Events in Music on May 16

1947 Billie Holiday is arrested in her New York apartment for possession of narcotics

1952 "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
1963 "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
1965 "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 performances

1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute

1970 Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70

1971 Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave" premieres in Aldwych, London
1972 "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 performances
1975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
1980 Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis

1980 Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album

1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks

1982 "Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
1982 "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances
1984 "When Doves Cry" single released by Prince (Billboard Song of the Year 1984)
1987 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 performances

1987 Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show

1992 "Smells Like Nirvana" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
1993 "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
1993 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 30 performances

2002 "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" directed by George Lucas, starring Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman opens in cinemas

2009 54th Eurovision Song Contest: Alexander Rybak for Norway wins singing "Fairytale" in Moscow

2018 Painting "Past Times" by Kerry James Marshall is bought by Sean Combs for $21.1 million, most paid for a living African American atist