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2016Leonard Cohen, ordained Rinzai Buddhist monk and songwriter extraordinaire, dies at age 82 after a life of music that saw him inducted into the Juno/Canadian, Canadian Folk Music, Canadian Songwriters, Songwriter, and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.
2011Dr. Conrad Murray is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson. Murray was accused of giving the singer a lethal dose of the sedative propofol on the day he died.
2006After getting fundraising help from his buddy Jackson Browne, Orleans lead singer John Hall is elected to the US House of Representatives in New York's 19th district.More
2003With tourism suffering because of the SARS outbreak, the Hong Kong government hires The Rolling Stones to perform a concert there to assure people it is safe. The rockers play to 13,000 people at the city's Harbourfest.
1997The Titanic soundtrack is released. It contains just one song with vocals - Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" - but sells well over 10 million copies and goes to #1 in most countries thanks to the runaway success of the film.More
1970MGM Records president Mike Curb announces that his label is dumping 18 acts that "exploit and promote hard drugs through music."More7
In Music History
2017Aretha Franklin plays at Elton John's AIDS Foundation gala at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City in what turns out to be her final performance. "We were witnessing the greatest soul artist of all time," Elton says.
2016Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart star in the first episode of Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party, where they make fried chicken with Wiz Khalifa.
2015Presidential candidate Donald Trump hosts Saturday Night Live, with musical guest Sia. He asks for a photo with the reclusive songstress, but she declines, explaining that she doesn't want her gay and Mexican fans to think she supports him.
2015Pentatonix becomes the first a capella group to score a US #1 album when their self-titled release tops the chart.
2011Adele, just 23, has laser surgery on her vocal chords at a hospital in Boston. The singer had to cancel many tour dates in 2011 because of her throat problems.
2011Andrea True (of The Andrea True Connection) dies of heart failure at age 68.
2009At the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, Linda Ronstadt makes her last concert appearance. Four years later, she announces that she has Parkinson's disease.
2008Rockabilly singer Jody Reynolds dies of liver cancer at age 75.
2006Enjoy the Ride, Sugarland's second album (and first as a duo, following the departure of Kristen Hall) is released. The album peaks at #4 on the US charts.
2006Originally due in the summer of 2005, the last album from late Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard finally arrives. The release date for A Son Unique coincides with the two-year anniversary of ODB's death at a New York recording studio.
2006Two months after giving birth to her second child, Britney Spears files for divorce from Kevin Federline, whom she married in 2004.
2004Howard Keel, star of Broadway and film musicals before landing a long-running gig on the TV series Dallas, dies of colon cancer at age 85.
2004Soul singer Lenny Mayes (of The Dramatics) dies of lung cancer at age 53.
2002Guns N' Roses is scheduled to start their first North American tour since 1993, but their notoriously unreliable frontman Axl Rose doesn't show for the Vancouver concert. The tour sputters and is canceled a month later.
2001Michael Jackson makes his first-ever instore appearance at the Virgin Megastore in New York's Times Square. The event is broadcast live on MTV's Total Request Live.
Life Magazine Tracks Down Paul McCartney In Scotland, Confirms He Is Alive
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After Life magazine tracks down Paul McCartney at his farm in Scotland, they put him on the cover with his family, dispelling the "Paul is dead" rumors with the headline, "Paul Is Still With Us."
McCartney drops this bombshell: "The Beatle thing is over," and although the band hasn't announced their split, they are indeed fractured. Management struggles have taken their toll on the band, especially on McCartney, who went to Scotland to get away from it all.
The crew from Life had to do a fair amount of searching to locate McCartney's farm, and at first he ran them off. Their effort was rewarded when he had a change of heart and granted them an interview and photo shoot, a rare look into his private life. "Can you spread it around that I am just an ordinary person and want to live in peace?" he says.
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