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    • Apr 18, 2006
    The Boston weekly The Phoenix ranks Lyle Lovett #49 among "The 100 Unsexiest Men In The World." Also listed: Michael Jackson, #11; Bill Wyman, #51; Joe Walsh, #78; and Brad Pitt, #100, because of "rumors about his hygiene and BO issues"
    May 14, 2008
    Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" is added by the Library of Congress to the National Recording Registry, along with Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" and audio of Smokey Robinson, Joni Mitchell, Thomas A. Dorsey, Ronald Reagan and Michael Jackson
    Nov 27, 2008
    "You've Really Got A Hold On Me" author Smokey Robinson is #20 among Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers Of All-Time. Among other R&B-based figures: Solomon Burke, #89; Ronnie Spector, #69; Whitney Houston, #34; Michael Jackson, #25; and Aretha Franklin, #1
    Mar 10, 2009
    Danny Gokey covers "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" on a Michael Jackson-themed episode of FOX's "American Idol"
    Jun 25, 2009
    Pop star Michael Jackson dies of cardiac arrest at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. His song "We Are The World" brought Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers in on a mass-artist project to combat famine in Africa
    Jul 7, 2009
    "Lonely Teardrops" author Berry Gordy Jr. joins Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Brooke Shields and members of the Jackson family at Los Angeles' Staples Center to sing "We Are The World" during a memorial for Michael Jackson
    Sep 3, 2009
    Former CMA Awards nominee Gladys Knight sings during Michael Jackson's funeral at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Also attending: Elizabeth Taylor, Macaulay Culkin and Lisa Marie Presley
    Oct 27, 2009
    Julianne Hough is among the celebs attending the premiere of the Michael Jackson movie "This Is It" at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles
    Oct 27, 2009
    Elvis Presley ranks #4 on Forbes' list of top dead celebrities after earning $55 million in the prior year. Also of note: songwriters Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein, #2, $235 million; Michael Jackson, #3, $90 million; John Lennon, #7, $15 million; and Jimi Hendrix, #11, $8 million
    Jan 30, 2010
    Loretta Lynn, Bobby Darin and Michael Jackson receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards at Los Angeles' Wilshire Ebell Theatre. Harold Bradley and Walter Miller claim Trustees Awards, and Thomas Edison gets a Technical Grammy
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