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2019 The composer André Previn dies at 89.

2014 Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have their third child: Apollo Bowie Flynn.

2012 The Malaysian Government cancels a concert by Erykah Badu scheduled for the following day due to her tattoos, including one with the word "Allah" in Arabic.

2008 Mike Smith (lead vocalist, keyboardist for The Dave Clark Five) dies of pneumonia at age 64.

2006 Ne-Yo's first album, In My Own Words, debuts at #1 in America.

2006 Bruce Springsteen releases Hammersmith Odeon London 1975.

2004 Usher's club anthem "Yeah!," featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon, hits #1 in America. It stays at the top for 12 weeks to become the biggest hit of 2004.

2004 Gigli sweeps the 24th Golden Raspberry Awards with nine nominations and six wins, including Worst Actress for star Jennifer Lopez and Worst Actor for Ben Affleck (whose award also includes his roles in Daredevil and Paycheck). Despite having a highly publicized off-screen romance, the pair also lands Worst Screen Couple.

1999 Hole and Marilyn Manson kick off their joint Beautiful Monsters tour with a show in Spokane, Washington, but cancel it after nine dates when Hole pulls out and Manson injures his ankle on stage.

1998 Columbia Records releases Train's self-titled debut album, which the band issued independently in 1996 after the label passed on it. It includes their first hit, "Meet Virginia."

1998 Garth Brooks hosts Saturday Night Live. As the musical guest, he performs his hit "Two Piña Coladas."

1996 22-year-old Alanis Morissette becomes the youngest artist to win the Grammy for Album of the Year when Jagged Little Pill takes the prize. She holds the record until 2010, when 20-year-old Taylor Swift nabs the title with Fearless.

1996 Alison Krauss and Shenandoah's "Somewhere In The Vicinity Of The Heart" wins the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals. The single, a #7 hit, was Krauss's first Top 10 entry on the country chart.

1995 Mike Watt of Minutemen and Firehose releases his first solo album, Ball-Hog or Tugboat?, with an all-star team of guest musicians including Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, Flea, Henry Rollins and Frank Black. Vedder and Grohl join his band for the subsequent tour.

1995 Billie Joe Armstrong (of Green Day) and wife Adrienne welcome their first child, son Joseph "Joey" Marciano Armstrong, named for Ramones singer Joey Ramone.

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Stump Struggles Lead To Fall Out Boy Return

2012

Fall Out Boy lead singer Patrick Stump makes a blog post titled "We Liked You Better Fat: Confessions of a Pariah" where he writes about hitting a low point with a failed solo album and taunts from audience members. The post prompts FOB bass player Pete Wentz to contact Stump, and they get the band back together, staging a triumphant comeback with their 2013 album Save Rock and Roll and the hit "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)."


The 1500-word confession is a dark testimony about the attempted murder of a music career at the hands of so-called fans. Stump thought he had already hit rock bottom a few years earlier during Fall Out Boy's grueling promotional tour for Folie à Deux, where audiences booed the new material and ripped into the band that was already coming apart at the seams from overexposure and infighting. Their personal demons welcomed them home and forced the beleaguered group into a hiatus. While Wentz retreated to therapy and drummer Andy Hurley struggled with depression, Stump threw himself into music. Soul Punk was an entirely solo effort, with Stump writing, producing, and playing all the instruments on the album. He also took control of his personal life: He lost over 60 pounds through diet and exercise and proposed to his longtime girlfriend. Things were looking up… until they came back down. On tour, fans ripped the newly slender singer with insults like "We liked you better fat." They didn't appreciate the new music or the large backing band that he nearly emptied his savings account to pay for. He was a has-been at 27, he lamented. After Wentz read the letter, he called up his old friend with a solution: "I know what you need – you need your band." But not the emo punks of 2003. They would be a new incarnation, writing new music for a new decade. The result is the pop-leaning album Save Rock and Roll. Called a "rather stunning renaissance" by Rolling Stone, it debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The lead single, "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)," hits #13 on the Hot 100 and is certified 3x Platinum by the end of the year. Maybe they didn't like Stump better fat after all.

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