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2014Beyoncé's sister Solange Knowles attacks Jay-Z in an elevator they are all riding after attending the Met Gala at The Standard hotel in New York. The footage, which is leaked on TMZ, shows Jay taking his whooping before a security guard restrains Solange. Beyoncé later mentions the incident in her song "Flawless" when she sings, "sometime s--t go down when there's a billion dollars on an elevator."More
2009Tina Turner, 69, closes out her 50th Anniversary Tour with a show in Sheffield Arena that turns out to be her last concert. "I don't want people to come to a show and think that I used to be great," she says.
1999At the 34th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, Garth Brooks is named Artist of the Decade.
1988Adele is born Adele Laurie Blue Adkins in Tottenham, London, England.
1942Tammy Wynette is born Virginia Wynette Pugh in Mississippi.
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In Music History
2020Tori Amos releases her second memoir, Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage.
2020The Guns N' Roses version of "Live And Let Die" blares as President Donald Trump tours a mask factory in Arizona during the coronavirus pandemic without wearing a mask. Intrigued by the irony, many news outlets show the footage. The band later sells T-shirts saying "Live N' Let Die With COVID 45."
2018The musical Jagged Little Pill, based on Alanis Morissette's 1995 album of the same name, debuts at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.More
2016Arsenio Hall files a $5 million defamation suit against Sinead O'Connor after the singer posts a message on Facebook suggesting the comedian was the recently deceased Prince's drug dealer. O'Connor responds to the suit: "I'm more amused than I've ever dreamed a person could be and look forward very much to how hilarious it will be watching him trying to prove me wrong."
2008Country/pop singer Jerry Wallace, known for the 1959 hit "Primrose Lane," dies at age 79 of congestive heart failure.
2008To thank fans for years of support, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) posts the album The Slip for free on his website.
2007Avril Lavigne lands her only US #1 hit with "Girlfriend," the first single from her third album, The Best Damn Thing.
2004Jamaican record producer Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, who signed Bob Marley & the Wailers to his Studio One label, dies of a heart attack at age 72.
2001Zydeco musician Boozoo Chavis dies in Austin, Texas, at age 70.
1998Bad Religion release their tenth full-length studio album, No Substance.
1998Tori Amos releases her fourth solo album, From The Choirgirl Hotel. The lead single, "Spark," is inspired by the first of three miscarriages the singer suffers before welcoming daughter Natashya in 2000. The album debuts at #5 in the US.
1992Mike Love and Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys appear on the Full House episode "Captain Video (Part 1)," where Uncle Jesse records their song "Forever." A version of the song sung by John Stamos, who plays that character, appears on the group's album Summer in Paradise a few months later.
1990Lou Reed, Al Green, Terence Trent D'Arby, Kylie Minogue and Randy Travis are among the performers at a John Lennon tribute concert in his hometown of Liverpool, England.More
1989Chris Brown is born in the small town of Tappahannock, Virginia.
1988Singer and TV personality Brooke Hogan is born Brooke Ellen Bollea in Tampa, Florida. Dad is professional wrestler Hulk Hogan.
Chrissie Hynde And Jim Kerr Get Married
1984Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders marries Jim Kerr of Simple Minds.
The couple met just months earlier when their bands were touring Australia. Hynde was nearing the end of a relationship with Ray Davies of The Kinks when she took up with Kerr, whose band was trying to break through in America. Soon after their wedding, Simple Minds joins The Pretenders on a tour of that country, with Pretenders supporting Learning To Crawl and Simple Minds pushing Sparkle In The Rain. On March 25, 1985, the couple welcome a daughter named Yasmin. Two months later, Simple Minds land their American breakthrough when "Don't You (Forget About Me)" goes to #1, thanks to its use in The Breakfast Club. Hynde and Kerr both play Live Aid, but their touring schedules diverge and the couple splits in 1990. In 1992, Kerr marries the actress Patsy Kensit, but they split in 1996. Hynde remarried in 1997, but that union ended about five years later. In 2018, Hynde and Kerr again share a bill, when their groups once again join forces for a tour.
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