This Day in Music: October 9, 2026

• 2018: Bob Dylan opens his Mondo Scripto art exhibition in London.
  The show at Halcyon Gallery paired handwritten lyrics to some of his best-known songs with his own pencil drawings. Minnesota connection: Dylan was born in Duluth and grew up in Hibbing.
• 2017: Shania Twain's Now debuts at No. 1.
  It was her first studio album in 15 years, following 2002's Up!, and it opened on top in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
• 2011: Paul McCartney marries Nancy Shevell in London.
  The ceremony took place at Old Marylebone Town Hall, the same building where he had married Linda Eastman in 1969. McCartney was 69 and Shevell was 51.
• 2008: T.I.'s “Live Your Life,” featuring Rihanna, leaps from No. 80 to No. 1.
  The climb was one of the biggest single-week jumps to the top in Hot 100 history. The song came from his album Paper Trail.
• 2007: Josh Groban releases his Christmas album Noël.
  Produced by David Foster, it became the best-selling album of 2007 in the United States even though it arrived in October, and it ranks among the biggest holiday albums ever.
• 1996: Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill is certified for 13 million copies sold.
  The certification made it the top-selling album by a female artist in the United States at that point. The 1995 release produced “You Oughta Know,” “Ironic” and “Hand in My Pocket.”
• 1993: Nirvana's In Utero debuts at No. 1 on the album chart.
  It was the band's third and final studio album, featuring “Heart-Shaped Box” and “All Apologies.” Kurt Cobain died the following April.
• 1987: Bruce Springsteen releases Tunnel of Love.
  His eighth studio album, the follow-up to Born in the U.S.A., topped the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom. “Brilliant Disguise” became a top-five single.
• 1985: Strawberry Fields is dedicated in New York's Central Park.
  Yoko Ono opened the memorial garden on what would have been John Lennon's 45th birthday. It sits across from the Dakota, where the couple lived, and is centered on a mosaic bearing the word “Imagine.”
• 1976: “A Fifth of Beethoven” hits No. 1.
  Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band took a disco reworking of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to the top of the Hot 100. It found a second life a year later on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
• 1973: Elvis and Priscilla Presley's divorce is finalized.
  A court in Santa Monica, California, granted the divorce. The couple had married in Las Vegas in 1967 and had one daughter, Lisa Marie.
• 1965: The Beatles' “Yesterday” reaches No. 1 in the United States.
  Paul McCartney was the only Beatle on the recording, backed by a string quartet. It went on to become one of the most covered songs ever written.
• 1962: Bobby Vee records “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.”
  Cut in Hollywood, the single climbed to No. 3 on the Hot 100. Minnesota connection: the Fargo native got his start filling in for Buddy Holly at a show in Moorhead in 1959 and later made his home near St. Cloud.
• 1961: Ray Charles hits No. 1 with “Hit the Road Jack.”
  It was his second chart-topper on the pop chart, after “Georgia on My Mind.” Percy Mayfield wrote the song, with the Raelettes answering Charles back on the record.
• 1929: Gene Autry makes his first recordings.
  The sessions took place during a visit to New York. He went on to fame as the Singing Cowboy with “Back in the Saddle Again” and the holiday standard “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

Born on This Day

• 1998: Gavin Adcock, American country singer
  Turns 28. Georgia native and former Georgia Southern football player known for a rowdy live show and songs like “A Cigarette.”
• 1997: Megan Moroney, American country singer
  Turns 29. Broke through with “Tennessee Orange” and followed it with “Am I Okay?”
• 1993: Scotty McCreery, American country singer
  Turns 33. Won season 10 of American Idol at 17 and went on to hits including “Five More Minutes” and “Damn Strait.”
• 1979: Lecrae, American rapper
  Turns 47. Grammy-winning Christian hip-hop artist whose album Anomaly debuted at No. 1 in 2014.
• 1979: Alex Greenwald, American singer (Phantom Planet)
  Turns 47. Sang “California,” the theme song of the TV series The O.C.
• 1975: Sean Lennon, American singer-songwriter and producer
  Turns 51. The son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, born on his father's 35th birthday, has recorded solo and with The Claypool Lennon Delirium.
• 1975: Brandy Clark, American country singer-songwriter
  Turns 51. Co-wrote Miranda Lambert's “Mama's Broken Heart” and Kacey Musgraves' “Follow Your Arrow” as well as the Broadway musical Shucked.
• 1969: PJ Harvey, English singer-songwriter
  Turns 57. Alternative rock mainstay behind “Down by the Water” and the albums Rid of Me and To Bring You My Love.
• 1969: Giles Martin, English record producer
  Turns 57. The son of Beatles producer George Martin has overseen modern remixes of the band's albums, including Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road.
• 1961: Kurt Neumann, American singer and guitarist (BoDeans)
  Turns 65. Leads the Wisconsin band best known for “Closer to Free,” the theme from the TV series Party of Five.
• 1958: Al Jourgensen, American singer and producer (Ministry)
  Turns 68. Founder of the industrial rock band behind “Jesus Built My Hotrod” and “N.W.O.”
• 1957: Ini Kamoze, Jamaican reggae singer
  Turns 69. Topped the Hot 100 in 1994 with “Here Comes the Hotstepper.”
• 1949: Rod Temperton, English songwriter and keyboardist (Heatwave)
  Wrote Heatwave's “Boogie Nights” and “Always and Forever,” then Michael Jackson's “Rock with You,” “Off the Wall” and “Thriller.”
• 1948: Jackson Browne, American singer-songwriter
  Turns 78. Known for “Doctor My Eyes,” “Running on Empty” and “Somebody's Baby,” and co-wrote the Eagles' “Take It Easy.”
• 1944: Nona Hendryx, American singer (Labelle)
  Turns 82. One third of the trio behind the 1970s No. 1 hit “Lady Marmalade,” she later worked with Talking Heads and recorded solo.
• 1944: John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who)
  Nicknamed The Ox, he anchored the band's sound and wrote “My Wife” and “Boris the Spider.”
• 1940: John Lennon, English singer-songwriter (The Beatles)
  Co-wrote most of the Beatles' catalog with Paul McCartney and followed it with solo classics including “Imagine” and “Instant Karma!”
• 1835: Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer
  Wrote “The Carnival of the Animals,” “Danse macabre” and the opera Samson and Delilah.