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Today In Music

• {1952}
  Paul Stanley of Kiss is born.
• {1968}
  Merle Haggard goes to #1 on the Billboard country chart with "Sing Me Back Home"
• {1973}
  Jerry Lee Lewis makes his debut at the Grand Ole Opry. Opry officials allowed him to perform only if he agreed to keep his music to country and abstain from using obscenities. Things start well but by the end of the half-hour set, Lewis has played "Great Balls of Fire," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and Good Golly Miss Molly." A drunken Lewis goes on a profanity laced tirade before exiting the stage.
• {1982}
  Ozzy Osbourne is hospitalized with rabies after biting the head off a dead bat that was thrown on stage by a fan.
• {2003}
  Eminem's autobiographical film, 8 Mile, lands atop the box office.