and "Changes" goes to #1 in the UK.

1998 Metallica release their live home video, Cunning Stunts, which was filmed at the Fort Worth Convention Center, in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 9-10, 1997.

1998 Yoko Ono spreads some Christmas cheer via a billboard in New York's Times Square, reprising her 1969 campaign with the message "War is Over! If you want it. Happy Christmas from John & Yoko."

1998 The FBI opens its 1,300 page file on Frank Sinatra to the public.

1984 "Out Of Touch" hits the top spot, giving Hall & Oates their sixth and final #1 in America.