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2020 Tori Amos releases her second memoir, Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage.

2020 The Guns N' Roses version of "Live And Let Die" blares as President Donald Trump tours a mask factory in Arizona during the coronavirus pandemic without wearing a mask. Intrigued by the irony, many news outlets show the footage. The band later sells T-shirts saying "Live N' Let Die With COVID 45."

2018 The musical Jagged Little Pill, based on Alanis Morissette's 1995 album of the same name, debuts at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts.More

2016 Arsenio Hall files a $5 million defamation suit against Sinead O'Connor after the singer posts a message on Facebook suggesting he was the recently deceased Prince's drug dealer. She later apologizes and Hall drops the suit.

2015 After years working in Nashville as a songwriter and as a member of the bands The SteelDrivers and The Jompson Brothers, Chris Stapleton, 37, releases his debut album, Traveller, with a rootsy sound that harkens back to the days of Hank Williams. It wins the Grammy for Best Country Album and both the ACM and CMA awards for Album Of The Year.

2015 The teenage rapper Silento releases "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)," igniting a dance craze that spreads on YouTube, quickly going over a billion views. The "Nae Nae" part of the dance is based on Sheneneh's antics from the '90s TV series Martin.

2008 Country/pop singer Jerry Wallace, known for the 1959 hit "Primrose Lane," dies at age 79 of congestive heart failure.

2008 To thank fans for years of support, Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) posts the album The Slip for free on his website.

2007 Avril Lavigne lands her only US #1 hit with "Girlfriend," the first single from her third album, The Best Damn Thing.

2004 Jamaican record producer Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, who signed Bob Marley & the Wailers to his Studio One label, dies of a heart attack at age 72.

2001 Zydeco musician Boozoo Chavis dies in Austin, Texas, at age 70.

1998 Bad Religion release their 10th full-length studio album, No Substance.

1998 Tori Amos releases her fourth solo album, From The Choirgirl Hotel. The lead single, "Spark," is inspired by the first of three miscarriages the singer suffers before welcoming daughter Natashya in 2000. The album debuts at #5 in the US.

1992 Mike Love and Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys appear on the Full House episode "Captain Video (Part 1)," where Uncle Jesse records their song "Forever." A version of the song sung by John Stamos, who plays that character, appears on the group's album Summer in Paradise a few months later.

1990 Lou Reed, Al Green, Terence Trent D'Arby, Kylie Minogue and Randy Travis are among the performers at a John Lennon tribute concert in his hometown of Liverpool, England.More

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Solange Attacks Jay-Z, Inspires Beyonce's "Flawless"

2014

Beyoncé's sister Solange Knowles attacks Jay-Z in an elevator they are all riding after attending the Met Gala at The Standard hotel in New York. The footage, which is leaked on TMZ, shows Jay taking his whooping before a security guard restrains Solange. Beyoncé later mentions the incident in her song "Flawless" when she sings, "sometime s--t go down when there's a billion dollars on an elevator."

Two years before Beyonce implies her husband's infidelity in the title track of her Lemonade album, mysterious cracks appear in the foundation of hip-hop's royal family, with sister Solange swinging the hammer. Although no explanation is given to explain the physical altercation with her brother-in-law, Solange garners support from many of Beyoncé's fans, who assume Jay-Z must have been up to no good to elicit such a reaction from Bey's protective little sister. Queen Bey, the picture of repose as Solange kicks and punches at Jay-Z, makes a vague statement through her hit "Flawless," essentially explaining, "sh--t happens." In a joint statement, the family assures the public: "We love each other and, above all, we are family. We've put this behind us and hope everyone else will do the same."

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