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2011 Beyoncé reveals her pregnancy during the MTV Video Music Awards, setting Twitter on fire.More
2009 After the latest in a series of incidents between feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, Oasis finally split, with Noel walking out for good. "It is with some sadness and great relief... I quit Oasis tonight," he says. "People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."More
2003 Britney Spears and Madonna share a big, juicy kiss during the opening performance of the MTV Video Music Awards. Madonna then plants one on Christina Aguilera, but we only get a glimpse of it because the director cuts to a shot of a thunderstruck Justin Timberlake in the audience.More
1998 Pearl Jam's video for "Do The Evolution," their first since "Jeremy" in 1992, debuts on MTV. The band does not appear in the video, which is animated by Todd McFarlane.More
1968 At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, overzealous police in riot gear brutally beat protestors who are demonstrating against the Vietnam War. The Doors, Graham Nash and Chicago all write songs about it.More
1965 Shania Twain is born Eilleen Regina Edwards in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
28 AUGUST
In Music History
2020 Katy Perry releases her sixth album, Smile. It's bundled with the video game Katy's Quest, which she is seen playing in the video for the title track.
2016 At the MTV Video Music Awards, Beyoncé wins Video of the Year for "Formation." In support of the Black Lives Matter movement, she brings four mothers of shooting victims with her onto the red carpet. By the end of the evening, Bey (along with her production designer, choreographer, director, cinematographer and editor) has eight trophies.More
2009 Three days before the release of their second studio album, The First Days of Spring, Noah and the Whale lead singer Charlie Fink's brother Doug announces that he will leave the band to pursue a career in medicine. In a 2011 interview, Charlie says that Doug is still the one he consults first on matters concerning the band. "He can always see where I'm going, even when something is embryonic and sounds like madness."
2009 Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein dies of what is ruled as an accidental overdose at age 36 in his New York City apartment. This comes nearly a year after AM and his friend Travis Barker survived a fatal plane crash that claimed the lives of four others.
2005 To promote their new line of fall denim, the Gap recruits seven artists to cover their favorite songs on a commercial that airs during the MTV Video Music Awards. Joining Alanis Morissette, who sings Seal's "Crazy" in the clip, are Keith Urban, Joss Stone, Michelle Williams (of Destiny's Child), Jason Mraz, John Legend, and Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd.More
2005 For the second time in two years, Art Garfunkel is arrested for marijuana possession.
2004 Lou Rawls is awarded an honorary doctorate from Ohio's Wilberforce University in recognition of his charity work with the United Negro College Fund and his "lifelong service to the education of historically disadvantaged populations."
2004 A woman claims to be badly injured by Rick Springfield's butt when he ventures into the audience as part of his show in Syracuse, New York. Her lawsuit is the butt of many jokes but is a real pain in the ass for the singer. The case isn't decided until 2015, when a jury rules in Springfield's favor.
2001 Weezer releases "Island in the Sun," the second single from Weezer (aka The Green Album).
2001 With nu-metal still alive and well, Puddle Of Mudd release their debut album, Come Clean. It sells over 3 million copies thanks to the hits "Blurry," "Control," and "She Hates Me."
2001 Mary J. Blige releases her fifth studio album, No More Drama.
1998 The Frankie Lymon biopic Why Do Fools Fall In Love opens in theaters. Named after Lymon's famous song, the film stars Larenz Tate, Halle Berry and Vivica A. Fox.
1998 The movie Studio 54, about the legendary New York Disco, opens starring Ryan Phillippe and Mike Myers as the club's owners.
1997 In Leeds on the U2 Popmart tour, Bono responds to George Harrison's comment, "Bono and his band are so egocentric," by holding up a middle finger and saying, "This one's for you George!"
1996 Isaac Hayes officially protests the use of Sam and Dave's classic "Soul Man" (which he wrote) by the Bob Dole US Presidential campaign (which had renamed it "I'm A Dole Man").
Dylan, Joan Baez and Mahalia Jackson Join MLK at the March On Washington
1963At the March On Washington, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his "I have a dream" speech, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Odetta and Mahalia Jackson sing for equal rights.
An inflection point in the Civil Rights Movement, over 200,000 attend the march in support of equity and fair labor. Joan Baez is the first singer in the program; she leads the crowd in singing "We Shall Overcome," the anthem of the event. Her performance is released as a single and the title is used for the album We Shall Overcome: Documentary Of The March on Washington. Baez is followed by Mahalia Jackson, who performs before King takes the podium. After King's speech, Marian Anderson sings "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" and Odetta follows with "I'm On My Way." Baez returns to sing with her boyfriend, Bob Dylan, not widely known as a singer. Later in the program, Peter, Paul and Mary sing their hit version of "Blowin' In The Wind," which Dylan wrote, as well as "If I Had A Hammer," written by Pete Seeger. Baez is just 22 but well established in the folk music scene; the previous year she made the cover of Time magazine. While Dylan moves away from protest music and becomes immensely popular, Baez makes activism her primary focus. She aligns with King again in 1966 when she joins his efforts to desegregate schools there. In January 1968, months before his death, King visits Baez in prison, where she is serving time for protesting the Vietnam War. Photos: Baez and Dylan; Odetta. Both from the National Archives.
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