Judas Priest were sued by two family's, alleging that the band were responsible for their son's forming a suicide pact and shooting themselves after listening to Judas Priest Records for six hours.
Alan Feed received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Janet Jackson gets an injunction against Eric Leon Christian, who she claimed had been harassing her.
Born on December 3rd, 2008
Bill Steer - UK guitarist, bassist; Napalm Death/Carcass Montell Jordan - American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer Duane Roland - US guitarist; Ball Brothers Band/Molly Hatchet
Dead on December 3rd, 2008
Bill Johnson (98) - US jazz musician considered the father of the "slap" style of string bass playing. He started "slapping" the strings of his bass (a more vigorous technique than the classical pizzicato), after he accidentally broke his bow on the road with his band in northern Louisiana in the early 1910s. Other New Orleans string bass players picked up this style, and spread it across the country with the spread of New Orleans Jazz. Johnson was founder and manager of the first jazz band to leave New Orleans and tour widely in the 1910s, The Original Creole Orchestra. He also played with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Bill Johnson's Louisiana Jug Band, and made many fine recordings in Chicago . Hoyt Curtin (87) - composer and music producer, the main musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with The Ruff & Reddy Show Grady Martin (72) - Guitarist to Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly and played the riff on Roy Orbison's 'Pretty Woman' until his retirement in 1986. (heart failure)
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