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New dates for The Who’s first appearance on the British TV program “Ready, Steady, Go.”
In 1991, during the American Music Awards ceremony, Gloria Estefan performed for the first time since breaking her back in a bus accident. She got a standing ovation.
Also on this date in 1993, a mixup at a Dallas CD manufacturer resulted in about 30 copies of the Dead Kennedys album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables being mislabeled as a religious radio program called “Powerline.” The Southern Baptist Radio TV Commission had to call more than 1,200 stations to warn them of the error. The Kennedys album contained such lines as “God told me to skin you alive.”