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2018 During her Reputation tour, Taylor Swift headlines a concert at the Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee, where Tim McGraw and Faith Hill join her onstage for a performance of her seminal country hit "Tim McGraw."

2018 Neil Young and Daryl Hannah get married in a secret ceremony in Atascadero, California. It's Young's third marriage, her first.

2016 Kanye West begins his Saint Pablo Tour with a concert in Indianapolis. During the show, West performs on a floating stage that hovers about 15 feet over the audience.More

2013 'N Sync reunite to perform at the MTV Video Music Awards, where group member Justin Timberlake accepts the Video Vanguard Award. It's their first performance since 2004; they don't perform again until 2024, when they make a surprise appearance at one of Timberlake's concerts.

2009 Chris Brown is sentenced to five years probation and six months hard labor for assaulting Rihanna in February 2009 the night of the Grammy awards. Brown is also ordered to stay away from her for the next five years and undergo a full year of domestic violence counseling.

2008 The Verve release Forth, their first album since Urban Hymns in 1997. It proves to be their last.

2007 The Veronicas' fashion line for Target is released in Australia. "It's a bit punk princess, mixed with rock 'n' roll,'' says Lisa Origliasso.

2007 While singing his 1968 hit "Fire" on stage in Lewes, England, Arthur Brown catches on fire after wearing his customary tinfoil hat with a small fire burning in the center.

2006 Longtime Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton misses his first gig in 24 years after being diagnosed with throat cancer.

2000 Composer Jack Nitzsche dies after a cardiac arrest in Hollywood, California, at age 63. Aside from playing keyboard for The Rolling Stones in the '60s, he co-wrote the 1983 hit "Up Where We Belong" from the romantic drama An Officer and a Gentlemen.

1995 Dutch rock 'n roller Arnie Treffers (of Long Tall Ernie & the Shakers) dies of lung cancer in Westeremden, Groningen, Netherlands, at age 48. Had an international hit in 1977 with "Do You Remember."

1994 Billy Joel is officially divorced from the model Christie Brinkley. Their marriage lasted nine years.

1994 Jimmy Buffett swims to safety after crashing his seaplane while trying to take off in Nantucket.

1993 Snoop Doggy Dogg drives his Jeep Cherokee to Woodbine Park in Los Angeles, where his passenger, McKinley Lee, shoots and kills a rival gang member. Both are tried for murder but found not guilty in 1996.More

1992 Mary J. Blige releases "Real Love," her first Top 10 hit on the Hot 100.

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Jimmy Page Gets "Confused"

1967

Jimmy Page's band The Yardbirds play the Village Theatre (later the Fillmore East) in New York City, where their opening act, Jake Holmes, plays his song "Dazed And Confused." Later with Led Zeppelin, Page releases a very similar song with the same title.

The Yardbirds perform their own version of "Dazed And Confused," but don't record the song. When Page forms Led Zeppelin, he reworks it some more and includes the track on their 1969 debut album. The song becomes a centerpiece of the Led Zeppelin live show, with lots of swirling improvisation and a big moment where Page plays his guitar with a violin bow. Holmes gets no quarter from Page and takes no legal action until 2010, after Procol Harum organist Matthew Fisher is successful in suing over his contribution to "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" nearly 40 years after that song was released. In 2012, the case is settled, with the credit on "Dazed And Confused" amended to "Jimmy Page, Inspired By Jake Holmes."

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