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Featured Events
2013Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath and rapper Coolio appear on Celebrity Wife Swap, where they send their respective partners to each others' homes. McGrath's wife, Carin, struggles with all the chores she has to do at Coolio's house, while Coolio's girlfriend Mimi - who leaves him just weeks after the episode is taped - squirms under the watchful eye of helicopter parent McGrath.
2009Michael Jackson announces his "This Is It" series of concerts to be held at the O2 Arena in London. The shows quickly sell out, but Jackson dies before they begin.
2006"It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from the movie Hustle & Flow wins an Oscar for Best Song, just the second rap song to get the award, after "Lose Yourself" by Eminem. Three 6 Mafia become the first rappers to perform at the ceremony.More
1983Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" hits #1 for the first of seven weeks.
1975Rod Stewart meets the Swedish actress Britt Ekland when she comes backstage after his concert at the Los Angeles Forum, kicking off an affair that results in a famous song and a nasty lawsuit.More
1953America learns of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's death when Air Force Staff Sergeant Johnny Cash intercepts a coded message from Russia. Cash enlisted in 1950 after he turned 18 and was assigned to the 12th Radio Squadron Mobile of the US Air Force Security Service at Landsberg, West Germany, where he proved his skill as a Morse Code operator.
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In Music History
2016Visiting a music-production class at N.Y.U., Pharrell Williams is blown away by a song called "Alaska" by Maggie Rogers, a senior at the university. "It's singular... your whole story I can hear it in the music," he tells her.More
2013In a Czech court, Lamb of God lead singer Randy Blythe is acquitted of manslaughter. He was charged with pushing a fan to his death at a 2013 LoG concert in Prague; in 2012 he was arrested when the band returned to the country for another show.
2007Three years after publishing their well-received debut album Funeral, Arcade Fire release Neon Bible.
1999Trauma Entertainment files a $40 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against the members of Bush for failure to deliver their next album.
1995Viv Stanshall of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band dies in a fire at age 51. Stanshall was asleep in his North London home when an electrical fire broke out.
1994Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane is arrested at her home in Tiburon, California for pointing a loaded gun at police officers responding to reports of a domestic dispute. She will be sentenced to community service and forced to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
1992Soundgarden play the first of two nights at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, Washington. Both nights are filmed, and several songs turn up in November as part of the Motorvision home video, with additional tracks eventually turning up as part of the 25th Anniversary edition of Badmotorfinger in 2016.
1984Howard Jones' debut album, Human's Lib, is released in the UK, where it rises to #1.
1983Cliff Burton plays his first show with Metallica, at the Stone in San Francisco, California.
1982John Belushi of The Blues Brothers, 33, dies of a drug overdose in his bungalow at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. Belushi had been injected with a speedball, a mixture of cocaine and heroin.
1981Songwriter E.Y. "Yip" Harburg ("Over The Rainbow") dies in a car accident at age 81.
197718-year-old Kate Bush writes "Wuthering Heights" after catching the end of a BBC adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel of the same name. The ethereal tune becomes her debut single the following year and hits #1 in the UK.
1977Barbra Streisand's "Love Theme From A Star Is Born (Evergreen)" hits #1 in the US. The song was written for the 1976 film she starred in with Kris Kristofferson.
1974Smokey Robinson appears on NBC-TV's Police Story.
1971Led Zeppelin begins their "Thank You" tour of small clubs that supported them when they started out, charging the same prices they charged in 1968.
America Meets the Osbournes
2002MTV launches its new reality television show, The Osbournes, which chronicles the domestic life of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne and his family. In its first season, it becomes the most-viewed series on MTV.
In the blink of an eye, The Osbournes transforms Ozzy from heavy metal's legendary Prince of Darkness into a bumbling, muttering dad trying to get respect in a comically dysfunctional family. Viewers love it. Running four seasons and 52 episodes, the show reveals the Osbourne family in all its eccentricity. Some particularly memorable moments see Ozzy's wife Sharon argue with him over excessive Viagra use, daughter Kelly complain about an unwanted "vagina doctor" appointment, and Ozzy himself ask a dog's butt to stop pooping. The show also explores some serious family issues. It follows Sharon's battle with cancer and Ozzy's recovery from a near-fatal ATV accident. Widespread debate ensues over how authentic the show actually is, with Kelly and her brother Jack saying much of it is staged. Others insist it's all real. Ozzy is stoned throughout filming, a fact he doesn't reveal until 2009, four years after the March 21, 2005 airing of the final episode.
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