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NEW YORK, March 14 (UPI) -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's New York induction ceremony wasn't without its tense moments.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 10 (UPI) -- Lynyrd Skynyrd's upcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is proof that good things do indeed come to those who wait.

NEW YORK, March 10 (UPI) -- Trumpet legend Herb Alpert wasn't quite sure how to take the news he was being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

NEW YORK, March 2 (UPI) -- Plans are coming together for the upcoming Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, VH1 said Thursday.

NEW YORK, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Monday announced its 2006 inductees will be Black Sabbath, Miles Davis, Blondie, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Sex Pistols.

Today's birthdays include the late jazz great "Dizzy" Gillespie, who was born in 1917; Del Vikings lead singer Norman Wright in 1937 (age 65); Manfred Mann, whose real name is Michael Leibowitz, in 1940 (age 62); guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T and MG

The weekly UPI Today in Music package for Oct. 19-25.

, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Today's birthdays include Paul Simon, who was born in 1941 (age 61); keyboardist Robert Lamm of Chicago in 1944 (age 58); former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar in 1949 (age 53); Marie Osmond in 1959 (age 43); and Joey Belladonna of Anthrax in 1960 (age 42