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Featured Events
2011Following a Demi Lovato concert at the Nokia Theater, Justin Bieber takes his girlfriend Selena Gomez to The Staples Center, which he has rented out so they can enjoy a private showing of Titanic in the 20,000 seat theater.
2010Katy Perry's appearance on Sesame Street is edited out after viewers complain about her revealing dress.More
2003OutKast's double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is released. It's really two solo albums, with Andre 3000 doing The Love Below and Big Boi doing Speakerboxxx.
1983Ten years after their bitter breakup, The Everly Brothers reunite for a concert at Royal Albert Hall in London that is released as the double album Reunion Concert.
1979The crowd chants, "Hell No, We Won't Glow" at a massive 5-hour anti-nuke rally in New York City's Battery Park, where Crosby, Stills & Nash, Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt are among the performers.More
1949Bruce Springsteen is born in Long Branch, New Jersey.
1930Ray Charles is born Ray Charles Robinson in Albany, Georgia.
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In Music History
2019Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter dies at 78.
2008Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction is certified for sales of 18 million by the RIAA, overtaking Boston's self-titled album (at 17 million) to become the all-time best-selling debut album in America. Ten years later, Hootie & the Blowfish earn the title when their album Cracked Rear View is certified at 21 million.
2008Tom Delonge of blink-182 joins Rivers Cuomo on stage to sing "Undone - The Sweater Song" as Weezer open their Troublemaker tour in Lowell, Massachusetts.
2007Lionel Richie appears on The Simpsons in the episode "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs."
2006The Australian band Sick Puppies post a video set to their song "All The Same" where lead singer Shim Moore gives out free hugs to strangers, igniting the "Free Hugs" campaign. The video quickly goes viral and earns Moore an appearance on Oprah.
2004Country singer Roy Drusky, known for the 1965 chart-topping duet "Yes Mr. Peters" with Priscilla Mitchell, dies of complications from lung cancer at age 74.
2000Tim McGraw is featured on the cover of TV Guide, due to his various nominations for the 34th Annual CMA Awards.
1998Elvis Presley, once rejected by the Grand Old Opry, is posthumously inducted into Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame.
1998The first ever Lilith Fair concert outside North America takes place at London's Royal Albert Hall. Before the sold-out show, Lilith founder Sarah McLahlan tells a press conference that plans are underway to bring the Fair to Europe as a touring package the following year.
1997The Rolling Stones' Bridges to Babylon Tour opens in Chicago. Opening acts for the North American tour include Sheryl Crow, The Dave Matthews Band, The Smashing Pumpkins, Jamiroquai, Blues Traveler and Foo Fighters.
1997Jackson Browne releases The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne.
1997The Rolling Stones release Bridges To Babylon.
1996Agnetha Faltskog, one of ABBA's two female leads, publishes her biography, As I Am.
1995Bluesman Lawrence "Booker T." Laury dies of cancer at age 81.
1986Following a split with their record label and some lineup changes, Boston release Third Stage, their first album since Don't Look Back in 1978. The first single is "Amanda," the group's only #1 hit in America. They don't put out another album until 1994.
Bob Marley's Last Show
1980Bob Marley plays his final concert: a 20-song set at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh with his group, The Wailers.
Just after the performance, Marley, who is suffering from cancer that has spread to his brain, collapses and is taken to a hospital for treatment. The rest of the tour is canceled, and Marley dies on May 11, 1981. The last song is a six-and-a-half-minute version of "Get Up, Stand Up" that closes out his second encore. The show is part of the Uprising tour, which came to America just a week earlier. Marley would become far more famous in that country after his death - the Pittsburgh show is sold out, but holds just 3,500. A few days earlier, Bob Marley & The Wailers played two shows at Madison Square Garden, but as the opening act for the Commodores. In 2011, the final concert is released as a live album under the title Live Forever.
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