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2021 Morgan Wallen appears on Good Morning America to address his use of a racial slur six months earlier. He says he was "ignorant," went to rehab to address his problem, and will donate $500,000 to racial justice organizations. The amount is his estimate of his sales uplift from the controversy.

2018 The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) warns against the trend of jumping out of moving cars and dancing to Drake's "In My Feelings."More

2010 Kings of Leon have a strange encounter during a show in St. Louis when just a few songs into their set, they abruptly leave the stage, complaining about a flurry of bird poop coming from a flock of pigeons chilling in the rafters. The band never returns, and a full refund is made available to all concertgoers.

2009 Danny "Dirty Dan" McBride (lead guitarist for Sha Na Na) dies in his sleep at age 63.

2009 Further to Nas and Kelis squabbling over child support and divorce for the past few months, with both sides accusing each other of infidelity, Los Angeles Superior Court orders Nas to pay Kelis nearly $40,000 in monthly support, with Kelis receiving $30,471 in spousal support per month, and the couple's son receiving $9,027 per month.

2005 For the first time, Lollapalooza stays put, with the first of two shows at Grant Park in Chicago. Pixies, Billy Idol and Weezer all perform.

2003 In a bizarre ad placed in Variety, James Brown announces his separation from his fourth wife, Tomi Rae, by featuring a picture of the couple and their two-year-old, James Brown II, posing with Goofy at Disney World.

2003 The US National Registry of Historic Places declares Memphis, Tennessee's Sun Studios, at 706 Union Avenue, a historic landmark.

2001 Megadeth is banned from playing in Malaysia, where they have a concert scheduled in three weeks. They are forced to cancel, as authorities say their albums contain "unsuitable imagery."

2000 Mike Diamond of Beastie Boys gets mangled in a bike accident while riding in New York City, forcing the group to cancel their planned Rhyme & Reason tour with Rage Against the Machine. Diamond, who took the spill after hitting a dastardly pothole, has surgery to repair a fifth degree joint dislocation in his shoulder.

1996 Rob Collins (keyboardist for The Charlatans UK) dies in a car crash at age 33.

1996 Fiona Apple, 18, releases her debut album, Tidal, featuring "Shadowboxer" and "Criminal." It sells over 3 million copies in America.More

1994 The International Astronomical Union names an asteroid in Mars' orbit ZappaFrank, after the musician Frank Zappa, who'd passed away from cancer the year before.

1993 Poetic Justice, starring Janet Jackson (in braids) and Tupac Shakur, opens in theaters. Jackson has been acting on TV since she was a kid, appearing regularly on Good Times and Diff'rent Strokes, but the film marks her big-screen debut.

1989 Ringo Starr begins his first tour since The Beatles stopped touring in 1966, introducing his "All-Starr Band" of '70s stars in Dallas, Texas.

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Amy Winehouse Dies At 27

2011

Amy Winehouse dies in London of alcohol poisoning at the age of 27.


Originally signed as a teenage jazz singer, Winehouse shot to international fame with her 2006 Mark Ronson-produced album Back to Black. Propelled by the hits "Rehab" and "Valerie," the album won five Grammy awards. Her vocal style and mannerisms inspired a generation of British female singers including Adele, who cites her as having paved the way for British music artists. However Winehouse's musical success was overshadowed by her personal life, as her talent is squandered in a descent into the depths of drug addiction. Winehouse was a famously hard-living star, and had been struggling with alcohol and drug addiction for a number of years. As far back as promotional appearances in support of her 2003 debut album Frank, she had often been too drunk to sing at shows and TV appearances. Her tumultuous on-off relationship with ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil led her to the London underworld of hard drugs, and she started showing up in the newspapers more and more regularly - looking emaciated and unkempt. In 2007 she was admitted to the hospital after one fateful London pub crawl ended in her overdosing on a mixture of alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and ketamine. She entered rehab for the first time in 2008 when a tabloid newspaper published a video of her smoking crack cocaine. Despite several more stints, she never fully recovered, and her drug problems rapidly worsened. Winehouse's death revives interest in the "27 Club," the group of famous musicians and singers who died at the age of 27. Other "members" include Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.

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