POP/ROCK - June 29, 1988

Rhythm and blues singer El DeBarge was hospitalized Tuesday after a man allegedly struck him from behind with a champagne glass in Carlos’ N Charlie’s, a nightspot on the Sunset Strip. The incident occurred at 2:30 a.m. during an argument, sheriff’s spokesman Eric Smith said. The singer was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was treated in the emergency room for neck wounds, Smith said. Deputies were seeking the unidentified assailant, who fled from the restaurant after the attack.