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2020 The Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Whitney Houston, The Notorious B.I.G., and T. Rex enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Because of coronavirus, the ceremony is virtual and there are no performances.

2018 Joni Mitchell is feted at a concert in Los Angeles to celebrate her 75th birthday. James Taylor sings "Woodstock," Chaka Khan does "Help Me," and Graham Nash performs the song he wrote when they moved in together: "Our House."

2017 Aretha Franklin plays at Elton John's AIDS Foundation gala at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City in what turns out to be her final performance. "We were witnessing the greatest soul artist of all time," Elton says.

2016 Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart star in the first episode of Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party, where they make fried chicken with Wiz Khalifa.

2015 Presidential candidate Donald Trump hosts Saturday Night Live, with musical guest Sia. He asks for a photo with the reclusive Australian songstress, but she declines, explaining that she doesn't want her gay and Mexican fans to think she supports him.

2015 Pentatonix becomes the first a capella group to score a US #1 album when their self-titled release tops the chart.

2011 Adele, just 23, has laser surgery on her vocal chords at a hospital in Boston. The singer had to cancel many tour dates in 2011 because of her throat problems.

2011 Andrea True (of The Andrea True Connection) dies of heart failure at age 68.

2009 At the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, Linda Ronstadt makes her last concert appearance. Four years later, she announces that she has Parkinson's disease.

2008 Rockabilly singer Jody Reynolds dies of liver cancer at age 75.

2006 Originally due in the summer of 2005, the last album from late Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard finally arrives. The release date for A Son Unique coincides with the two-year anniversary of ODB's death at a New York recording studio.

2006 Enjoy the Ride, Sugarland's second album (and first as a duo, following the departure of Kristen Hall) is released. The album peaks at #4 on the US charts.

2006 Two months after giving birth to her second child, Britney Spears files for divorce from Kevin Federline, whom she married in 2004.

2005 Twelve years after the release of her previous album, The Red Shoes, Kate Bush returns to the music scene with Aerial. The double album features the Elvis-inspired single, "King Of The Mountain."

2004 Soul singer Lenny Mayes (of The Dramatics) dies of lung cancer at age 53.

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Life Magazine Tracks Down Paul McCartney In Scotland, Confirms He Is Alive

1969

After Life magazine tracks down Paul McCartney at his farm in Scotland, they put him on the cover with his family, dispelling the "Paul is dead" rumors with the headline, "Paul Is Still With Us."


McCartney drops this bombshell: "The Beatle thing is over," and although the band hasn't announced their split, they are indeed fractured. Management struggles have taken their toll on the band, especially on McCartney, who went to Scotland to get away from it all. The crew from Life had to do a fair amount of searching to locate McCartney's farm, and at first he ran them off. Their effort was rewarded when he had a change of heart and granted them an interview and photo shoot, a rare look into his private life. "Can you spread it around that I am just an ordinary person and want to live in peace?" he says.

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