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2022 At the CMT Awards, The Judds reunite for their first TV appearance in 20 years, performing their 1990 song "Love Can Build A Bridge." Earlier that day, the mother-daughter duo also announced a 10-date arena run across the US dubbed "The Final Tour," with Martina McBride as a supporting act.

2020 Bob Dylan, 78, lands his first #1 on a Billboard chart when "Murder Most Foul" tops the Rock Digital Song Sales tally.

2017 Toby Smith, original keyboardist for Jamiroquai, dies at age 46.

2017 J. Geils, guitarist and founding member of J. Geils Band, dies at age 71.

2015 Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel welcome their first child, a son named Silas Randall.

2014 Jesse Winchester dies at age 69 of bladder cancer. He was one of the major singer-songwriters of the "country rock" movement in the early '70s, blessed with an amazing voice but still better known for his songwriting, which resulted in several hits for other "outlaw" country artists.

2011 Chicago blues musician Lacy Gibson dies at age 74 of a heart attack.

2006 Eminem's good friend and D12 bandmate DeShaun "Proof" Holton is shot and killed at age 32 in an altercation at a sketchy nightclub in Detroit.

2006 For the 25-year anniversary reissue of David Byrne and Brian Eno's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts album, the multi-tracks for two songs - "A Secret Life" and "Help Me Somebody" - are made available for download, for fans to remix and upload to the website.

2006 Paul Anka guest stars on "The Real Paul Anka" episode of Gilmore Girls.

2006 June Pointer of The Pointer Sisters dies at age 52 after being hospitalized for a stroke and diagnosed with cancer.

2002 Aretha Franklin and seven other Motown stars are honored with street names in Detroit's new low-income housing project.

2002 Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock are engaged after he proposes to her in the desert outside Las Vegas.

2001 Folk musician Sandy Bull dies at age 60 of lung cancer.

1997 After a 20-year absence, Grand Funk re-forms for a tour that benefits the Bosnian-American Relief Fund, which aids victims of the genocide in Bosnia.

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Pearl Jam Gapes At Sharon Stone On SNL

1992

Pearl Jam are the musical guests on Saturday Night Live, where they perform two songs and gape at host Sharon Stone.


Stone's opening monologue is a bit where she re-creates her famous scene from Basic Instinct, with cutaways to dumbstruck onlookers, including Pearl Jam, which proves they are not always as angsty as portrayed in the media. They play their hit "Alive," and then "Porch." For that one, Eddie Vedder wears a T-shirt with a wire hanger on the front in a pro-choice statement. At the end of the performance, he turns around to reveal "No Bush in '92," a reference to the upcoming election between President George H.W. Bush and his eventual opponent, Bill Clinton. Pearl Jam returns to the show in 1994 and again in 2006.

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