The Police had a request today in 1980:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zp3LPRzuXo

That same day, David Bowie’s “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)” was Britain’s number one album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPVTbDA8dSM

Birthdays start with Randy Bachman of the Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWqnibJckyg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfPJJko-FM0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqeSUAlI5uI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fzk0Fefq4w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j83xviHVmGg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LNH27s5ULE

Who is Marvin Aday? Meat Loaf, or Mr. Loaf to you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q3H2UQYLzM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quOGuEvTX8c

Greg Ham played, yes, flute for Men at Work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZElqfHyjMw

Mark Calderon of Color Me Badd:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooehGnxcUOQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLIeUTHNyBM

Avril Lavigne, the youngest female singer to reach number one:

Two deaths of note today: Jimmy McCullough, formerly of Paul McCartney and Wings, in 1979 …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_2oNF9CZE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r0ANbSVa9k

… and Cliff Burton of Metallica, who died in a bus crash today in 1986: