1995Former Selena fan club president Yolanda Saldivar is convicted of murdering the Tejano star outside a Texas motel on March 31, 1995. The jury deliberates only 2 1/2 hours before handing down their guilty verdict.
1976Led Zeppelin, who avoid TV appearances because of sound problems, appear on American television for the first time when they play Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.
1961Dion's "Runaround Sue" hits #1 for the first of two weeks. Dion pulled the name Sue out of thin air, but when he later married a woman named Sue, she told everyone it was about her - even though she knew it wasn't.
1959"Weird Al" Yankovic is born Alfred Matthew Yankovic in Downey, California, and raised in Lynwood.
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2016Dead Or Alive lead singer Pete Burns dies of a heart attack at age 57. Known for the 1985 hit "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)," Burns estimated that he had 300 plastic surgeries in his lifetime.
2014English rocker Alvin Stardust dies at age 72 after a battle with prostate cancer.
2014Jeanne Black, known for the 1960 hit "He'll Have To Stay," dies two days before her 77th birthday.
2010Buffalo Springfield reunite after a 43-year stage absence for Neil Young's annual Bridge School benefit concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Other acts on the roster include Jackson Browne, Elton John, Lucinda Williams, Kris Kristofferson (subbing for an ailing Merle Haggard), and Bridge veterans Pearl Jam.
2005Rapper Cam'ron is shot during an early morning carjacking attempt in Washington, D.C. Two men pull alongside Cam'ron's 2006 Lamborghini and open fire while the artist is stopped at a traffic light at New York and New Jersey avenues. He is hit by one bullet, which travels through one of his arms and into the other. He drives himself to Howard University Hospital for treatment.
2003Mexican rap-rock band Molotov tops the second annual MTV Video Music Awards Latin America with four wins, including Video of the Year and Best Group.
2002Johnnie Johnson, who is the "Johnny" in "Johnny B. Goode" and Chuck Berry's longtime pianist, loses his lawsuit against Berry in which he claims he co-wrote many of the rock pioneer's hits.
2002Lyricist Adolph Green dies in New York City age 87.
2001R.E.M. plays a surprise show at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe, which guitarist Peter Buck co-owns with his wife, Stephanie Dorgan.
2001Bush release Golden State, a commercially disappointing album. The group goes on hiatus in 2002, returning with the album The Sea of Memories in 2011.
2000Heather Kinley of The Kinleys hosts the K-9 Classic Charity Golf Tournament at the Hermitage Golf Course in Old Hickory, Tennessee, outside Nashville. The event benefits ACT Now (Animal Care Taskforce of Nashville, Inc.) and their programs.
1998Eddie Nichols (of Royal Crown Revue) is arrested in Toledo, Ohio, for allegedly punching a sheriff in a diner. Nichols is charged with a felony and held without bail over a weekend.
Katy Perry Marries Russell Brand
2010
Katy Perry and Russell Brand get married in Rajasthan, India.
Perry met the scruffy British comedian a year earlier at the MTV Video Music Awards and began dating him shortly after. The singer is smitten and writes "Hummingbird Heartbeat" about her heart going pitter-patter for Brand. He proposes during a vacation to India, where the pair return to exchange their vows in a traditional Hindu ceremony at a lavish resort near the Ranthambhore tiger sanctuary. In front of 80 guests, the couple start the proceedings by worshiping an idol of Lord Ganesha, a Hindu elephant deity known as a lord of success and a destroyer of obstacles. But even Ganesha couldn't slay the issues in the Perry-Brand union.
Just 14 months later, the entertainers call it quits, with Brand firing the first shot via text message. Perry claims Brand's desire to start a family and the pressures of life on the road tore them apart, while Brand blames Perry's rising success and lack of activism.
"He's a very smart man, and I was in love with him when I married him," Perry recalls to Voguein 2013. "Let's just say I haven't heard from him since he texted me saying he was divorcing me December 31, 2011."
Perry continues to lick her wounds on her next album, Prism, and begins to heal "By the Grace of God":
By the grace of God (there was no other way)
I picked myself back up (I knew I had to stay)
I put one foot in front of the other and I
Looked in the mirror and decided to stay
Wasn't gonna let love take me out
That way
Just 14 months later, the entertainers call it quits, with Brand firing the first shot via text message. Perry claims Brand's desire to start a family and the pressures of life on the road tore them apart, while Brand blames Perry's rising success and lack of activism.
"He's a very smart man, and I was in love with him when I married him," Perry recalls to Voguein 2013. "Let's just say I haven't heard from him since he texted me saying he was divorcing me December 31, 2011."
Perry continues to lick her wounds on her next album, Prism, and begins to heal "By the Grace of God":
By the grace of God (there was no other way)
I picked myself back up (I knew I had to stay)
I put one foot in front of the other and I
Looked in the mirror and decided to stay
Wasn't gonna let love take me out
That way
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